A pig with a companion will be more content and much less likely to want to roam. Hog panels are 16 feet long. You can buy 4 of them, fasten them together at the corners and the pen will be 16x 16. You can raise 2 pigs in that size area. I like my animals to have access to more room, and pigs are very easily confined with electric wire. They MUST have shade. They over-heat easily and can get sunburned. They also need protection from predators and stray dogs. You must figure out some way to water them where they can't get the water dirty. I've got apple trees, and we raised a couple of pigs every fall on half windfall apples and 1/2 dry COB with a bit of alfalfa thrown in. They need to be dewormed. The type of wormer that can be put into their feed is the easiest way. Talk to them every day and scratch them so they are tame. The meat is best when they have not been stressed and you want them to be happy and confident when the butcher comes out to shoot them. You sure don't want to have to chase them around to catch them so that they are hot and full of adrenaline. I put a pan of food down, they lower their head to eat, and the butcher stands right in front of them and shoots them in the brain. It is instantaneous. The pig is never aware.

That's how a passive pile works, the good stuff is on the bottom. If the material smells earthy, as opposed to stinky, then it should be OK to use a finished compost.

i started using rabbit poo several yrs ago.. now i have contacts that save it bagged up for me i pick up every couple weeks.. i use in in my composting,and just spading in the vegy garden in fall with shredded leaves..it breaks down by spring i find in my compost to make a slurry (fill buckets 1/2 full with poo and top off with water) let stand for couple days.. softens up the poo..then mix into my compost.. i do add some rock phosphate.. rabbit poo is a semi hot manure..so i find less ammonia given off ..the phosphate helps stabilize the nitrogen.. its a super manure for gardening.. i also make a rabbit manure tea.. fill 40 gal plastic garbage can with 5 gal of poo..fill up the container.. let sit for a couple weeks.. then use 1/2 strength on everything in my gardens.. veggies,tropicals..even my lawn

Ongoing offer for guinea manure available from person who posted on "lafreecycle". She's in Walnut and does rescue work. It is Message #14042 Offer: Used Small Animal Bedding for Composting (Walnut) For others reading this post, just learned of this Yahoo group: bunnypowerforgardens It has database of folks with bunny manure. Susan