The MIL bought one that was retarded. It would only eat charcoal from old fires and neglected it's proper food. Died after about a week.

FIL went to grow black muscovy ducks and when they were well grown a storm came and they flew away.
He tried to recover them but the neighbors told him to fuck off.

Best kill and cook your livestock quick here.

I had a old friend who sadly passed away some years ago on my early visits to the country. He had a successful pig farm just south of Phnom Penh, it only worked because of knowledge and good skills, plus plenty of money ploughed back each year into the business.
The powers above ruined the pig trade for the normal farmers, by having imported pork from Thailand and Veitnam, prices are low from these countries that Cambodian farmers could not be competitive, more so when pig feeds here become a premium.
Like most say on here, $25 - 40 is the norm. You see out in the country piglets in basket's on the back of Moto's being sold. But many times the piglets will be sold under age, not completely wined or pre feed solid food, so are likely to die.


It's a shame here because what Cambodia do have that the importer's don't, is some very good pig breeds, such has American reds, drak, also some large English Tamworth pigs that I have seen.
Also price would go on the price per kilogram, $2 -4. But what you would see the middle class Cambodian buying is the black pig meat's at $15 per kilogram.

Pretty sure the price now is around $4-4:50 a kilo for live pig,then you need someone to kill and cook add $25 for that.
Girls sister been pig farming 20-30 pigs under her house in the province for years, the smell of years of pig shit is something else.

Pigs = food + vets + medicine + pens/shelter + pig thieves. I can see a money pit being dug for me, starting with the $125 bullshit.

I think I am going to stick to sending her $50 from time to time.

Thanks for all your help gentlemen. I am yet to find a question that cannot be answered quickly and accurately on this site. It really is a remarkable resource.

Doc67 wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 11:20 am Pigs = food + vets + medicine + pens/shelter + pig thieves. I can see a money pit being dug for me, starting with the $125 bullshit.

I think I am going to stick to sending her $50 from time to time.

Thanks for all your help gentlemen. I am yet to find a question that cannot be answered quickly and accurately on this site. It really is a remarkable resource.

She would need at least 20 pigs to make an income if lucky and even that would be small.

Username Taken wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 11:39 am

Clemen wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 7:54 pm

Doc67 wrote: ↑Sun Mar 14, 2021 7:45 pm So, $125 for a piglet is a bit on the 'greedy' side?

It sounded a bit of a porkie pie.

Its been a few years since I bought one, it was $35, but I cannot remember how many kilos it was. Iirc, the price was factored both on the age and weight.

I thought the price was factored by the fact that I was the one paying.

Seems to be confirmed by Doc67's comment.

That does factor into it, I’m in a small village most of the time, that helps. I wouldn’t even bother to try in snooky, even with the sellers I know.
There was also an inverse relationship, up to a certain point (I was unable to discern) the price goes up, then down, then up again as it matures. Maybe that’s normal, maybe that’s KoW.

I see a ton of properly vaccinated young chickens and ducklings being sold on FB
https://www.facebook.com/groups/474329209394390
They are much easier than pigs.

I can't imagine they make very good pets my friend.

nemo wrote: ↑Mon Mar 15, 2021 8:31 pm I see a ton of properly vaccinated young chickens and ducklings being sold on FB
https://www.facebook.com/groups/474329209394390
They are much easier than pigs.

Possibly, you would think so. Vaccinations in farm animals is really quite essential to prevent what ailments they could probably end up with. This is where the added cost comes along, again just has the feed prices are hefty premiums for someone elses pocket. Leaves many farmers paying more to raise the pigs than the actual pork price is down at the market. It's not worth doing because the controlers of the import market can keep the price below the prospected price of Cambodian price per kilo.
For a example, within the EU market, farmers would have subseries paid for a loss, not much chance of that happening here, also at one time farmers at UK livestock markets could not give their piglets away. .
But then again just before Covid19 came along, China did very well to send towards the country, that of Swine flu followed very shortly by Bird flu.