Pigs Complete Guide – Farming Simulator 25

In this comprehensive guide, we’ll walk you through everything you need to know about rearing, breeding, selling, and buying pigs in Farming Simulator 25. Whether you’re a beginner or looking to optimize your pig farming operation, this tutorial covers all the essential steps from purchasing housing to managing your herd’s health and profitability.

Setting Up Pig Housing

The first step in pig farming is to purchase a suitable home for your animals. To access the build menu on PC, press Shift and P (console players should use their configured key bind). Navigate to the cow icon and use the arrows to find the pigs section, where you’ll see several housing options available.

When comparing options, you’ll notice the pig pasture is the cheapest at 20,000, but it has a critical drawback: it requires a separate water supply. The housed pig housing options are significantly more practical because water is built directly into the premises, eliminating one additional task from your daily management routine.

Choosing the Right Pig Housing

Select a reasonably sized pig pen based on your current needs—there’s no need to start with an oversized facility. The housed variants offer better value long-term because they provide additional benefits beyond basic animal care.

When placing your pig housing, you’ll be prompted to customize the fence for your pigsty. You can manually place the fence if desired, or allow the game to place it automatically.

Benefits of Housed Pig Housing

Housed pig facilities allow your animals to produce manure and slurry—two valuable byproducts you can sell or use to fertilize your fields. The cheaper pasture variants do not generate these materials, making the housed options significantly more profitable in the long run.

Purchasing Your Pigs

Once your pig housing is ready, you can purchase animals in two ways. First, you can visit the town and locate an animal dealer (marked with a deer head and feeding hand icon). Alternatively, you can approach your newly placed pig housing and use the paw print icon to buy pigs directly from the facility.

Available Pig Breeds

Farming Simulator 25 features three different pig species:

German Landruss

Bentheim Blackpied

Berkshire Pigs

Each breed can be purchased at different ages. You can buy zero-month-old piglets or three-month-old pigs. The older pigs cost more but will reach breeding maturity faster. The gestation period for pigs is four months, and they reach puberty at six months.

Pig Capacity

The capacity of your pig housing varies depending on which facility you choose. For example, a standard pig pen can house anywhere from 36 pigs to 275 pigs depending on the specific variant. Most players find it most profitable to start with just a few pigs, allow them to breed naturally, and then sell the offspring for profit.

Delivery Options

You can transport pigs using a transport trailer if you wish to roleplay, but this is an unnecessary expense. For 40 euros per pig, you can have them delivered directly to your pigsty automatically.

Pig Nutrition and Care Requirements

Pigs are omnivorous and will eat nearly anything, including cornweed, barley, canola, sunflowers, soybeans, potatoes, sorghum, and sugar beets. In addition to food, they require water (though this is automatic in housed facilities) and straw for bedding.

Checking Animal Health

To monitor your pigs’ health, approach your pig housing and press R. This opens a status screen showing the number of animals and their current needs. You’ll see indicators for straw, meadow, slurry, and food. Health starts at 0% until these needs are met.

The Simple Feeding Option

While you can grow and mix your own feed, the simplest approach is to purchase pre-mixed pig feed from the shop. This eliminates the need to balance multiple crop types and is significantly more convenient for most players.

Equipment for Pig Management

Front Loader Setup

To efficiently handle pig feed and bedding, you’ll need a tractor equipped with a front loader attachment. When purchasing a tractor, ensure you select the “front loader attacher” option, which is the orange attachment on the front of the vehicle.

You’ll also need front loader tools. The two main options for hay handling are:

Bale Spike

Bale King

For handling bagged feed, you’ll need a bag lifter—a tool with hooks designed to pick up and transport feed bags.

Depositing Food and Bedding

Approach the trough icon outside your pig housing to deposit feed and bedding. Position your equipment over the trough and release the load. The food will automatically be absorbed into the silo system, and the pigs will have access to it. You can verify this by checking the animal status screen, which displays food levels in liters.

Advanced Feeding Strategy: Custom Feed Mixtures

If you want to optimize pig happiness and growth, you can create custom feed mixtures using four categories:

Feed Category Breakdown

Base Food (50%): Maize or Sorghum

Grain (25%): Wheat or Barley

Protein (15%): Soybeans, Rapeseed, or Sunflower Seed

Root Crops (10%): Potatoes or Sugar Beets

To use this strategy, you’ll need to grow multiple crop types and deliver each individually to the pig housing trough. The system will automatically mix them to the correct percentages. However, for most players, purchasing pre-mixed pig feed bags (1,000 euros for 1,000 liters) is significantly simpler and more practical.

Managing Manure and Slurry

One of the key advantages of keeping pigs is the production of manure and slurry. When you provide straw bedding, your pigs automatically generate these byproducts. You can collect them from the designated manure collection point outside your pig housing.

Slurry Tank Equipment

To transport and spread slurry, you’ll need a slurry tank. Look for “Slurry Tanks” in the equipment menu. These vehicles can be stored directly at your pig housing facility and will automatically fill as manure is produced.

Manure Spreaders

Manure spreaders are separate equipment designed to distribute manure across your fields, improving harvest yields. This creates a profitable cycle: feed your pigs, collect manure, spread it on your fields, and increase your crop production.

Selling Your Pigs

When you’re ready to sell your pigs, approach your pig housing and use the sell icon (the opposite of the buy icon). This is where you’ll profit from your breeding operation. By starting with a small number of pigs and allowing them to breed naturally, you can sell the offspring periodically for substantial profit.

Summary

Pig farming in Farming Simulator 25 offers a profitable and rewarding gameplay experience. Start by investing in a housed pig facility, purchase a small number of pigs, and maintain their health with food and straw. Use pre-mixed pig feed for simplicity, manage the manure byproducts for field fertilization, and sell your growing herd for profit. With the right setup and management strategy, your pig operation will become a sustainable part of your farm’s economy.

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