Growing up with four siblings from a poor family, my late parents has always had some small animals in the backyard to supplement their meager income and put food on the table. They kept a few sows and raised the litters for fattening until they reached maturity age at about 8-9 months and then they were sent to the market. The money they made out of the sale of the pigs were then used to send us four siblings to school.
The first picture at the top is just one of the four compartments in the old pigsty in the backyard. We tore down the other three compartments some years ago when the city passed a law, prohibiting the raising of pigs in the city. This last compartment was kept for storage purposes only. We had some things that we didn't want to throw away, thinking that they might come in handy in the future and so we just kept them in this old pigsty. The picture in the center is the same pigsty but this was taken from another angle to show the sayote plants growing on the rooftop. The size of this pigsty is 6 feet wide by 10 feet long by 6 feet high infront and it slopes down to 5 feet at the back. The original size of the whole structure was 10 feet wide by 24 feet long and divided into four compartments. The bottom picture shows the construction materials that we purchased such as gravel and some sand for the renovation project. It has been more than a decade since we last raised some pigs in the backyard. We wanted to raise some small animals again but since hog raising is no longer allowed, so we are going into rabbits and chickens.
