A family-run working farm in Mabank, Texas that buys and sells livestock across East Texas and North Texas, and also provides fencing, welding, excavation, sand and gravel, and custom home services.
entityIdemola-farm · also called Emola Farms · status active
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Emola Farm has been buying and selling livestock in East Texas for more than 37 years. We are a working farm in Mabank, Texas, not a classified listing site. Animals come in and go out regularly, which means when you call us we can tell you what is actually on the ground.
This is half of what we do and the half people forget. If you need to move animals — you are downsizing, clearing a place, settling an estate, or you simply have stock you no longer want to feed — call us. We buy livestock continuously.
Emola Farm, 759 VZ CR 2704, Mabank, Texas 75147 — near Cedar Creek Lake in Van Zandt County, an easy drive from Athens, Canton, Kaufman, Terrell, Gun Barrel City, Corsicana, Tyler, and the Dallas–Fort Worth area.
We are near Cedar Creek Lake in Van Zandt County, within a reasonable drive of much of North Texas and East Texas — Gun Barrel City, Athens, Canton, Kaufman, Terrell, Corsicana, Forney, Rockwall, Tyler, and the Dallas–Fort Worth metroplex.
Emola Farm's core business: buying and selling pigs and hogs, goats, sheep, cattle and chickens, with inventory that turns over on a daily and weekly basis.
entityIdlivestock-dealing · status active
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Our inventory changes on a daily and weekly basis and shifts with the season. Tell us what you need and we will tell you what we have, and we can send you a photo.
The livestock market moves, so we quote current prices by phone rather than posting numbers that go stale.
Livestock fencing, custom gates and pen construction, frequently bought alongside animals by the same customer.
entityIdfencing-service · status active
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Get the fence right before the goats arrive, not after the first escape. We build fencing, custom gates, and pens and do welding, and some goat buyers have us do the fence at the same time.
Domestic pigs and hogs sold by Emola Farm, spanning feeder pigs, weaned pigs, market hogs, big sows and breeding stock. The farm handles domestic breeds only.
entityIdpigs-and-hogs · sameAsWikipedia: Pig · status active
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Emola Farm buys and sells domestic pigs and hogs year round at our farm in Mabank, Texas. We carry feeder pigs, weaned pigs, market hogs, big sows, and breeder gilts and boars.
We deal in domestic hog breeds. The breeds we see most often on our farm are Berkshire, Hampshire, Duroc, Yorkshire, and crossbred pigs.
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INSTANCE_OFPigThe domestic pig, Sus scrofa domesticus
A feeder pig is a young pig that has been weaned off the sow and is eating on its own, sold to a buyer who will feed it out to market weight. It is the most common way pigs leave Emola Farm.
entityIdfeeder-pigs · status active
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A feeder pig is a young pig that has already been weaned off the sow and is eating on its own, sold to someone who will feed it out to market weight. The name describes the job: you are buying a pig to feed.
The animal has cleared the hardest stage of its life. It no longer needs the sow, it has learned to eat solid feed, and it has enough size to handle a normal pen and normal weather. That is what separates a feeder pig from a weaned piglet.
PRECEDES Market hog finishing A feeder pig is grown out to finished weight
DEPENDS_ONWeaningThe pig must be off the sow before it is a feeder pig
SUITED_FOR First-time pig raisers Larger and more forgiving than a weaned pigletdeclared
Weaned pigs and piglets PhysicalProduct
Young pigs that have just been separated from the sow and started on solid feed. Cheaper than feeder pigs but requiring a tighter, warmer pen and closer attention in the first weeks.
entityIdweaned-pigs · status active
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A weaned pig has just been separated from the sow. It is eating solid feed but it is still small, still adjusting, and still needs close attention. A feeder pig is a step further along — bigger, more settled, and more forgiving of an ordinary pen and ordinary weather.
Domestic hog breeding stock. A gilt is a young female that has not yet farrowed, a sow has had at least one litter, and a boar is an intact male kept for breeding.
entityIdbreeding-stock · status active
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Gilt — a young female that has not yet farrowed a litter. Sow — a female that has had at least one litter. Boar — an intact male, kept for breeding. Barrow — a castrated male, raised for meat rather than breeding.
Underline. Count the teats and look at their spacing and quality on both sides. This is the single most important thing on a breeding female and the thing new buyers most often forget to check.
A black hog breed with six white points, originating in the county of Berkshire in England, valued for marbling and eating quality rather than growth rate.
Berkshires are black with six white points — four white feet, white on the nose, and white on the tip of the tail. They have erect ears and a shorter, slightly dished face than most commercial breeds.
Berkshire pork carries more intramuscular fat than most modern commercial breeds, which is what produces flavor and keeps the meat from drying out.
SUITED_FOR Eating quality The breed is chosen primarily for eating qualitydeclared
Hampshire pigs PhysicalProduct
A black hog breed with a white belt over the shoulders and front legs, developed in the United States, known for lean muscle, a large loin eye and a strong show ring record.
A Hampshire is black with a white belt that wraps around the body over the shoulders and includes both front legs. The ears are erect. The belt is the giveaway — no other common breed is marked this way.
Hampshires are known for a high percentage of lean muscle and a large loin eye. If lean yield is what you are after, this is one of the best breeds for it.
SUITED_FOR Lean yield The breed is chosen primarily for lean yielddeclared
Duroc pigs PhysicalProduct
A red, drooping-eared American hog breed known for fast growth, feed efficiency and better marbling than most fast-growing breeds. Widely used as a terminal sire.
Durocs are solid red, ranging from a light golden shade through to a deep mahogany. They have drooping ears — a useful field marker, since the other major breeds we carry all have erect ears.
Durocs carry more intramuscular fat than most fast-growing breeds, which means you get growth rate without the eating quality falling off the way it does with leaner breeds.
Yorkshires are solid white with erect ears and long, large-framed bodies. In the United Kingdom the same breed is called the Large White, which describes it about as well as two words can.
Yorkshire sows are among the most prolific of the major breeds. Good milk production and good instincts. A sow that raises her whole litter is worth more than one that farrows a big litter and loses half of it.
SUITED_FOR Litter size and mothering The breed is chosen primarily for litter size and motheringdeclared
Wild hog exclusion policy Concept
Emola Farm's stated position that it does not buy or sell wild hogs, feral hogs or trapped hogs, and is not a hog removal service. Every pig the farm sells is a domestic animal.
This comes up often enough in Texas that it is worth stating plainly. Emola Farm does not buy or sell wild hogs, feral hogs, or trapped hogs. Every pig we sell is a domestic animal.
If you are looking to have wild hogs removed from your property, we are not the right call. If you are looking for a healthy domestic pig to raise, feed out, breed, or eat, that is exactly what we do.
Emola Farm buys and sells goats year round at our farm in Mabank, Texas. We handle Boer, Pygmy, Nubian, and crossbred goats, and our inventory changes on a daily and weekly basis.
The saying in the goat business is that if a fence will not hold water it will not hold a goat. Goats climb, push, squeeze, and test everything. Woven wire or goat panels, tight to the ground, with no gaps a head can fit through.
The Boer is a meat goat breed developed in South Africa — the name comes from the Afrikaans word for farmer. It was bred for one purpose: putting weight on quickly on rough forage.
Boers came to the United States in the 1990s and reshaped the American meat goat business quickly. Today, the great majority of commercial meat goats in Texas are Boer or Boer influenced.
SUITED_FOR Meat production and 4-H show projects declared
Pygmy goats PhysicalProduct
A true miniature goat breed originally from West Africa, small and stocky, kept mainly as pets, as companion animals for horses, and by families with small acreage.
Pygmy goats are a true miniature breed, originally from West Africa. They are noticeably small — the breed standard puts mature animals at roughly 16 to 23 inches at the withers — and they are built thick and stocky rather than fine boned.
Pygmy goats are stocky and cobby, bred for a meat-type build. They are kept mostly as pets and companions. Nigerian Dwarfs are finer boned and dairy shaped, bred as small milk goats.
SUITED_FOR Pets, companion animals and small acreage declared
Nubian goats PhysicalProduct
A large dairy goat breed, properly Anglo-Nubian, with long pendulous ears and a Roman nose, known for high-butterfat milk and for being the most vocal common goat breed.
Nubians — properly Anglo-Nubians — are a large dairy breed developed in England from British stock crossed with goats out of Africa, the Middle East, and India. They are unmistakable: long, wide, pendulous ears that hang well below the jaw, and a distinctly convex Roman nose.
Nubians do not give the highest volume of milk among dairy breeds — a Saanen or an Alpine will typically out-produce them. What a Nubian gives you is higher butterfat and higher protein.
SUITED_FOR Home dairy, cheese making and soap making declared
Sheep PhysicalProduct
Hair sheep bought and sold by Emola Farm — Barbados and blackbelly types, including ewes, rams and lambs. Hair sheep shed naturally and never require shearing.
Emola Farm buys and sells sheep year round at our farm in Mabank, Texas. We deal primarily in hair sheep — Barbados and blackbelly types — and we handle ewes, rams, and lambs.
Hair sheep shed their coat naturally. No shearing, no crutching, no annual bill and no scramble to find a shearer. They also tend to be more heat tolerant and more parasite resistant than wool breeds, which counts for a lot in this climate.
Barbados Blackbelly hair sheep, tan or brown bodied with a black belly and black facial bars. Normally polled in both sexes. The animal Emola Farm is best known for.
Barbados sheep are hair sheep — they shed their coat naturally and never need shearing. The classic coloring is a tan, brown, or reddish body with a black belly, black legs, and black bars on the face, which is where the blackbelly name comes from.
The breed traces to the island of Barbados, where sheep brought from Africa and Europe developed over generations into an animal suited to heat, humidity, and parasites. Those are exactly the three things that make sheep difficult in East Texas.
SUITED_FOR Low-input small flocks in a hot, humid climate declared
American Blackbelly sheep PhysicalProduct
A hair sheep breed developed in the United States by crossing Barbados Blackbelly with horned stock including Mouflon and Rambouillet. Rams carry large sweeping horns, which is what distinguishes it from Barbados Blackbelly.
Barbados Blackbelly is the original breed. Both ewes and rams are typically polled, meaning naturally hornless. American Blackbelly was developed in the United States by crossing Barbados Blackbelly with horned stock. The rams carry large, sweeping horns.
In Texas the shorthand Barbado is applied loosely to both — and strictly speaking it is not a breed name at all, but a descriptor for blackbelly-marked sheep of mixed background. In practice it most often means a horned animal.
SUITED_FOR Hunting ranches and exotic stock Mature rams carry heavy sweeping horns valued by the exotic marketdeclared
Sheep copper sensitivity Concept
Sheep accumulate copper to toxic levels, so mineral supplements formulated for goats must never be fed to sheep. A critical management distinction for anyone keeping both species.
entityIdsheep-copper-sensitivity · status active
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Never feed goat minerals to sheep. Goat minerals contain added copper and copper accumulates in sheep to toxic levels. If you run both species on the same place, this is the mistake to guard against. Use a sheep mineral or one labeled safe for both.
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PREVENTS Copper toxicity in sheep Feeding sheep-safe minerals prevents accumulation