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Our Family
Nolan, Morgan, Mitch, Regina,Ted, Jake
Ted & Regina Laird Home - 8947 W Amphitheater Rd Arlington, IN 46104
From Indiana SR 52 Turn south on Rush County Rd 900W. Go to the second crossroads (Amphitheater Rd). Turn left and we are the first house on the right.
OUR FOUNDATION
Our aim is to keep Jesus Christ as the head of our home. We strive, but know we sometimes fail, to bring a Christ-like attitude to everything we do. Below are some of the scriptures that are foundational to our faith.
John 3:16-17
For God so loved the world, that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish, but have eternal life. For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
Joshua 24:15
…....…but as for me and my house, we will serve the LORD.
Mark 12:29-31
.......... Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength. The second is this: 'Love your neighbor as yourself. “There is no commandment greater than these."
Jeremiah 29:11-13
"For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call upon me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you. You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart.
Malachi 3:10
"Let your tenths come into the store-house so that there may be food in my house, and put me to the test by doing so, says the Lord of armies, and see if I do not make the windows of heaven open and send down such a blessing on you that there is no room for it.
We worship at Shelbyville Community Church in Shelbyville, Indiana. We love SCC as we believe it is committed to searching for and teaching biblical truth with its arms wide open to those seeking to find and follow Christ. If you live in this area or are traveling through, we invite you to worship with us. Dress is casual so your show clothes will be fine. Find more info @ www.sccconnect.net
Welcome to Laird Premium Blend Genetics. We appreciate your visit to our site.
Our family began raising purebred showpigs in 1916 when my Grandfather Chester Meal purchased his first purebred Poland Chinas under the Home Place Farm banner. Home Place Farm was extremely successful in the 1930s thru the 1950s including showing FIVE purebred Poland Barrows to Grand Champion 4-H honors @ the Indiana State Fair in '33, '40, '47, '48 & '49. Chester judged most every major show of the day and worked as a fieldman for the Poland Association for a few years.
The baton was passed on to my father Bill Laird, who purchased his first Polands from Chester Meal in 1951 - a boar named Kinsman and a gilt named Faith B. He liked the pigs so much he decided to marry Chester & Faye Meal's youngest daughter - Faith. Bill Laird & Family exhibited several champion Poland gilts & boars at the Indiana State Fair and National Shows and placed three Poland barrows in the 4-H Spotlight sale @ the Indiana State Fair.
Ted Laird Hampshires began in 1982 with the purchase of the Reserve Champion Hampshire gilt from Larry & Joe Rule @ the Indiana State Sale. Long-time family friend John L. Fox offered to breed this gilt to the Indiana State Fair Champion Boar from Ken Dorrel and we showed gilts out of this sow to 1st, 3rd & 4th in her first litter @ the 1983 Indiana State Fair Open Show. That kind of got us hooked on Hampshire females and breeding better Hampshire females remains our primary passion.
We strive to continue the tradition of breeding winning showpigs and doing so with integrity.
The Pig Zone
"Big" Barn
6 - 5' x 8' Pens Inside
6 - 5' x 16' Pens Outside
3 "New" Barns
4 - 5' x 18' pens in each
Old Farrowing House
8 - 5' x 8' pens
Sow Lots
10 - 16' x 160' lots
2011 Berkshire Hog College Gilt
We highly recommend Chad Evans and the crew at GSP. They have been great to work with to develop individualized feeding plans that comes with feeding 30+ showpigs a summer. Click the link above or call Chad or Lisa Fogg @ 812-663-6150
Our Home
Congratulations and a huge thanks to Lexi Hernandez, the Ottenwalter Family, & Russ Pedrett for winning Champion Hamp and Grand Overall Gilt @ the 2012 NJSA Western Regional
Homebody x Model T.
Littermate to the Champion Hamp Gilt @ OYE
Sold in our Oct 17, 2011 On-Line Sale
Congratulations to Cody Day (& proud Pop Mike) for their Champion Hampshire Gilt 2012 Oklahoma Youth Expo Gilt. She will be the 3rd pure in the Sale Ring Saturday 3/17.
Homebody x Model T.
Littermate to the Grand Overall Gilt 2012 NJSA Western Regional
Sold in our Oct 17, 2011 On-Line Sale
It is kids like Cody Day that make this a fun business to be in and also that keep us very honest with our descriptions and what we select to put on-line. When I talked to Cody's dad Mike the day after the on-line sale, he told me how this was Cody's last year and how bad he had been wanting to buy one of our Hamp gilts. Then we meet Cody in El Reno to deliver the gilt and you can tell he is ready to just bust to see his gilt. Imagine the feeling we would have had if we had to load a broken-topped, crooked legged piece of junk on his trailer.
We take great pride in presenting the pigs in as good BUT honest light that we can and are glad to tell you where we would fix each one because we know how much these projects mean to many of the kids (and families) that walk behind them. Do they all win - NO. Do they all turn out like we hope - NO. Do we picture them and describe them the best we can -YES. Do we stand behind them 100% - YES.
Description: We hope the pictures do this one justice because we think she is without a doubt the best Hampshire Female we have ever bred. Everything we want in a gilt, she has it, and then some. She is sired by HomeBody (sire of our 2011 Indiana State Fair Reserve Grand Hamp Gilt, as well as her littermate we recently sold off the farm for $4,500) and her mother is a Model T sow that we bought from Jerry McLemore in the fall of 2009 that Jerry said was the best Model T gilt that he had sold. Power, muscle, bone, width, rib, feet, femininity. Buy with confidence... we expect to hear great things from this tremendous female down the road. The best we have ever bred.
Description: This gilt was the greenest when these gilts were younger, but she has been flat out rolling lately. She is just designed so good, it is hard to tear a hole in this one. At this stage, she looks a lot like the HomeBody gilt that we showed to Reserve Grand honors at the 2011 Indiana State Fair! HomeBody is making a name for himself for structure that we have been looking for in Hamps and this gilt offers that same flawless design and look, with more than enough power to push you over the top. Don't miss out on this one!
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2011 Berkshire Hog College Boar
2011 NBS Res Hamp Boar
2011 InSF Reserve Grand Gilt
2012 Grand Overall NJSA Western
2012 OYE Champion Hamp Gilt
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Call Jake Laird - 317- 502-7058
or Ted Laird - 317-402-3742
Call Jake Laird
317 502 7058
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This page was last updated: May 6, 2012
Laird Premium Blend Genetics
Berkshire, Hampshire, Poland China, & Crossbred Showpigs & Breeding Stock
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