Watch This Before Trying to Save Money on Pig Feed
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- Опубліковано 11 лют 2024
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I have Guinea hogs and they seem to fatten up a lot on just grass and acorns. I do grow a basic grain mix of sorghum, barley, and oats to supplement especially during the winter (I add dried stinging nettle to this mix for all the minerals). I’m thinking of growing buckwheat, clover, and alfalfa to store for winter hay as well. I also grow black soldier flies and have a a few ponds that I grow minnows in, so I do have access to insect meal and fish meal. I’m not trying to sell these pigs so regulations are not an issue for me. I already feed them damaged eggs from my chickens, and leftover milk from my goats. I try to avoid grains cause they’ll get way too fat on that and I don’t really enjoy processing the grains, it’s a lot of work. They seem ok so far, but I want to make sure they are healthy as can be and am wondering the best way to use the things I have available to me.
The legumes and buckwheat are good starts for sure. Acorns are always wonderful too!
@@DowdleFamilyFarms How does your winter cover crop work out? I’m in Georgia a little south of Atlanta and our winters are mild enough for brassicas and radishes to survive in the garden. I wonder if I could grow winter cover crops in the fall and allow the pigs to “harvest” it all during the winter. I do this with my silvopasture of acorns, hickory nuts, and walnuts. I’ve also added some chestnut and hazelnuts to eventually become part of their winter stockpile.
I lived in Ocilla (18miles from Tifton) for several years and in atlanta for 3 years. Yes, you can grow the winter crops for pigs. I have some longform youtube videos on the warm and cool season cover crops for them.
The brassicas would add more protein than the hardwood mast offers and would offer a great balance I think. Austrian winterpeas are higher in lysine as well.
Thanks again for tge valuable information.
Glad you found some value in it!
Educational
Thanks, I hope that it was helpful.
Another excellent video. Good job, good informational. I raised pigs for a long time and there’s nothing I can add. I was gonna say about soybean meal, but then you guys brought it up there at the end.
Thanks for sharing! How did you raise pigs? Was it smaller type farming like I am doing or on a much larger scale?
@@DowdleFamilyFarms thank you for asking. It was a small time gig me and my sisters raise hogs for 4H but my parents always ran a small sustainable organic farm on the edge of the city that I grew up in. Nothing huge just 10 acres.
nice.
Those hogs look great
Thank you.
@@DowdleFamilyFarms would like info on where you puchase your cover crop seed. And do you use any added fertilizer ? Im located in NW florida.
We have purchased seed from petcher seed, green cover seed, and our local farm supply store.
1:20 I mean, both chickens and pigs are omnivores, if you feed chickens corn, barley, fishmeal, wheat mix and then feed it also to the pigs, aren’t you also feeding the same diet to the pigs? what’s ignorant about that?
That was this guys theory too. But egg laying chickens need much more calcium than even meat chickens as a simple example within the same species. Most importantly, you can give pigs all the protein in the world, but if it isn't in the correct amino acid combination, they can't form muscle. The nuances of their nutritional needs are wildly different