Pigs Destroyed This Pasture
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- Опубліковано 23 бер 2024
- Our pastured pigs made a huge mess of the pasture as we strip grazed this field of cover crops. How did we manage the field, how much money did we save, and how are we repairing it?
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Fascinated to see how this experiment works out. As a butcher here in England, I'm constantly dismayed by the poor quality of "mainstream " pork produced here. Power to your elbow!
Thank you. We will see how it goes. I suspect it will turn out well, but we will see.
Hi. Do you think a lot of privately owned butchers would buy from small independent pig rearers who aim for quality over quantity? Have some woodland with pasture and would love to raise 50 or so pigs to a high standard but how would I sell them ? Thanks
Love your videos man. Simple explanations with straight forward commentary and fantastic knowledge. Keep it up brother, I’m following your lead with land im purchasing in northern Virginia.
Thank you for the kind words and feedback. I appreciate it more than you know.
Thanks so much. I'm binging your videos and trying to figure how to modify things for southern Michigan.
You can do it! There are some wintering challenges for sure, but you can do it, especially for the warmer months I am sure.
Honestly in southeastern Ohio we have folks raising cattle aka in the grass business & their pastures are worse than this! They also have no plans to improve said pastures, I appreciate your transparency to show the hard part of farming responsibly. I have confidence you’ll repair these pastures in a few months.
It’s bare at the moment but it’ll grow back well. If it were summer it would be growing much faster!
My winter pig yard is a "mess" as well. As soon as the weather shifts into spring I'm moving them onto fresh ground and implementing some of the seeding varieties you use on the old feed lots(yards).
Nice, I hope it goes well.
I'd love to see a video on how you market/sell your pigs. The business side of farming seems a whole lot harder than the cultivation itself!
I'll do a video or series of videos on it at some point. The reason I have not thus far is that I have not completely answered that problem myself. We had a two year production issue with mangalitsas that's a long story. Our first round of pigs produced from our Berks, is going to the market soon and for the most part they are sold. Its easy enough to sell 20-25 pigs after selling none for months. Its much harder to sell another 30 pigs six months after the 20-25 were sold. We will see how it goes. Perhaps thats the issue that I deal with in the first video. We will see. Marketing is certainly not my strength.
Theres a lot of talk of fava beans for pigs over here in europe. Good cover crop and huge yields .
I've read about them some and am interested in trying them.
I had thought i saw a prior where you said you could not afford a no till drill?
Check out the recent video I published “why I bought a no till drill” I found a
Small one that works well for my farm.
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thanks for watching!
It's my experience that hogs seek mud. If there isn't much they dig up moist spots. Thanks again.
Very true!
😮crawfish? What do you mean?
I'm developing farm soil on my channel...starting from ciliche.
Our pigs are rooting up crawfish, aka crawdads, crayfish, mud bugs, etc. from their burrows.
Do those pigs every get full ? There eating that crop like there starving . How many pigs do you have and how many acres are they on.
I have a total of 75 or so pigs on the farm at the moment. That said, the group in the video was 22 or 23 pigs. The pigs are not starving by any stretch of the imagination. They are eating as much as they can as fast as they can to keep the others in the group from eating it. Of course, they still get a grain ration.
We have a lot of rock here so I rotate the worst spots of our pastures with a kind of modified bale grazing for our cows than when the cows are about done with the bale and we start to move the rings over to the new bales I spread corn out and let the cows trample it into the soil they'll eat a little but not much. Than we turn the pigs in to work it up eating the left over hay and turning it over looking for the corn, than we go through and broadcast warm-season annuals followed by pulling a spike tooth harrow to smooth it out and incorporate the seeds. After the cows and pigs both graze the annuals off that fall or the next spring we usually have a really nice stand of fescue, orchard grass, and red clover which is what our hay is.
Agree. Pigs following cows works much better than cows after pigs.
Nice. Really nice.
It depends on your goals whether cows follow pigs or pigs follow cows. In most circumstances, pigs are better to follow cows. However, depending on one's pasture plants, pigs need more of the nutritious plants like clovers, forbs, etc than the cows do. If one's goal is to reduce feed inputs for pigs, they need to be moved after their best forage plants are consumed. Then something needs to follow them to graze, trample, or mow the grasses. With the pea oat mix particularly, cows tend to trample a lot of the peas whereas pigs will eat most of them. Pigs don't do as well on the small grain grasses like oats and often need to be moved before all of them are eaten.
@@DowdleFamilyFarms we usually play it by ear with how good a stand of summer annuals we have which usually depends on the how much rain we get. If we're getting good rains and those annuals are growing like crazy we go through with the cows first and follow with the pigs. And usually switch it around if it turns off dry. Than if it turns off like it did last year in my part of Middle TN were we got an inch and half in almost three months it really doesn't matter what you plant. We were able to rotate both twice before the rains stopped though.
@killacommieformommie nice.