Don't wear yourself out picking acorns by hand. Go to cemetaries, and the outskirts of athletic fields and golf courses. These are areas where the grass is maintained short and there is generally very little foot traffic. Buy yourself a cement rake to collect the acorns. Depending on the size of the crop, you can harvest around a hundred pounds of acorns per hour. This is how the forestry department harvests them to rejuvenate hardwood forests. If you want, you can toss them into a kiddie pool filled with water. The acorns will sink while the leaves, stems, and any trash will float to the top to be netted out with a net or colander. That process also cleans the acorns and removes the caps. You can then spread the acorns out on a tarp to dry. You can then freeze the acorns to feed your livestock during the times of year when acorns aren't in season.
You might get an experienced forester to come walk your property with you before you do thinning for that larger tree. I'm in a different zone, but that tree might be nearing the end of its life and if you remove the other trees it may have trouble with wind. Also, if it does fall after thinning you could have a difficult gap time with feeding and establishing new oaks as young trees are food and can take many years to produce.
We’ve had a forester walk through with us offering general guidance, though not about that specific tree. The area was logged 38 or so years ago so everything is young.
Hey Kevin thanks for the feedback. That zooming in occurred due to an editing mistake and I could not figure out how to fix it. Now, several months later I know what caused the problem but at the time I spent 12 hours trying to undo it and never could!
Great video! I love all the thought and care you've put into raising your pigs. They look so happy!
Thank you. I am glad that you enjoyed it.
Don't wear yourself out picking acorns by hand. Go to cemetaries, and the outskirts of athletic fields and golf courses. These are areas where the grass is maintained short and there is generally very little foot traffic. Buy yourself a cement rake to collect the acorns. Depending on the size of the crop, you can harvest around a hundred pounds of acorns per hour. This is how the forestry department harvests them to rejuvenate hardwood forests. If you want, you can toss them into a kiddie pool filled with water. The acorns will sink while the leaves, stems, and any trash will float to the top to be netted out with a net or colander. That process also cleans the acorns and removes the caps. You can then spread the acorns out on a tarp to dry. You can then freeze the acorns to feed your livestock during the times of year when acorns aren't in season.
That's interesting. We typically do not pick them by hand. We just turn our pigs into large hardwood paddocks with acorns in them.
That zooming in after every cut is really distracting. You might consider not doing that in future videos.
I appreciate the feedback. That was an accidental feature that occurred in the final edit in a new video editing software. Thank you for watching.
you're welcome
Yeah, I bounced because of this. It was giving me motion sickness.
Interesting. Thank you
Thank you!
Great information 👍
Thanks!
Looks like lobster mushroom at 3:50 when the video freezes.
Yes. I think so, but pigs don’t eat it most of the time.
You might get an experienced forester to come walk your property with you before you do thinning for that larger tree. I'm in a different zone, but that tree might be nearing the end of its life and if you remove the other trees it may have trouble with wind. Also, if it does fall after thinning you could have a difficult gap time with feeding and establishing new oaks as young trees are food and can take many years to produce.
We’ve had a forester walk through with us offering general guidance, though not about that specific tree. The area was logged 38 or so years ago so everything is young.
Oh pigs love acorns, hickory nuts, and pecans. I've watched other farmer's videos where they let them into the forest area and they forage for nuts.
Yes they pigs love any kind of hardwood mast like acorns, hickory nuts, beech nuts. If they would eat sweet gum balls I could feed millions of pigs!
😂 akerns…took me a bit to figure out what you were taking about! 😂😂 We call them acorns.
My southern pronunciation has confused a few people lol.
Thanks for the wonderful information. If I may suggest, please stop with the odd "zoom" editing. It's really hard on the eyes.
Hey Kevin thanks for the feedback. That zooming in occurred due to an editing mistake and I could not figure out how to fix it. Now, several months later I know what caused the problem but at the time I spent 12 hours trying to undo it and never could!
@@DowdleFamilyFarms Thanks. I didn't want to be a jerk. You have good content.
Good grief, @DowdleFamilyFarms, quit with the zooming and rezooming at 1:21. You're giving me motion sickness. I'm bailing; I can't watch this.
Sorry, thats and old video. Couldn't figure out the editing software! It kept zooming in on every cut.
Couldn't make it through the zoom snap, in and out, over and over again sorry.
Thanks for trying! I spent over three hours trying to figure out how to get that to stop in the new software.