The Best Feed For Pigs Being Raised For Butcher. Fast weight gain. Happy Pigs!
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- Опубліковано 27 гру 2016
- Thinking about raising pigs for butcher? The first thing you ask yourself is what will I feed them to get the best and fastest results. You really can not beat this mixture. Fast weight gain and the pigs love it. Happy pigs means happy pork chops!
I am a Farmer/Butcher in Haiti .Thanks for the video will try your mix for my feeder pigs.
Thanks you answered my question. Thinking of raising one for starters. 👍
Happy New Year Joe & Family
should be fun I get my pigs Sunday thanks Joe preciate it house is coming along nice
I use a used cement mixer to mix my feed does a far better job than hand mixing , easy to fill and it tillover to empty a real time saver.
Won't one need water when using a cement mixer
You can buy one will take about an hour to assemble from Harbor Freight and it can also be used for blending pasture or cover crop seeding mixtures. Works great. Can also be used for small batches of concrete for setting or making fence post!
Thanks for sharing, Joe
Good Feed & Good Instruction !
Enjoyed your tips! Thank you sir.
good and very simple
Good job joe& zack piggies looking good👍👍
Good to know. Thank you!
Merry Christmas Joe!! Forgot to mention that in my last comments on your videos. Hope you and the entire family had a good one. Thanks for sharing the information on feed mix for the pigs, of course I have been watching your videos and gaining a lot of knowledge, just wish I had a larger place to do some of the things you do, like the pigs, chickens, turkeys and ducks and that big garden!! Hope your doing well and just in case here is to a great a prosperous New Year in 2017. Looking forward to more videos my friend. Juddie
thanks joe, the tips will come in handy when i finally get some acreage. love your work bro, your a true homesteader
Permaculture Homestead he is a serial killer
Thanks for sharing friend.
That is awesome!! I am a 5 gallon bucket guy. But, I use one of the portable cement mixers.
this actually remind me of my grandparents life times in Lao raising pigs that they have left stories for our grandchildren
Follow his footsteps lol
Worked a deal with a lunch truck company we use to pick up all leftover food ,donuts , pastries , milk etc. Fattened those suckers overnight it seemed like . We'd give them some feed and stuff from garden but for the most part was lunch truck food.
Save me a porkchop!! Looking forward to see how much actual meat they produce. Should be a nice add to the freezer! :)
me an my two girls look for a new video every night we are hooked lol got are rabbits an chickens doing are pigs starting this spring thanks. man keep them coming
Thank you RY. You can watch more videos on chickens and stuff on my other channel I have with Melissa called northernseclusion if your not already subscribed. Thanks again and say Hi to your Daughters. Joe
thanks for the info
Just the video i needed! Thanks friend 😁
Update to this. We have been feeding our pigs this feed mix the barrow growing very well with it. The gilt not as good but still growing. I like the price difference as well.
We always took a 55 gallon drum mixed 50/50 corn Milo mix fill with water, place lid with holes punched with a screwdriver this allowed the gas to escape. Very happy pigs that had a great taste
Thx 4 sharing.
I see them all the time up here.
Hey Joe.. I'm thinking about raising feeder pigs. I'm very curious on how they handle during the winter months in northern Minnesota when it get -40 degrees.. how do you shelter them during that time of year. Or do you butcher them before the hard parts of winter hits.?
My father told me a story about how they raised a pig once on nothing but fishmeal for christmas. He swears it tasted just like fish, said it was a very unique experience.
Ty
Thanks
I'd like to try this in Thailand, my wife's mother has a few pigs, which are fed a commercial bagged mix. Any idea of how much minerals to add as they are raised on a concrete floored pen.
peanuts work great too.make the meat taste great too.
Peanuts have 10 percent less protein (per pound) compared to Soybean. And, on average, peanuts cost 3 times more than soy. Peanuts may be a tasty alternative, but, never viable economically, especially if you are dealing with larger herds, like I do.
@@mohitmorris thanking for replying long died comment .may it now rip
u know that seems a little pricey for feed cuz I'm in KS and u can buy bulk 1000lbs of soybean meal and corn mixed with minerals in to get 16% protein ratio for a $100.00 at my local co-op and it's the identical consistency of urs and would cut ur feed price down so just letting u know cuz it might be a cheaper option for u and thanks for the great vid!
Where at
Send me store phone #
Email me I'm in California here and I can't find anything within budget price to grow pigs thank you.
Very beautiful animals, do they not break the fence and run away?
Looking good!!
Could you add water to the dry product and would it make a mushy slop?
Pigs are great; funny, smart and taste good.
If any doubts about SOAKING your rolled corn, just try eating raw dry corn meal! When I really want a fat pig quick, me and the boys COOK a half 55 gallon drum of corn, wheat, pasta, any damn thing edible and out of date. A pig eats dry food and uses a ton of energy to digest it, wet cooked and fermented food and it goes right to the bacon! Look at those Oakie old spot hogs riding the electric carts at the local Walmart. They do not eat cracked corn dry.
hello how old gonna feed the pigs in that stuff? is it same feeds from piglets to adult ?
We get are feed from the back field mostly corn on the cobb in the winter and veggies in the summer not to mention good ol [cooked] sloop they like that the best. And man they have no problem getting big😂. But good video and where are there tails at is it the bread?
Thanks for the vid my pigs just won't fatten❤
If you have access to raw cow milk, the pigs love it and gain weight (fat) fast. Just a suggestion. We are planning on getting pigs again and also a milk cow and a butcher cow (rotating) and we will feed the pigs the extra milk. We have access to buying raw milk from a dairy farm up here and the pigs love it and it really helps them gain weight.
Aw pigs are my favourite animals
feed piglets milk replacer 2 quarts a day for a month and half, gives them real good head start.
Sorry if this has been asked before but do you know roughly how many lbs of feed each pig consumes from the time you get them to the butcher date?
Have you ever tryed a fodder system? The animals digest it alot better than plain dry grains .... (ugh Purina)
hi, if you added their weight ( 940-950 divided by 3= 315-316) do you know how much they eat in 1 day or 1 week? I'm trying to figure out how much a 100 herd of 5-600 lb pigs would need to eat each day, to be healthy, happy, and maintain their weight. Does anyone know?
A happy pig is a delicious pig!
sir can i ask the ratio for the crack corn and soy meal for the bucher.?..thanks...
Gonna be great with a poached egg. Bring it on mate. Cheers Moose
Are your pigs super fatty feeding this mixture? We did pigs on just corn one year and there was just too much fat. Does the protein from the soybean meal seem to counteract the high fat from the corn?
Hello, please tell me about the feed.... What are the mixtures????
nice video
interesting about the soybean meal; your pigs have their feet in the trough which in my case my pigs leave lots of feed uneaten when it's "soiled". i use a deep hanging fence type feeder, one for each pig. it's deep and don't spill out and waste food and they can't get their feet in while feeding.
Hey if you only feed a pig like donuts cakes and other sweets will their meat be sweeter than normal feed?
love your chanell though
What kind of season salt do you use for grilling ?. I love your two channels . Happy New year
how many 5 gallon buckets a day do you feed per pig
the way you feed your pigs approximately how much feed did you use in pounds per Pig to get them to wait. you've inspired me to get some pigs and butcher them myself keep them coming thanks Joe Al Michigan
I am not sure Alan, I did not keep close records. I will tell you this though. If you raise your own and then bring them in to be butchered and processed you will basically spend the exact same amount as you would if you were buying your meat at the store BUT you will be getting wayyyyy better tasting meat and you will know whats in it. If you raise them yourself and do the butchering and packaging yourself you will be getting your pork at about 50 to 60% of what you would pay in the store and like I said it will be way better. Butcher and packaging is a huge percentage of "total cost", almost half. Doing it yourself might not look as pretty but it all tastes the same no matter what the piece of meat looks like and it will save you good money. Thank you. Joe
i don't know what commercial breeders feed, but pork from the store is nasty compared to what i kill.
Bro thanks for the video how much pound of feed do you give them a day
And could you make a video with those rabbits
I raised a pig to butcher in 2016 I got him at 5 weeks and butchered at 27 weeks I fed him 950 lbs of tractor supply pellets and alot of scrap garden veggies but now Im going to look at 3 pigs and trying grow them fast to keep feed costs down and sell 2 to recoup some of the investment, my question is how old were these pigs when you first got them and about how much did they weight? And how much do you think they weighed in the video after having them and feeding them that diet for the 3 weeks? Thank you for the very informative video.
what did you feed your need pigs to save money ?
just cracked corn and soybean protein? Do you supplement with any minerals too? I'm in Thailand, and will have about a dozen pigs to feed in another month. Once weaned, at about 6 weeks, I'm thinking of costing this out and trying it. How long do you think it will take to grow one out to 100 kilograms (220+ pounds)?
He says no because they're on dirt not concrete floor
I use producers pig finisher and crack corn . are you going to do a video when you butcher them ?
pamela mayfield He will, listen to what he says at 4:50
Can u feed the kitchen scraps
could you give them whole corn? a bunch of my buddies are farmers. I could fill the back of my truck several times a year with corn they just dump on the ground cause it's not worth going back for a partial truck load. I just don't have a means to mill it
They will eat it but for some reason they do NOT like the whole corn. Like any other animal or person though, when they get hungry they will eat it. If its cheap and works for you it would be fine. They eat this up like candy. Thank you. Joe
Thanks for the information I'm going to try this for my next set of hogs right now I'm just feeding 16%hog feed have a since I got them and they were probably about 15-20 pounds when I got them I've had them roughly about 4 to 5 months if I use your method does it only take about 3 months to have them ready to butcher or 250 to 300 lb roughly we'd appreciate it if you let me know thanks
Feeding that feed blend should get your pigs to butcher weight at 54-5 months. If you hold them to 8 months, you'll be looking at a 325 pond pig. When I raised pigs, from the day they were born, to the day they reached 250 lbs could be as short as 5 months, but averaged about 6 months of age.
Thank you for the information mr..
I git a lot of information to make a pig farm.. but in my country you can mix with banana three chop..
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consequence of intense feeding is that your Steak will shrink in the pan as fast grown meat looses a lot of water.
So since I have them in the mud, I don't need to give them any minerals? Just asking to clarify as I'm going to try this. Thank you!
Yes, you need to give the pigs minerals. Having mud available to them makes no difference.
If you want to really get some tasty meat out of any pig, just feed them boiled potatoes and pumpkins for the last 3-5 weeks before slaughtering them.
Andrei M going to try it out
Thanks champ :-)
I have looked into this a lot and bought a property to where I can keep pigs know. I have been watching prices also I noticed in my area the price of pigs drops tremendously about winter not sure why. but I was pricing them a month or so ago could get a 125 pound pig for about 50-60 dollars thinking about just getting a few right before winter and butchering them. I have never done that but I have to start somewhere.
iwantosavemoney Killing pigs unnecessarily is wrong. Would you like it if someone killed you just for money that they don't need, or for meat that they like but don't need? Why don't you take up vegetable/fruit farming instead?
I'm reading your note that you'll buy a few hogs at 125 lbs and raise them to about 275? That's a good plan if you can get them that cheap. Most farmers don't want to deal with pigs in the winter, so the price goes down, both on feeder pigs and butcher hogs in late fall.
That’s the way to do it
hope you and your family had a wonderful xmas . Great looking pigs mate. when I was young, my chores included cooking pig food. we got the unwanted vegetables from the green grocer. mixed it with similar dry foods like you used. thx mate, good video. 🖒
My pigs get ALL the stuff from the garden that is not eaten. This video I filmed most of it months ago and was just a video to let people know what mixture is needed to grow great pigs. They have to watch all the other videos I post to see the "personality" in growing pigs and all the fun it is feeding all the garden and other leftovers. Thank you.Joe
JoeandZachSurvival ......yeah it is fun and yes they do have their own personality. your way has certainly worked a treat. they're huge , lots of bacon & pork steaks there. 🖒
So are you able to keep them in that pen without an electric wire? I ask because that has held us back from getting them, thinking they would just root under the panel and escape.
Seeping Springs Farm ... seen your reply I've had pigs last two years no electric fence I was told well fed pigs will be content and won't go looking and it has worked for me for two years now....hope this helped
I want to raise and butcher my own hog!!! So u can't give them human scraps too? Or does it make the meat to fattie?
3:55 So, how does one go about moving a larger pig from A to B? Baiting them along with food?
Don't have any pigs yet, just thinking ahead.
Withhold food for a day. Then lead them with a bucket of tasty food!
@@KB4QAA hahahaa.... That's funny
You arrange for means of transport i.e. a pick up. You make it walk on a ramp onto a well secured pick up or lorry.
@@Jcmadad We built a skid from a sheet of 1/4 inch plate steel about 4x6 six feet with steel wire hog panels for the sides. Guided the pigs into the skid, closed the gates, and pulled the skid to where we wanted the pigs with a tractor. It looked really crude, really hand made, and everyone that ever saw it that had pigs outdoors built one of their own. We got the steel floor for free, so I don't really know what that would cost.
You said they have made but three weeks since you bought them?
Where do you get the soybean meal? Thanks. Great video
At the local feed store.
Do they gain meat weight faster too not just all fat gain?
If the pigs were on cement, how much mineral would you mix into the garbage can with the crack corn and soybean meal?
I’m thinking of having pigs for the first time.
I am not sure. I never raised them on concrete.
I use this same recipe. I make 100 lbs of feed at a time. I use 75% Cracked corn, 20% Soybean meal, and 5% vitamins and minerals.
TRY FEEDING A 4 TO 1 RATIO OF CORN & CONCENTRATE ON FULL FEED
Larry Nigg: I was going to post the same point. This farmer is too thin on the protein part of the feed mix. 4:1 with CONCENTRATE, not soybean meal. He is wrong to think he doesn't need a vitamin supplement if he has pigs on dirt. Two seasons, and he will have depleted any natural source of selenium, a hyper important vitamin for the pig's nervous system. Also, cracked corn is better than shelled corn, but ground corn is better than both. Much, much easier to digest for the pigs. If you decide to mix water with the feed. plan on washing out the feed pans every couple of days to clean out any spoiled feed. Despite what you will hear on other channels, pigs, and the flavor of the meat you get, is almost exclusively controlled by the food they eat. The feed ratio described above will give you cuts of meat that are firm without being tough, flavorful and lean in the way you would want a cut of pork to be. Substituting other food stuffs such as table scraps or letting the pigs forage in the woods will affect the flavor of the pork you harvest, not always in the way you would want. Foraging in fields, especially hay fields, gives a slight gamey flavor some people like. I find table scraps problematic unless you are vary diligent to cull all meat scraps and only feed the vegetation to your pigs. Pigs are omnivorous and will eat meat, but too much and it taints the flavor of the pork.
Lastly, raising small groups of pigs like this, you DO NOT need any antibiotics added to the feed. Pay attention to your animals, treat them only IF they get sick. The open air and dirt will help them grow without the need for added drugs.
Do you feed pigs once a day? Or more?
Your feeders are a real waste of feed - add some boards across the trough top and divide it so they can only get a head in and one in a hole. Then that box feeder is just not working at all. Tilt it back, raise it up, get gravity on your side. Finally, SOAK that corn in a seperate barrel and just sprinkle your protein over or in your bucket when taking it to the feeder. Try biting into dry cracked corn, and then into it after 3 days soak. You will see why your pigs will grow 2x faster and keep their teeth. Soaking and a partial lactic acid bacteria fermentation can double the protein and digestibility of the feed. With that many pigs you will halve your feed costs by going to a small milling operation and getting 1000 pounds of premix. Here, corn is 22 cents in a bag and 9 - 11 cents in your bin or their tote bag. I am wondering what keeps your pigs in that pen! Mine would be down the road in a heartbeat.
an im putting in on this becuse im waiting for joes next video lol
Can pigs be raised just on assorted vegetables inc pumpkin ?
Yes, it will just take them longer to get to butcher weight.
When I asked at the feed store, they said this would not fatten them up? I’m so confused? I know even to much protein in people turns to fat. Isn’t it the same for pigs? Also, in Oregon it’s a 20$ a bag for 50#
I'm confused by your question, not knowing what 'this' is. $20 for a 50 lbs. bag for hog concentrate mix sounds high, but may be the current market. If you are raising a pig and using a corn/soybean concentrate blend, the corn to concentrate ratio should be 4:1 from 40 lbs to 120 lbs of pig weight (2 months to about 4 months of age for the pigs) and 5:1 until you slaughter them.
Where do you get cracked corn and soybean meal, having a hard time finding it around here.
I just go to the feed stores around here and they have it.
Cracked corn I can even buy at many many places. Feed stores have the soybean meal.
i was just looking at some commercial pig feed today. $14.99 for 50lbs. it wouldn't be worth it to me. I have been feeding mine fresh produce scraps from the grocery store, a little feed bread(expired bread). i am raising kunekunes so they take forever to grow anyway. I might sprinkle some Joe's magic corn recipe for the youngsters. Thanks Buddy.
camanojim that's high. Our feed is about $10.50 on average hear in western ny. I also feed garden scraps. They loved watermelon.
Should I get Kune Kune pigs? Most are ready at 1 year right ? I wouldn't mind getting them because my wife doesn't eat pork so it's not like I need pork
@@fullmoonflockstock6929 You aught to see what a bunch of pigs can do to your rhubarb batch in spring. They love it. You'll be sad.
Hi, what is the kind of pigs in video?
where do you get Soybean Meal from? having a hard time tracking it down
I buy it from an actual feed store. places like tractor supply etc do not carry it. Most feed stores have it especially if they make there own mixes because if they do they are adding soybean meal to some of them so they keep it on hand. Thank you. Joe
Don't feed soybean meal - feed soy bean concentrate. You need the minerals added to the concentrate. A local feed mill will have concentrate in 50 or 100 pound bags. Mix ground corn and concentrate in a 4:1 ratio.
how much do you feed them each day? I was told it should be about 5lbs a day each is that correct?
Its hard to say how much. This is just a hobby farm set up, you want them to eat as much as they can. You pour a 5 gallon bucket of food a day because thats what size pail you have and at first they cant eat it all and eventually they can. Your goal is 200 pounds by 4 months old. I am way past that in time and weight and on earlier videos I have explained that and I think I will post another video explaining cost of raising vs cost of buying. That is the second most asked question. The first it what I feed them. Stay tuned. Thank you Michael. Joe
JoeandZachSurvival thanks for the video I'm planning to raise some feeders this spring for the first time and I'll take any information on the subject that I can get. Thanks again.
JoeandZachSurvival thank you for telling me. I really like your videos. If you could make a video on the cost that would be so helpful to someone like me. Thanks again.
For my feeders we feed about 12-15 lbs a day once they get up about 50 lbs. They put on about 17 lbs a week if you feed them correctly.
JoeandZachSurvival real men have real hobbies dude
What kind of pigs are those?
How often do you feed? Once daily or twice daily.
Two times a day.
Thank you.
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add water over there feed they will gain faster and won't shit so much feed out try it and you will see the difference n there shit won't b so much wasted feed
I was going to say the same thing. They will eat the fines that way also
@@ronaldpoole1298 Yes, fermented is about 15-20% more effective, at least in the start.
@@sverre371 adding 1/4 cracked corn in a 5 gallon bucket with 3/4 water the night before for next day morning chow will fill up the 5 gallon bucket with expanded cracked corn I heard? have you tried that process?
Ronald Poole I don’t really get the “adding water”? So you mix the feed with water? What does that exactly do?
I raise pigs and we get our feed in 4 different growth stages and it worked great. I believe it's almost a 4 to 1 ratio of corn to soybeans. They turned out great and taste awesome. I raised them for 5 months after I got them and they weighed 220 pounds hanging. You can also tape them to check their weights, it worked well for me.
Joe L good afternoon sir I'm a farmer from Trinidad and Tobago are want to try and feed my pig soya bean an crack corn but don't know how it will work it's a bit expensive in my country but if it's growing the pigs fast i might see a better profit in a shorter time period an what the mixture... An start to finish process feeding them...
Joe L Fattening and killing pigs unnecessarily is wrong. Please stop doing it and either keep the pigs and look after them well for their wellbeing, or send them to a good sanctuary. They don't deserve to die just for meat that you don't need. Thanks.
Denesh Maharaj As I said to the first commenter...
Victoria Salter Wow u r really hateful and ignorant.
I love pork and will continue to raise and slaughter mine
Jimmy cracked corn and I don't care...
Mrs Frizzle lol I was thinking of the same thing 😂😃😄
How can someone one register in in this group in Cameroon in ?
We used to feed our pigs red velvet cake. It was some the Mrs made, it was so bad it wasn't fit for human consumption. Really fattened the pigs up good
What do you mean if they lived on concret you would need mineral ? you dont add mineral because they live in dirt ? im noob but id love to raise pigs down the road ! please anyone help thanks nice animals you have
The pigs get mineral from the dirt, they get nothing from concrete so they must be supplemented.
@@JoeandZachSurvival ah ok I understand. hey thanks so much for getting back to me :)
Funny, 50lb corn is now $16.99
How many times a day do u feed them
Twice.
Looks like a great job you do...but there are things you can improve ...
is this more cost effective this way or the grocery store. this is something I would be interested in trying but I have no idea how to butcher them. I seen your videos but I can't have my tablet beside me when I try lol
LOL. The first time I butchered them I had my laptop next to me... hahaha. I posted a clip of that on the Joe and Zach Survival Facebook when I was doing it. I will do a video in the next couple of days explaining costs. Thanks Reno. Joe
You could try soaking the corn for a day or two in water to make it easier to eat. Lots of people ferment their animal feed and report it increases efficiency
if the feed cost is high then it will be the same cost as store meat however this way you know what you are feeding them and you can have the meat processed to your liking, i.e. thickness of the chops, different sausage seasonings, etc.
To me, the only advantage to home grown pork is you can grow the pigs bigger to larger cuts for say pork chops. Additionally, you know what the animal ate and can control it. What a pigs eats makes a big difference in the way they taste. Lastly, raising a pig at home means it gets treated a little bit like a pet. That drops the stress a pig lives with and has a direct positive effect on growth, meat texture and flavor. I was a 4H/FFA swine leader for 13 years and was always amazed how much better the meat from those kid's pigs (and all animals) tasted than the commercial animals that were raised factory style.
For reference how much does one pig eat in a day of that feed
Depends on the age and purpose. Adult boar eats very little. Feeder pigs eat more and more as they grow.