The Cost Of Farming - Feeding 100 Pastured Pigs 5 Tons!
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- The Cost To Feed 100 Pastured Pigs - 5 Tons!
Today we are having 5 tons of feed delivered for our pastured pigs. We have breeding pigs, feeders and new piglets that all need to be fed and they eat A LOT. Let's talk about how much it costs to feed these animals and how long this feed will last us on the farm.
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As always love seeing you and Sondra, the piggies are gorgeous 😍. May the Lord bless you and yours as we celebrate Thanksgiving. God is good, we are grateful 🙏. Blessings.
Thanks Dayne. Really appreicate ya'll watching.
When you have time sir build you a "pallet" out of c channel that your forks will slide in but has a square hole in the middle. Has two uprights as arms to hold the handle loops on the bulk bags. It will get the weight lower for you. Texas
When I was a kid back in the 70s I used to go to my grandfathers farm. My mom grew up on a really big farm outside of Orangeburg, South Carolina. Over 1000 acres.
I remember pumping gas in various vehicles because my grandfather had a 300 gallon tank for diesel and a 300 gallon tank for gasoline. He had him built up on a rack that he welded that put them around 6 to 8 feet off the ground and the gas was gravity fed with a traditional nozzle like you have on your tank.
I love piglets. They are so cute. They also make damn good BBQ! Around 100 pounds oh boy!
I forget what homesteading channel I was watching, but a few days ago I saw a guy call piglets bacon seeds! I almost wet my pants I was laughing so hard.
Happy Thanksgiving from Alabama.
Thanks so much
Hi from Andy and Tania from Tasmania, Australia. We have been following your channel for a while now and just love your videos. We have had quite a few pigs over the past few years and have just bought two new slips. You and Sondra inspire us.
Hey guys! Thanks so much for the kind words. Good luck with the new ones. Really appreciate y’all watching
Happy Thanksgiving!!
Thanks for bringing us along on your journey
Appreciate ya'll watching Andy! Happy Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving
Same to you!
It's great to see your feeding process. I hope you had a great Thanksgiving we sure did.
Happy Thanksgiving hope you’re doing well today keep up the good work thanks for sharing what you guys are doing.
We put in an electric hoist to lift the super sacks. You can get or make a dump hopper to fill the feeders.
It just so happens…….
Video on that coming soon!
Thank you and Happy Thanksgiving to you all.
Same to you guys.
Happy thanksgiving! To you , your better half and of course your family.
Thanks Todd. Appreciate ya'll watching.
Happy Thanksgiving day to you too.
Thanks!
Happy thanksgiving! I truly appreciate the videos. Learning a lot
Thanks. We really appreciate ya'll watching.
Happy thanksgiving Chuck… God bless you both..
Awesome!!! Very informative 👍👍👍Thanks for sharing
Glad it was helpful!
Happy Thanksgiving! Enjoying y'alls videos
Happy thanksgiving to everyone!
Thanks Roger! Same to you.
This channel is growing like crazy 👏👏
Have you noticed a difference in gain since changing to a pellet feed? Also take a big tote. Cut the top off and a hole out of the middle on the bottom, big enough to put the opening of the bottom of the bag will go through. Can carry it close to the ground and harder to flip it over
Oh my gosh,those babies are so beautiful
Happy Thanksgiving to both of you. I'm learning a lot watching you channel.
Thanks for the kind words. Appreciate ya'll watching.
Happy Thanksgiving to yall
Thanks so much. Same to you.
Happy Thanksgiving Chuck and Saundra!
Hey Bud! Same to you and your family.
Happy Thanksgiving. I hope you have an amazing day!
Thanks. Same to you
This exact thing is kill me right now. I could save money buying in bulk but need to spend money on a bigger tractor to unload it. I still haven’t gone to a bank for any kind of loan but the growing pains are getting tough. Looks like you guys are doing great!! Hope you had a good thanksgiving!!
Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours!
Same to ya'll!
THAT CHEAPER THAN HERE IN KENTUCKY 16 PERCENT HOG FEED IS 440 A TON THANKS FOR A GREAT VIDEO ALSO BE CAREFUL WITH THAT TRACTOR ON HILLS THEY WILL TURN OVER ALWAY WEAR YOUR SEAT BELT
Thanks. I try to wear it, especially if doing something sketchy!
Hey Chuck, can you leave the big bag on the pallet to transport it up the incline. Safety is most important!
Happy Thanksgiving 🍁
Wishing you and all of your family a very Happy Thanksgiving Day.
Love seeing all the piglets and just laugh when their all running together.
LOL 😆
Thanks so much. We love the piglets. They are a ton of fun.
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Happy Thanksgiving , I am looking for a land in Texas to do same thing , I learned a lot ,and thanks for your videos.
You can always leave the bag on the pallet and haul it to the feeder like that. That way you can keep the center of gravity low to the ground.
Happy Thanksgiving you need a gravity feed wagon
Yes we do! That would be helpful in some places here on the farm.
Happy Thanksgiving. Your videos inspire me. Have you ever looked into Iowa pastured pigs?
I hope you both had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I'm sure the price of the feed is worth it to have so much bacon. On my new property if my pigs only ate what's growing they would starve .
Happy Thanksgiving y’all
Thanks so much
Happy Thanksgiving!
Same to you!
Thx
I have an old Case skid loader that won't lift a full tote bag. I bucket out of the tote to fill the feeder then I can unload it with skid loader. I love getting bulk feed.
have you looked into buying a grinder mixer makeing own feed buy corn from local farmers love seeing those pigs on ground i used to raise 7/8 hundred at a time till went broke
I think your videos are awsome and love watching them . Just had to say it you remind me of buster scruggs from the move even how you talk ! It’s cool 😎
I hope you are doing good God bless you!
Feed buggy might be an investment at that rate. I do about 1500 a week in beef grower and lord finding that bulk wagon was a blessing
Happy Thanksgiving 🦃!
Thanks! Same to you guys.
Happy Thanksgiving !!!
And to ya'll as well!
Can you carry each bag up the hill while still on the pallet? That way the tractor forks are kept low to the ground. Then only lift that high and pick up from the top of the bad once you are ready to empty.
That could be an option in a few places. Some of our hills are pretty steep.
$2052 divided by 100 is $20.52 per pig for about five weeks you said. Interesting information. Thank you for sharing and best of luck.
not bad at all. I was expecting much more.
Happy thanksgiving! I wish I were smoking a SPF turkey today. Maybe someday in the future I’ll be smoking my own home grown turkeys…
Happy Thanksgiving. Thanks for watching.
@9:23
Do you think if you left the SuperSack of feed on the pallet and brought the whole thing, pallet included, up the hill and into the paddock, lifted up just high enough to clear the ground, and THEN lifted the sack up high right there next to the bulk feeder, maybe that would be safer / more stable? (and thus save you the labor of bucketing feed out from the top of the bag)
Happy thanksgiving
You too
Happy Thanksgiving guys! Its only a bit after 9pm here in So Cal. Dang that's my yearly property tax! I struggle to make that! How long does that amount last you?
I wish I was close enough to buy a pair.
I would love that feed bill. I have 35 pigs and am paying .50 per pound for organic feed.
Keep up the good work y'all and thanks for another great video
You definitely called the price increase. Good move on stocking up
What all is in your hog feed mix? Happy Thanksgiving
I’m just here for the intro music. Lol. Just kidding. But I do like the music.
Do you mind sharing where you are buying your feed?
Hi how many months does it take before you can take them to the butcher?
Any idea how many pounds of feed from farrowing to harvest per pig?
Awesome video .. Is that organic feed or just regular hog feed ??
Last hog feed we bought before we sold out hogs and went strictly to sheep goats and chickens and hounds was around 200 a ton ..
Feed costs and ware I live a 40-90 lbs sheep or goat is worth way more then a hog for what it cost to raise one hog to 250 I can raise 3-5 lambs or kidd depending on wheaning weights and have double the meat and double if not triple the money ..here we're Iive isn't not uncommon to be able to buy a 200-300 lbs butcher pig for 80-120 dollars and when the COVID first hit we were able to get big pigs for 50-120 on a regular basis per head as the livestock auction I go to was shipping cattle to feed yards or shipping horses from there monthly horse sale and to not comeback empty they were bringing pigs back from mid west that they were buying for Penney's on the dollars as the big factory farms were flooding auctions with them back there as they didnt want to euthanize the But they had to make room for new piglet's coming in ..
What kinda feed it that around here they dont sell a pellet style its powder here they say they dont digest pellets I doubt it but what it that you have
Would it be more stable to leave the bag on the pallet for most of the trip? That might not be an option I just wonder
Have you considered when it would be worth it to buy an old feed grinder and grind your own feed? Our farm is mostly row crop so I plan to have the farmers hold us back a few truck loads so we can grind our own next year since feed grinders are plentiful here in Missouri
We have but bringing the material in and taking time to grind are not things we are in a good position to do yet. Its not out of the question.
@@SheratonParkFarms yeah our situation is a little different then most homestead folks, we own 110 acres of row crop land we share crop with, im hoping not this growing season but the next we can do at least one field of non gmo corn and save it back for pig and chicken feed.
What model of tractor is that
Whoa! We pay over $800/ton delivered!
my new holland is too light in the rear. I have to use a larger counter balance
What size is yours?
@@SheratonParkFarms 2007 tc55da ...its the last year they made it lower stance but that dont change the rear raising up on me in my hilly farm. I use it to load logs as well but i really weigh the back down
Wow happy holidays
You too!!
How long that 5 ton last for the 100 pigs
free range instead ?
love the videos but can hardly hear you then the music is super loud esp with earbuds in.
Hey friend I tried emailing you but must have not gotten to you. I was wondering if you pay attention to the sign when you castrate or if you even consider that? I have pigs about 9 to 10 weeks old and a friend of mine says I have to wait till the sign is below the knee. With your experience is that true?
Hey. Seems like I saw your email but failed to respond. No. I don't pay attention to the signs. When its time to castrate and wean, we just do it.
@@SheratonParkFarms ok thank you! Keep the awesome videos coming! Love the new farm videos.
Thanks!
Do rats get in those totes?
Where do you sell you pork
We have 2 farmers' markets (High Point, NC and Clemmons, NC) and we sell directly from our farm.
Looks about time to move those pigs to a new plot and let this one recover.
You scare me putting your head in between the bag and the feeder! Rule #1 in hydraulics....never trust hydraulics lol
Pls say me fcr
Thanks for watching.
Happy Thanksgiving
Same to you!
@9:23
Do you think if you left the SuperSack of feed on the pallet and brought the whole thing, pallet included, up the hill and into the paddock, lifted up just high enough to clear the ground, and THEN lifted the sack up high right there next to the bulk feeder, maybe that would be safer / more stable? (and thus save you the labor of bucketing feed out from the top of the bag)