The BEST Pasture Pigs Rotational Grazing Paddock Design (360 Video VR)
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- Опубліковано 15 жов 2024
- Do you want to set up a pastured pigs rotational grazing system that stewards the land well, produces awesome pork, and makes your life much easier? In this 360 video, I will show you how we raise pastured pigs using a hub and spoke system that makes raising pigs on pasture much easier than almost any other system that I'm aware of.
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The home base is brilliant. No need to move feeder from paddock to paddock, lot less work. I will be building my paddocks like this. Thank you for this brilliant design.
I am looking into getting into pigs and came across a breed called Idaho Pasture Pig. It came from Kune Kune, Berkshire and Duroc. The breed standard focuses heavily on the upturned snout for grazing.
I'm raising that breed. They're awesome! Just had my first 2 litters 2 days apart
360 videos is such a good idea!!
I loved your video! I just gotta say for the record, since technology is always on the verge of exploding, your video is the first one that I’ve heard about this whole 365 thing. Very cool looking forward to learning more about that. I’m Sure my comment will be laughable in about a year.
Thank you! I really appreciate your feedback. I really wish the video quality was better. Really good 360 cameras are still expensive. I’m sure that the price will come down as the technology improves.
We plan food trees specifically to drop food at certain times to expand the natural diner menu for the flerd. Love what you're doing. Found another smart kid up in Canada. Dakota Cohen.
I'm actually planning on building out a similar system next year. Stay tuned for a video on it.
Good video. I have started building a ranch from scratch and want to try the hub rotation style as well. Love the 360 video too. New subscriber
Awesome! Thanks for the feedback.
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This video is amazing. Subscription earned!
Thank you!
Instant sub just for the 360. We had never seen or even heard of that before.
Thanks for the feedback!
That was cool! Thanks!
Glad you liked it!
I like how you filmed this. It was interesting to see your surroundings as you spoke. Thank you for sharing. Your videos are very informative.
Thank you! I really appreciate the feedback. I wish the quality was a little better but this is as good as it gets with the 360 camera I have.
Love the 360 because I got a good idea how you built your fences. Awesome vid bro God bless.
Thanks for the feedback! Really appreciate it.
Looks super interesting. Nice 1-acre paddocks supports how many pigs? And how long typically do they remain in a single paddock? THanks.
Thanks Chris. It's hard to say because there are so many factors in play like how healthy your pastures are, how much you supplement your pigs, the type of pig breed you raise, the season you are in, your climate zone, terrain, soil health, etc. This is why you need to watch them and open up their next paddock not based on the amount of time they've been there but rather what they've done to the current one. For me, in the summer, I typically move about 15 hogs (mixture of sizes including some small breeds like KuneKunes and piglets) from one paddock to another every week or so.
Thanks for the video.
Do the dogs live with them all day/all night? Great idea.
Thanks! Yes, they are always with the chickens. I have another video about them if you want to learn more. ua-cam.com/video/eo1v5b857y4/v-deo.html
That is such cool video technology, I've never seen anything like that before! How many acres is your pig paddock system? Our farm is 5 acres, currently fields and orchards, with a forested 2 acre section in the back. I've been considering raising a couple of pigs in it but have been unsure if it will be enough space. I've also considered rotating the pigs through the orchard in the winter, but have worried that they'd be too destructive/kill the fruit trees. Any advice from your experience would be appreciated.
Thanks for the feedback! I really like this shooting this kind of video because I'm able to let you decide what you want to look at. Unfortunately, the quality is not as good as a regular video but I'm hoping that will change in time once the technology gets better and more affordable. If you look at the picture of the field layout that I put on the screen in the video for a few seconds (you may need to pause it at the 1:47 mark) you'll notice that I have nine one-acre paddocks. You should have enough land with 5 acres to raise a couple of pigs this way. You'll probably want to make the paddock sizes smaller than mine though. It may take some experimenting to figure out. I have also thought about planting various fruit and nut trees and running pigs through the alley between them. I would say if you try this out, make sure to keep the pigs far enough away from the trees that they won't disturb the roots. Pigs like roots! Hope this helps.
@@Farmhacker yes that does help. Thanks for your very detailed reply
Great video, but the 360 deal messes with my vision and brain. I had to just listen to it.
When you have pigs on pasture, do you move them daily with the cattle? Once the brood sows are all pregnant, do you separate the boar from them?
Thanks for the feedback about the video. Regarding cattle, no, I do not rotate cattle in the paddock system with my pigs. And no, I don't separate sows from boars.
Have you looked into IPP pigs? I think they can get you where you are wanting to go.
I have looked into them. I like the idea of working to create a breed that works best for your own farm. However, if you feel like IPPs will work well for you then they may be a good choice.
When the pigs eat down to the dirt, do you reseed that area after moving the pigs?
I only did that once after the first time they went through each paddock because the pasture was in rough shape since it had been previously row-cropped. If the pastures are healthy they will bounce back after the pigs eat it down as long as you let it rest before putting them back on it. Also, try to move them to a new paddock before they eat the entire paddock down to dirt.
I don’t understand when you’re trying to mix Berkshire and Kunekune that you don’t just raise Idaho Pasture Pigs since your explanation of crossing the two breeds is the very reason IPPs were developed? Is there a reason?
How big of a shelter is needed for like 50 pig, Ive heard 8sq ft per pig. Does that sound accurate?
I don’t know an exact figure on this. For me it has always been watch and see, especially since I have raised a variety of different size pigs. You could start with that size in mind and adjust as you go. I prefer portable shelters so they can be moved around when needed. So instead of one large shelter I use multiple smaller shelters.
Do you move your pigs every day? Do you keep the pigs in the same paddock as cattle? THANKS!!!!!
I don't move them every day, only when the paddock has been exhausted. And no, I don't keep cattle in the same paddock system as my pigs.
@@Farmhacker when moving pigs to a new paddock, once all brood sows are pregnant, do you keep the boar separated from them?
@@scottybabb6297 No, I do not separate them.
I’ve wanted to do a similar setup. How do you close off the paddocks they’re not using?
The entire paddock system uses electric polywire with step-in posts so, when I close off a paddock, I just run polywire across the opening. It's really easy to just tie it into the existing polywire that's there. I use the Gallagher Electric Fence Polywire which you can find links to on this page. farmhacker.com/best-pig-fences/
@@Farmhacker have you had any issues with them getting out after using a previous hot boundary as a gate?
@@davemckenzie7851 No, I've never had a problem with that. Keep in mind though that my pigs are trained to electric and they are happy. If your pigs aren't trained to electric or they are not happy (e.g. too confined or are hungry) then they are more likely to get out. If you need to train your pigs to electric before moving them to this type of system then I highly recommend getting portable electric pig fencing (looks like woven wire fence but is made of polywire, also link to it in the previous article I sent you) and make a paddock using that first. Once they are trained to that then you can move them to something like my setup where you only use 2 or 3 strands of electric polywire. Hope this helps.
How many SQFT is home base and how many Berkshires do you have? Great video!
Thanks! I would say it is roughly 1500 SQFT. I could have made it smaller than that though. It just ended up being that size because that's how large my woods were at that spot and that's where I wanted them to be so they could have shade. At the time that I filmed this I had probably 8 Berkshires.
Loved the content, not a fan of the 360. I guess you can't make all the people happy all of the time 😂😂🤣🤣 so don't worry what I think 😊 Thanks for the content and sharing your ideas.
Thank you for the feedback! Really appreciate it.
I wanted to see the chickens and the pigs
What breed of pigs? Missed it.
I explain the breeds starting around the 7:20 mark in the video.
@@Farmhacker thanks!
Video gave me a headache. Just make it normal. Good information but the I cant do the 3d
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My problem with the hub is that there will be a piece of land that the parasites have a chance to flourish. THAT SAID, with poly wire, someone could do this version and then flip flop the field every month or two to kill off the parasites growing in the hub. However, I’d rather do a wagon wheel and move everything around in the center corners of the wagon wheel……
I’m looking to do this with pigs followed by chickens….
Yes, adding polywire inside the hub itself is one way to help with that. You would need to move their shelter and water though which is one thing I’m trying to avoid with my design. But if you don’t mind doing that then it could work.
@@Farmhacker It needs two Rings around the Hub. 1. Chickens/Ducks 2. Natural Pond.
That way everything cravling into the Hub will be eaten by the Chicken/ducks.
The Fish will also catch alot, but most importantly will be the Dragonflys, getting everything that Trys to enter. Its like a Trap, you attracked Bugs to feed the others.
Also the Manure that does not end up on the Field, you don´t have to Move far. to make a Chicken Compost hill.
A little complicated to design it, so you don´t have to open and close.
And 80% of your manure is going to be in the hub instead of being across the field?! Negative out ways the positive!!
Where did you come up with the 80% figure? Have you used the same design and that was your experience? It’s not mine. Most of my pigs’ manure makes it out in the field.
I stopped watching because your video was never in focus and 360 was not showing on my phone.