🌎 this has been so great to watch. From Sd to the farm. So much hard work and learning ,it’s crazy the amount of stuff you throw yourself into but I think everything you are doing is SO on point! keep up the hard work 🤙🏼🇺🇸
If you own the trailer, put it in place a week or so early and feed pigs in trailer every day. On butcher day just close the doors when they go in to eat. Much easier.
I don’t raise animals (we can’t even have chickens where I live!) but just as a consumer of meat, I would love to see interviews with that butcher & owner, to become more educated about where our meat comes from. (Or I guess that is to say, where our meat SHOULD come from.)
One of the things I noticed during decades of working with animals is that the sound of a hollow floor, be it a ramp or truck bed, made them nervous. My solution was to train them to cross a small bridge to reach a trailer where they were fed. On shipping day going into a trailer just meant FOOD !!! lol. It worked well with every type of animal. Not to ignore the fact that they were also trained to come to food by a call, so a loose animal was also easy to get back into a pen. I still do this with my ducks, geese, and chickens every evening to get them secured for the night more easily. They enter a chute that leads to their coops, and that's the only place I put feed out, so they go in, and I close the chute. After each bird is full and had water , they usually go to their roosts, which is individual for each species.
I raise pasture hogs. I keep mine behind poly wire. When it’s time to haul to the butcher I just run a poly line chute. Guy that picked up the hogs couldn’t believe it worked. He took pictures because he said no one would believe him. Like that fella said the poly line is normal to them. I didn’t have to force them at all. A little bit of food in trailer and they jumped right up in there. I have done this before. I have a had a chute 800 yards long. Pasture pigs are use to moving. Be nice to your pigs and they will trust you way to much.
So interesting! The comments from the butcher was also interesting. Do you think you will maintain the same number of pigs for the next slaughter trip or increase/decrease? Great video.
Great content! We learned a lot. We'll surely share this to our clients who recently bought land from us near the rural areas. They'll surely get awesome ideas from you 😊
I have been watching your videos since before you moved and learned a lot from you about composting and gardening and am very grateful to you for that. I am a sheep and pig farmer born and bred and now I still keep watching you and have not commented but I feel I should as you may now learn from me, I pasture my pigs and feed 2lb of barley a head a day, I keep them behind one or two strands of hot wire and load into a trailer on my own right in the paddock, I have a few videos but they are not how to and I don't do it for subs and not well edited but maybe you will find some interesting. Tennessee looks like my kind of place, I would really like to visit some day, I am in Cornwall, England, I hope you don't take this the wrong way, thanks for your content, Dunk
I don't weigh it. I feed based up on how much I see them eating in a day but basically 60-70% of a 5gal bucket filled with some feed, food scraps, bokashi/IMO3, and minerals I add water let sit for 24hrs then feed.
I’d like to see you farm crickets or some kind of bug and compare the resources used with a pig version. Like pound for pound input vs output. That’d be something I haven’t seen before
A five gallon bucket on their head will make them passive enough to walk them backwards. There are definitely better ways to do it but in a pinch, the bucket works. I've done it twice!
We just got our baby ducks and chicks.. I found your channel very relatable 💪🏻🌎❤️
Nature is always right !
Great info. Interview with the processor is a must. Can't wait
Ya me too, when we briefly talked I was like oh man he's about to drop some gems on us, excited to go back and learn.
🌎 this has been so great to watch. From Sd to the farm. So much hard work and learning ,it’s crazy the amount of stuff you throw yourself into but I think everything you are doing is SO on point! keep up the hard work 🤙🏼🇺🇸
It's been a blessing and blast to be able to learn and experience all these new aspects of farming! Glad I can show and help people along the way.
If you own the trailer, put it in place a week or so early and feed pigs in trailer every day. On butcher day just close the doors when they go in to eat. Much easier.
I don’t raise animals (we can’t even have chickens where I live!) but just as a consumer of meat, I would love to see interviews with that butcher & owner, to become more educated about where our meat comes from. (Or I guess that is to say, where our meat SHOULD come from.)
Really amazing farm and beautiful 🥰 nature around farm
We didn’t hear any screaming piggies. Very good. You were as gentle as could be. 👍💕🦋 Bacon 🥰 I loved this video!!
We try to be ;) Glad you enjoyed the video!
One of the things I noticed during decades of working with animals is that the sound of a hollow floor, be it a ramp or truck bed, made them nervous. My solution was to train them to cross a small bridge to reach a trailer where they were fed. On shipping day going into a trailer just meant FOOD !!! lol. It worked well with every type of animal. Not to ignore the fact that they were also trained to come to food by a call, so a loose animal was also easy to get back into a pen. I still do this with my ducks, geese, and chickens every evening to get them secured for the night more easily. They enter a chute that leads to their coops, and that's the only place I put feed out, so they go in, and I close the chute. After each bird is full and had water , they usually go to their roosts, which is individual for each species.
I raise pasture hogs. I keep mine behind poly wire. When it’s time to haul to the butcher I just run a poly line chute. Guy that picked up the hogs couldn’t believe it worked. He took pictures because he said no one would believe him. Like that fella said the poly line is normal to them. I didn’t have to force them at all. A little bit of food in trailer and they jumped right up in there. I have done this before. I have a had a chute 800 yards long. Pasture pigs are use to moving. Be nice to your pigs and they will trust you way to much.
Can you make a video talking about the best pig breeds to keep,pls
So interesting! The comments from the butcher was also interesting.
Do you think you will maintain the same number of pigs for the next slaughter trip or increase/decrease?
Great video.
These Forest Fed Farm's pigs, I'm not sure of his plan for pigs next year but I think he's done anywhere from 6-15 pigs at a time.
Great content! We learned a lot. We'll surely share this to our clients who recently bought land from us near the rural areas. They'll surely get awesome ideas from you 😊
I have been watching your videos since before you moved and learned a lot from you about composting and gardening and am very grateful to you for that. I am a sheep and pig farmer born and bred and now I still keep watching you and have not commented but I feel I should as you may now learn from me, I pasture my pigs and feed 2lb of barley a head a day, I keep them behind one or two strands of hot wire and load into a trailer on my own right in the paddock, I have a few videos but they are not how to and I don't do it for subs and not well edited but maybe you will find some interesting. Tennessee looks like my kind of place, I would really like to visit some day, I am in Cornwall, England, I hope you don't take this the wrong way, thanks for your content, Dunk
Very awesome video!!
the masons that laid that block literally didn't know which way to put the block on, smooth is the front.
Hi how many pigs can you fit in 10 feet by 6ft trailer
With your pasture pigs, how many lbs of grain or other food are you feeding per day?
I don't weigh it. I feed based up on how much I see them eating in a day but basically 60-70% of a 5gal bucket filled with some feed, food scraps, bokashi/IMO3, and minerals I add water let sit for 24hrs then feed.
Appreciate it NAR.
Or should i say 'per she ate it!'
haha I gotchu :)
Nice video man we will make sure then pigs are cut to the best
Thanks Kyle!
I’d like to see you farm crickets or some kind of bug and compare the resources used with a pig version. Like pound for pound input vs output. That’d be something I haven’t seen before
Do you still have pigs?
How do they do them in, electric or bullet?
We use 17 mag rifle. Fast and efficient
A five gallon bucket on their head will make them passive enough to walk them backwards. There are definitely better ways to do it but in a pinch, the bucket works. I've done it twice!
Very interesting thanks I'll try!