BRAND NEW PIGLETS! Triumphs & Heartbreaks
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- Our sow "Red" had her piglets! And she had a GIANT litter of 17 piglets! Red has always been a good Mom, rarely stepping or laying on a piglet. But that changed with this litter, and she has lost almost half of them. Why did this happen? How can we fix it for future litters?
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Anyone who’s been watching your channel for a while knows how much you and Hillary truly care about your animals. Like you said it’s part of farming. Don’t beat yourselves up too much.
Thank you Gary.
It doesn’t matter what is going on in the world. Watching babies and mommies makes things ok. Thanks Pete
Your honesty is refreshing Pete. You learn, you analyze, you adapt... and you share it all with us. Thank you.
My thoughts exactly…
They could be biting her we used to always clip their teeth right after they were born
Build protection in the corner can us plywood or 2bys
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This is the nitty gritty. Nobody talks about this. I’m honestly glad you do.
Pete I've been raising pigs for almost 50 years and we've done it every way there is crates, pasture, together with others and individual pens. We like the individual pens best kinda like your setup. I think you hit the nail on the head with your 2 problems the extra bedding slows the pigs down and mom's size. All in all she's a great sow and I would try to get several more litters from her with your adjustments. If it was easy every body could do it. It's hard to lose them buy it happens but we love baby pigs on the farm. Keep up the good work and God bless you all
Thanks Kip!
@•Zak Zik• What? I've been raising Angus cattle on a small scale for 41 years and I didn't start until I was 43. LOL
Dear Pete & Hillary, I have never made a comment on any videos before. This is a first for me. I sincerely admire the both of you being real and respect you for not being affected by negative comments. I can relate to losing the baby piglets. I was raised on a 165 acre family farm that my grandparents bought around 1920. We had 25 dairy cows, 1600 laying hens, and 40 brood sows. the hogs were my favorite and I knew the pain of losing baby pigs. My wife and I are retired on 2 acres only 5 miles from where I grew up in Northern Kentucky. We have been here since 2012 and I have 300 laying hens and we raise our own meat birds. We sell our eggs here at the barn, self serve honor system. My favorite part of your videos is the restoration of the Formal MD. My Dad and Grandpa had a 1948 MD that I grew up with as a kid. Before that was a steel wheel Farmall F20, that was before me. Keep up the good work! P.S. I was born in 1943, you never get too old to have chickens!! Dave
Most of the haters don't have farming experience Pete.... you and Hillarie are doing a great job.
The ones who would say I told you so aren’t true farmers. I have learned in my short life on this earth that no matter what techniques you use in farming animals are unpredictable and you can’t ever have all the right answers! Everyone who has invested time in your videos knows you aren’t reckless or careless! Keep up the great informative videos!! Thank you for sharing!
Red is such a great Mom, you have nothing to regret.You and Hillary are doing a great job
Nothing but respect for you and your family for the concern of the wellfare of your animals. A role model in farming! I just keep watching
Hi Pete, well don't beat yourself up too bad, its obvious how much you care about your pigs. and their care. and even though Red is allowing you many gestures in her handling and being in the pen with her, There is always a chance. for her to step on one, roll on one (or more) she's a good size now and its difficult for her to mover around. and feed them etc. and in dong so. she can't keep track of all of them all the time and accidents will happen. To be honest, I was surprised watching that last batch etc. that you did not encounter more of what just happened. before now. You have done a good job in the past and I"m sure you will do your best to take care of her and the litter's to come as well as this one. And as you your self said. It's part of farming. Thanks for taking the time to share them with Us I really like watching her and the litters and even you in there with them is enjoyable to watch Thanks again for sharing and God Bless Pete.
I was born and raised on the farm and miss it greatly ! Watching these videos really warm my heart !! ❤️
Nothing like baby animals on the farm. It’s heartbreaking to lose any but it’s all part of the learning / life. 😊
Thank you so much for sharing, it’s so appreciated 🎉
Pete and Hillary sorry to hear of the loss of the piglets. Red does seem to be a good mom. Each piglet that survived means that much more. Thanks for sharing your video with us. Ed
You have more good days than bad,,yesterday was a bad.. tomorrow is another day. Just love the piggies..
my dad got rid of the hogs when I was 10 after having a very bad year. I'm 65 now and still remembered the new pig smell while watching this video. Thanx
Love you and your family, it is never easy lose an animal, we love and care for them so much.
The Great Circle of Life.
Thanks for the video and the reminder that we can and must be adaptable.
All the best to you and yours.
Thank you for sharing the entire picture of farming which is there is no one set of rules to go by. You grow through learning and adapting. You and your wife do an excellent job. Congrats to Red!🐖💕
There are no words to describe how much l truly love your Vids. This is so enjoyable to watch and learn. This is what America is all about....hard working people like yourself and to take the extra time to show us is priceless. Thank you so much.
I am so very sorry for your loss! As a child, I well remember when animals were born and when some died. Dad always used those times to teach life lessons. The piglets you have left will grow quickly and be very exceptional hogs. You do an amazing job with your farm. Be kind to yourself! 👍😊🙏
FanTAStic shot of little piggies suckling all in a row. Had me awwwing.
Pasture therapy for you, video therapy for your viewers. You have such a big heart for the animals but you’re also a realist. Nice combination. Thank you for sharing your work, some of your life, and your reasoning and thoughts.
👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🗽🙏🏻 Enjoyed! Spent many winter night hours as a teenager (in the fifties) in the farrowing barn making sure delivery went well. We rotated 10 sows every six weeks or so. Some sows were great some were a royal pain….she would deliver one little one and then get up move around and lay back down. We used heat lamps and a couple 2x6's across the corner of the stall to protect the pigs and the heat lamp. You’re a good farmer…..kind to your animals and attentive to there needs! Enjoy the tractor maintenance videos.
🐼 Big Bear Hugs from a 68 yr old grandma in Kirby, Texas, USA 🐼 ❤️ 🎀 ❤️ 🎀 ❤️
Very happy for you for the new piglets and I am so sorry about losing the others. Thank you for another lovely post.
We need more positive people in this world.
We raised pigs when I was a kid. Even with the farrowing stalls there were still fatalities from momma pigs laying on their babies. So . . . don't feel bad. Great channel Pete
It’s a part of life and maybe what was intended. You both are great people!
What a lot of non-farmer a d ranchers do not understand is that nature will take its own course. You can do many preventive measures and things just happen. What do they think happens to free range livestock. Y’all are very aware of the needs of your livestock at all times. You cannot move them into the kids bedrooms to keep a closer eye on them. Thank you for all that you share with us and no sugar coating. I was raised on a farm and ranch. I have a small goat herd and a vegetable garden now. Looking forward to the next installment.
Don’t beat yourself up over the lost Piglets, hindsight is always 20/20…
I'm So Sorry for your Loss!! Little Piggy's are So Cute!! Momma is an Awesome Pig!! God Bless and have a Wonderful Weekend!! ⚘😀❤
Pete, I would and have made that very same decision. I'm sorry for your loss. Thank you Pete and Hilarie for allowing us into your lives.
I love that little black piglet…he’s going to be a star…
Sorry about the little piglets&thank u for sharing just a small part of ur farm life,I find it refreshing to watch.better than regular TV where nothing is hardly real anymore.
The piglets always make me smile. I spent many hours being entertained by them as a kid going up on a small dairy farm. Our next door neighbor was a big a big pig producer. Every time he had runts he’d bring them down to my mom to hand raise. They ended up being my pets and playmates as a little kid.
I lost piglets even when I had everything in place to prevent it. One spring, I had a farrowing ark set up in a paddock, The sow chose to ignore the ark and cut the long grass, make a huge heap of it, after which she burrowed into its centre and farrowed about 3-4 days latter. The first we knew she had was about 2 days after that when 14 piglets appeared. At night and when alarmed they would disappear into the compost heap. The sow lost no piglets. She was a large white and had only, until then known concrete and straw, as had her ancestors for many generations. Quite amazing.
Red is an extremely good mum she’s constantly talking to her piglets rear assuring them she’s there n there safe
that was the most precious video ever!!!!! ❤❤❤❤ I was eyeing that black piglet too. loved seeing them crawl on mom's face and snuggle close to her🐽🐽🐷🐷
Pete and Hillary, very sorry about the loss of the piglets. It is certainly not because of lack of care or attention you pay to the animals, you guys are great farmers. good luck and ty.
One of the reasons I follow you is the way you treat your animals. Giving them freedom and good care. And it happens in the farms with all kinds of precautions too, only the animals don't have a good life. You leave them in one piece, cherish them, and seeing your face, love them too. Living next to two farmers who treated their animals as a heartless cash flow makes me know for sure that doesn't make a profit in any way.
You and Hillary are wonderful stewards of your animals and farm. Things happen for whatever reason and I'm sorry about the loss of piglets. Anyone that watches your channel on a regular basis can tell how devoted you are to the health and well being of your animals. Thank you for sharing the true daily life of a farmer. Blessings.
We really enjoy your videos. So sorry you have losses with your litter of piglets. Thanks for showing us the cute piggies. You show us how much your family loves the animals. We look forward to watching all your videos.
So sorry about your loss! Red does seem like a good mom.
Go easy on yourself, Pete. We don't know the little soul's missions - some might have just wanted a quick visit. I suspect you'll be seeing some of them again for a longer visit. Thanks for sharing the new lives with us! Best, Andy
Those days are never easy, I am so sorry to hear about the little ones. Great video nothing the less
As a fellow that grew up with cattle and a mixed farm, I don't know anything about pigs, but I do know that you make decisions based on what you think is best from past experience, and sometimes it just don't work out. We had a crop rotation plan that has been great for more than a decade, then one funny year of weather and it can go to heck fast and you start to second guess yourself, if you should have tried something different, but in the end the best laid plans are just that, plans, and you sometimes have to overcome and adapt. Much Love from Canada!
Pete, I left the farm a long tome ago, 1949 as I remember and sometimes I think I should never have left. I think you and Brenda are doing GREAT!
They are so cute. I'm sorry about the loss of the rest of the litter. Some of them look really tiny...hope they are all healthy. Congrats Red.
Pete, do not listen to negative responses. Thats Monday morning quaterback. Keep up the good fight. All the best
Pot shots from city folk need to be dismissed quite often. You and your wife are very caring, conscientious farmers. Live n learn.
Your doing a great job and farming is not the same all the time. You two put in a lot of work and don't let anybody get you down. Thank you for sharing and have a nice safe day. My God bless your family!!
Sorry about your piglets. It is always good until it isn't. Thanks for your honesty. It always helps others who want to learn when we can share our mistakes so others don't have to take the road trip. Piglets are so adorable.
We are so sorry to hear of your sad happening.
We believe you did the right thing Pete and Hillary ❤ Life is not easy sometimes.
God bless you both and bring healing.💕 We love your sweet program and your courage and sense of humor!! Take care 💕
Those babies are absolutely adorable.
We are always learning. It says a lot that you evaluate what happened and adjust as necessary. Thanks for the video.
Thank you for sharing this. It's easy to pretend on TH-cam that you know everything about everything but sometimes stuff happens.
Reminds me of when I was younger. I grew up on a small farm in NW Indiana. My dad always had a few pigs and we experienced the same losses. I remember going out in the dead of winter with the sows and helping them give birth. Always fond memories watching your videos.
So awesome to see what it is like to run a small Farm. Love the animals and the videos that you provide.
Hey Pete I have started watching your videos recently as my wife and I are moving out to the country on a small farm and at 57 we are going to try to raise our own food and try to enjoy a slower paced life. I am trying to steal as much of your knowledge as I can from your videos, thanks for the content.
You and Hillary are amazing. Know that you do the best you can.
It’s an exciting time on the farm to have these 8 piglets to care for. Sorry to hear about the losses. We appreciate you And your family and the information/ education and entertainment you guys are providing. There’s a hard reality to life and much more so on a farm. Critique from the sanitized suburbs is best ignored.
You are raising pigs just like my family used to do. You're doing a great job raising your animals and taking care of them.
...I do love how pink and fresh they are! No MudPuppies!
Oh no, I'm sorry to hear about the loss, but I think you do what you do for the best of the animals and now a little change to make things easier for the piglets. You got this! Love watching those piglets so so so cute.
Wat een sympatieke kerel ben jij toch. Ik mag je heel erg.
Pete. Don't let other people's criticism discourage you. The choices you make on your farm is yours and yours only and you make the choices based on your situations. Don't let it get to you.
By putting yourself out here like you do - through success and pitfall - you're teaching and sharing your own experiences to future farmers. Now we all know to have farrowing barriers in our own farms. Thank you for sharing this great lesson; it comes at a cost, but now it will be able to help save piglets on other farms.
Thank you for your continued open sharing of the good time and hard times on your farm.
Oh Pete and Hilary! Those piggies are so cute! I’m amazed a pig can actually have 17 babies! You can tell I’m not a farmer! Lol! Love your videos!
All you can do is your best. We had a small litter of 2 and lost 1 then took the other. We live and learn. We appreciate your honesty and showing the truth of farm life. If not for your videos we'd have felt worse than we did about the 1 we lost. So thanks for your transparency.
Hi guys, so sorry you lost so many piglets! It was so hard after the high of seeing 17 it was devastating, thank you for summing up the courage to tell us and videotaping! They are so cute when they are so little....though they seem pretty big for being part of 17.....I really don't know. Poor Red it is hard to move when being so big... God bless you guys! Hugs to you and Hillary! 🤗💜🤗
Sorry to hear of the lost ones but the ones she has left sure are beautiful
learning curve Pete. Well done on your compassion towards your animals :-)
Hi Pete. Long time watcher in the background. I found your channel after I bought feeder piglets for butcher.
I was inspired by you to keep a boar and the gilts (3) and pick two to keep long term. My first one farrowed this morning. 8 healthy plus a runt. Mom is doing amazing and seems to be mothering soo well.
Keep up the amazing videos. Love the pasture therapy.
I'm also hoping to get a bred dexter this Spring. We have done broilers for almost two years now (200) and rabbits for for a year. All of this for my friends and family.
I'm sorry for your loss, but congratulations on the surviving litter! Much love from Oklahoma!
Very sorry to hear that Pete, I'm sure it was for the best. 😢💛
Try not to beat yourself up too much.
Live and learn.
Be safe
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It’s so important to be honest there will be so many poeple thinking that farm life is easy due to you tubers being scared to show the downs! You can’t change the past or prevent things you never foresaw. Hindsight is 2020.
PS I just love how mom's talk to the babies!
You are a good Dad Pete.
So sorry that this happened to you and your cute little piggies. You cant be too hard on yourself about the care of your pigs, one can see how great you are with all your animals. You learn as you go. 🇨🇦
Sorry for the loss. The rest look great. So cute.
Sadly, there will always be negative people that feel like they have the right to judge you. Even if they were right, “I told you so” never helps anyone. Please don’t let their negativity get to you!
Yep, just because you could say something doesn't mean you should. Let he who has never wished for a do-over cast the first stone.
Sorry for you loss. But its great to see eight life ones doing well.
Thanks for sharing the realities of farming. We have had struggles with losing piglets this year and felt many emotions about it. Farming continues to teach us many lessons.
So sorry for your loss of the new piglets. You do an amazing job on your farm and I really appreciate your honesty. Yours in Gratitude
I'm happy to see the lack of negative comments. Shows that it's some really good people watching this channel. We all can learn from bad things that happen and from each other. No reason for negativity and it's so refreshing to see how most people here have that mind set. Good luck.
Sorry for the loss. Glad you showed and talked about it - such is the life of a farmer, I suppose. Do what you can and what you think is right and what the odds have shown you as the right move in the past, yet sometimes the dice come up against you. Being right 9 times out of 10 still sucks on that 10th time...but regardless, you were right the other 9 times. Don't let the naysayers get to you.
thank you for being open. this will help all of us. ignore the haters
Sorry for the loss but thank you for sharing.
Many moons ago, my first wife and I brought a calf back from the farm due to cold weather and his sluggish mannerisms. We thought we'd get him into the warmth of our in-town home (in the garage to be sure), bottle feed him, and he'd be fine. Not so. We lost him and even though he wasn't a pet, it was, as you well know, heartbreaking. Losses in farm life are inevitable, and it doesn't mean you're to blame. You're doing the best you can with the facts and resources available.
They are adorable. Things happen. Onward and upward.
Sorry to see the loss. But you still have a good bunch. Looking forward to their growth. Happy Sunday to you
Keep your chin up, Pete! You're doing great!
I'm so sorry for the loss of some piglets. Don't let negative comments get to you - some people truly don't understand what goes into farming. All we can do is the best we know how - none of us has a crystal ball.
We love your show and look forward to it! And that black piglet is a cutie pie! I'd be tempted to keep that one!! Have a great day too!
Hey Pete Hillary hey y'all folks do a great job Life Is Life don't beat yourself up always do a great job and don't worry about what other people say that's not right continue God bless you both and enjoy life
Man what a great video. Yeap, death on the farm is the most stressful part of farm life , especially the very young. Pigs are so smart. The piglets fighting over one certain test was funny.
A former co-worker of mine would say, "there's always room for improvement." It's a great philosophy in my opinion. It allows for shortfalls but with the optimism that one can achieve a higher level with another go at it.
Nothing no better then to see them bacon seeds lined up eating I always love see that
Sorry you lost so many. I know it is an unfortunate aspect of farming but like you, we often are hard on ourselves when we loose an animal. It's hard when things don't go right. I think you're setting a good example by being honest and sharing with people how to learn from things like this on the farm.
I have been farming part time for 40 years and continue to learn and grow. That’s what separates successful people in all careers. Very few things are the same as they were even a decade ago. Continue to change and you will continue to prosper.