Hey morgan! 10+ years experience raising and breeding pigs… I noticed the first one to come out has a bit of a bulge under her belly, keep an eye on it as it can be a hernia and those can cause pretty decent problems when they start growing so it’s best to fix it when they’re as small as possible.. we usually do it a week before they’re weaned if they’re strong enough 🖤 best of luck! Very interested to see how they grow out on the feed!
If there's a large grocery store nearby, you can try asking for produce scraps. Whenever I'm at my store and go into the produce section, they have a large blue bin(about the size of a standard pallet, and maybe 3-4ft deep) filled with old fruit and veggies, and other things that had to be thrown away. For the most part it looks fine, no mold or anything usually, but it's usually just stuff we can't sell. For one, it's healthy food for the pigs, and even if they don't eat it all right away and it starts to go bad and maybe they can't eat it, you could just turn it into compost for Alison's(sry if I spelled it wrong) garden. The store gets rid of their trash, you get pig food, and even some compost to grow your own food better. Wins on top of wins.
We did that, but its surprising how many things (like citrus) pigs can't eat, and getting the staff to run two waste bins was difficult, and sorting through the rotting veg was revolting.
@@rosemarielee7775 maybe it just depends on location. My store has bins with no wheels so they're designed to move on pallet jacks, so maybe Morgan can forklift them. Probably too heavy for his truck but maybe his buddy Alfred can help with his flatbed. I also didn't know pigs can't eat citrus. You generally think they can eat whatever but I guess not. Learn something new every day lol
@@rosemarielee7775 It's not that they "can't" eat citrus - it's more that they shouldn't, at least not a whole lot. It can be done sparingly but needs to be done with oversight.
I was the brewer at a brew pub. We had a pig farmer that we set up to collect our spent grains. At first he was a little pissy because we couldn't give him adequate lead time to pick up at his convenience. After several brews his attitude changed. His pigs could tell as soon as he pulled in the drive that he had grains and they would get riled up. He also noticed rapid weight gains. There should be no smell of fermentation. Those grains do NOT get fermented. Residual search and sugars along with some proteins. Fermetation takes place after the wort (fermentable liquids) are drawn off to the fermentors where yeast is added to start the fermentation.
@@prcervi breweries are very sterile and well maintained. A good brew takes 24+ hours for fermentation to get going. First phase is hydration, then oxygenation before yeast starts the real process. You're speculating about a process you know nothing about.
@@davidjohnston1971 you read my comment weird, i'm not saying there's loose yeast in the brewery infecting things i'm saying there might be loose yeast in whatever shed they stored those buckets in before morgan picked them up maybe even just actual spent yeast in the buckets, that's also used for animal feed
Considering the pigs' fate is squealed... I mean sealed, I want to suggest names from the Greek mythology. The Fates were three figures personificating birth, life, and death. The names of the three sisters were Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos. The thread they spun, like the life of these pigs, was short. I know you usually go for popculture rather than this kind of thing, but I find it poetic. Plus you keep reminding us the three sisters won't be long for this world.
That, is a brilliant suggestion. I too opt for the poetic over the pop, and the three fates and what they personify is "all ye need to know." Take it from a person who suggested the names Tasty, Delicious, and Yummy last night, here, on the Live Chat. Wow, just the thought of Morgan pronouncing those Greek names for the next six months would be music around GSF. "... while there is the ever exuberant Clotho, running circles around the stoic Lachesis, and the somewhat despondent Atropos, because she can never get enough of the spent grains...."
@@davidwolfson7060 Seeing how Morgan does every other name, they'd become Clothy, Latchy, and Troppy for the videos. Which actually sounds kind of funny.
Very cool video, with some really neat updates. Re: Abby and the pigs, as a dog trainer, if I might recommend something: Abby clearly has a great working relationship with you at this point. I noticed she listened pretty quickly when you corrected her about barking at the pigs. I also remember you having training sessions with her in the past. You might want to consider doing some more training sessions, but exclusively near the pig pen for the next week or two. Use whatever treats Abby likes most, and just run her through her obedience a couple times a day, starting maybe 30-50 feet from the pig pen. Usually I'd start farther away, but Abby doesn't seem *too* upset by the pigs at this point, so that distance is probably fine. That said, if Abby's too distracted at that distance, leave and try again later, this time a bit farther from the pigs. Over the next few days, move these sessions closer to the pen until she's consistently working through her obedience commands right beside the pen. If you do this regularly, Abby will quickly grow accustomed to the pigs simply being part of the environment, and will also have some positive associations built up around being near them. The reason I would recommend doing this proactively is to prevent a negative association from inadvertently being made. For example, if Abby hits the electric fence right as she notices the pigs, that could create a negative association in her mind that would take a bit of effort to undo. The same could occur if every time she goes near them, she gets reprimanded for barking at them (not that she should be allowed to do her "guard dog alert" bark at them - she just needs positive associations, too). I know you've worked with another trainer in the past, so it might be good to just check in and hear any suggestios that person has in terms of how to proactively introduce Abby to the pigs in a manner that removes any wariness, without going too far and associating them as potential playmates in her mind. I'm pretty sure what I wrote above would work, but it never hurts to get a second opinion from a trainer who's more familiar with both you and Abby specifically. That said, great job working with her. You've very clearly put in a lot of time, and it shows. Keep up the great work, Morgan!
I don't know if you ever considered growing cattails in your pond. They could help stabilize the soil and also they help aerate the water. If you want to seed some you can just grab some cattail fluff and sprinkle it all over the water. Eventually they'll grow. They can be quite prolific, probably be able to stand up to the pressure from all the birds
Pretty cool to see frogs taking to the rested pond! Also would be very cool to see you try to put some natural plants/a few trees and other things that could maybe help keep the soil in place (erosion and all that)
My grandfather use to raise prize winning chickens, he also use to make his own hootch of some sort. One day my great grand mother fed the chickens some sort of spent grain and they all fell over. Gran was having a panic attack, she was convinced she had killed the chickens and was really worried how pa was going to take it. A few hours later about the same time pa was coming home the chickens revived walking very suspiciously like they were hung over. Made a great family story, so I am interested how the pigs handle the grain. LOL
My family once gave kitchen scraps to the hogs. Melons, apples, the works. It was a hot day and they got MIGHTY drunk. My mom noted that they were running all stages of alcoholics... Rage, bellows, physical harm, grunts of mutual brotherly love, snooze in a pile. But instead of guys, half a ton beasts with a nasty row of biters. Shudder.
Brewers grains don’t contain alcohol. The sugars were removed in the processing to be used for making the beer. Maybe this is why they are also called spent grains.
My brother had a small still brewing alcohol, the ants loved the run off. They got absolutely blitzed on it. They would fall over, stumble around. Birds used to eat the flowers off our fejoas and one would sit atop the highest point and sing completely off key to its hearts content.
Zucchini Plant a BUNCH You eat the small Zucchini The pigs will eat any size Also Peas , you eat what you want Pull the whole pea plant when full of pods and feed to the pigs
Toby is such a good doggo. He marked his territory around his new piggy buddies to protect them. He knows the scent will make the predators think twice about coming any closer.
Well the piggies look like they are adjusting to their new home, and it looks like the pigloo is a hit. Miss the ducks and geese happily swimming on Morgans Pond (lol), but soon you will be the proud father of 1000's and 1000's of baby froglets. Always enjoy these updates Morgan, all is well at Gold Shaw Farm. See you soon!
Might be a lot less because a lot of things will be eating those tadpoles, including other tadpoles and their own parents. Bugs, Birds and small mammals will have a tadpole buffett. Good thing theres no fish in that pond too. Still even if 100 survive, it'll be a lot and will be good for the pond ecosystem. Will do a number on the mosquito.
@@horace6851 true, Herons are masters at finding small ponds with little froglets. Also masters at decimating a koi pond in a day. I really dislike them because of that but understand it’s just nature doing their thing. I’m curious how they always seem to know where small ponds are. Are they able to smell or feel where water is? The pond I have is inside an atrium and somehow someway they got inside and underneath the roof just to eat koi.
@@_Chessa_ they see water reflecting the sky when flying. And they probably choose small size because it will be shallow, they don't dive or swim to hunt so they need shallow water. As for your atrium... is it fully enclosed? because as long as they can see it from the sky they will come :) otherwise I guess, some 6th sense brought them there :)
@@horace6851 yes it was fully enclosed. Only way in would be to fly down and walk into the atrium as it’s a bit lower than usual ones. And plants are completely surrounding the water source. I love it but so do raccoons and herons, apparently. XD it has zero fish in it right now it’s pretty much a big plastic eye sore at the moment because all the Koi have been eaten, within one day. So never put fish in it again. 🥲
Spent grains are nice feed for livestock and are mostly used for cattle, but for pigs especially u should go for spent yeast. Once u dose yeast on a fermentor tank, the yeast will reproduce so that after the fermentation there is a lot of yeast that the brewer has to get rid of. This yeast is perfect pigfeed witch contains a lot of nutrients and is proven to improve meat quality. Just make sure the ph is ok so u dont grow salmonella.
I planted a whole ton of squash plants to supplement my pigs feed. I planted close to the pig area so i could pick and toss!!! Squash is a natural dewormer as well!
I was hoping for a group of chickens who thought they were geese, seemed intriguing. I do love watching Toby and Abby, but the moment of zen with the weird chickens is also some of my favorite ASMR.
He's had a goose that thought it was a duck, and a duck that thought it was a goose, definitely was looking forward to chickens that thought they were geese. 😂
@@tmlawson751 I live in the south west of England, but you would have plants in the water for oxygenation, lilies for surface shade, marginal plants in the shallows for insects and amphibians, and more for the banks to provide cover.
@@stephenmonger9369 Vermont is like Michigan so I would say cattails, reeds, some rocks for moss to perhaps grow, mid-to-large flat stones, and small boulders at the edge, angled to create pockets of water beneath stone overhangs. He needs some maple trees for shade a bit back from the pond and a weeping willow right up on the banks. The shade helps slow down evaporation, and edge rocks & reeds give wildlife places to hide.
Hi Morgan, ❣️ You have been farming long enough now to know what areas you want to improve. I admire your farm plan. Taking care of your farm animals while also practing excellent property management, creating a profitable farm and a healthy ecosystem. The pond is already looking much healthier. Great job 😊😊
congrats on the frog eggs! that's a great sign for your pond, my childhood pond produced a lot of green leopard frogs who were worth their weight in gold come mosquito season
♥️ me too,I love the silkies n Barbara I hope he gets some more silkies or even the polish bantam hens,I love to see them around his farm 😊,(I love them that much I have some lol)
Spent grain is great livestock feed. Very high protein. Just be sure to use it quickly as it does go sour, and sick livestock is not fun. For that reason, it can't be stored. We pretty much use it within a week or even less in summer.
Very glad to hear that you are going to make a real living pond. Last year I watched the ducks and geese wallow in the dirty water and wondered when it was going to start to smell. When Abby would go in the water I worried she would catch something. It seems that when a pond has the pressure of having lots of waterfowl, having a source of clean water, plants to make use of fertilizer they provide, and a marsh to help clean the outflow is a much better plan. Good job!
BILL HICKS!! On your farm meeting you mentioned Abby just went to the salon for a blow out. I’m gonna guess this footage is from before that event. 🤣 She looks riper then the pile of swine also featured here. I love her so much. Mud dog peein in the duck egg puddles.
It makes me happy, that you are conscious about the land itself and the frogs. Having frogs is a sign that you have healthy land. Thank you for being you.
I liked seeing the pigs cuddled together in fresh straw in the Pigloo, safe from the rain. It’s good that they have each other’s company. They are going to be so excited when the time comes for them to go rooting around in the trees exploring for tasty bits the way they were built to do. I’d be curious to know how the nutrition and vitamins of the grain are affected by the fermentation. Was it also sprouted first? I would expect it to be lower in storage-type carbohydrates like starch but higher in B-vitamins than regular grain, but I wonder about all the potential changes.
Grains used for brewing beer ARE allowed to start sprouting but then stopped. This allows the enzymes to start working to make the sugars needed, but not lat things get to the point of making roots, stem and leaves.
The three little piggies look very content in their pigloo. Good job, Morgan, recycling Toby's and Abby's former shelter. Abby doesn't know what to do about the pigs. They're new creatures to her, and she doesn't know how to react to them. l love all the antics of all the animals on GSF.
It’s awesome to see springtime on the farm, and the animals definitely seem happy. Although letting the pond naturally regenerate on its own sounds like an amazing idea, here’s some plants I’ve found that could work if you wanted to actively plant stuff along the shoreline: Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis), Water Marigold (Bidens beckii), various sedge species (in the genus Carex), various Rush species (in the genus Juncus), Rice Cutgrass (Leersia oryzoides), White Grass (Leersia virginica), Northern Wild Rice (Zizania palustris), and Broadleaf Arrowhead (Sagittaria latifolia).
Be sure to feed them a good amount of fruit and stuff. You could probably buy it "expired" from local grocers. It will help their muscles and make their fat not as greasy, more firm.
I have always hoped to see you have the pond dug out into a proper pond. Your ecosystem will be fuller if you have a pond with at least one pit 15' to 20' feet deep. A few grass carp & some minnows to keep it clean and a good stock of channel catfish, crappies, bass & panfish will give you a low cost additional food source and hours of relaxing entertainment if you like fishing. Some people feed the catfish for faster growth, others let them grow on the natural pond food sources.
So cool about the return of the frogs! I'm glad you're getting good advice. I never would have even thought of any of that (even though I've been hearing about collapse of frog populations worldwide). Also, it appears the pigloo is a hit!
When a couple of my cousins and I were 8 to 10 years old, we'd entice a sow over with an ear of field corn, then get on her back for a ride. She'd just go to the mud hole to get us off, then come back for another ear of corn and temporary ride.
It's fine to feed pigs scraps but not moldy or bad food - remember: garbage in, garbage out. Our pigs would never eat celery or peppers, but they loved cooked potatoes 😁 And you really need more dishes because one will start "hogging the trough"
I can’t believe how much the weird chicken zen is needed in my life Morgan @goldshawfarm with two teens prom and grad coming up in the next six weeks…I’m particularly fond of the palest one weirdo! Here’s some pig names suggestions❤ My personal faves…Sophia,Dorothy,Rose ❤Sabrina ,Kelly and Jill (Charlie’s Angels)❤Winifred,Mary and Sarah (Hocus Pocus) or three female rockstars Blondie,Stevie Nicks,Tina turner …the list can go on. Or since they are eating grains from alcohol production ..Sherry,Vodka,Juniper 🤣 maybe ?
I think it’s great you’re trying to help restore the pond some! As to your planned stream/spring construction, I’d recommend looking into the soil types if you haven’t already. The Web Soil Survey is an AMAZING resource through the NRCS and can provide you with lots of information about anything related to your soil! Also, if you haven’t, I’d also recommend considering planting in and around the pond. It’ll provide more habitat for the baby frogs and with the rest year it might give the plants a chance to get established before the ducks and geese descend on it. :)
Hey Morgan, I love your videos and your Farm. When my grandpa has some pigs he always gives them old bread, scraps etc. and he gives them fresh grass almost every day. But be careful with what you feed them before slaughter because I have heard that if you feed them for example apples and than slaughter them the meat can taste a bit like apples.
I honestly think a slightly larger area for the pigs would be better for them mentally and in terms of sanitation. Plus it could make feeding and care easier since they can spread out
He plans to give them a much larger area and is just using this time to train them for the electric fence. They will will even have access to the forested area.
A tip for greatly increasing the capacity of the pond would be chinampas .. that would solve alot for you. Basicly i giant biofilter that also grows food for both you and feed for the fowl.. also great hidingspots for higher biodiversity like amphibians and insects.. then you use some fencing on the chinampas Islands to limit the amount of plants the fowl can eat.. everything that grows out of the fence Will be auto trimmed by the ducks and geese. These chinampas food Islands with a compost area for the fowl to scratch and collect insects. Then you can make a Fair dent on the amount of feed you need to bring in. A artificial wetland in Contact with the pond that is fenced off and planted with wetland friendly foodcrops can also help greatly with bio filtration and mecanical filtration of the pond. Jusy some tips, Google chinampas my friend! ❤
The pig with the thumb tail should be thumbpiglina hehe, good stuff thus far. I know a lot of people have had tips for you regarding the pigs so def read those!
I'd like to share a little tip about removing ticks! Please try to avoid squashing their butts when pulling them out. If you do it makes them vomit and it makes the risk of your dog getting infected by something nasty a lot higher. It's best to catch them right by their head carefully with special tool. Happy to hear that Abby was vaccinated against lyme disease and Toby will be also in due time!
Morgan, when I nannies in Parker the family raised goats and pigs, chickens and turkeys. We had an arrangement with the local Safeway to pick up their stale bread and bakery goods. The chickens and pigs did really well.
Names? The three sister witches from Hocus Pocus. Or a trio of female singers, to keep in topic. And place wire mesh down the sides of the mobile coop. That will keep the birds from nesting there.
Got an idea for the pigs' names. Large Marge for the big one (Ghost in Pee=wee's Big Adventure), Suzie Q (Ghost in a Disney movie), and Barbara (Ghost in Beetlejuice) :P Thought you might appreciate the pop culture refs!
So far indications are you are not planning to have your pigs in close proximity to you ducks & geese. Once again I would continue to encourage you to generally keep all your fowl segregated from the swine. There are clinical reasons not to let them have ongoing close environmental contact as such contact has been a disease vector to humans. Karen Fay MT ASCP
WOW that's pretty cool - I loved the names you picked out for them last night on the Live Farm Meeting last night Question .... Morgan can you put a solar water fountain in the pond so the water gets cycled
At the small brewery I worked at we always fed the grain waste to ducks and geese for Christmas, fed a good flock similar to yours. I bet the pigs love it too, it's still quite sweet and you can even use it to bake bread
I'm going to say the unpopular guess about the chicken eggs: it seems like, the other day, you caught Abby (on Abby-cam) eating forbidden eggs ; maybe she scared the goose off her nest and then ate the eggs? Some names for the pigs: Pine, Apple, Pen. Rosemary, Sage, and Thyme. To play off your regeneratative model: Recycle, Reduce, Reuse, Or be a fan of dark humor like my brother-in-law: Ham, Bacon, and Chops.
Hi Morgan, a friend of mine raised pigs in the 80’s, he’d get waist milk and products from commercial dairys and bakery’s. Maybe check with local supermarkets for old produce. Have a great day
I’m wondering if you have coyotes getting closer to the animals then you think, by the way Toby & Abbey reacted outside of their normal area & Toby marking the tree line.
Is there any alcohol remnants in the new feed? If they start stumbling and slurring their "oinks", then pass out, and very grumpy when they wake up... We'll know!😁
First and foremost. 9:15 Skills. You caught that egg like a boss. Names for the miss piggies. Peggy, Patty and Penelope. They seem like a full on summer party girls just enjoying their time and having fun. Heck yeah!
Tobie is busy setting up his perimeter to protect the new arrivals. He understands the mission. 3 girls.. Sara, Mary and Winnifred. After reading the comments, it seems you named the pigs last night, so why ask for suggestions today?
Last night, Morgan did a livestream. That livestream is something that was happening currently, the very day it first went up. This video is older footage, filmed a week or two before now, so Morgan had no way of knowing at the time this video was filmed that the pigs would already be named yet before this video went up(and the editing probably already finished before the livestream happened too). Most videos don't get posted right away when they are first filmed. It takes time to choose which footage stays in the video and which footage gets cut-out so the video pacing doesn't get bogged down or such and to add in all the memes or other pop-culture reference snippets and so on. But after the video is edited and ready to be posted, it might get already queued to upload a little bit before it actually appears available to viewers, too-so they aren't able to go back and re-edit the video to remove the question or to add in a quick note that the naming status has changed or such, because the critters were named too recently compared to when this video was filmed and uploaded and all. 🙂
Winifred, Mary & Sarah 🐖🐷🐽🧹- 3 little Piggies, love the Zen Silkies and you have frogspawn too 🐸interesting how the fermented feed goes - I give my chooks a little brewer's yeast (B vits). 👍
Abby's skittishness could be because of the pigs, or their electric fence, or even just the fact that this is an area of the farm you don't usually take her, maybe? 🤔🤔🤷♀️😁
Well the pigs behave more calmly than I expected (I still remember what your friend said about pig's ears and their temperament, but still...), I thought they'd still have to settle down a bit more...seems like they are getting cozy in their new home already 😺 (Also Abby getting mud spa this time around 😅😂🙈, oh Abby! 😂)
I love that you're trying to get a healthy pond ecosystem going :-). As for pigs, I have some intuitive hunch that it will be interesting in regards to just getting to know them and as to feelings.
Looks like you're well on your way to a self-sufficient setup! When it comes to reducing inputs, maybe when the pond and wetlands area are a bit more established maybe you could try adding duck weed to the pigs diet? It usually grows pretty rapidly especially if its removing the excess nutrients from farm runoff. I can't remember which channel it was, but another farm channel used that method and it added a lot of omega 3s and other nutrients you'd normally associate with seafood into their diet
we use garlic sheepfat for our tickmagnet, alongside pipets and tee trea shampoo. I had a couple of ticks climb out of his fur not really wanting to bite. But the first year he had 10+ a week. (It's a corgi and most walking felds are twice his size and he loves to roll on the ground.) So it might help something to for your large white farm doggos :D And chickens can help you turn over your compost so a chicken save compost place for your weird chickens so they kinda work for you?
Hey morgan! 10+ years experience raising and breeding pigs… I noticed the first one to come out has a bit of a bulge under her belly, keep an eye on it as it can be a hernia and those can cause pretty decent problems when they start growing so it’s best to fix it when they’re as small as possible.. we usually do it a week before they’re weaned if they’re strong enough 🖤 best of luck! Very interested to see how they grow out on the feed!
He said they're going to slaughter them once they've grown enough so I doubt he cares about a hernia unfortunately
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If there's a large grocery store nearby, you can try asking for produce scraps. Whenever I'm at my store and go into the produce section, they have a large blue bin(about the size of a standard pallet, and maybe 3-4ft deep) filled with old fruit and veggies, and other things that had to be thrown away. For the most part it looks fine, no mold or anything usually, but it's usually just stuff we can't sell.
For one, it's healthy food for the pigs, and even if they don't eat it all right away and it starts to go bad and maybe they can't eat it, you could just turn it into compost for Alison's(sry if I spelled it wrong) garden.
The store gets rid of their trash, you get pig food, and even some compost to grow your own food better. Wins on top of wins.
We did that, but its surprising how many things (like citrus) pigs can't eat, and getting the staff to run two waste bins was difficult, and sorting through the rotting veg was revolting.
@@rosemarielee7775 maybe it just depends on location. My store has bins with no wheels so they're designed to move on pallet jacks, so maybe Morgan can forklift them. Probably too heavy for his truck but maybe his buddy Alfred can help with his flatbed.
I also didn't know pigs can't eat citrus. You generally think they can eat whatever but I guess not. Learn something new every day lol
Yes there was a farmer? Who fed bodies to his pigs in western Canada
@@howardj602 yup. Pigs are like gators. They'll eat what you give them.
@@rosemarielee7775 It's not that they "can't" eat citrus - it's more that they shouldn't, at least not a whole lot. It can be done sparingly but needs to be done with oversight.
I was the brewer at a brew pub. We had a pig farmer that we set up to collect our spent grains. At first he was a little pissy because we couldn't give him adequate lead time to pick up at his convenience. After several brews his attitude changed. His pigs could tell as soon as he pulled in the drive that he had grains and they would get riled up. He also noticed rapid weight gains.
There should be no smell of fermentation. Those grains do NOT get fermented. Residual search and sugars along with some proteins. Fermetation takes place after the wort (fermentable liquids) are drawn off to the fermentors where yeast is added to start the fermentation.
He should be more grateful but glad he came around and is hopefully nicer and more understanding
For some reason, people get this idea they're ENTITLED to anything they want. At their convenience.
seems like there might be some yeast in the environment the spent grains got stored in
@@prcervi breweries are very sterile and well maintained. A good brew takes 24+ hours for fermentation to get going. First phase is hydration, then oxygenation before yeast starts the real process. You're speculating about a process you know nothing about.
@@davidjohnston1971 you read my comment weird, i'm not saying there's loose yeast in the brewery infecting things i'm saying there might be loose yeast in whatever shed they stored those buckets in before morgan picked them up
maybe even just actual spent yeast in the buckets, that's also used for animal feed
Considering the pigs' fate is squealed... I mean sealed, I want to suggest names from the Greek mythology. The Fates were three figures personificating birth, life, and death. The names of the three sisters were Clotho, Lachesis and Atropos. The thread they spun, like the life of these pigs, was short.
I know you usually go for popculture rather than this kind of thing, but I find it poetic. Plus you keep reminding us the three sisters won't be long for this world.
That, is a brilliant suggestion. I too opt for the poetic over the pop, and the three fates and what they personify is "all ye need to know."
Take it from a person who suggested the names Tasty, Delicious, and Yummy last night, here, on the Live Chat.
Wow, just the thought of Morgan pronouncing those Greek names for the next six months would be music around GSF. "... while there is the ever exuberant Clotho, running circles around the stoic Lachesis, and the somewhat despondent Atropos, because she can never get enough of the spent grains...."
The Powerpuff girls seem more aproriate.
@@negativenein3803 Sugar, spice, and everything leftover.
@@davidwolfson7060 Seeing how Morgan does every other name, they'd become Clothy, Latchy, and Troppy for the videos. Which actually sounds kind of funny.
Very cool video, with some really neat updates. Re: Abby and the pigs, as a dog trainer, if I might recommend something: Abby clearly has a great working relationship with you at this point. I noticed she listened pretty quickly when you corrected her about barking at the pigs. I also remember you having training sessions with her in the past. You might want to consider doing some more training sessions, but exclusively near the pig pen for the next week or two. Use whatever treats Abby likes most, and just run her through her obedience a couple times a day, starting maybe 30-50 feet from the pig pen. Usually I'd start farther away, but Abby doesn't seem *too* upset by the pigs at this point, so that distance is probably fine. That said, if Abby's too distracted at that distance, leave and try again later, this time a bit farther from the pigs. Over the next few days, move these sessions closer to the pen until she's consistently working through her obedience commands right beside the pen. If you do this regularly, Abby will quickly grow accustomed to the pigs simply being part of the environment, and will also have some positive associations built up around being near them.
The reason I would recommend doing this proactively is to prevent a negative association from inadvertently being made. For example, if Abby hits the electric fence right as she notices the pigs, that could create a negative association in her mind that would take a bit of effort to undo. The same could occur if every time she goes near them, she gets reprimanded for barking at them (not that she should be allowed to do her "guard dog alert" bark at them - she just needs positive associations, too). I know you've worked with another trainer in the past, so it might be good to just check in and hear any suggestios that person has in terms of how to proactively introduce Abby to the pigs in a manner that removes any wariness, without going too far and associating them as potential playmates in her mind. I'm pretty sure what I wrote above would work, but it never hurts to get a second opinion from a trainer who's more familiar with both you and Abby specifically.
That said, great job working with her. You've very clearly put in a lot of time, and it shows. Keep up the great work, Morgan!
I hope he sees this
Really hope he reads this, excellent advice and walkthrough
@@tmlawson751 Ditto!
Nahhh he will just continue zapping her with the electric collar everytime she barks at them
Well said!!
I don't know if you ever considered growing cattails in your pond. They could help stabilize the soil and also they help aerate the water. If you want to seed some you can just grab some cattail fluff and sprinkle it all over the water. Eventually they'll grow. They can be quite prolific, probably be able to stand up to the pressure from all the birds
Pretty cool to see frogs taking to the rested pond! Also would be very cool to see you try to put some natural plants/a few trees and other things that could maybe help keep the soil in place (erosion and all that)
Like cat tails.
Having seen a farm pond "eaten" by cattails, I would say try something else. The roots go so deep, it is tough to get rid of them.
native sedges and other semi aquatic plants would be great
My grandfather use to raise prize winning chickens, he also use to make his own hootch of some sort. One day my great grand mother fed the chickens some sort of spent grain and they all fell over. Gran was having a panic attack, she was convinced she had killed the chickens and was really worried how pa was going to take it. A few hours later about the same time pa was coming home the chickens revived walking very suspiciously like they were hung over. Made a great family story, so I am interested how the pigs handle the grain. LOL
My family once gave kitchen scraps to the hogs. Melons, apples, the works.
It was a hot day and they got MIGHTY drunk. My mom noted that they were running all stages of alcoholics... Rage, bellows, physical harm, grunts of mutual brotherly love, snooze in a pile. But instead of guys, half a ton beasts with a nasty row of biters. Shudder.
They sure slept well after eating the brewers grain.
My grandma fed her hogs mash and they got seriously drunk. Those little piggies in a pile probably can't stand up.
Brewers grains don’t contain alcohol. The sugars were removed in the processing to be used for making the beer. Maybe this is why they are also called spent grains.
My brother had a small still brewing alcohol, the ants loved the run off. They got absolutely blitzed on it. They would fall over, stumble around. Birds used to eat the flowers off our fejoas and one would sit atop the highest point and sing completely off key to its hearts content.
Zucchini
Plant a BUNCH
You eat the small Zucchini
The pigs will eat any size
Also Peas , you eat what you want
Pull the whole pea plant when full of pods and feed to the pigs
Toby is such a good doggo. He marked his territory around his new piggy buddies to protect them. He knows the scent will make the predators think twice about coming any closer.
Well the piggies look like they are adjusting to their new home, and it looks like the pigloo is a hit. Miss the ducks and geese happily swimming on Morgans Pond (lol), but soon you will be the proud father of 1000's and 1000's of baby froglets. Always enjoy these updates Morgan, all is well at Gold Shaw Farm. See you soon!
Might be a lot less because a lot of things will be eating those tadpoles, including other tadpoles and their own parents. Bugs, Birds and small mammals will have a tadpole buffett. Good thing theres no fish in that pond too. Still even if 100 survive, it'll be a lot and will be good for the pond ecosystem. Will do a number on the mosquito.
I wouldn't be surprised if he gets a wild heron munching on those froglets
@@horace6851 true, Herons are masters at finding small ponds with little froglets.
Also masters at decimating a koi pond in a day.
I really dislike them because of that but understand it’s just nature doing their thing. I’m curious how they always seem to know where small ponds are.
Are they able to smell or feel where water is? The pond I have is inside an atrium and somehow someway they got inside and underneath the roof just to eat koi.
@@_Chessa_ they see water reflecting the sky when flying. And they probably choose small size because it will be shallow, they don't dive or swim to hunt so they need shallow water. As for your atrium... is it fully enclosed? because as long as they can see it from the sky they will come :) otherwise I guess, some 6th sense brought them there :)
@@horace6851 yes it was fully enclosed. Only way in would be to fly down and walk into the atrium as it’s a bit lower than usual ones.
And plants are completely surrounding the water source.
I love it but so do raccoons and herons, apparently. XD it has zero fish in it right now it’s pretty much a big plastic eye sore at the moment because all the Koi have been eaten, within one day.
So never put fish in it again. 🥲
Spent grains are nice feed for livestock and are mostly used for cattle, but for pigs especially u should go for spent yeast. Once u dose yeast on a fermentor tank, the yeast will reproduce so that after the fermentation there is a lot of yeast that the brewer has to get rid of. This yeast is perfect pigfeed witch contains a lot of nutrients and is proven to improve meat quality. Just make sure the ph is ok so u dont grow salmonella.
I planted a whole ton of squash plants to supplement my pigs feed. I planted close to the pig area so i could pick and toss!!! Squash is a natural dewormer as well!
I was hoping for a group of chickens who thought they were geese, seemed intriguing. I do love watching Toby and Abby, but the moment of zen with the weird chickens is also some of my favorite ASMR.
He's had a goose that thought it was a duck, and a duck that thought it was a goose, definitely was looking forward to chickens that thought they were geese. 😂
Very impressed with your pond management, supporting wildlife, and frogspawn. How about some native plants too?
What would be some examples for that region and spot?
@@tmlawson751 I live in the south west of England, but you would have plants in the water for oxygenation, lilies for surface shade, marginal plants in the shallows for insects and amphibians, and more for the banks to provide cover.
@@stephenmonger9369 Vermont is like Michigan so I would say cattails, reeds, some rocks for moss to perhaps grow, mid-to-large flat stones, and small boulders at the edge, angled to create pockets of water beneath stone overhangs. He needs some maple trees for shade a bit back from the pond and a weeping willow right up on the banks. The shade helps slow down evaporation, and edge rocks & reeds give wildlife places to hide.
Hi Morgan, ❣️ You have been farming long enough now to know what areas you want to improve. I admire your farm plan. Taking care of your farm animals while also practing excellent property management, creating a profitable farm and a healthy ecosystem. The pond is already looking much healthier. Great job 😊😊
congrats on the frog eggs! that's a great sign for your pond, my childhood pond produced a lot of green leopard frogs who were worth their weight in gold come mosquito season
Between the moment of Zen with weird chickens and Barbara's behive hairdo. I am even further in my happy place.
♥️ me too,I love the silkies n Barbara I hope he gets some more silkies or even the polish bantam hens,I love to see them around his farm 😊,(I love them that much I have some lol)
4:44 ww
One of my top 3 fav TH-cam channels I just feel like I'm at peace when I watch these videos with all the struggle I'm going thru
Spent grain is great livestock feed. Very high protein. Just be sure to use it quickly as it does go sour, and sick livestock is not fun. For that reason, it can't be stored. We pretty much use it within a week or even less in summer.
Very glad to hear that you are going to make a real living pond. Last year I watched the ducks and geese wallow in the dirty water and wondered when it was going to start to smell. When Abby would go in the water I worried she would catch something. It seems that when a pond has the pressure of having lots of waterfowl, having a source of clean water, plants to make use of fertilizer they provide, and a marsh to help clean the outflow is a much better plan. Good job!
The project of diverting the stream sounds super exciting!! I hope it works out!
BILL HICKS!!
On your farm meeting you mentioned Abby just went to the salon for a blow out.
I’m gonna guess this footage is from before that event. 🤣
She looks riper then the pile of swine also featured here.
I love her so much. Mud dog peein in the duck egg puddles.
It makes me happy, that you are conscious about the land itself and the frogs. Having frogs is a sign that you have healthy land. Thank you for being you.
Starting a brewery in the middle of the pandemic? Thats a business model thats been through the crucible. Much respect to Whirligig Brewing.
There is a LOT of assorted chaos in this one. Poor Morgan! But it makes it amusing for us.🤣
I liked seeing the pigs cuddled together in fresh straw in the Pigloo, safe from the rain. It’s good that they have each other’s company. They are going to be so excited when the time comes for them to go rooting around in the trees exploring for tasty bits the way they were built to do.
I’d be curious to know how the nutrition and vitamins of the grain are affected by the fermentation. Was it also sprouted first? I would expect it to be lower in storage-type carbohydrates like starch but higher in B-vitamins than regular grain, but I wonder about all the potential changes.
Grains used for brewing beer ARE allowed to start sprouting but then stopped. This allows the enzymes to start working to make the sugars needed, but not lat things get to the point of making roots, stem and leaves.
The three little piggies look very content in their pigloo. Good job, Morgan, recycling Toby's and Abby's former shelter. Abby doesn't know what to do about the pigs. They're new creatures to her, and she doesn't know how to react to them. l love all the antics of all the animals on GSF.
It’s awesome to see springtime on the farm, and the animals definitely seem happy. Although letting the pond naturally regenerate on its own sounds like an amazing idea, here’s some plants I’ve found that could work if you wanted to actively plant stuff along the shoreline: Buttonbush (Cephalanthus occidentalis), Water Marigold (Bidens beckii), various sedge species (in the genus Carex), various Rush species (in the genus Juncus), Rice Cutgrass (Leersia oryzoides), White Grass (Leersia virginica), Northern Wild Rice (Zizania palustris), and Broadleaf Arrowhead (Sagittaria latifolia).
Be sure to feed them a good amount of fruit and stuff. You could probably buy it "expired" from local grocers. It will help their muscles and make their fat not as greasy, more firm.
Yeah, I know nothing about pigs, but if they are like humans, eating a lot of grains means they need quite a bit of vitamin C too
@@defeqel6537 Pigs and lots of animals can largely produce their own vitamin C, apes and rodents can't among some other animals.
@@jessicah7247 thanks for the info, had no idea pigs can do that
@@jessicah7247 some rodents can, like rats. 🐀
Hamrietta for the big one, Pamchetta for the middle one and Speckanie for the little one 😂
I have always hoped to see you have the pond dug out into a proper pond. Your ecosystem will be fuller if you have a pond with at least one pit 15' to 20' feet deep. A few grass carp & some minnows to keep it clean and a good stock of channel catfish, crappies, bass & panfish will give you a low cost additional food source and hours of relaxing entertainment if you like fishing. Some people feed the catfish for faster growth, others let them grow on the natural pond food sources.
Hope you're well Morgan! Love getting to know new animals and farming techniques through you!
Wilma, Betty and Pebbles for the pigs names. Gotta love the Flintstones.
So cool about the return of the frogs! I'm glad you're getting good advice. I never would have even thought of any of that (even though I've been hearing about collapse of frog populations worldwide). Also, it appears the pigloo is a hit!
When are you getting the dog bath 🛀 they really need it !! Congratulations on your pigs 🐷
Petunia, Pansy, and Poppy Pig! Awesome little flowers!
Those are good names
Love those😂❤
Love the eye shot of miss Piggy in the end. 🤗. Love watching you & all the farm babes. 😁❣️.
Ah yes 😊 Spring time and Mud season 2...watching the ecosystem evolve and change in line with wildlife coming and going. Loved living in Vt Peace
When a couple of my cousins and I were 8 to 10 years old, we'd entice a sow over with an ear of field corn, then get on her back for a ride. She'd just go to the mud hole to get us off, then come back for another ear of corn and temporary ride.
Would it be possible to put a date stamp on videos, so we know what date we're seeing footage from?
I’d love to see some more videos with updates on the frog spawn and pond this was really enjoyable
It's fine to feed pigs scraps but not moldy or bad food - remember: garbage in, garbage out. Our pigs would never eat celery or peppers, but they loved cooked potatoes 😁 And you really need more dishes because one will start "hogging the trough"
Yes, please collaborate with Whirligig!
Love the new addition to the farm! You should name the girls after Bouvier sisters from The Simpsons; Marge, Patty and Selma!
That was my immediate thought to! 🐷🐷🐷
After seeing your explanation of your ideas with your pond , it all sounds exciting , I can’t wait :-)
Abby is clearly more pissed about the eggs than the pigs.😂
Just like a kid when younger siblings get more treats or toys than they do. “It’s not FAAAAAAAAAIR!”
@@catherinehubbard1167 not only that, they also sleep in her house.
@@meggi8048 no. She no longer uses that house.
@@catherinehubbard1167 girl has priorities. I wonder if she might ever get bacon or pork chops scraps. Ultimate revenge.
@@saraschneider6781 yea i am sure the dog understood this
You look great in blue Morgan!
Impressive how much is always going on and evolving
I can’t believe how much the weird chicken zen is needed in my life Morgan @goldshawfarm with two teens prom and grad coming up in the next six weeks…I’m particularly fond of the palest one weirdo! Here’s some pig names suggestions❤ My personal faves…Sophia,Dorothy,Rose ❤Sabrina ,Kelly and Jill (Charlie’s Angels)❤Winifred,Mary and Sarah (Hocus Pocus) or three female rockstars Blondie,Stevie Nicks,Tina turner …the list can go on. Or since they are eating grains from alcohol production ..Sherry,Vodka,Juniper 🤣 maybe ?
I think it’s great you’re trying to help restore the pond some! As to your planned stream/spring construction, I’d recommend looking into the soil types if you haven’t already. The Web Soil Survey is an AMAZING resource through the NRCS and can provide you with lots of information about anything related to your soil!
Also, if you haven’t, I’d also recommend considering planting in and around the pond. It’ll provide more habitat for the baby frogs and with the rest year it might give the plants a chance to get established before the ducks and geese descend on it. :)
Morgan go get some cattail seeds and marsh grass seeds NOW get on it man, and make your pond able to retain water
The new barn is looking AWESOME!
Love the pig side eye!😂
I've got my pup on Nexgard. A monthly chewable, it kills the ticks before they can transmit Lyme's.
Spent grain is also a fabulous addition to bread. Just sayin'.
Pig names: Penelope, Priscilla, and Patricia. 😁
Hey Morgan, I love your videos and your Farm. When my grandpa has some pigs he always gives them old bread, scraps etc. and he gives them fresh grass almost every day.
But be careful with what you feed them before slaughter because I have heard that if you feed them for example apples and than slaughter them the meat can taste a bit like apples.
I honestly think a slightly larger area for the pigs would be better for them mentally and in terms of sanitation. Plus it could make feeding and care easier since they can spread out
He plans to give them a much larger area and is just using this time to train them for the electric fence. They will will even have access to the forested area.
A tip for greatly increasing the capacity of the pond would be chinampas .. that would solve alot for you. Basicly i giant biofilter that also grows food for both you and feed for the fowl.. also great hidingspots for higher biodiversity like amphibians and insects.. then you use some fencing on the chinampas Islands to limit the amount of plants the fowl can eat.. everything that grows out of the fence Will be auto trimmed by the ducks and geese. These chinampas food Islands with a compost area for the fowl to scratch and collect insects. Then you can make a Fair dent on the amount of feed you need to bring in. A artificial wetland in Contact with the pond that is fenced off and planted with wetland friendly foodcrops can also help greatly with bio filtration and mecanical filtration of the pond. Jusy some tips, Google chinampas my friend! ❤
You should name them after Simpson characters. I was thinking Marge and her two sisters Selma and Patty
I love the mission of your farm and the connection with nature. God bless.
The pig with the thumb tail should be thumbpiglina hehe, good stuff thus far. I know a lot of people have had tips for you regarding the pigs so def read those!
I'd like to share a little tip about removing ticks! Please try to avoid squashing their butts when pulling them out. If you do it makes them vomit and it makes the risk of your dog getting infected by something nasty a lot higher. It's best to catch them right by their head carefully with special tool. Happy to hear that Abby was vaccinated against lyme disease and Toby will be also in due time!
It's so good to see the pigs getting used to the farm. When is the last cow coming?
Morgan, when I nannies in Parker the family raised goats and pigs, chickens and turkeys. We had an arrangement with the local Safeway to pick up their stale bread and bakery goods. The chickens and pigs did really well.
Those chickens are so zen.
Names?
The three sister witches from Hocus Pocus.
Or a trio of female singers, to keep in topic.
And place wire mesh down the sides of the mobile coop. That will keep the birds from nesting there.
Got an idea for the pigs' names. Large Marge for the big one (Ghost in Pee=wee's Big Adventure), Suzie Q (Ghost in a Disney movie), and Barbara (Ghost in Beetlejuice) :P Thought you might appreciate the pop culture refs!
I LOVE the weird chickens. So much individuality!!!!!🐓🐓🐓🐓🐓
So far indications are you are not planning to have your pigs in close proximity to you ducks & geese. Once again I would continue to encourage you to generally keep all your fowl segregated from the swine. There are clinical reasons not to let them have ongoing close environmental contact as such contact has been a disease vector to humans.
Karen Fay MT ASCP
Your pond is going to bring a so much wildlife habitat and with a natural spring running into it, Its going to be even better.
WOW that's pretty cool - I loved the names you picked out for them last night on the Live Farm Meeting last night
Question .... Morgan can you put a solar water fountain in the pond so the water gets cycled
This is a great idea! If you stock it with fish, the extra oxygen in the water can only benefit them.
At the small brewery I worked at we always fed the grain waste to ducks and geese for Christmas, fed a good flock similar to yours.
I bet the pigs love it too, it's still quite sweet and you can even use it to bake bread
You should have a fish pond, it would be so cool!
12:35 You need to proactively add water plants to the pond, like water lilies and reeds etc... which should help improve the pond.
A solar powered pond filter would also be useful.
Also pebbles in that new stream you're creating, so reduce the chance of it becoming another bog.
Love the new piggies❤🐖🐽🐷
I think its cute how u now have the 3 little pigs on ur farm. 😊
What was the "pig mistake"?
Looking forward to watching this video. I also enjoyed the farm meeting last night.
Are you still planning on getting the white cow?
Nothing happened.
I love it that good people take time to write long helpful comments for folks to learn from.
I'm going to say the unpopular guess about the chicken eggs: it seems like, the other day, you caught Abby (on Abby-cam) eating forbidden eggs ; maybe she scared the goose off her nest and then ate the eggs?
Some names for the pigs: Pine, Apple, Pen. Rosemary, Sage, and Thyme. To play off your regeneratative model: Recycle, Reduce, Reuse, Or be a fan of dark humor like my brother-in-law: Ham, Bacon, and Chops.
Hi Morgan, a friend of mine raised pigs in the 80’s, he’d get waist milk and products from commercial dairys and bakery’s. Maybe check with local supermarkets for old produce. Have a great day
I’m wondering if you have coyotes getting closer to the animals then you think, by the way Toby & Abbey reacted outside of their normal area & Toby marking the tree line.
Is there any alcohol remnants in the new feed? If they start stumbling and slurring their "oinks", then pass out, and very grumpy when they wake up...
We'll know!😁
😮The sparging is before fermentation. No alcohol.
First and foremost.
9:15 Skills. You caught that egg like a boss.
Names for the miss piggies.
Peggy, Patty and Penelope.
They seem like a full on summer party girls just enjoying their time and having fun.
Heck yeah!
Tobie is busy setting up his perimeter to protect the new arrivals. He understands the mission.
3 girls.. Sara, Mary and Winnifred. After reading the comments, it seems you named the pigs last night, so why ask for suggestions today?
This video was probably made a week ago. It takes a minute for his editor to do their magic.
Last night, Morgan did a livestream. That livestream is something that was happening currently, the very day it first went up.
This video is older footage, filmed a week or two before now, so Morgan had no way of knowing at the time this video was filmed that the pigs would already be named yet before this video went up(and the editing probably already finished before the livestream happened too). Most videos don't get posted right away when they are first filmed. It takes time to choose which footage stays in the video and which footage gets cut-out so the video pacing doesn't get bogged down or such and to add in all the memes or other pop-culture reference snippets and so on. But after the video is edited and ready to be posted, it might get already queued to upload a little bit before it actually appears available to viewers, too-so they aren't able to go back and re-edit the video to remove the question or to add in a quick note that the naming status has changed or such, because the critters were named too recently compared to when this video was filmed and uploaded and all. 🙂
Weird chicken moment of Zen is quickly becoming my favorite recurring bit on the farm.
Name the pigs after the golden girls! 😂
He's naming them after characters from "The Sopranos" tv show.
@@sjbock I know lol but I still liked other ideas better
Winifred, Mary & Sarah 🐖🐷🐽🧹- 3 little Piggies, love the Zen Silkies and you have frogspawn too 🐸interesting how the fermented feed goes - I give my chooks a little brewer's yeast (B vits). 👍
Abby's skittishness could be because of the pigs, or their electric fence, or even just the fact that this is an area of the farm you don't usually take her, maybe? 🤔🤔🤷♀️😁
Pigs smell like bears, that's why she is scared.
Zen moments with the silkies is the best.
Well the pigs behave more calmly than I expected (I still remember what your friend said about pig's ears and their temperament, but still...), I thought they'd still have to settle down a bit more...seems like they are getting cozy in their new home already 😺
(Also Abby getting mud spa this time around 😅😂🙈, oh Abby! 😂)
The pigs are doing well, it looks like they aren't touching the electric fence! Abby and Toby were so funny, I always love watching them.
Keep up the good work mate - it's coming together nicely!
I love that you're trying to get a healthy pond ecosystem going :-). As for pigs, I have some intuitive hunch that it will be interesting in regards to just getting to know them and as to feelings.
Looks like you're well on your way to a self-sufficient setup!
When it comes to reducing inputs, maybe when the pond and wetlands area are a bit more established maybe you could try adding duck weed to the pigs diet?
It usually grows pretty rapidly especially if its removing the excess nutrients from farm runoff. I can't remember which channel it was, but another farm channel used that method and it added a lot of omega 3s and other nutrients you'd normally associate with seafood into their diet
I'm happy they didnt seem to get injured getting them off the truck
that’s so much frogspawn omg that’s amazing!!! I love seeing the change of winter to spring. 😊
Wow! I've never seen that many frog eggs in one place!
Winifred Sarah and Mary the three hocus pocus witches lol. It looks like everyone is happy and healthy good job!
we use garlic sheepfat for our tickmagnet, alongside pipets and tee trea shampoo. I had a couple of ticks climb out of his fur not really wanting to bite. But the first year he had 10+ a week. (It's a corgi and most walking felds are twice his size and he loves to roll on the ground.) So it might help something to for your large white farm doggos :D
And chickens can help you turn over your compost so a chicken save compost place for your weird chickens so they kinda work for you?