New Piglets in Cold Weather: These Are the Genetics We Are Looking For
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We had our first litter in January 2. She had 6 piglets. First time mom. All have lived so far. They’re doing great.
Wondferful!
Im a city boy from Chicago, and I gotta say even I love your content! Keep up the good work brother!
Appreciate that, glad you like it!
This was great. I have two gilts and a youngish boar. One of the gilts may be pregnant now but would be due in two months or so hopefully. This is my first venture into raising pigs. They are on pasture, Berkshires. We'll see how it goes. It'll be negative degrees tonight and I gave everyone extra bedding in high and dry shelters. They do quite well and they surprise me all the time. As do those new piglets in this video. I didn't realize they could be so hardy new born.
@@DowdleFamilyFarmssir do pigs need any special attention in the winter or extreme cold
Mine don't but it doesn't get very cold here in MIssissippi so a bale of hay or straw works well.
@@babarAli-kz6vj i have pigs right now outside. It was 2 degrees this morning and my berkshires do well. The summer hair is nearly fur come winter. I keep as much hay bedding for them as they like. I have other breeds that don't get as furry during the winter and they prefer to stay in their shelters except for feeding times. Just like the piglets they pile close together to share heat in the cold.
I don't remember predators bothering pigs. Having said that everything went after lambs.
Thank you.
whats up my guy. Love your farm. Cheers from Estonia
Hello there! Cheers from MIssissippi!
-20° here in WI. I farrow on pasture Year round. Round bales farrow huts.
Nice. What breed or breeds do you raise? Where do you market?
Our wont use
Farrowing huts so I repurposed them. But it’s rarely this cold for us.
Congratulations
Thank you.
Fingers crossed that we have babies first of March.
Nice! That should be good timing!
- 25 here in ia
You can have those temperatures!
Were are you located in mississippi.
Lowndes County,
Caledonia
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Thank you!
Do you have a website where we could buy your pork or do you only sell to companies?
We sell to individuals and we ship! Dowdlefamilyfarms.com
@ Is the beef also pasture raised/grass fed & finished?
The beef is pasture raised and finished, but we do give them small amounts for grain while we are finishing them out, but very differently than in conventional feed lots. We have a couple videos on how and why we do that.
Have you ever had a sow eat her own piglets?
Never had a sow eat live piglets or kill them to eat them. We had a group of mangalitsas that were half wild one time. We had a sow eat a piglet that had been sat on before I could get it out of the pen. With well nourished pigs, its a rare thing in my experience for a sow to kill piglets to eat them.