I’m have lived in Central Texas for the past forty-five years. I enjoy watching farm and homesteading TH-cam channels. I was raised in farming commutes in Nebraska.
Hey Chuck, this is Wes from Wacky Fence Farm in Fairmont, WV. I've been watching since before the shout-out but never introduced myself. We've had a 30 bird layer flock for a year now and this year were doing a meat chicken CSA along with some turkeys. Trying to talk my girlfriend into taking the plunge on a couple feeder pigs as well, wish me luck! We're taking a lot of ideas from your processing set up in building out our own. Thanks for all the informative videos!
Country View Acres sent me. We are from Woodbury, Georgia. We raise American Guinea Hogs, Katahdin Sheep, Jumbo Coturnix Quail and have a small market garden.
Rutherford county nc. We just moved last year. We have 50 freedom rangers in the brooder, 20 egg birds in the pasture and 5 pigs in the forest. Love watching the videos and really appreciate all your help Thanks. ✌🏻❤️
Northwest Ohio we started our purebred Berkshire farm 2 months in thanks for all the tips it all helps and saves me and the wife time and money everyday
From Kansas City. I just want out of the city and from behind my desk job. Back on the land. All your videos or awesome and super informative. Thanks for the content 😀
@@SheratonParkFarms it is a lot with us both working off the farm but our daughters love it and our oldest does a lot of the day to day work. I have to say they love knowing where their food comes from and my oldest is expanding her pastured pig herd this year.
@@SheratonParkFarms We are located in Morristown. I love the pig videos the most. We raised pigs growing up and they were always my favorite. Your vlog has inspired me to get a few pigs. Duroc are my favs . Thank you for all the work you put into educating folks about sustainable lifestyles.
Hey y'all from Aiken S.C. A very wet winter. Raising 18 pigs and some egg laying chickens. Who knew pigs would eat hay? The old saying about hay being for horses is not true. Using 250g totes for shelters (took the plastic out of the cage, cut an opening in it, and put it on a pallet). Pallet fence is working out good. No t-posts. All reclaimed material (except some of the screws 😊). Good vid. Thanks.
Another great clip. My miss piggy gave birth to 9 piglets last Thursday . She was way way way over due. She's a first time mum and everything went well. We think she had 6 girls and 3 boys. She's a large white and so is dad but I think they are a bit of a cross coz 1 baby looks like a brown saddle back and 2 others have black spots. Anyway She's a good mum always checking b4 she lies down and if she thinks her piglets need a feed she wakes them up and then lies down for them to have a feed. Your clips have given me more confidence in interacting with her thanks heaps. I use a pig tractor made up of 2X12 steel gates and 2X10 steel gates with shade cover over the top, when miss piggy has eaten the grass and dug it up we hook the pig tractor up to the 4B and tow it 12 foot to a fresh patch of grass and then in the old position vegetables are planted 'm in kingaroy Queensland Australia
Welcome! Thanks for joining us from down under! Sounds like you have a great pig on your hands! Love the moving of the pen and then replanting veggies in the old spot she was in. That’s a fantastic use of your space! Keep me posted on how she does and how your piglets do. Thanks for watching our channel. Never dreamed we’d be inspiring folks in Australia!!
@@SheratonParkFarms we sold 1 piglet to my mates friend and now it's new mum is a rotweiler and they get on fantastic. Shame I can post pics here. Only problem was her husband didn't know about the piglet till he got home from work lol oh well like they say " it's easier to say sorry after the event than ask for permission first" 🤣🤣🤣
Hello from north central Alabama. A couple years ago we bought a home with 20 acres. I have been gardening, but now am looking to expand into some livestock. Not looking to sale, but self sufficient homestead level. Great channel!
Lol this is 2 years old now but we’re from Nova Scotia, Canada. We have a couple sheep, chickens, and this weekend we’re getting our first ram and a couple pigs!
Another great video those lamb rams are a handsome bunch. Those gilts look good. Excited to see how this year goes for you all. I did a video on our chores at -20 degrees. Pigs really do pretty good in the cold. We do give them lots of bedding. Hope you don't get anymore ice.
Your pigs 🐷 and sheep 🐑 look good , love your coloring of your animals. Great job . Roll out more junk hay if ya can it will turn to great forage. I’m from Honeoye, New York in the finger lakes. But I live in Newfane , New York up by Niagra falls & Lake Ontario in western New York now. Did you know puppy 🐶 wants to get into the picture and you only show part of him ? Well great job aside from not showing Sandra doing all the work and the pup 🤷🏻♂️🤪😝 maybe we can do a video of her day to day , calling it My better half’s day to day . todd
We are in East Texas. We just had a gilt that farrowed last weekend. Long story short we lost her due to emergency c-section and now have 3 of 8 piglets.
Hi! I just found you. I have an acre in Alaska that I'm going to start a homestead on. Currently I have chickens and turkeys, but want to start raising some pigs for the dinner table. I love your videos they're very informative.
We have used hay and wheat straw. Haven't gone as far as the round bale yet. Maybe now with having all the new pigs we will try it out. Glad you guys didn't the ice storm to bad!
We carried in a round bake back in October and it worked really good. I think we needed 2 in the paddock. With all those little noses you are going to need more round bales!!! Congrats
Good morning from Boonville, NC. We currently have chickens, ducks, 1 tom turkey & 2 pet pigs. We had 2 feeder pigs but they went to freezer camp in January. Looking to expand with more animals in the future but we have to do some fence & pasture work first.
Madison Wisconsin! And raising 5 Old Spots this winter before starting with about 12 in the woods. Getting them early June. Any disadvantages to free feeding the pigs in your opinion? I do not want to disincentivize them from foraging/or them gaining too much weight too fast. But the time aspect of free feeding is hard to say no to.
I don’t think so. They will naturally root for forage and we noticed a decrease in feed consumption for the first few days after moving them. I think they would naturally rather have forage as opposed to feed. Either way you are raising a far superior pig to what can be bought in the grocery. Appreciate y’all watching
I hope the small pigs don't undercut their big bale much more, it could roll on them. I've heard of sheep and goats eating bales into a mushroom shape then it dropping on them.
California checking in. Native of Silicon Valley, looking to declare political refugee status and start a “hobby farm” on a property under consideration in KY. Research is imperative to limit errors
@@SheratonParkFarms One of the major reasons for the KY property considerations is there are producing natural gas wells on the property. “Free” heat for the main living area, barns, brood and rabbit houses, plus running the generator for electrifying the entire farm should, IMHO, offset the 5% income tax in KY. Additionally, the NE side of the timbered hills is the perfect habitat to invest in a little ginseng cultivation that has a crop cycle of 4-5 years. I love California, it’s my home from birth for 63 years, in the same home. The saddest part of situation is there is no foreseeable return to sanity in the governmental structure that has ruined the state!
I’m have lived in Central Texas for the past forty-five years. I enjoy watching farm and homesteading TH-cam channels. I was raised in farming commutes in Nebraska.
Cool. Thanks for joining us. Appreciate y’all watching
We just bought a 14 acre farm in Arkansas, and thanks to your awesome videos, we feel we’re ready to get us some pigs and try it ourselves! ❤️
Absolutely you can do it, especially if I can. Good luck on your farm. Thanks for watching
We're in West Virginia,we have pigs goats and chickens, love your family friendly content, God bless!!!!!
Thank you. Appreciate y’all watching
WV here too!
@@cloudyandoracle awesome!!!! We're in Mingo county, where you guys at??
@@therick2561 Im in Putnam county
@@cloudyandoracle cool, what animals do you guys have at the blonde farmer??
Hey Chuck, this is Wes from Wacky Fence Farm in Fairmont, WV. I've been watching since before the shout-out but never introduced myself. We've had a 30 bird layer flock for a year now and this year were doing a meat chicken CSA along with some turkeys. Trying to talk my girlfriend into taking the plunge on a couple feeder pigs as well, wish me luck! We're taking a lot of ideas from your processing set up in building out our own. Thanks for all the informative videos!
Awesome. Pigs are great animals and can be very profitable. Hope you can convince her. 🤣🤣. Thanks for watching
Central MN. Layers, broilers, pigs, sheep, goat and a milk cow! Layers, broilers and pigs are the enterprises.
Cool! Sounds like ya'll have a lot going on. Best wishes with everything. Thanks for watching.
DC, tiny condo, longing to get back in the country. Love seeing how happy your pigs are!
Thanks so much for watching
Country View Acres sent me. We are from Woodbury, Georgia. We raise American Guinea Hogs, Katahdin Sheep, Jumbo Coturnix Quail and have a small market garden.
Awesome. Thanks so much for joining us. Appreciate y’all watching
Hobby farmer from Australia got a bit of everything and love watching your channel keep up the great work 😊
Awesome! Thank you! Love hearing from folks down under. Appreciate ya'll watching.
Rutherford county nc. We just moved last year. We have 50 freedom rangers in the brooder, 20 egg birds in the pasture and 5 pigs in the forest. Love watching the videos and really appreciate all your help Thanks. ✌🏻❤️
Glad y’all got chicks in the brooder! Sounds like chicks are going to get hard to come by. Thanks for watching
Northwest Ohio we started our purebred Berkshire farm 2 months in thanks for all the tips it all helps and saves me and the wife time and money everyday
From Kansas City. I just want out of the city and from behind my desk job. Back on the land. All your videos or awesome and super informative. Thanks for the content 😀
Thank you. Appreciate y’all watching
We have a small farm in Western,KY where we raise pigs, sheep, a couple cattle, chickens, and turkeys. We love following your videos.
Nice! Sounds like ya'll have a lot going on. Thanks so much for watching.
@@SheratonParkFarms it is a lot with us both working off the farm but our daughters love it and our oldest does a lot of the day to day work. I have to say they love knowing where their food comes from and my oldest is expanding her pastured pig herd this year.
They really are beautiful pigs!
Thank you!
Hello from Louisburg, NC! Enjoying your channel!
Hey there! Thanks for watching
New subscriber from east Tennessee. Angus cattle, chickens , turkeys and a couple coon dogs. Enjoying the channel.
Very cool! Where are ya'll at in East Tennessee? Sounds like you have a lot going on. Thanks for watching.
@@SheratonParkFarms We are located in Morristown. I love the pig videos the most. We raised pigs growing up and they were always my favorite. Your vlog has inspired me to get a few pigs. Duroc are my favs . Thank you for all the work you put into educating folks about sustainable lifestyles.
Hey y'all from Aiken S.C. A very wet winter. Raising 18 pigs and some egg laying chickens. Who knew pigs would eat hay? The old saying about hay being for horses is not true. Using 250g totes for shelters (took the plastic out of the cage, cut an opening in it, and put it on a pallet). Pallet fence is working out good. No t-posts. All reclaimed material (except some of the screws 😊). Good vid. Thanks.
Nice. Yeah. They’ll eat hay and grass. Thanks for watching
Another great clip. My miss piggy gave birth to 9 piglets last Thursday . She was way way way over due. She's a first time mum and everything went well. We think she had 6 girls and 3 boys. She's a large white and so is dad but I think they are a bit of a cross coz 1 baby looks like a brown saddle back and 2 others have black spots. Anyway She's a good mum always checking b4 she lies down and if she thinks her piglets need a feed she wakes them up and then lies down for them to have a feed. Your clips have given me more confidence in interacting with her thanks heaps. I use a pig tractor made up of 2X12 steel gates and 2X10 steel gates with shade cover over the top, when miss piggy has eaten the grass and dug it up we hook the pig tractor up to the 4B and tow it 12 foot to a fresh patch of grass and then in the old position vegetables are planted
'm in kingaroy Queensland Australia
Welcome! Thanks for joining us from down under!
Sounds like you have a great pig on your hands! Love the moving of the pen and then replanting veggies in the old spot she was in. That’s a fantastic use of your space!
Keep me posted on how she does and how your piglets do.
Thanks for watching our channel. Never dreamed we’d be inspiring folks in Australia!!
@@SheratonParkFarms we sold 1 piglet to my mates friend and now it's new mum is a rotweiler and they get on fantastic. Shame I can post pics here. Only problem was her husband didn't know about the piglet till he got home from work lol oh well like they say " it's easier to say sorry after the event than ask for permission first" 🤣🤣🤣
Hello from north central Alabama. A couple years ago we bought a home with 20 acres. I have been gardening, but now am looking to expand into some livestock. Not looking to sale, but self sufficient homestead level. Great channel!
That's awesome! More folks need to be providing for themselves. Good luck on your homestead. Thanks for watching.
Lawrence County Alabama here. Cows, garden and adding pigs within two weeks.
Lol this is 2 years old now but we’re from Nova Scotia, Canada. We have a couple sheep, chickens, and this weekend we’re getting our first ram and a couple pigs!
Happy day Chuck and Sondra, we really enjoy the info, tks Have always had pigs,chickens,cattle,goats, horses
From Oregon planning to move to family farm. Just like to watch. Hope we can have pigs.
Awesome! Thanks for watching.
Another great video those lamb rams are a handsome bunch. Those gilts look good. Excited to see how this year goes for you all. I did a video on our chores at -20 degrees. Pigs really do pretty good in the cold. We do give them lots of bedding. Hope you don't get anymore ice.
Thanks. The lambs are doing great. Can’t imagine doing chores in that cold 🥶.
Your pigs 🐷 and sheep 🐑 look good , love your coloring of your animals. Great job . Roll out more junk hay if ya can it will turn to great forage. I’m from Honeoye, New York in the finger lakes. But I live in Newfane , New York up by Niagra falls & Lake Ontario in western New York now. Did you know puppy 🐶 wants to get into the picture and you only show part of him ? Well great job aside from not showing Sandra doing all the work and the pup 🤷🏻♂️🤪😝 maybe we can do a video of her day to day , calling it My better half’s day to day . todd
Thanks todd. Always good to hear from y’all. Appreciate you watching
We are in East Texas. We just had a gilt that farrowed last weekend. Long story short we lost her due to emergency c-section and now have 3 of 8 piglets.
I'm so sorry. That sounds like a tough situation.
Whidbey Island - Washington! Raising 30 feeder pigs, turkeys and have a couple of pregnant ewes!
Cool. Sounds like you have your hands full! Thanks for watching
Rather than getting a bigger tractor, have you looked into Greg Judy's bail unroller? he uses a winch and mechanical advantage to more bails.
I’ve seen that. It’s a very cool setup.
3 is a magic number!! Reminds me of Saturday mornings. 😀
Hey Buddy, I'm in Wicklow mountains Ireland we have 4 feeder pigs and 30 Sheep up the hills, love yer show
Very cool! Thanks for joining us.
Love your videos. We found you by a recommendation from Country View Acres. From Pensacola, FL. We don’t farm but wish we did.
Welcome! So glad you found us. Appreciate y’all watching!
We are in Louisburg, Kansas. We have 9 acres and raise red broilers, laying hens, and kunekune pigs.
Nice. Y’all have your hands full. Appreciate y’all watching
Hi!
I just found you. I have an acre in Alaska that I'm going to start a homestead on. Currently I have chickens and turkeys, but want to start raising some pigs for the dinner table. I love your videos they're very informative.
We have used hay and wheat straw. Haven't gone as far as the round bale yet. Maybe now with having all the new pigs we will try it out. Glad you guys didn't the ice storm to bad!
We carried in a round bake back in October and it worked really good. I think we needed 2 in the paddock.
With all those little noses you are going to need more round bales!!! Congrats
I’m about to go pick some up for cows and horses. I’ll see if he’s got a ratty old bale around somewhere.
Little lightnin ❤
I like that!
Another great idea keep them coming
Thanks! Y’all do the same
Next time you go to Ai some sows or gilts you need to try Southern gold sites and smoke ring is a good crossbred boar to use! Also love your content!
I'll look into those. Appreciate the info. Thanks so much for watching.
Your welcome
Also it’s sires not sites
Good morning from Boonville, NC.
We currently have chickens, ducks, 1 tom turkey & 2 pet pigs. We had 2 feeder pigs but they went to freezer camp in January.
Looking to expand with more animals in the future but we have to do some fence & pasture work first.
Hey neighbor! Y’all have a handful there. Best wishes on your farm.
Central Fl. Thanks for you videos I’m getting a lot of ideas to stat my farm soon!
Awesome. Good luck on starting your farm.
Hello Chuck from Kingston, TN. We have a very small homestead with two pigs and six chickens but looking forward to growing.
Awesome!! Good luck with your farm. Sounds like you are off to a great start.
From Ohio and raising pastured chickens.
Cool. Welcome to the channel. Appreciate y’all watching
Jamestown, NY....60 miles south of Buffalo. Pigs, chickens, turkeys, ducks.
Nice. Buffalo! That sounds interesting. Thanks for watching.
Raising Cattle (only two heifers, bull, two steers) currently have two pigs but I am building a pasture area now, Anson Texas
Nice. Sounds like you are off and running! Appreciate ya'll watching.
Hi I am live in Canada and I have quite a few pigs
Nice! Pigs are great animals!
We are 6/9 on the bucks in the dairy goat herd. LOL I have noticed the pigs like it better sitting on the ends.
🤣. Needs more girls! Yeah. I think they could tear it apart better.
From oklahoma been here awhile like watching and like pig farming planing on rase some feeders
Nice! Glad you’ve been watching. Pigs are great animals to raise.
you need to get one of those Greg Judy bale rollers
I’ve seen that. Nice looking outfit.
From Brazil.
Nice. Thanks for joining us.
Madison Wisconsin! And raising 5 Old Spots this winter before starting with about 12 in the woods. Getting them early June. Any disadvantages to free feeding the pigs in your opinion? I do not want to disincentivize them from foraging/or them gaining too much weight too fast. But the time aspect of free feeding is hard to say no to.
I don’t think so. They will naturally root for forage and we noticed a decrease in feed consumption for the first few days after moving them. I think they would naturally rather have forage as opposed to feed. Either way you are raising a far superior pig to what can be bought in the grocery. Appreciate y’all watching
washington pa we raize hogs, chickens, turkeys, geese
Cool. Nice variety y’all have. Thanks for watching
Name the new lamb Shazam cuz of the lightning bolt!
🤣🤣great idea.
What breed of pig do you have there? Are they Berkshire?
Most are Berkshire/Duroc cross.
Why did the pigs take off after you woke them up?
Just startled them. They do that.
Is the Gallagher s10 a good solar charger? I have a 30 mile eletric but am looking for something for pigs on area away from house.
About how many volts does it produce?
It works fine for a small area that is single strand. Wouldn't try to use it for a big netting set-up.
Oklahoma
Have you heard of sen lankford ( okla) hr2856
It's a bill to help farmers to process chickens rabbit ect on farm
Have not but I’ll look it up. Thanks for watching
@@SheratonParkFarms great channel
Thank you.
I hope the small pigs don't undercut their big bale much more, it could roll on them. I've heard of sheep and goats eating bales into a mushroom shape then it dropping on them.
They finished breaking it down. Almost completely flat now.
California checking in. Native of Silicon Valley, looking to declare political refugee status and start a “hobby farm” on a property under consideration in KY. Research is imperative to limit errors
Good luck on your "defection" from Taxornia! KY is a beautiful state. TN doesn't have an income tax so you might consider that as well.
@@SheratonParkFarms One of the major reasons for the KY property considerations is there are producing natural gas wells on the property. “Free” heat for the main living area, barns, brood and rabbit houses, plus running the generator for electrifying the entire farm should, IMHO, offset the 5% income tax in KY. Additionally, the NE side of the timbered hills is the perfect habitat to invest in a little ginseng cultivation that has a crop cycle of 4-5 years. I love California, it’s my home from birth for 63 years, in the same home. The saddest part of situation is there is no foreseeable return to sanity in the governmental structure that has ruined the state!
They're high and dry up on their hay
Yep. They love it. Thanks for watching