Mangalitsa pigs are enjoying their pasture without rooting it up!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 13 ส.ค. 2022
- Mangalitsa pigs are enjoying their pasture without rooting it up! If you want to keep your farm profitable every year, check out my 3 grazing books that I wrote on our website: greenpasturesfarm.net/books/
We raised 6 Mangalitsas over the last 3 years or so and always had the processor save all the fat for us. We have quite a bit of lard in our fridge. We use it mostly to make lard biscuits (some in the oven right now) and my wife make pie dough with it ,as well as for frying . It went out of demand when the medical community and government told people that eating lard would kill them and they need to use processed vegetable and seed oils. We now know better.
I know a bit about pigs. Mangalitsa's are from Hungary and are a true "Lard Hog". That is what they were bred and raised for. A number of years ago (back about 2010 I think) there was a big brouhaha in Michigan about them, where the State was coming out against a farmer who was raising them, but that is a different topic. They are good hogs. Currently I raise hogs on pasture and finish them in a woodlot on acorns. Pigs are the smartest animal on a farm. This was a good video. Thank you Greg.
Dennis is such a wealth of knowledge and a great friend. He helped us get set up with some Mangaista hogs and I am so thankful!
Im currently raising old spot pigs on a scrub oak hillside. They make wallows under the trees, they cleared out most of underbush. Best part is they will get to finish on acorns. If the animals dont work for you, youre gonna work for them.
Hungarian speaker here. There's no "t" in Mangalica. But the "c" is pronounced exactly the way the guy pronounced it. (kinda like if it was a "ts", but not exactly)
I had mangalitsa pigs a few years ago and they taste amazing!!!
We looked into mangalista pigs but ended up going with kune kunes and AGH breeds. Small breeds, awesome for our small scale homestead farm.
What an interesting breed with their wooly coats.
These are different than Kunekune, which is a short-stotted New Zealand breed.
Pastured pork is incredibly delicious!
Oh that’s interesting, so a hundred years ago you didn’t go to the store to buy olive or canola oil, you used lard, so you needed a high fat pig. If they are grass fed I’ll bet the lard is good for you.
Thanks for the video! I remember seeing him at the pasture walk last year. I enjoy these videos too. I want to raise hogs on pasture too. I want to raise heritage hogs but there’s a few different breeds to choose from. This makes it harder on what to decide.
Thanks for showing me more of the neighborhood and grazing hogs. Can't get enough of the MO farming landscape. we use leaf lard rendered for pies and pan frying steak.
Thanks! Very informative
mangalitsa pigs are supposed to be the best pigs for pasture because they graze more than most pigs and can handle colder weather thanks to their woolly coats 🐗
I really am a bit ..... what ever... I looked up the meaning of kunekune it means fat and round in the language of the New Zealands Maori people's . It is amazing how the people were able to set out in small vessels with pigs I found three spellings of mangalitsa which means in Hungarian pork or hog with a lot of fat, it is known as the pig -sheep and is the result of combining three breeds back in the 18 hundreds. . Looking at the faces of the pigs make me think of the original mickey mouse, baby calves, bears and kangaroos too. I must have a loose connection or strange wiring in my head to come up with that combination . Oh well enough of that ... See you in the next one. may you all find everyday better than the last one
Thank you for the video
Thank you for sharing Dennis and Greg.
Great interview this could be a whole series farms across Missouri the good the bad the tasty 🤤
This is the best bred originally from Romania,they are adapted very well to be raise on pasture ,or woods,they don't need a lot of grain,and the meat and fat is the most healtier