I’m learning so much from you Joel and I grew up on a cattle farm in south Alabama. Me and the wife are almost to buying land and starting our farm so I’m so I’m very glad I’ve found your channel.
How does polyface farm approach breeding? If I want to breed my own pigs rather than buying them how do you do it? Would you do it similar to over wintering your pigs in the deep manure beds?
is it possible/realistic to raise meat for market without killing? so just old age deaths are marketed? personally id never be interested in killing, but i do agree about the bacon😂and i like the idea of honouring by feast, as i would like to be eaten by nature after im dead
Hi Joel, My question about the pee & poop on straw, and adding corn so the pigs aerate it. I grant you after 6 weeks it is hot composted, but what are the health ramifications 9f having your pigs wallowing in untreated excrement for up to 6 weeks? I 8magine all kinds of pathogens.
Hello - keep in mind with the carbonaceous diaper method you are starting with several feet of carbon (At Polyface wood chips are used primarily) and keep adding to it to keep things sanitary. They turn it constantly which helps the process as well.
Gamboling pigs can reap a benefit, but risks heavy losses. Some pigs are good Las Vegas gambolers, others not. My recommendation, any pig that takes heavy gamboling losses, get rid of it. Always read your post before sending. My spell check editor changed all the gamboling to gambling.
At 10:43 But Joel........ chickens may not fly.......but chickens constantly use their wings..... even to fly up on the roosts at night. So.....thats not really true ! Interesting enough about chicken ( meats ) White meat is always more expensive..... they say its because of more demand for white meat. OK......so I love dark meat.........but when I go anywhere to eat out and order dark meat......I cant even get legs or thighs !!!! They are always out of dark meat ! So if thats true about " demand " then what are producers doing.....raising chickens with two and three breast......since the chickens dont have legs or thighs ??? I always want to see and know this reasoning !
He is an idiot when it comes to big lagoons by the way. We in NC hardly ever have any issues with lagoons running over. There is 100 more times more human waste spills than hog lagoons. Facts matter. No commercial farms are not the best way to raise hogs but to lie about them is ignorance at best
Lagoons STINK! I used to stand in the midst of my family's CAFO dairy barn surrounded by 100's of cows on the top of a hill and SMELLED the neighbor's CAFO pigs. Working above the slatted floor lagoon with the pigs in the farrowing barn that supplied the neighbor with pigs, i often got a headache from the amonia fumes burning my sinuses and lungs.
Eating pork is unsafe and not scriptural. The Father calls this an abomination. I know. I used to stuff myself with this flesh, but soon discovered the truth. When the Father says Don't do something, we better listen. Consequences of disobedience are not fun.
@@jonathand9793 That's pretty easy as long as you keep reading that chapter and the whole thought. That was a warning for Peter not to judge people because the Father was not judging those gentile people. He Wanted Peter to realize that he was talking about people Being clean and unclean, not food. That was the Father's way of showing Peter that he was not to judge the people the way he had been judging food. He wanted Peter to have a relationship with them in order for him and the other Disciples to lead those people to Messiah. Some people are so hung up on eating "unclean" food that they skip over the full meaning of that section of Scripture. Context creates comprehension.
@@kathie4082the voice told him, “Don’t call that which the Lord hath clean unclean.” The unclean was the law of Moses. With Jesus dying for our sins, that amended the law if you will. Paul speaks of this in Act 13:38-39. “Therefore, my friends, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. 39 Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses.” Paul confirms this through Galatians 2:16-17 “16 know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in[d] Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified. 17 “But if, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we Jews find ourselves also among the sinners, doesn’t that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not!” We see the Mosaic law has been replaced and salvation is through Jesus Christ. Paul tells us in Romans the law was never intended to make one perfect in the sight of God. Or earn righteousness in the sight of God. Now if one wants to keep with adhering to the law that is certainly their prerogative and I am no one to say don’t. But if one is concerned about not eating pork because they believe the law is still in full effect, Jesus has died for us and is our Savior and salvation is through Him and Him alone.
I’m learning so much from you Joel and I grew up on a cattle farm in south Alabama. Me and the wife are almost to buying land and starting our farm so I’m so I’m very glad I’ve found your channel.
My dad bought my mom's wedding ring with pasture pig money. Still love to watch them place in field
Hah, love this.
Thank you! 😀
Extremely knowledgeable thank you keep them this way is the way it should be
Sir, is it intelligent to run chickens after hogs in order to scratch up / distribute the manure? As well as consume flies... Thanks
How does polyface farm approach breeding? If I want to breed my own pigs rather than buying them how do you do it? Would you do it similar to over wintering your pigs in the deep manure beds?
Thanks Joel
Joel, how much sq feet/pig? I have 3 acres, about 1 acre is forest.
Ive looked this up its 20-35 pigs per acre
@@xavierberube797 wow, that sounds like a lot.
Thank you
is it possible/realistic to raise meat for market without killing? so just old age deaths are marketed?
personally id never be interested in killing, but i do agree about the bacon😂and i like the idea of honouring by feast, as i would like to be eaten by nature after im dead
Hi Joel, My question about the pee & poop on straw, and adding corn so the pigs aerate it. I grant you after 6 weeks it is hot composted, but what are the health ramifications 9f having your pigs wallowing in untreated excrement for up to 6 weeks? I 8magine all kinds of pathogens.
Hello - keep in mind with the carbonaceous diaper method you are starting with several feet of carbon (At Polyface wood chips are used primarily) and keep adding to it to keep things sanitary. They turn it constantly which helps the process as well.
Gamboling pigs can reap a benefit, but risks heavy losses. Some pigs are good Las Vegas gambolers, others not. My recommendation, any pig that takes heavy gamboling losses, get rid of it.
Always read your post before sending. My spell check editor changed all the gamboling to gambling.
Does Polyface use soy as protein for their pigs?
At 10:43 But Joel........ chickens may not fly.......but chickens constantly use their wings..... even to fly up on the roosts at night. So.....thats not really true !
Interesting enough about chicken ( meats ) White meat is always more expensive..... they say its because of more demand for white meat. OK......so I love dark meat.........but when I go anywhere to eat out and order dark meat......I cant even get legs or thighs !!!! They are always out of dark meat ! So if thats true about " demand " then what are producers doing.....raising chickens with two and three breast......since the chickens dont have legs or thighs ??? I always want to see and know this reasoning !
Can anyone explain why Joel has never written a book on pastured pigs?
See “The Marvelous Pigness of Pigs: Respecting and Caring for All God's Creation” by Joel Salatin
@@macanoe5335 that book is ok but it's more a Jesus freak opinion piece it doesn't cover raising livestock like Salad Bar Beef and Pasteured Poultry.
@@rickross199 There is a chapter on pig handling, management, pasture layout, and equipment in Polyface Designs
He is an idiot when it comes to big lagoons by the way. We in NC hardly ever have any issues with lagoons running over. There is 100 more times more human waste spills than hog lagoons. Facts matter. No commercial farms are not the best way to raise hogs but to lie about them is ignorance at best
Lagoons STINK! I used to stand in the midst of my family's CAFO dairy barn surrounded by 100's of cows on the top of a hill and SMELLED the neighbor's CAFO pigs. Working above the slatted floor lagoon with the pigs in the farrowing barn that supplied the neighbor with pigs, i often got a headache from the amonia fumes burning my sinuses and lungs.
The farther north you go, the fewer good days to spread the manure.
Eating pork is unsafe and not scriptural. The Father calls this an abomination. I know. I used to stuff myself with this flesh, but soon discovered the truth. When the Father says Don't do something, we better listen. Consequences of disobedience are not fun.
Would love to hear your thoughts on Peter’s vision recorded in Acts chapter 10
@@jonathand9793
That's pretty easy as long as you keep reading that chapter and the whole thought. That was a warning for Peter not to judge people because the Father was not judging those gentile people. He Wanted Peter to realize that he was talking about people Being clean and unclean, not food. That was the Father's way of showing Peter that he was not to judge the people the way he had been judging food. He wanted Peter to have a relationship with them in order for him and the other Disciples to lead those people to Messiah. Some people are
so hung up on eating "unclean" food that they skip over the full meaning of that section of Scripture. Context creates comprehension.
Go watch something else dude
@@timcornwall3375 indeed
@@kathie4082the voice told him, “Don’t call that which the Lord hath clean unclean.” The unclean was the law of Moses. With Jesus dying for our sins, that amended the law if you will. Paul speaks of this in Act 13:38-39. “Therefore, my friends, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. 39 Through him everyone who believes is set free from every sin, a justification you were not able to obtain under the law of Moses.”
Paul confirms this through Galatians 2:16-17 “16 know that a person is not justified by the works of the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ. So we, too, have put our faith in Christ Jesus that we may be justified by faith in[d] Christ and not by the works of the law, because by the works of the law no one will be justified.
17 “But if, in seeking to be justified in Christ, we Jews find ourselves also among the sinners, doesn’t that mean that Christ promotes sin? Absolutely not!”
We see the Mosaic law has been replaced and salvation is through Jesus Christ. Paul tells us in Romans the law was never intended to make one perfect in the sight of God. Or earn righteousness in the sight of God. Now if one wants to keep with adhering to the law that is certainly their prerogative and I am no one to say don’t. But if one is concerned about not eating pork because they believe the law is still in full effect, Jesus has died for us and is our Savior and salvation is through Him and Him alone.