Raising Pigs in Woodlots and Pastures
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ส.ค. 2020
- When it comes to our farm, the pigs are without a doubt the centerpiece of our farm business. Plus, they are my favorite animal on the farm! When we can keep the waters from freezing, we have them out on the pastures and in the woodlots. This system works very well for us, but we have plenty of things that we need to do better.
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Dude, that fence remote system is awesome!
Thanks! I love my Stafix fence energizer (I think it’s the same as Speedrite brand too). I carry the remote with me whenever I’m out working around the farm.
Yes it is. I'd like to know the brand and where to get one.
@@TheBeginningFarmer thank you very much! I should of scrolled down before I made my post.
very nice set up
Thanks so much!
You sir are performing well
I love your enthusiasm
Fellow hog farmer
Thanks!
Pretty cool to see the pigs in the woods! I'm sure it would save a lot of time to be able to run the high density water pipe out there! Thanks for sharing
Yes, the water lines is going to have to become a priority at some point. It would also help with all the pastured livestock to have multiple options of water close by
Great video... I would a PVC tank with an automatic water-nippler. keep it up :)
Great video! Thanks for sharing.
You’re welcome!
Very Informative Videos.
Also, your passion for what you do is inspiring.
Thanks.
Thanks so much for watching!
You really get it. You will have your savanna. I'm about to enter this same venture. We will be successful. God bless!
Thanks for your encouragement and thanks for watching! Good look on your farming journey :)
great info! thanks for sharing. we recently got 3 IPP's. setting up the rotational grazing like Joel Salatin does. new subscriber
Great video, very informative. I'm wanting to start doing this here in southwest Missouri.
That's great to hear! Thanks for watching!
Good job i like it
Thanks!
Lots of bacon there yum. Your pigs look real healthy.
Thank you! We love seeing them out in the woods and are getting really excited about spring coming :)
I have no experience but I think its cool 😎
Glad I found you and thanks for the video. So, if you could drill down on the time you spend on the pigs or how much time they require, ASSUMING you have a full feeder and they have access to water and your fencing system in set up/designed well, how much time would you say you spend EACH day/week focused/interacting with pigs? Thanks
Please show up the animals, infrastructure and supplies a bit more! Thanks!
Once spring starts showing up in full force I'll have a chance to show more of our set-up outside. Thanks so much for watching!
If I was going to plant a cover crop in a pasture area like that I'd consider something like winter rye, annual ryegrass, and turnips. All three should be relatively inexpensive to plant. Annual ryegrass (and possibly winter rye) can usually be managed for volunteer stands the following year if you let it go to seed in the spring which might be a bonus in a pig pasture.
Green Cover Seed has its Smartmix tool (smartmix.greencoverseed.com/) that might be able to help you come up with some ideas about planting rates, dates, etc.
Thanks for the input! I think some sort of rye will be in the mix for sure. The turnips, and I hear people around here using radishes (tillage radish), I think will be good for any areas of compaction too. I’m excited to give it a try.
It seems given the option the pigs want the forest instead of the pasture. If that’s true why not just do the forest?
If I was a pig, I'd like living there, until freezer camp day...
Thanks the idea that we are shooting for! Thanks for watching :)
Great system. I was wondering if you have any issue with smell or flys when raising on woodlot and pasture? I’ve been raising hogs for about 4 years now in a dirt floor pen. My biggest challenge has been controlling flys and standing mud, even though I have a large pen with few pigs. This year I’m planning on fencing off 3 acres of woodlot into two 1.5 acre paddocks with a central home base for feeding and loading. Any information would be great, thanks!
As for cover crops, here in West Virginia clover and alfalfa mixes do great. They come up first thing in spring, pretty tolerant to the hot summers, and provide a lot of nitrogen to the soil and protein for animals. With hogs, it would have to be reseeded each year unlike with cattle where it comes back as perennials but still a great option. You can usually buy deer food plot mixes fairly cheap and they almost always have clover and alfalfa mixed in with other crops. They make a good forage. You can also manage your woodlots for acorn production. My neighbor waits until the acorns drop and then let’s the hogs out in the woods to finish them off on hard mast.
We don't have as many problems with flies or smell out on the pasture. I do know that is an issue when they are in the same place or don't have as much area to roam. If you go to the Practical Farmers of Iowa TH-cam page they had a great video about a farmer (I can't remember who, but it was from the first 3 months of 2021) who uses and "home base" type of system with their pigs.
I am starting to think about what I need to do for some annual seedings, thanks for the thoughts!
How many pigs should an acre of woods (oak / pine) be able to accommodate? I have about 10 acres of forest, and would rotate paddocks as well as supply them with food/water, expecting the acorns to provide supplement nutrition. As a rookie, I would start with very few pigs, but just wondering what might be the max animal pressure that the acre could handle
Start small 4-6
Better to make your mistakes with a little
It will take about two years before your v8 moment
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I'd like to see how much you could improve the pig lots in ten minutes with a pair of loppers. Grape...snip, low branch...snip, inch tree...snip now inch pollard.
That's going to be part of the process ... everything in stages as we have time. Rome wasn't built in a day and a farm wasn't reclaimed in a day either I guess :) Haha! I do have some great aerial photos from 50 plus years ago and it is amazing how much the landscape of the farm has changed. Our woods are really a pretty "young" woods.
Whats farmers name or TH-cam page that made circle round pen? Thanks
Unfortunately no plans or videos exist for the pen, it was just a couple of farming brothers that built it for their needs. Here is a link though to a video that I did of a field day at their farm ... 4:58 should get you to the right spot ... th-cam.com/video/VBPuzJHcBE0/w-d-xo.html
@@TheBeginningFarmer thank you sir I was thinking it was like collapsible corrals they have for cattle
@@justinbuzbee1362 I think this one folds up and and the panels all rest together and then there are back wheels that are cranked up or put on and it can be pulled. So it is similar in some ways, but maybe a little more "manually operated".
Curious if you have any issue with predators?
I have not yet had any predator problems with the pigs. In my area I don't have too many predators that would be a problem. With that being said, I have had some problems with predators and chickens over the years ... never the pigs, cattle, or sheep though.
Once a pig gets about a month old, they are able to take care of themselves in North Alabama.
Pigs destroy pastures.
That can be true. The key is management and rotation if you want to have pigs on the pasture. We are also researching using more annuals with our pigs.
How often do you rotate the pigs?