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I applaud your commitment and determination. Due to the ongoing pandemic and recent Texas power failure, I invested in egg production chickens and self sustaining energy in the event of another crisis. We live in a small town and engage in some bartering with neighbors and family. Good luck to you and your endeavor!
When managed properly... Pigs. Are. AWESOME! I've been raising them for 3.5 years and they are the most valuable animal to me. I have all but given up on eating beef, simply because I don't raise beef, yet. Good pastured pork can substitute easily into just about any recipe that calls for beef. I do still love a good ribeye though 🤤. One thing you may consider is soaking/prefermenting your ground feed for the pigs. Even if it is only for one feeding. This tremendously helps their gut and makes any other feed they take in more digestible. Due to a severe drought this last year in my area, and raising my own hybrid litter, I started supplemental feeding my pigs this way and it may become a permanent feed, at least until the rains come back! Love seeing the new property. Being in the desert here, I am a bit envious of the prolific trees and regular rains, but that's were we can all deploy various management techniques for our given ecosystems. Keep up the good work!
Your common sense approach to "nature" is very refreshing... I will use this method when it's time. Just got our chickens, pigs or rabbits are next.. Maybe a couple 🦃... Small farms are the future & will be essential in the days ahead. What was once called wisdom now is a conspiracy theory.....🤦
Im in Maryland and trying to find land in East Tennessee to do exactly what you are doing. Thanks for sharing your journey maybe we might be neighbours one day. I'm into natural farming also.I took Chris Trumps class in Idaho. I can't stand the politics in Maryland. Can't wait to move to Tennessee. I've been watching your videos from way back when you started. Its been fun watching you grow...
Thank you for another great video emphasizing how beneficial animals can be when utilizing their innate abilities to work along with us! God bless Steven! I will be implementing these same principles on our homestead soon
Awesome information! You are so amazing because you were in successful farm in CA and you had the guts to expand and start something kind of different! You were always pushing the envelope in your other farm and I think this is really a great move for you. Wishing you so much success so I can continue to live my wish to have a farm of my own through you.
One of the things you can try is having a wooden or metal doorway/gate. This way the pigs are not afraid of going through that spot. That's why your having problems getting them to move. The pigs are thinking..."Hey, I got zapped the last time I when that way". If you have a wooden or metal fence, the pigs can't go that way but know that they will not get zapped. Moving them in the future will be much easier.
Are the ones you have american guinea hogs? Will you butcher them when they have cleared all the areas? Or will you breed and continue to keep them? Watching the pig scratch itself on the tree made my day!
No these are old spot/red wattle crosses they get much bigger than Guinea. These are feeder pigs so will be raised for 10 months then put in the freezer. I'll just buy more feeder piglets to keep going.
Thanks for sharing ! BTW folks, the various small grass seed spreaders which may work for grains, depending on the style maybe ( haven't used one since I was a kid ) are very often available at farm/household estate auctions and yard sales too. Usually r cheap & not many folks wanting em. Then. yes, the main reason to use wire instead of netting is cost. U can get wire & step-in posts for cheaper than the same number of feet of netting by a lot, esp. since u can often find good, second-hand wire & posts from farm sales or even ask around - farmers not selling out or going thru, getting rid of stuff, often have stuff like that which they're no longer using. Esp. former dairy or beef farmers now doing just crops or such. If new to electric wire stuff, tip : the electric "ribbon" is more visible & otherwise may be desirable over the plain wire BUT if it gets damaged, it can be VERY hard to see where, or know it b4 your animals do & r getting out. ABSOLUTLY do NOT lay it down then drive over it, to access a paddock. The wire woven in with the poly is very fine & breaks easily. It can be spliced by tying together, but not always successfully, so, it can be a pain that way.
We raised pigs twice. Absolutely loved them. However, feeding them is a huge problem that we couldn't solve. Also, the butchering part was (still would be) difficult for me by myself. A milking cow is on the Wishlist now.
Then we would need 7x more land than there is available on earth. Factory farming is sadly the only way we can eat this much meat. Now imagine a nice future where we don't kill the pigs. We just use them to help us farm and let them live happy lives while we all eat healthy whole plant foods.
I'm getting my electric fencing soon and will have my pigs on 1 1/2 AC.i only have 2 baby pigs so I will cross fence them and move them back and forth on that land. great video!
You should connect with Cliff Davis at Pig and Leaf. They’re in Summertown, TN. 80 acre Permaculture farm, large market garden and grazing pigs through food forests.
What's up with you Americans, did you just discover pig's? Pig's new chickens, really? Pig's are pig's, we grow them and eat them in Europe for more than 2000 year's, don't see anything special about it. There is a lot of good products that you can make from pig's, some of them are real delicatessen, you can ask anyone who came to US from Europe recently, some Polish, Slovak, Serbian or Hungarian guy.
How much savings in feed do you gain by doing this? What I got from this is that, unlike goats, you still feed the pigs? If you do this with chickens, do you need to feed them as well, or do they get enough food from the pasture? Well, you are having someone clear your land FOR this pigs? I thought the pigs did this. Do you butcher your own pigs, or have someone else do it?
Lovely pigs! We have cows and are getting chickens this year. I hope someday I can get pigs, I love the temperament and size of the Kunekune, I hope I can get some for my farm to help regenerate the soil someday.
This is great! We were thinking goats to clear but we are quickly shifting our thoughts to pigs. Did you have to train them to the pig fence like you would the 2 strand fence?
very cool stuff. those pigs seemed content and without stress in there lives. being able to serve a purpose in life is the key to retaining happiness and you have given them that. very cool.
I was so excited until you mentioned eating them but I understand and I'm happy to know there are a few less at a factory farm. This may sound ridiculous that would you ever consider it a benefit to have a pig that wasn't going to be eaten?
@@NaturesAlwaysRight thats what i was going to say. Havent had pigs yet but I know they eat a lot and the feed bill is expensive so U have to do it and sell most of them to re coop your costs.
What if there aren’t any trees? Do they do well in an open area with no trees? I assume they would need shelter from direct sun? Thanks! So nice to see you on your new land! They sky is the limit for you. 😁
Ok just buying a new farm and negotiating on a couple of hectares of chestnut, oak and beach forest, I fenced. It’s sloped, not mountainous but it’s definitely sloped. How are pigs on sloped forest?
I have a buddy with deep South bloodlines of American Bulldog. They have Hines stock and He is probably making the best dogs since Alan Scott's AB's. Hardest working animal on any farm since the inception of this Country. 😎
So my wife loves pigs. Would guinea hogs damage roots of fruit trees in an orchard? We've got two acres on Kauai and I've got about 50 fruit trees on this property. Also curious about the possibility that pigs help keep parasites down in a goat pasture... I'll have to look into this.
Have you thought about Iberian pigs? The setup you have really reminded me of how I saw the setup for iberian pigs and I saw some were moved into the US now.
Hi, I’m trying to raise pastured chickens in my quarter acre lawn but have a couple questions. Should I be planting other crops in the lawn or is lawn grass sufficient? If yes, how would I go about doing this without tearing up the whole lawn?
I have a garden that is roughly half an achre. It's fenced in, so after harvest every year, I put pigs in there to eat what I don't. They till the ground, eat the grubs, and fertilize the ground.
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Hold back the feed the day before you move them and they will fold you to the next spot with little trouble
I applaud your commitment and determination. Due to the ongoing pandemic and recent Texas power failure, I invested in egg production chickens and self sustaining energy in the event of another crisis. We live in a small town and engage in some bartering with neighbors and family. Good luck to you and your endeavor!
When managed properly...
Pigs.
Are.
AWESOME!
I've been raising them for 3.5 years and they are the most valuable animal to me. I have all but given up on eating beef, simply because I don't raise beef, yet. Good pastured pork can substitute easily into just about any recipe that calls for beef. I do still love a good ribeye though 🤤.
One thing you may consider is soaking/prefermenting your ground feed for the pigs. Even if it is only for one feeding. This tremendously helps their gut and makes any other feed they take in more digestible. Due to a severe drought this last year in my area, and raising my own hybrid litter, I started supplemental feeding my pigs this way and it may become a permanent feed, at least until the rains come back!
Love seeing the new property. Being in the desert here, I am a bit envious of the prolific trees and regular rains, but that's were we can all deploy various management techniques for our given ecosystems. Keep up the good work!
Love watching those three little piggies grow and learning about how to raise them! 🐷
Are these pigs pasture pigs?Where can I buy these?
Pigs will rub the bark off the trees and kill them!
Your common sense approach to "nature" is very refreshing... I will use this method when it's time. Just got our chickens, pigs or rabbits are next.. Maybe a couple 🦃...
Small farms are the future & will be essential in the days ahead.
What was once called wisdom now is a conspiracy theory.....🤦
Im in Maryland and trying to find land in East Tennessee to do exactly what you are doing. Thanks for sharing your journey maybe we might be neighbours one day. I'm into natural farming also.I took Chris Trumps class in Idaho. I can't stand the politics in Maryland. Can't wait to move to Tennessee. I've been watching your videos from way back when you started. Its been fun watching you grow...
We live in upper east Tennessee. I use to live in Maryland.
Try west Virginia
Just commenting because I like this video and I want the algorithm to show you some love
Great video my friend! Headed back to the garden. ;)
Thanks Brian, have fun out there!
Super cool man. I'm sure your place has changed a lot!
O Common dude. You cannot keep pigs in thw city!
Thank you for another great video emphasizing how beneficial animals can be when utilizing their innate abilities to work along with us! God bless Steven! I will be implementing these same principles on our homestead soon
Awesome information! You are so amazing because you were in successful farm in CA and you had the guts to expand and start something kind of different! You were always pushing the envelope in your other farm and I think this is really a great move for you. Wishing you so much success so I can continue to live my wish to have a farm of my own through you.
One of the things you can try is having a wooden or metal doorway/gate. This way the pigs are not afraid of going through that spot. That's why your having problems getting them to move. The pigs are thinking..."Hey, I got zapped the last time I when that way". If you have a wooden or metal fence, the pigs can't go that way but know that they will not get zapped. Moving them in the future will be much easier.
Take it from an ex pig farmer, be very careful with pigs. At the beginning it is all pretty easy but they can get out of hand in a very short time.
Are the ones you have american guinea hogs? Will you butcher them when they have cleared all the areas? Or will you breed and continue to keep them? Watching the pig scratch itself on the tree made my day!
No these are old spot/red wattle crosses they get much bigger than Guinea. These are feeder pigs so will be raised for 10 months then put in the freezer. I'll just buy more feeder piglets to keep going.
This was awesome. Excellent info!
They definitely eat about a thousand times more than a chicken!
Pigs are part of the process keep up the hard work thank you for all that you do brother
call the pigs when you have the food, pig,pig,pig thats how I've seen some other pig farmers do it.
Su we pig
Thanks for sharing ! BTW folks, the various small grass seed spreaders which may work for grains, depending on the style maybe ( haven't used one since I was a kid ) are very often available at farm/household estate auctions and yard sales too. Usually r cheap & not many folks wanting em. Then. yes, the main reason to use wire instead of netting is cost. U can get wire & step-in posts for cheaper than the same number of feet of netting by a lot, esp. since u can often find good, second-hand wire & posts from farm sales or even ask around - farmers not selling out or going thru, getting rid of stuff, often have stuff like that which they're no longer using. Esp. former dairy or beef farmers now doing just crops or such. If new to electric wire stuff, tip : the electric "ribbon" is more visible & otherwise may be desirable over the plain wire BUT if it gets damaged, it can be VERY hard to see where, or know it b4 your animals do & r getting out. ABSOLUTLY do NOT lay it down then drive over it, to access a paddock. The wire woven in with the poly is very fine & breaks easily. It can be spliced by tying together, but not always successfully, so, it can be a pain that way.
great info, thanks for sharing.
NO!!!!! Pigs are too smart and too amazing.
We’re currently raising kunekune and will add Idaho Pasture Pigs soon. Kunekune don’t root so that certainly helps.
I'm currently raising knuckleknobs and will add Pacific Water Pigs soon.
Where can I get pasture pig? I live in Ms.
Hi.... Thank you 🎥👍👍👍
Bacon!!!
We raised pigs twice. Absolutely loved them. However, feeding them is a huge problem that we couldn't solve. Also, the butchering part was (still would be) difficult for me by myself. A milking cow is on the Wishlist now.
What was the issue with feeding them?
@@on4acres We don
t have access to free feed, therefore buying it is expensive. We planted apple&oak trees but it will take a while..
Pigs don’t lay eggs..... yet!!!!
Yeah but their eggs aren’t nearly as good as a barred rock
Now imagine if the meat industry was based on this instead of the industrial mass production method we currently use.
Then we would need 7x more land than there is available on earth. Factory farming is sadly the only way we can eat this much meat.
Now imagine a nice future where we don't kill the pigs. We just use them to help us farm and let them live happy lives while we all eat healthy whole plant foods.
"I want to get deeper in to my pigs". phrasing
😂 lmao
I'm getting my electric fencing soon and will have my pigs on 1 1/2 AC.i only have 2 baby pigs so I will cross fence them and move them back and forth on that land. great video!
Great video! Very informative🙂
Your videos are the best!! Thank you for sharing your knowledge about farming pigs.
Pig eggs are my favorite breakfast
You should connect with Cliff Davis at Pig and Leaf. They’re in Summertown, TN. 80 acre Permaculture farm, large market garden and grazing pigs through food forests.
What's up with you Americans, did you just discover pig's? Pig's new chickens, really? Pig's are pig's, we grow them and eat them in Europe for more than 2000 year's, don't see anything special about it. There is a lot of good products that you can make from pig's, some of them are real delicatessen, you can ask anyone who came to US from Europe recently, some Polish, Slovak, Serbian or Hungarian guy.
How much savings in feed do you gain by doing this?
What I got from this is that, unlike goats, you still feed the pigs?
If you do this with chickens, do you need to feed them as well, or do they get enough food from the pasture?
Well, you are having someone clear your land FOR this pigs? I thought the pigs did this.
Do you butcher your own pigs, or have someone else do it?
Always thought the stock was for meat only. But boy do they do a fine job of clearing up the land. Chickens are just a miniature version of pigs.
Lovely pigs! We have cows and are getting chickens this year. I hope someday I can get pigs, I love the temperament and size of the Kunekune, I hope I can get some for my farm to help regenerate the soil someday.
@@Fawkes_Eagle interesting thoughts, but have you considered how beneficial for humankind meat is?
@@Jim80903 Meat yes, the way we raise / get the meat, no. At this point meat is not benefitting humanity.
Régénérative pig??!!
Steevy really put the B in Bullshit.
Pigs are the new chickens? Are they laying eggs now?
We clear cut land. We are looking at pigs to help clean the land up. I’m excited I found you.
You hipsters are funny. Lol. This is just common sense stuff from the generation before you.
What a great video. Super helpful! What state are you in?
But how does this work on a small property and keep growing pork also years and years with out working out what you pay to put in
Well actually pigs used to take the place chickens take now
Please what is the price of the electric fencing?
With the electric netting, how do you prevent predators ?!
Any special recommendations on sandy soil environments?
Using a rotational system, what is a good number of pigs to start out with?
slowly you becoming 🎵🎶oh mc. donalds has a farm...
love the way you get your point across will be watching more!
I didn’t know Fernando Alonso was a farmer 😂
This is great! We were thinking goats to clear but we are quickly shifting our thoughts to pigs. Did you have to train them to the pig fence like you would the 2 strand fence?
Pigs also do a good job of reducing poison ivy
very cool stuff. those pigs seemed content and without stress in there lives. being able to serve a purpose in life is the key to retaining happiness and you have given them that. very cool.
But your doing a good job. Good for you! 🇺🇸💪💯
Very terrible animals. I hate them really.
love it!
They do have a good profit return
Super informative!
What kind of pigs do you have?
Great video, Steven. How do you keep your solar energizers charged when using the,m in the woods? Is there enough sunlight?
I am wondering the same! We are in the woods and I’m nervous there won’t be enough sunlight
I was so excited until you mentioned eating them but I understand and I'm happy to know there are a few less at a factory farm. This may sound ridiculous that would you ever consider it a benefit to have a pig that wasn't going to be eaten?
You could just raise them like this but it would be a very expensive they eat like 5lbs of feed a day per pig.
@@NaturesAlwaysRight thats what i was going to say. Havent had pigs yet but I know they eat a lot and the feed bill is expensive so U have to do it and sell most of them to re coop your costs.
I know you mentioned 12x12 for deep mulch system. How much woodland space do you use over there life.
Depends on how many pigs and size of paddock but what I'm doing it will be 2-3 acres I'm guessing
What if there aren’t any trees? Do they do well in an open area with no trees? I assume they would need shelter from direct sun? Thanks! So nice to see you on your new land! They sky is the limit for you. 😁
They do well on pasture as well. No trees then yes they definitely need a shade structure.
another great video.
Will the pigs kill snakes 🐍?
Ok just buying a new farm and negotiating on a couple of hectares of chestnut, oak and beach forest, I fenced. It’s sloped, not mountainous but it’s definitely sloped. How are pigs on sloped forest?
solar or do you plug it in?
Hogs ain’t nothing new.
Which pig breeds are the best?
We just bought our first farm here in Nova Scotia and these videos are both inspiring and super educational!
Pigs are nothing like chicken. Get some actual knowledge on other Channel .
@@konanhonim3111, that was your take away?! Pfftt
We are getting pigs next season
That is not a healthy woods. Wide open waste land no rabbits or deer would use that. U need hinge cut them trees an let sunlight in to ground
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I have a buddy with deep South bloodlines of American Bulldog. They have Hines stock and He is probably making the best dogs since Alan Scott's AB's. Hardest working animal on any farm since the inception of this Country. 😎
So he made it to TN???
Love it. Thanks man
Hj
Great video! Thanks - lots of good information. Much appreciated…
So my wife loves pigs. Would guinea hogs damage roots of fruit trees in an orchard? We've got two acres on Kauai and I've got about 50 fruit trees on this property. Also curious about the possibility that pigs help keep parasites down in a goat pasture... I'll have to look into this.
In my area, a lot of land is restricted, you can't raise pigs because they escape and breed, creating feral hogs that dig up crops
Have you thought about Iberian pigs? The setup you have really reminded me of how I saw the setup for iberian pigs and I saw some were moved into the US now.
Hi, I’m trying to raise pastured chickens in my quarter acre lawn but have a couple questions. Should I be planting other crops in the lawn or is lawn grass sufficient? If yes, how would I go about doing this without tearing up the whole lawn?
Love the idea of letting animals live as they were created to.
Any predator issues?
PIG EGGS!!!
I have a garden that is roughly half an achre. It's fenced in, so after harvest every year, I put pigs in there to eat what I don't. They till the ground, eat the grubs, and fertilize the ground.
If you can't rotate the piggies you can grow the barley and other feed hydroponicly for about a week with little to no nutrients really.
We raise American guinea hogs.They are great homestead pigs.Good video.
One of your piggies is limping. And no don’t call a vet. They will be fine.
I ❤ Pigs
How long are your fences? About how many square feet are the pigs in for those ten day rotations? What kind of pigs are they? Thank you in advance.
I use 2 100ft nets. old spot/red wattle
I am thinking of getting some American Ginny hogs. I was wondering do you know where I would get some at near Bloomington Illinois?
You mention inoculating pens in the KNF method, but is there any benefit to doing so in the open system as you're doing here? Thanks!
Yep you can feed them IMO and they will spread it out through your pasture or woods through their manure.
I was always told that the only thing a pig won't eat is a crow I don't know if this true or not I know they won't eat popcorn on the cob.
very nice
Awesome video! What do you do for a shelter when you move them so often?
Just got my two pigs. They are kunekune pigs and I love them.
Love it! We plan to do pigs this summer!! Excited but nervous. Great ideas !
Use a red plank to move your pigs to an area it will be much faster.