The Ultimate Guide to Raising Pigs on a Homestead

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  • @HarrryClaudeLaBar
    @HarrryClaudeLaBar 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    After raising hogs now for over 60 years, (in my opinion) you did an excellent job on this video. Thank you.

    • @BetterTogetherLife
      @BetterTogetherLife  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Oh wow Harry, THANK YOU!!!!!! That is so amazing to hear! 😁😁😁

  • @aprilfletcher2478
    @aprilfletcher2478 ปีที่แล้ว +19

    appreciate you sharing the good and the bad, it's hard when things happen to our animals that we truly care about their welfare and want the best life we can give them. We are into our first year with ipps and love them. Such an exceptional breed

    • @BetterTogetherLife
      @BetterTogetherLife  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Oh yay April that is so great to hear!!!!!! Thank you for watching and commenting, it means a lot! The good news is we've now castrated another two piglets and we've learned a lot. And both of them are doing great afterward!
      So hopefully losing that other pig was a learning experience for our future pig farming endeavors!!
      Thanks again. 😀

  • @jennablorezone8Band9A
    @jennablorezone8Band9A 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Very helpful! I’m contemplating how much space they need and how often to rotate or just have one bigger space for them to roam. I love how they poop in one area.

  • @2fluent
    @2fluent 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Thanks for the real talk. It helps. Keep up the content

  • @TheJoshuaFrey
    @TheJoshuaFrey ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Dude, this video was super helpful! Thanks for taking the time to make it!

  • @Lymaiharvest
    @Lymaiharvest 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Your farm is a work of art

  • @rosejustice1227
    @rosejustice1227 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    We have 80 acres. To make whole use of our property we gave them all the wet land. They absolutely love it in there. We have a bunch of acorn trees. They absolutely love the acorns

  • @marysidle5132
    @marysidle5132 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This was so informative!! Thank you! Always learning from others experiences. Keep the info coming! GOD bless

    • @BetterTogetherLife
      @BetterTogetherLife  ปีที่แล้ว

      Oh thank you sooooo much Mary for the comment and your kind words. It helps us out more than you know!!

  • @KC-jq9kw
    @KC-jq9kw ปีที่แล้ว +4

    We raise registered Red Wattle hogs in Ohio. They are on pasture with Red Brand goat and sheep fence stretched tight. No hot wire. They grow almost as fast as confinement hogs, they graze like crazy, they are the most docile that I have ever been around. Even my 600 pound boar is like a pet dog, they all just love attention and just supper friendly. Hogs can eat even black walnut husks and not get sick. The only animal that can. Their meat I think is the best of any hog breed. Going registered you can sell breeding stock, feeder pigs, or feed out the piglets. I feel you should, I castrate and notch ears at 3 to 10 days.

    • @BetterTogetherLife
      @BetterTogetherLife  ปีที่แล้ว

      We’ve had red wattles, they were fantastic pork!!!!!

  • @horsewoman74
    @horsewoman74 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for this video. So cute and my son really wants them when we someday get our farm. Great video

  • @LibertyOperation
    @LibertyOperation ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Yesssss. Missed your regular videos. Pigs are probably next on our homestead, so THANK YOU for this.

    • @BetterTogetherLife
      @BetterTogetherLife  ปีที่แล้ว

      Wow, thank you soooo much!!! I am trying. In fact we are about to hire our first ever editor.... hopefully this will help us get more videos out FASTER!!!
      If you can, please do share these videos in your other social apps and Facebook groups. It's always a HUGE help!

  • @SpinDizzy-fr8bc
    @SpinDizzy-fr8bc ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good tips. Thnx.

  • @JohnThomas-gj2zg
    @JohnThomas-gj2zg ปีที่แล้ว +2

    You and your family are doing so good I see and happy to see that y'all are doing it right way on living off the land the way a lot of us really need to do .....

  • @josephbXIX
    @josephbXIX ปีที่แล้ว +14

    As an now experienced chick killer, i understand the emotion of not doing great with baby livestock....

  • @romanheritagefarms
    @romanheritagefarms ปีที่แล้ว

    Love our porta-huts . They are great in the winter. We just fill them with lots of hay/straw.

    • @BetterTogetherLife
      @BetterTogetherLife  ปีที่แล้ว

      You know it bro!!! You get ALLLLLL the credit! Sorry I should have mentioned that in the video. This filming day was a weird one for me! haha.

  • @ValerieFerguson-k5q
    @ValerieFerguson-k5q หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Hi! I’m in central Texas and new to raising pigs. We are raising IPP (Idaho Pasture Pigs). I’ve been searching for the local seller of the Port-A-Huts you mentioned, but have not been able to find them. Would you mind dropping a link? Thanks so much!

  • @duaneshouse7516
    @duaneshouse7516 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    ❤❤❤you guys are spot on ! 😊😊😊😊

  • @manoelmonteiro9963
    @manoelmonteiro9963 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Uau top demais parabéns, gosto dos seus vídeos de seu trabalho, gosto de ver isso parabéns Deus te abençoe sempre sua vida e sua família, também seus animais 🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @hanginlaundry360
    @hanginlaundry360 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Thanks for doing the right thing by Lightning. You did your best 🙏❤️

  • @OldPecanHomestead
    @OldPecanHomestead 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We are new. We raise kunekune's, our pig's free range, though we would love to paddock them off with hotwire, it's very annoying when they chase us down with feed. HA! Your absolutely right about shelters. We have had several throw together shelters. Lol. On the castration, we recently castrated an overgrown calf, not our first time, but the second testicle went south, he was bleeding so bad, we threw a band to stop the bleeding a forced him to eat a bunch of vitamin K1, which is a coagulant. We gave him antibiotics and watched him as well. We later realized that you are supposed to give them a tetanus antitoxin to prevent tetanus, which is what I am guessing happened to your pig. We all go through losses, some are definitely harder than others. We have to learn and push through!

  • @maryellencook9528
    @maryellencook9528 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    So sorry to learn about Ollie's pig.😢 Ollie is so much like my grandson, Wesley, with a tender heart. I hope that he is feeling better by now.

  • @JohnThomas-gj2zg
    @JohnThomas-gj2zg ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I share all of yall's videos so more and more people can see how y'all do things compared to how other people do things on there home sted and I think y'all are making it just how y'all want it......

    • @BetterTogetherLife
      @BetterTogetherLife  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wow, thank you John!!!!!!!!! We REALLY do appreciate you sharing the videos. It is SUCH a huge help!!!!

  • @Crayola170
    @Crayola170 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Snatch reference = easy new sub

  • @MyTing775
    @MyTing775 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Greetings from uk. Great video. How many pigs would you recommend per acre of forest land ? Thanks

    • @BetterTogetherLife
      @BetterTogetherLife  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Oh wow that’s a tough one, and the answer is super annoying. “It depends!”
      Forage, type of pig, age of pig, acorns or nuts falling, thickness of forest, etc.

    • @MyTing775
      @MyTing775 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@BetterTogetherLife yeah I get that and time of year I suppose.they will be supplementary fed with a fava bean mix so I think I will be looking at 6-10 Berkshire and hope they don't do too much damage.

    • @BetterTogetherLife
      @BetterTogetherLife  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      With that many pigs you will be able to see the damage they can do really fast! Haha.

  • @philmolineaux7757
    @philmolineaux7757 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    A wagon wheel config on pasture is effective and requires a half acre

    • @BetterTogetherLife
      @BetterTogetherLife  ปีที่แล้ว

      Not sure I understand.

    • @Horsegirl4099
      @Horsegirl4099 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      This is a pasture rotation method, right?

  • @Allanfreedom2004
    @Allanfreedom2004 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I've got a baby as a pet . The best friend I've ever had. But it's been lost for 4 days . I'm devastated . I live in a forest . Please pray she finds her way back home . 😢😢😢😢

  • @HitchcockJohn
    @HitchcockJohn 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I can’t help noticing the chickens wandering around the pen. It’s very cute, but now I’m curious: do chickens and pigs normally get along? They looked pretty curious about the pigs but I’m not sure if that goes both ways.

    • @derKuchenPhips
      @derKuchenPhips 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I'm working with different animals and at our place the pigs, chickens and goats share the same area without an issue.

  • @Vulturemiata
    @Vulturemiata 10 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Those chickens are cracking me up 🤣

  • @Revelation22-13
    @Revelation22-13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    John 17:22-23
    King James Version
    22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one:
    23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Gods blessings over you .!!

  • @TRUMPmyOSHI
    @TRUMPmyOSHI 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I didn’t know you can castrate them yourself. I would think you’d have a vet on hand to handle this type of thing, pregnancy, and such?

    • @BetterTogetherLife
      @BetterTogetherLife  4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Nope Mr President, you can do this all yourself!

    • @TRUMPmyOSHI
      @TRUMPmyOSHI 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@BetterTogetherLife I see. 🤔

  • @reddirtfarm7704
    @reddirtfarm7704 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Shout out to all the Pallet people...

  • @karlmckinnell2635
    @karlmckinnell2635 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Raising BACON 🥓

  • @Riflehunter-308
    @Riflehunter-308 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is a city slicker that moved into the country lol

    • @BetterTogetherLife
      @BetterTogetherLife  หลายเดือนก่อน

      OF COURSE I am!!! I have never said anything otherwise.
      I have ZERO ideas on what I am doing. Just making it up as I go for the last 6 years.
      What are your top tips on living the country life? I’d love to learn!

  • @horsewoman74
    @horsewoman74 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

  • @charliebecker2216
    @charliebecker2216 ปีที่แล้ว

    Way to say good bad and ugly. It’s all part show. Keep going .

    • @BetterTogetherLife
      @BetterTogetherLife  ปีที่แล้ว

      Hi Charlie, not sure I fully understand your comment. But absolutely, we always keep at it! In fact we need to castrate 4 boys next week! :)

  • @KentuckyBackyardMechanics
    @KentuckyBackyardMechanics 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I thought coffee grounds were a natural dewormer

    • @BetterTogetherLife
      @BetterTogetherLife  7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I haven’t heard that. We use herbs and pumpkins.

  • @loraypruitt5922
    @loraypruitt5922 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    😊😅

  • @bentley8377
    @bentley8377 ปีที่แล้ว

    🎶 'promo sm'

  • @vincentmiceli2554
    @vincentmiceli2554 25 วันที่ผ่านมา

    There is no county coop where you are? Tractor Supply is not a friend of the farmer. Not a friend of freedom either but let’s keep this simple. Ts is not your friend

  • @DunRovinRanch-1969
    @DunRovinRanch-1969 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Castrating. You’re going to lose a few while you’re learning.

  • @dallon507
    @dallon507 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You castrated it to death? Jesus man..

    • @BetterTogetherLife
      @BetterTogetherLife  3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      We found out after this that the piglet caught tetanus.