On a homestead RU-vid channel in the United States on the East Coast a gentleman put in an automatic waterer for his pigs. He screwed it into a plastic barrel and the pigs just hit a little lever on the water and they get water out of it. The pig seem to learn how to use this very very quickly. Just sharing information. It looks like your setup is a great setup also. Which serves your chickens and pigs. Good luck with all your projects
Good video Simeon, sorry to hear that the pigs didn't get along. I don't know anything about pig hierarchy but there appears to be one. Glad to hear the egg production hasn't dropped with the introduction of pigs and more electric wires. Environment changes can be tricky. Thanks!
If you want them warm up to you. Start carrying sweet treats with you. Or fruit or such. And they will start following you like puppies. If my hogs get out all my daughter has to do is grab a 5 gallon bucket and they will follow her anywhere
Awesome setup for the Little Pigs and Chickens! I love your TinCan water & feeder!👍🐔 I'm also Glad You Had The Strength to get the Big Pigs OFF Your Little PIG You Put in with the BIG PIGS. THAT COULD HAVE BEEN TRAGIC❗️God gave you the strength you needed to get the Little Guy out of there🙏💪
Great video, I love the intro. I absolutely understand the importance of teaching the pigs how to be a pig that digs...my chickens get so spoiled that they often forget how to scratch around in their deep litter out in the run. I have to use a pitchfork and turn things over of them, then they act like...Oh yeah, I can do this too! Love your channel!
you guys got really good Craftsman skills you've been taught in early age how to reinforce things when you build it that feeder like you did and I saw that and you guys have a special gift for working with wood so that this something Swedish people have it's good to learn it though because I saw what you were doing makes sense to make a chicken feeder like that with smaller containers and that way you can fill them up when you go on vacation or something your animals can get fed
Lowed the Classic music what a nice touch I had no problem hearing you or the music no fading or echoes or distortion as some other reported Great as usual
Forgot to mention..Nice job on the gravity pig feeder. Best to use for smaller pigs, your larger pigs will ruin it unless you can find a way to secure it well.
I liked the beginning camera work! Thanks for the piggies update. I'm glad YOU weren't hurt in the scuffle with the heritage breeds! Be safe! We love your videos. 👍
I was so sorry and surprised with the attack from older pigs and discussed it with my dad-the whole life big farm chief zootechnician. He said pig killing attack is not only case of heritage breed. Connection new pig pieces into one groups have strict rules. Always connect peaces with similar size and by connecting two or more previous herds the number of each group must be the same or similar in large quantities. FOR YOUR CONNECTING DIFFERENT SIZES is recommended temporary neighbor stall with hard fence and for assuring before final connection to odor both groups (heritage and hybrid) with the same smell. It means on the base of smelling create feeling they are the same group. On the farm with only hybrid pigs when accidentaly a one escaped and reached the other stall, the stall residents pigs killed him.
Simeon, When you do try to reintroduce the pigs, mix their bedding from one group to the other to confuse their smells. Then allow some edge contact time without full contact. pens in proximity works, just reinforce the boundary for safety. last make sure they have the same diet.
Check out "watering nipples" for pigs and chickens. They keep the water clean and they are thrifty. But , but remember it is the moisture that makes the composting in the lower layers. Your moving the position of the feed and water helps spread out this bacterial/fungi culture. May I suggest if you plumb in your watering system [time saver] that you keep the ability to move it around [swivel connections]. Notice too, eating stimulates deffication and urination. This also feeds the lower levels of composting. The biological mistake of many confinement systems is that they do not adequately integrate the two. Your way is good. The reason why your pigs wait for you to open the ground, is that the smell stimulates them, and they do not want you [ the alpha pig] to get all the good stuff. Pigs, gotta love them. Your Swedish American cousin, brought up in Germany, Dr. Linda, a Biologist soon to be homesteader.
I wondered about buying a bag of nuts and poking a hole in the ground, dropping a nut in and then 'burying it' might encourage the pigs to dig a bit more? Someone might have mentioned this already. Feeder/water seems to work great there, nice job..
It's important to keep pigs of the same (or very similar) size together. NEVER place piglets in pen with grown or much bigger pigs or they WILL kill the smaller pigs. Only exception is if they were born within the pig herd. You were lucky to be able to save that piglet before the larger pigs killed it. Water nipples are best for pigs as eventually the pigs snouts will not fit in the bowl waterer, as they will chew the hose or rip it off eventually. (Yes I know from experience) Pigs are VERY curious and can get into everything!
try getting a plastic leaf rake and start by scratching them. It won't take long before they run up when you are goiing to 'beat them up' with the rake. If they are still shy put it where they can walk under it and scratch, it works with piglets. Start them young. Peanuts are a wonderful way to get them approaching you. They love the salted roast ones especially but all peanuts are like a drug for them... Cheers.. :)
Superb lessons learned watching you with trial and error and willingness to keep at it! (But I have to admit I love your music and cinematography just as much. Good job)
Great video, love watching the pigs and chicken. Sounds like your acting like the pigs mom you dig and then they dig behind you, at least there doing a little of the work. Lol
Your pig smelled different to the rest of the group. So they harassed it. Stress will kill a pig. I don't know if you have a disinfectant in Sweden called Jeyes Fluid, but its smelly stuff. Mix up a weakish solution in a watering can and spray the entire group of pigs. They now all smell the same, by the time the disinfectant smell has worn off, the new pig is accepted into the group. Usually! :D
We sort-of do the same with chickens. We use garlic powder! We sprinkle the coop, the existing chickens, and the new chickens (after a responsible quarantine period!), making sure to get the powder down in between their feathers, to their skin. It's totally safe for them (even healthy, as it's just dried garlic!), and they all smell the same to each other and smell like they belong to the coop. Then, at night, after they go to roost, we move the new ones in and set them on the roosts with the existing ones. Works beautifully! [edited typos!]
Love what you are doing. Thinking about doing something similar next winter. Have you had an issue with predators? Do you use electric fence on perimeter of green house? It seems as if a predator could rip thru the plastic.
Great video! Thats a good idea, seems to work well. Do you have any recommendations for a waterer/feeder from using this one? Im going to be getting pigs soon and have some ideas but would like the advice! Thanks for sharing!
Surprised that your heritage breed didn't like the other smaller one! Kinda crazy to think about, especially with how big they are. Bet it took a lot to separate them both. Glad you had the time to save it. It's awesome they've started digging too! Hopefully they will learn how to aerate the soil on their own. Glad they're running around, They seem happy and willing to navigate over towards you. I wonder what characteristics they have between seasons? Hopefully they become more active the warmer it gets, and they've conditioned the soil. Will you move the greenhouse to another area when it warms up so you have a seasonal garden up and going in that spot as well? Almost seems likely, but I'm not sure. Don't want to speak for you. :)
This greenhouse is permanently anchored into the ground. I want to try to have a movable greenhouse at some point though. This one will have tomatoes, bell pepper and cucumbers in it.
I love the waterer! My wife and I re- watched your Bell waterer video and thought it looked a lot simpler than the types we have seen. Is there a float valve or something in your cattle/pig waterer?
Thanks for the Pfanner link. I believe your jacket is the one listed as Grizzly Jacke. Unfortunately, I'm not sure how to order for the United States. I haven't found a Dealer in the US who carries that item. Regardless, thanks for posting the link. 😊
No problem. To be honest I like the jacket but wouldn't order it again. It is dry clean which makes it a bit hard and it is not as durable as the other clothes they have. I have 2 of the, because the first one broke after a while. I am looking into Pfanner's other work jackets.
Swedish Homestead Thanks for the additional information. When you do decide on another jacket, would you please add a link to your Clothes section? I'd appreciate it. Want to help you out anyway that I can.
it will be interesting to see how the little piggies get on with the new chickens maybe Chicky lollipops for them poor little piggy getting bashed up 😕🍻😎
Yes,that's why a young female, that's use to being submissive, put into a unfamiliar pen, MAY become the leader because she won't be protecting her drift from invaders. She may see herself as pinkos protector instead. It's worth a try just for future reference. Definitely video it though.
the ending of your recent videos splits attantion. the eyes go away from you to the new elements. please finish your video and show the endscreen then, it would be much nicer. (i am a media guy)
Sound is fine for me. Hope you can sort yours out. Maybe if you play around with the youtube volume, turn the slider down a bit, and the actual volume on the computer speaker icon in the bottom right of the screen there..
Hmm. When you have music which is as rich in tone and full sounding like the guitar here it will seem to blast out in comparison to the thinner distant sound of the voice, making it seem really loud. It (music) possibly is a wee bitty too loud but I am spoiled with studio quality monitors which give me the full audio spectrum where a not so full small speaker or headphones might accentuate the hard frequencies of the guitar. RU-vid will process the sound somewhat as well which will compress it and try to 'even' out the levels so what ends up on here might well not be what was mixed on the homestead and posted up. My advice would be to mix rich music like this so it is -10 to -8 db on the meters and to try for -2 or -3 max on the thinner voice and general mic audio. See how that works. I am only guessing here, trying to remember audio levels from when I used to 'bugger aboot' with sound.. P.S. no need to reply, just trying to help :)