That would be a good number! Hope we can get some good healthy piglets out of her. Same here. Been stocking up feeders, making sure everyone was in a dry spot, extra shavings, etc. Ya'll take care. Hope it doesn't get too rough for you!
We did all that yesterday. We are just north of Columbus Ga. the eye of this storm should be passing right over us over the next few hours. I’ve been out riding fences. Already had a dead tree fall on a fence. About to find out how my new chicken tractors hold up in the wind! Shouldn’t be to bad. Just 5-6 inches of rain.
Ill tell you what.. if lived close to you i would probably leave my day job to work with you! This is the most stress free job ive seen yet! I would not hesitate to invest in this business!
In that she is a first time mom, I'd guess 10 piggies. I would also like to suggest ya put 4 eye bolts or drill 4 holes into the wood on the upper 2x4 of the farrowing shed. Tie two ropes across the top of the shed. Use your forks on the tractor to move the farrowing shed easier. Just a thought. Be well, Blessings. Dayne
10 would be a good number! We built another one about a week ago and made some revisions to make it more portable. Love the retrofit idea to lift these! Thanks!!
We usually castrate at about 6-8 weeks but am going to do it earlier next time. Castration video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tN3ut6rD_rw.html and how we separate/wean: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-bArj9i4Xx3c.html Appreciate y’all watching!
We’ll sure Kee you posted. We bred one of our farm pigs (mixed breed), Big Mama with a Berkshire but haven’t harvested any yet. Love the piglets she threw. They’ve been awesome. Curious myself what the 2 purebreds will produce. Appreciate y’all watching?
@@SheratonParkFarms We did Berkshire on Berkshire this last spring but I am wondering if they are too muscular or if they are going to round out thought about doing Duroc in our Berkshire then keeping a gilt from that as a breeding sow to go back with a Berkshire hearing the boar determines more of the meat quality. I posted a few videos of our pigs on my channel and am a little behind on getting a recent one up as I do photography and this is my crazy season with that. But I will try to get a recent one that shows what the boys look like now done in the next day or two.
I'm going with 10 piglets. Looking great Chuck.just had my first litter of F1 large black/old line duroc litter hit the ground yesterday. Also for what it's worth the LBH Gilt in question expressed milk for a good week before she farrowed. Next litter expected in 3 weeks. Wish you easy and unassisted farrowing.
Congrats on the farrowing. We are expressing milk today but she isn't nesting at all yet. Big rain system coming so I'm expecting her to start about the time the downpours do!!! hahaha. Appreciate it.
You know farmers used to raise them like this before all these fancy confinement systems came along. If they still did it this way there would be no complaints about manure handling epa b s and the meat would be ten times better.
Why is the front of that enclosure so high off the ground, considering the pregnant pigs tend to be heavy and low to the ground? Im sure there is a reason but id like your thoughts on that.
So I'm getting ready to farrow 7 sows on pasture. I've been told if they all have their own separate huts they will spilt themselves off and pig in their own huts successfully, but the guy I bought them from says in a confined area they will eat each other's pigs so I'm curious what your opinion is. Should a guy keep them in their own pens while farrowing them? Or do you think it's safe to just trust them to do take care of themselves and their piglets with ample space and huts?
I've farrowed multiple pigs on pasture using farrowing huts (not crates but open sided huts) and using round bales of hay. Never had any issues. Sows will typically eat piglets if they have a protein deficient diet. Make sure you are keeping them fed well (5lbs per pig per day up to farrowing) and they should be fine. You may have a little issue with older piglets going to brand new, just farrowed sows and try to nurse so they can get more colostrum. Otherwise they should be fine.
@@SheratonParkFarms ok. Thank you. Love the videos and the advice. It's going to be an interesting experience. I'm excited to bring back the old ways of farming on our farm. Thanks for all your help
So I have been learning a lot from your videos and I have decided to move from housing pigs to pastured pigs, but I need help in sourcing the fencing I live in the Caribbean and we don't have any here. Am looking for a Supplier overseas if you know or anyone watching this video have an idea on where I can purchase it let me know
Do you normally finish out all your pigs or do you also sell a few feeder pigs or possibly breeding stock? I'm about half hour from you in the edge of thomasville and currently raising duroc/spot cross and was thinking of adding 4 Berkshire gilts
So we usually finish them all but thinking we may sell a few later this fall. Helen is a commercial Berkshire bred to a duroc. One of my sows is bred to a really nice Berkshire from Shipley Swine. www.shipleyswine.com/Boars/Details/135 So I’ll not have any purebred but will have some nice Berkshire genetics in the herd. Keep in touch. May be able to work something out.
@@SheratonParkFarms I will keep in touch and if you can spare any we'll get together. Berkshire duroc would be fine as I would probably ai with pure Berkshire seed to get something a little closer on the second go round. Thanks
Gotcha. We were talking this morning and may breed Helen back to a pure berk next time around but we’ll not do that till spring. Please stay in touch! 👍
@@SheratonParkFarms weed gave them field corn that was left out in field from combine I'd take a little red wagon and walk the field picking up ears of corn for them they ate it all cob and all my step father told me theres protien in the cobs themselves they love it.
