I love your comment: "Stop telling everybody that everybody everything we've done has for the last 300 years is wrong and some new way nobody ever heard of is supposed to be better when we tried it 75 years ago..." So true, Chris!
I think that's a big part of it , last thing I did to be cool was trying to ride daddy's big Charolais bull when I was 12 . That ended bad enough I gave up on the whole idea
Chris I’m a livestock trader from Williamsburg Kentucky, I’ve traded since I was 15 and I will say that everything you’ve ever said is absolutely right. People don’t care how they burn you, Do not trust anyone that buys and sells livestock. I’m not going to say not to buy their stock, but only if you’re experienced enough to know a good animal from a bad one.
Right on Chris!!!! I'm glad to be part of that heritage of eastern NC hog farmers. I learned from my Daddy. He learned from his and so on way back to when the first Vann hit the dirt from England. One day Lord willing I'm coming back to Dobbersville. We shall see what the future holds!
@@PineyWoodsHomestead that's why I do this channel to save some of the old knowledge. I'm scared folks are going to find out the hard way this new fairytale don't work when you're playing for keeps . Those old folks lived through hard times and they didn't make it by being foolish
@@HomesteadingtheHardWay more hard times are here and more is coming. Lord willing folks will learn and work hard. I always say living this way ain't for the faint of heart.
Excellent tutorial Chris. Daddy told me a long time ago if you need to know something, seek out those that really know. When I was raising tobacco, I had several old farmers who were my advisers and they never gave me bad advice.
My daddy got hurt bad when I was 13 I don't know what I'd have done with out the older farmers helping. Didn't have to ask the help was there . That first barn I fired myself was as scared as I've ever been and I turned it as red as a Farmall tractor
@@HomesteadingtheHardWay Yes sir. I remember having to learn how to cure tobacco in the Summer of 1980 when Daddy had surgery. At the time, I was curing with Florence-Mayo oil burners.
@@MarkWYoung-ky4uc we had threes barns on fuel oil and one propane. They all cured just enough different to worry you to death . I toted a bundle of that red tobacco in the hospital to show daddy and ask what I did wrong , I'll never forget I threw way too much heat way too early after letting it go to cold . Then it dawned on me he must have done it before to know what happened
Chris - last year was my first year to raise pigs. I bought one gilt and two barrows. Two days later, one of the barrows died. I called the "reputable" guy I bought them from and his response was "that sure is bad." Did he have to do anything? Nope. Did he seem to care? Nope. Have I told many other people about my experience. Yep.
I had a guy come get two last year. Called back a week later someone stole them and I gave him two more , I've been lucky and to my knowledge no one has lost any . I did have a guilt having seizures ( stress gene ) years ago I traded the guy a guilt and processed her .
I agree about the old farmers giving advice. A lot of old old farmers have kids that left and don’t want to work the farm. They’ll be glad to pass on their knowledge with the younger folks if they are just willing to listen and learn. Also, take the time in return to go help the farmer out with some work on his place. I’m sure you’ll get just as much out of the day as the farmers gets from you helping. Remember when these old timers are gone their gone and their knowledge goes with them and that knowledge is something you can’t learn on YT. God bless from Missouri
Chris, always good to hear from ya! I finally got my hog pens built and picking me up 10 barrows and one gilt to breed in the fall. I will do a video. I'm curious to see what you think about my hog pens. Build em good and build them strong is the advice of my grandfather and Chris P. aka " The Hog Master"!
Great advice ! I took your advice 3 years ago I found an old farmer 40 years experience that old raises Tamworth and Berkshier line. Trust is everything and honestly thanks for your words
@@HomesteadingtheHardWay it’s sad that you do but someone has to say it !! Also people are desperate to build homesteads and just accept what they get now vs a lifestyle much like yourself. Most projects do not understand the importance of the breeding lines to produce healthy useful stock at uniform growth rates
@@mindenhillshomesteadyukefa8091 it takes a long time and some guidance to learn how to judge livestock, can't learn by reading books or watching videos . Too many " experts" repeating stuff they heard not things they've done and too many trends . I hate if for the new folks , I like to see people succeed
Are always great to hear from you, Chris. Or we can always count on real talk and good advice. Angela and I have had a lot going on in the past several months so I be been out of the loop. Will touch base with you soon my friend.
I went to buy a Hampshire wiener hog to raise for pork, they pig farmer had 2 black n white hogs aside for us and when he stepped away his wife whispered to us “ don’t buy those ones they are 1/2 pot belly pig”. What a greasy operation he ran. Lies on everything. We left with 2 supposedly Chester / Hereford cross.
My wife and I are breeding kunekune in Western NC. What we have found is the only way to know for sure what you’re getting is to buy registered stock and follow the breed standards as much as possible when breeding to sell. Anything less than quality should be put into a meat program or sold unregistered.
I've seen to many registered animals that just had a piece of paper stuck with them . Ran into that with a boar this year already. Best thing is learn how to judge an animal for yourself. For registered stock to be off all that had to happen was someone threw a few extra pigs of the right color in the litter and that used to be common. That and there can be a world of difference in the same breed .
Regarding registered KuneKune- you’ll notice the NZ bloodlines are much bigger and faster growth than American bloodlines- I see it all the time with KuneKune pigs that are registered and looking up the bloodlines and yep every time the smaller ones are American KuneKune
@@HappyQuackFarms it's the same way with large breeds , there can be a wide difference from one bloodline to another. I've stuck with a Duroc base and bred for type, mothering ability and vigor in boar's . Things that are gone from the confinement bloodline.
@@HappyQuackFarms l need to do a video on " registered" stock I don't think people know how common fake papers and switching papers on grade animals is . With the cheap DNA test now you can find out what you really have , like that registered boar I had that threw spotted pigs . That was an expensive lesson
G'day Chris, the hubby and I love your content and lessons your teaching. Duroc pigs are what we are going to start breeding soon, we did have saddle backs but want something a bit different this time round. Do you have certain traits that you look for in a hog?. Cheers from Australia 😊
When picking breeding stock you want a long pig that's symmetrical and has good lines , stands well ( good legs ) a good under line even teats 14 preferably . Look at the parents you want good big sows with a little backfat but not too much . A decent temperament is a plus but most of that is handling avoid anything overly line bred
@Homesteading the Hard Way thank you Chris really appreciate your help 😊. Absolutely love ya content!!! Great information and straight forward thinking. As we say over here ( your a bloody good bloke ) haha. Cheers
Hello sir. AINT seen no new videos. Hope you’re doing fine.? I know you had that heart issue that yousaid in a video. Hopefully 🙏🏻 ur doing good 👍🏻 thanks 🙏🏻 have a great night
I think "piney woods rooters" apply to the "amish hogs" we find up here...Folks really need to know what they're looking at, as ive found. Extra digits or limbs aint out of the question at some places, ive heard. Their pig family tree doesnt fork all the time. Kinda like you said, we wanna build/breed the prettiest, tastiest, non in-bred 🤮, well-tended pork in our area. How can I email you Mr. Chris?
Unrelated to video but, what machine do you use to thresh and clean wheat and rye and grain crops so its ready to grind? Are there PTO driven grain processing machines?
Our stuff is harvested with a self propelled combine and it's clean enough for feed . Tow behind combines exist but I haven't seen one in decades . For making flour we clean the grain by pouring it in front of a fan and looking it over good but it's whole grain
@@HomesteadingtheHardWay I've looked at a foot powered thresher that amish were using on youtube. Also looked at a seed cleaning machine. They would have to be used in combination though. Most of my wheat is near ready to harvest is why I am investigating. It's just a 20ft by 100ft plot in between rows of trees in my yard. But next year id like to do half acre to an acre of small grain on land I'm renting. I will probably use a drill with a rod that has chains attached in a five gallon bucket to flail the heads of wheat in a blending action like I saw on the RU-vid's to thresh. Then use pouring with box fan to winnow and clean the wheat this year.
I use the injection if possible and the oral paste on the bigger hogs . Breeding stock gets wormed every four months and we worm feeders after weaning and at three months. We do fecal checks and haven't had a problem in years so it's mainly a preventative measure. If you have a heavy parasite load you may have to worm every thirty days
What really makes me mad is everyone is a vet on those crazy sites on Facebook and 95% are clueless . This homesteading thing is a fad . After people spend a fortune and fail real bad they stop fooling themselves and quite.
There's a fairytale that people want to believe that hurts a lot of people when reality sets in . To much misinformation on social media has a lot to do with it and you're right Facebook groups are the worst
@@HomesteadingtheHardWay ok great. I was listening to regenerative agriculture podcast and there was a farmer out of montana that said he grew safflower and modified his tractor to run on it straight and after ot had been used to fry. You ever seen or heard of such a thing. I guess safflower has got the right profile he was looking for. He started with camolina oil but had problems. Not so with safflower. Any thoughts and opinions on that ?
@@David-kd5mf not much modification required, diesel engines will run on oil anyway especially if you mix it with a little fuel . Used motor oil , vegetable oil etc anything combustible that will atomize through the injections . Might smoke a little and might need to filter it a little extra
@@HomesteadingtheHardWay wow, that is amazing. I just got a 1981 Massey Ferguson 205-4 and maybe one day i can get it on to some safflower oil I raise.
Duroc , Hampshire and our farm cross we call a Carolina gold that's becoming very popular. Might do the paperwork to get them recognized as an official breed
I know this question is not the point of the video - While it's Clearly not breeding stock but - Is there any reason to not raise out the 5 footer for meat? -KJ
@@HomesteadingtheHardWay I sure do hope you get back on your feet again sir. I'm not sure what you were ill with, but I sure wish you all the best. I hope it's nothing too serious
