Corralling and sorting pastured pigs. 

I love the idea of putting hay or straw between the ground and the trailer to block that space from their view.

Very Nicely done! Patience is key to handling livestock.

I love this video shoot. The reaction of the "helpers", priceless. Deescalate, deescalate, deescalate 😃

I though the time lesson was fantastic and very true. I will tell you a funny story. When I was a kid my father was attacked by a huge boar. I can still see him coming into the house furious. Later he went and got the 6x4 trailer with a stock crate and parked it at the catle race. He worked until late but he had the boar in the trailer. He took the trailer to the garage at the lead in to the road. Put the car on and fed the boar. About midnight I was woken by a strange noise and the dogs were barking. What happened was the boar had totally destroyed the stock crate and had escaped the trailer. He was at the entrance to the pig pen. Dad let him in and we went back to bed. Pig 2, Dad 0. We missed the market day and dad worked on the stock crate and made it bullet proof. Next Wednesday the pig went to Market and pulled a fine price. To save 1&1/2 hours it cost 1 week. Too true to hide the watch. Thanks for sharing.

I use to work on a hog farm when I was in high school 800 hogs in house one and the 2nd house was nursery and Farrowing and shipping roughly another 600 to 800 it was awesome I enjoyed that job

A key point (that you have) is that the pigs do not have to negotiate a ramp or climb up into the trailer. Pigs hate that and will balk at it.

One video I was sorry to see end so quick. Great piece!

At first I was like "did they forget to castrate that boar?" then you used the pen on him. Lucky guy.

I truly enjoy your videos.

i am looking to get started with my farm and raising pigs thank you for your video's it is a big help

came from justin rhodes channel and starting from the oldest video to the newest video

We have our first breeding pair now for 6 months and are looking to expand for more land before our first set of babies. We really enjoy your videos and your patience as you work. Keep up the great work and keep making these videos please. Will you make a video on how and when to castrate after birth? Thanks so much.

them sure are some nice lookin pigs, ai kin jist see the hams n bacons walkin round yer paddocks,, thank ya fer the video

Very nice technique, keeping pigs calm. My hogs would try to run me over even with those boards then proceed to bash down the wall. 🤦🏻‍♀️

Bro you got Info, pigs, and good lyrical content!!!WHATT

Just to clarify, pig sorting boards can be of any color. The key is that they appear solid to the pigs/hogs, so they don't try to push past them. Not long ago, they were all made on the farm of wood.

Great tips.

I’m about to build a loading/handling facility for dirt hogs. I’ll be loading 50-100 butcher hogs at a time so this size looks about right or at least scalable. Do you still use this system with these wood panels or have you adjusted or upgraded to another loading system?

Pretty good video, I really enjoyed it ty

oh they were so cute in my eyes

Boots seem important.

How profitable is this business? You put a lot of work in and a lot of feed and apples and so on!

Cara,muito bom! Belos animais.

Do you sell them to the butcher or do you have folks that purchase them from you, I was planning on raising some to butcher and a few to sell. Putting the land to use

Nice looking hogs

How much does each pig go for

Do you handle your pigs with boards quite a bit? Or show them the trailer beforehand? They don't seem phased when you move them onto the trailer, jealous lol. We have very tame Berks, but they won't willingly go onto our trailer/cart, they'll try to dodge you (unless we use a narrow chute).We use boards of course but it hasn't been a cakewalk like in your video!

Why are you taking an uncut boar to the butcher?

nice video

Lovely

Uh one of your keeper pigs (there were two with blue marks) went into the pen lol

I would say only feed the pigs in the trailer hay grain etc.

do you just take them to the butcher or do you have him come out or do you just have a date you have to have them ready by?

You made a lot of money to pay the bills. And save money. My grandfather had 90 pigs. 70 went to get sent to the piggy market. There worth money

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Why I think pigs look so funny.

Wow they look beautiful, very healthy and fattened well, congrats, where did you get the apples from?

Do you butcher them to sell them by the cut?

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I am looking piglets , Do you have them for selling?

is this kind of can live and survive in a tropical country like Philippines? Thank you so much

What kinds of pigs do you show in this video? I'm just learning about Heritage pigs now. Are they Old Gloucestershire Stocks, Large Blacks, and Red Wattles?

Are you feeding straight hay or grain to?

What would you say your breeds are? Looks like Hampshire, old spot, ?

I notice some of your hogs are not castrated. Does your processor not require this? We are in Ontario Canada and here it is required or they are rejected.

Nothing wrong with eating them, but I think I can never eat the pigs that I raised even if I am not the one who butchers them. Maybe I will swap the meats with neighborhood farm's.

Where can buy the rad board ?

Tell us about the butcher process do they buy it from u

Are you in N. Carolina?

Looking for piglets to buy

Your choice of words for certain tools of the trade is amusing. 'Red boards' for sorting boards because yours happen to be red, though any color works fine... And 'holding cell' sounds like you worked for the city jail, or watched too many police procedural dramas on television. :) I think the term you meant was 'holding pen'. :)~ Also, getting the pigs/hogs accustomed to coming when called for food makes loading even easier. Animal behaviorists call it operant conditioning. To old timers it was hog calling.* Simply use the same sound or call every time they are fed, say a new load of apples, and they quickly learn to come when called. Ours came to a call and a shake of grain in a bucket - and just walked onto the trailer, following the sound of the call and the shake. Then we sort the ones we want to keep back out of the trailer. Our swine get very little grain, and don't have access to a range feeder full of it, so this works like magic. Just a little now and then so they come when they call. We've also used apples but those are pricey out of orchard clean-up season. A very similar approach to what you do, and of course everyone should 'tweak' things to fit them, their swine, their facilities, etc.*Contemporary society has painted old-time farmers as all an ignorant bunch, but letters written by farmers and published in the annual yearbook of the USDA back in the 1800s demonstrate that those farmers were much more literate than most high school graduates of today.

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why raise boars?

Are your pigs for sale? If so, My mother in law is interested 😊

I don't think the pigs find your calendar at all joyous... Lol

Get on ze bus ja!! Raus mache schell!!

That farm is very muddy.

Those innocent creatures have no idea where they are being taken. Sad.