Newbie here and did a binge watch yesterday and subscribed. Great oration and delivery. Very professional. Like that you are kind to your animals. Greetings from Ireland.
Dude exactly what I like to see. You spent the extra cash on the heavy duty gates for cattle. So I wanna no are they able to life the gates and push through let me no man. Have a good day
Nice work! Cannibals, chronic crushers, and those that farrow in bad places are good candidates for an immediate trip to freezer camp. Breed the ones with the best mothering instincts, eat the rest.
I've monitored some pig channels. No one has ever mentioned they had a cannabilism problem. We sure have. All I could figure was no one else wanted to admit to it.
Seeing how happy the litters are and the mommas it makes me want to start my own operation just don’t have the time or money for something like this and with Covid hard to find good hogs
I have always used electric fencing fences for both dry sows and farrowing pens. Our farrowing huts are a design which looks like a half water tank with two sheets of corrugated sheeting, Pens for a year on barley stubble consist of two wire 30 meters apart, separated by a wire spring gate every thirty meters, moving the farrowing hut after each wean. We started at 250 sows, weaning 24 piglets/sow/year, we increased up to 2000 sows weaning 26/piglets/sow/year. We need a link to post pictures here for comparison.
Hey Jordan! I love your videos. We are raising 3 different breeds of pigs with 3 different boars. We keep each breed in their own paddock. My issue is trying to catch piglets to wean in 3 separate paddocks. Do you have any ideas? Your piglet corral is great but I cant justify that for each group
@FarmBuilder I just found you recently on RU-vid, have enjoyed watching a bunch of your pig videos. I am a fellow veteran getting in to raising pigs for food for my family and piglets to sell. I have some questions about the business side of the pigs, was curious if you could help me.
Looks great for the sows. Once the littles jump that board, you will need some smaller wire at the bottom of the bull fencing to keep them with their sow. It won't take too long and they will be out and about.
Just started our pig operation in ND I want to do the outside farrowing pen but man I'm so nervous about winter here. Ive seen -60 windchill before its no pretty and it makes me nervous
I must have watched this video 10x and still need some sized kick in the behind to wake me up and fathom that pigs can farrow in minus 18°C - no problem. But yes. They are dry. And reasonably protected by the shelters. And camped in. Cost-effectively. And practically. In relation to potential losses. With multi-purpose panels. When God allows me to. Am I certainly pumped with knowledge. I have a question. Will it be practical, when space/land allows, to have a stationary farrowing paddock, and not move the farrowing setup every time/move the sows and piglets to an adjacent paddock. Maybe only 40 yards distant, after two weeks? Meaning the farrowing paddock in the centre with eight paddocks around it. E.g. so laid out in an initial terrain layout/ Many thanks.
@@FarmBuilder i was just curious if processors would pay more for pasture raised. I work as a farrowing manager in a confinement barn love working with the pigs but starting to not like being in a building all day lol
