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Your common sense approach to "nature" is very refreshing... I will use this method when it's time. Just got our chickens, pigs or rabbits are next.. Maybe a couple 🦃... Small farms are the future & will be essential in the days ahead. What was once called wisdom now is a conspiracy theory.....🤦
I applaud your commitment and determination. Due to the ongoing pandemic and recent Texas power failure, I invested in egg production chickens and self sustaining energy in the event of another crisis. We live in a small town and engage in some bartering with neighbors and family. Good luck to you and your endeavor!
Im in Maryland and trying to find land in East Tennessee to do exactly what you are doing. Thanks for sharing your journey maybe we might be neighbours one day. I'm into natural farming also.I took Chris Trumps class in Idaho. I can't stand the politics in Maryland. Can't wait to move to Tennessee. I've been watching your videos from way back when you started. Its been fun watching you grow...
Awesome information! You are so amazing because you were in successful farm in CA and you had the guts to expand and start something kind of different! You were always pushing the envelope in your other farm and I think this is really a great move for you. Wishing you so much success so I can continue to live my wish to have a farm of my own through you.
Thank you for another great video emphasizing how beneficial animals can be when utilizing their innate abilities to work along with us! God bless Steven! I will be implementing these same principles on our homestead soon
When managed properly... Pigs. Are. AWESOME! I've been raising them for 3.5 years and they are the most valuable animal to me. I have all but given up on eating beef, simply because I don't raise beef, yet. Good pastured pork can substitute easily into just about any recipe that calls for beef. I do still love a good ribeye though 🤤. One thing you may consider is soaking/prefermenting your ground feed for the pigs. Even if it is only for one feeding. This tremendously helps their gut and makes any other feed they take in more digestible. Due to a severe drought this last year in my area, and raising my own hybrid litter, I started supplemental feeding my pigs this way and it may become a permanent feed, at least until the rains come back! Love seeing the new property. Being in the desert here, I am a bit envious of the prolific trees and regular rains, but that's were we can all deploy various management techniques for our given ecosystems. Keep up the good work!
I'm getting my electric fencing soon and will have my pigs on 1 1/2 AC.i only have 2 baby pigs so I will cross fence them and move them back and forth on that land. great video!
Thanks for sharing ! BTW folks, the various small grass seed spreaders which may work for grains, depending on the style maybe ( haven't used one since I was a kid ) are very often available at farm/household estate auctions and yard sales too. Usually r cheap & not many folks wanting em. Then. yes, the main reason to use wire instead of netting is cost. U can get wire & step-in posts for cheaper than the same number of feet of netting by a lot, esp. since u can often find good, second-hand wire & posts from farm sales or even ask around - farmers not selling out or going thru, getting rid of stuff, often have stuff like that which they're no longer using. Esp. former dairy or beef farmers now doing just crops or such. If new to electric wire stuff, tip : the electric "ribbon" is more visible & otherwise may be desirable over the plain wire BUT if it gets damaged, it can be VERY hard to see where, or know it b4 your animals do & r getting out. ABSOLUTLY do NOT lay it down then drive over it, to access a paddock. The wire woven in with the poly is very fine & breaks easily. It can be spliced by tying together, but not always successfully, so, it can be a pain that way.
One of the things you can try is having a wooden or metal doorway/gate. This way the pigs are not afraid of going through that spot. That's why your having problems getting them to move. The pigs are thinking..."Hey, I got zapped the last time I when that way". If you have a wooden or metal fence, the pigs can't go that way but know that they will not get zapped. Moving them in the future will be much easier.
very cool stuff. those pigs seemed content and without stress in there lives. being able to serve a purpose in life is the key to retaining happiness and you have given them that. very cool.
Are the ones you have american guinea hogs? Will you butcher them when they have cleared all the areas? Or will you breed and continue to keep them? Watching the pig scratch itself on the tree made my day!
No these are old spot/red wattle crosses they get much bigger than Guinea. These are feeder pigs so will be raised for 10 months then put in the freezer. I'll just buy more feeder piglets to keep going.
We raised pigs twice. Absolutely loved them. However, feeding them is a huge problem that we couldn't solve. Also, the butchering part was (still would be) difficult for me by myself. A milking cow is on the Wishlist now.
Lovely pigs! We have cows and are getting chickens this year. I hope someday I can get pigs, I love the temperament and size of the Kunekune, I hope I can get some for my farm to help regenerate the soil someday.
You should connect with Cliff Davis at Pig and Leaf. They’re in Summertown, TN. 80 acre Permaculture farm, large market garden and grazing pigs through food forests.
Have you thought about Iberian pigs? The setup you have really reminded me of how I saw the setup for iberian pigs and I saw some were moved into the US now.
I liked this video a lot! I do have pigs and they are such a good resorse! Do like you do with the intercrop or to help with the stubbs after one take down trees. Fertilising the soil, eating weeds and larvea. Pigs are so good for a farm. Keep up your good work! Lot's of love from Sweden!
I have a garden that is roughly half an achre. It's fenced in, so after harvest every year, I put pigs in there to eat what I don't. They till the ground, eat the grubs, and fertilize the ground.
What if there aren’t any trees? Do they do well in an open area with no trees? I assume they would need shelter from direct sun? Thanks! So nice to see you on your new land! They sky is the limit for you. 😁
Then we would need 7x more land than there is available on earth. Factory farming is sadly the only way we can eat this much meat. Now imagine a nice future where we don't kill the pigs. We just use them to help us farm and let them live happy lives while we all eat healthy whole plant foods.
This is great! We were thinking goats to clear but we are quickly shifting our thoughts to pigs. Did you have to train them to the pig fence like you would the 2 strand fence?
In our area it’s become very difficult to find a processing plant because of the volume of people booking spots. Therefore, the 50 chickens were about the only option as we could take care of that ourselves. Not the most pleasant family activity but that’s life on the farm
I have a buddy with deep South bloodlines of American Bulldog. They have Hines stock and He is probably making the best dogs since Alan Scott's AB's. Hardest working animal on any farm since the inception of this Country. 😎
Ok just buying a new farm and negotiating on a couple of hectares of chestnut, oak and beach forest, I fenced. It’s sloped, not mountainous but it’s definitely sloped. How are pigs on sloped forest?
So my wife loves pigs. Would guinea hogs damage roots of fruit trees in an orchard? We've got two acres on Kauai and I've got about 50 fruit trees on this property. Also curious about the possibility that pigs help keep parasites down in a goat pasture... I'll have to look into this.
I'm not going to run pigs in winter, it's a lot more work and effort, more moves, ground gets destroyed easier, water freezes. I'll get more feeders again in spring that will be slaughtered in fall.
I really admire your gardening ethic and was surprised to see that you are raising pigs to sell their meat. I realize that their lives are actually pretty good on your farm, and also that they benefit the land for gardening. I also appreciate the videos showing the care that you take loading them on to the transport vehicle. However, there has to be some significant amount of distress when they are at the butcher. You haven't shown or talked this aspect very much, or what measures you are taking to insure the minimal amount of suffering/distress. For organic gardeners among us who have gotten tons of great information from your gardening videos, I am sure there must be others like me who wonder why you have branched into pig farming as well.
Hi, I’m trying to raise pastured chickens in my quarter acre lawn but have a couple questions. Should I be planting other crops in the lawn or is lawn grass sufficient? If yes, how would I go about doing this without tearing up the whole lawn?
How much savings in feed do you gain by doing this? What I got from this is that, unlike goats, you still feed the pigs? If you do this with chickens, do you need to feed them as well, or do they get enough food from the pasture? Well, you are having someone clear your land FOR this pigs? I thought the pigs did this. Do you butcher your own pigs, or have someone else do it?
Are those old spots, sutch a sweet pig ( like a golden retriever dog) . My breeder stopped raising them and switched to Durocs ( more like a german shepards ) Breeds matter!
I was so excited until you mentioned eating them but I understand and I'm happy to know there are a few less at a factory farm. This may sound ridiculous that would you ever consider it a benefit to have a pig that wasn't going to be eaten?
@@NaturesAlwaysRight thats what i was going to say. Havent had pigs yet but I know they eat a lot and the feed bill is expensive so U have to do it and sell most of them to re coop your costs.
I'm still kind of perplexed on the role of pigs. Shouldn't minimizing soil disturbance be the goal? Also have you tried Green Cover Seeds? I heard of them from one of Gabe Browns presentations and their smart mix cover crop designer thingy is pretty neat in how you can design custom mixes for whatever your resource needs are.
Pigs chop, churn, and blend the soil like turning a compost pile, but it depends what you want to do with the soil. You don't want to keep them there permanently or turn them loose in garden.
