Setting up the trailer to load pigs. They only have a couple more weeks left on the homestead. 

I loaded a 400 lb boar just today....... A lasso and a tractor no problems no injuries.... A good day on a farm....

Had good chuckle, your wife was coaching them in with " animal crackers and bacon bits", just to funny.

Love you Australian Shepherd!

@ 10:47 you mentioned food just for anyone who watches this in the future my pigs go absolutely crazy for marshmallows !!! that's how I trained them on the nipple waters now they sprint to me every time they think I am gonna give them some

If you leave your trailer in the hog pen with the doors open and give the pigs free access to the trailer and they'll get accustom to it. You can occasionally hook up and take them for a ride most time they're like dogs they like to ride take them to the coffee shop in the mornings or afternoon....

Place the T post on the left side of the shute right up next to it, that way the pigs can't go around the loading chute on either side

In the late winter you can by using hog panels fix an area for your garden and till it using your pigs 🐖 and then a smaller tractor to harrow and put your seedbed right ✅️

I've fed hogs wheat midland and used my drill with a plaster mixer to mix water in a 5 gallon bucket

That loading ramp was made using old slats from a combine feeder chains they were repurposed for the ramp.

Block the side of the ramp so they have only the ramp to go up, try putting straw i in the trailer and scatter some loose feed they will soon go in

Brought back a lot of memories from days gone by! Good luck

So smart setting up your trailer like that!! Loading pigs can be a big pain

Scout: "Daddy! Look at all the bacon I found!" As for the pigs, just lay a thin trail of dry feed up the ramp and a big handful at the back, they'll figure it out.

Dude! You need to align the fence and the ramp so the fence is at the bottom of the ramp! That way the pigs have nowhere to go but up the ramp. Make a couple of pieces of plywood about 3' x 2' with holes cut near the long edge as handles, use them to herd the pigs to the ramp. Put some food in the trailer, but block off the end so they can't jump out. They won't want to go, but the two of you should be able to do it. A third person is nice to block them from behind as the two of you form a plywood chute to guide to the trailer. Pigs are incredibly strong, prepare for a workout. Luck!

You could move the cattle panel on the left close to the ramp then train Scout to herd the animals. He might want a job to do! So cute!

You can use your concrete mixer to make wet feed. Easy to do.

Great ramp

I had a Siberian Husky that was an egg thief, she would follow me around and sneak them out of my egg pail. She carried them in her mouth, and had a guilty dog look after she got one. She then found a secluded spot, dropped the egg, and held it in her paws. She would bite the top of the egg off, and lick the egg out of the shell. It used to make me mad, but it's funny thinking about it now. There was one hog that always seemed to be close to you. They can make good pets. My dad had one in the early 1930's. He had a hammer and was cracking acorns for his little pig. Dad said he was feeding it nuts and it just bit him hard on his forehead, so he hit it hard on its head with the hammer. He had knocked it out. He was afraid he would be in big trouble because he thought it was dead, and went inside the house to tell his mother what happened. They went outside and it was gone, and so was the friendship. Dad lived on a 240 acre farm. It was in SE Kentucky, and was mountainous, It had a good bottom, around 10 tillable acres or so. This was in the great depression, they didn't have much money, but they ate well.

Dig a small trench to back your trailer into even with the ground your pigs will walk right in.

It'll be sad to see them go🐖 but I bet the pork will be tender as the pig's were never stressed, they had a calm and happy life

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Marshmallows work try that

Overkill. I say that because you work so hard. You are a very detailed person and do awesome work, your place is beautiful because of all you do, but find easier less consuming ways to do what you do.

JudithB LOL, my Dad built a slide door panel to fit my horse trailer so he could load calves easier, and it worked well for our pigs too. First time we loaded a hog, we backed up to the hog house and moved the hog to the trailer. He went under it instead, so chased him around for awhile to get him back in the hog house. put a log under the trailer and loaded him. We had a concrete ramp but had not fenced a chute for it. Next time was much easier!!! LOL Then we built a cattle chute with headgate, so we could work the cows. It took time and funds to get all the infrastructure built, but it sure made life easier!!

put the feed tray inside the front end of the trailer and watch them go in there in a heart beat, you won't even need the ramp, they will jump in there🤣🤣

They did a nice job of turning the soil over! I'd love to come and help clearing the area once the pigs are gone!

As a suggestion, try using the slide gate on the trailer door, to close up the area beside the ramp, not as easy for them to escape. Keep up the good work. 👍

The cement mixer was a great idea! Bravo Zulu!

Maybe if you put some hay or something on the ramp it would help. That new surface they are walking on might be throwing them off.

Good job Evan, looks like lots of great meals on the way. Thanks for sharing with us and keep up the good work and videos please. 👍👍👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻

Put in a lower trench where back of your trailer will fit into so the pigs 🐖 will go into.

Scout IS still a puppy. Just because he's big doesn't mean he's not still young ❤️ So happy to see the pigs today. Maybe if you just put some yummy treats in the trailer and leave them be, they will go in on there own. Try something yummy like marshmallows 😂 Thank you for the video today

You want the door of the trailer to not be part of the pen setup as you will need to close it off once you get the pigs inside. Best to do a little to the side of the door so it can still swing then tie back to the trailer. Wire tie points right on ether side of the trailer and a wire to jump them would let you tie it right into the fence setup without ever needing to move the charge unit.

Bacon and chops. Nice

Hi from UK ..find it odd your stock trailers don't have rear drop down walk up tail gate we have here.. cheers from dave..

Awesome video

We just got our 2 hogs back from butcher...have around 642 #'s of pork..

Pigs love cupcakes..not good for them but my kids went and gave ours cupcakes once and I swear, those pigs looked for cupcakes in every speck of their pen for about 2 hours! Then everytime they saw us for the next day they squealed at us for cupcakes lol.

Keep the next two piggies 1 boy 1 girl let them breed save 1 boy and 1 girl from that litter sell or butcher the rest including the original 2 that way you can have pork on the farm all the time. Many RU-vid smallholders are saying its very hard to buy piglets now for some reason.

When we loaded game or cattle we dug out the soil till the truck or trailer was level with the ground and it made loading very easy. Regards Billy

Marshmallows, they will like them. Good video as always

Evan you make me laugh...... We were raised on a farm and I never saw anyone try coaxing a pig that way.... too funny..... where is Melissa when you want to hear her giggle too!!!!! Have fun my friend. We love our pork here in Minnesota. Have you ever tried side pork. It's bacon not cured and takes some salt and alot of pepper when frying it. It's usually cut thicker than bacon and it's our favorite. Hugs from Minnesota where winter (snow) is here one week and gone the other.

I heard once that pigs like marshmallows. You might try it to get them to come into the trailer.

Nice trailer... should serve you well.

Close big trailer gate use small slide gate instead

Mobile butcher shop. Is there one around you? Can you hire some one to come to homestead?

Pork chops & bacon! Yummy

Pigs usally don't like going from light into shadows and don't like the sounds that are made by metal stock trailers they'll shy pretty quick

Put your eggs half way up and then some in the trailer.

The one thing about pigs, you can't tell them what to do. Lol. The next time, just bring the food into the trailer. Maybe Apple's or something.

Try coaxing them with your regular pig feed mixed with some molasses about 10% molasses..

They say that its better to put the ground rods about 10 ft apart. Close together they will act as a single ground rod. I think your pigs will get the hang of walking up and down the ramp quick. I never even train them just walk them in with feed :)

The other pig looks bigger than the one you measured, hopefully it weighs more. 🐖 🐖

I hope i can explain this in a way that makes sense, loading ramps like that are typically designed to be used with the sliding door on the back gate. If you shut the gate that ramp should slip in between the bottom of the gate and sit on the floor. then after they walk into the trailer you slide the door shut instead of having to shut the whole gate behind them.

Try marshmallows to get them up the ramp

Nice setup Evan, good job. 2 weeks, Yeah, they'll figure it out!!! Thanks...Peace!!! Bill

Marshmallows are the trick...

Talk about Cat & Mouse, more like Pig & Pet

Where u located I have learned a lot from u guys I would love to meet u guys and see ur farm

You might not be able to find the top of that tail, but you and the pig both would have squealed if you would have found the bottom of it. Maybe one day you can train Scout to herd the pigs into the trailer.

Would love to see the plans or know the dimensions of that ramp.

You need to start feeding them in there now but do a little at a time start at ramp then keep going into trailor.

That intro music sounds familiar... I LIKE IT lol 😜How’s everything Evan? Man that ramp worked out great!

Lay a trail of marshmallows.

Put some straw in the trailer and some food and they will make a bed .Or get some help and gates and just load them

Scout's just trying to do his job and that's to herd them fatties into the trailer ! Let him do his job ! lol

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Close it off to where they only have the ramp as an option, otherwise they may root enough to escape from under the trailer. Does the trailer have a dividing gate inside?

what bread are they, mine for years been yockshire x brookshire male,, and al my ground is rock hard red clay, icant even dig a hole with a pick, and my pigs plow the clay up like itssand, , in places 2 feet deep, witch i love as they get all the brush and small trees and roots out, and eat them

Scott need to get training

You made the mistake of feeding them first

Give Scout a couple pieces of bacon. After that,Scout will load the pigs in the trailer, and drive them to the butcher for you.

We used apples to get our pigs use to the trailer a week ahead their road trip.

You don’t need a ramp they’ll just climb in their selves

Hey Evan. Any reason why you all don't butcher until mid-November? Is it based on the butcher's schedule/availability? I ask because here in New England we seem to butcher about the middle of October. Also as others have stated, try Marshmallows for luring. The one's from Kraft seems to work particularly well if you can find them.

One question how are you going to keep them from getting out while you take apart the ramp and remove the the fence post to shut door? Not trying to be mean really wondering.

Does electric fence work good for pig fence? How do you go about setting up pig fencing?

use marshmallows as treats

If the trailer door is blocked with fencing, won't they get scared and run back out when your ready to close them in? Just curious, not being mean.

I keep waiting for the cross-over episode with Pete at Just a Few Acres Farm. 😆

I have never seen a pig with such curly tails. Does anyone know if just a certain breed has tails so curly .

Time for dust mask

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You have two Shepard dogs, I don't know if they do pigs but they do, do all the other animals you have.... why not utilize them.. get them some herding lessons...

i dont think they like the side panels of the ramp

In Spanish we say “a todo coche le llega su sábado “

Good video, stupid music. 👎

they are smarter than you dude, give them real food they eat and put them at the end inside the trailer, they will go in a heartbeat🤣 make sure they are hungry