As always love seeing you and Sondra, the piggies are gorgeous 😍. May the Lord bless you and yours as we celebrate Thanksgiving. God is good, we are grateful 🙏. Blessings.
When you have time sir build you a "pallet" out of c channel that your forks will slide in but has a square hole in the middle. Has two uprights as arms to hold the handle loops on the bulk bags. It will get the weight lower for you. Texas
THAT CHEAPER THAN HERE IN KENTUCKY 16 PERCENT HOG FEED IS 440 A TON THANKS FOR A GREAT VIDEO ALSO BE CAREFUL WITH THAT TRACTOR ON HILLS THEY WILL TURN OVER ALWAY WEAR YOUR SEAT BELT
Hey friend I tried emailing you but must have not gotten to you. I was wondering if you pay attention to the sign when you castrate or if you even consider that? I have pigs about 9 to 10 weeks old and a friend of mine says I have to wait till the sign is below the knee. With your experience is that true?
When I was a kid back in the 70s I used to go to my grandfathers farm. My mom grew up on a really big farm outside of Orangeburg, South Carolina. Over 1000 acres. I remember pumping gas in various vehicles because my grandfather had a 300 gallon tank for diesel and a 300 gallon tank for gasoline. He had him built up on a rack that he welded that put them around 6 to 8 feet off the ground and the gas was gravity fed with a traditional nozzle like you have on your tank. I love piglets. They are so cute. They also make damn good BBQ! Around 100 pounds oh boy! I forget what homesteading channel I was watching, but a few days ago I saw a guy call piglets bacon seeds! I almost wet my pants I was laughing so hard.
such a big expense! Thanks for sharing - I'm only 2 years late getting here! Since processing our own grains and foliage (cut yard and hay pasture and weeds), run through a chopper and pellitizer - certainly cuts the feed bill down in a huge way!
@9:23 Do you think if you left the SuperSack of feed on the pallet and brought the whole thing, pallet included, up the hill and into the paddock, lifted up just high enough to clear the ground, and THEN lifted the sack up high right there next to the bulk feeder, maybe that would be safer / more stable? (and thus save you the labor of bucketing feed out from the top of the bag)
Can you carry each bag up the hill while still on the pallet? That way the tractor forks are kept low to the ground. Then only lift that high and pick up from the top of the bad once you are ready to empty.
have you looked into buying a grinder mixer makeing own feed buy corn from local farmers love seeing those pigs on ground i used to raise 7/8 hundred at a time till went broke
Happy Thanksgiving 🍁 Wishing you and all of your family a very Happy Thanksgiving Day. Love seeing all the piglets and just laugh when their all running together. LOL 😆
What kinda feed it that around here they dont sell a pellet style its powder here they say they dont digest pellets I doubt it but what it that you have
Awesome video .. Is that organic feed or just regular hog feed ?? Last hog feed we bought before we sold out hogs and went strictly to sheep goats and chickens and hounds was around 200 a ton ..
Feed costs and ware I live a 40-90 lbs sheep or goat is worth way more then a hog for what it cost to raise one hog to 250 I can raise 3-5 lambs or kidd depending on wheaning weights and have double the meat and double if not triple the money ..here we're Iive isn't not uncommon to be able to buy a 200-300 lbs butcher pig for 80-120 dollars and when the COVID first hit we were able to get big pigs for 50-120 on a regular basis per head as the livestock auction I go to was shipping cattle to feed yards or shipping horses from there monthly horse sale and to not comeback empty they were bringing pigs back from mid west that they were buying for Penney's on the dollars as the big factory farms were flooding auctions with them back there as they didnt want to euthanize the But they had to make room for new piglet's coming in ..
Hi from Andy and Tania from Tasmania, Australia. We have been following your channel for a while now and just love your videos. We have had quite a few pigs over the past few years and have just bought two new slips. You and Sondra inspire us.
I think your videos are awsome and love watching them . Just had to say it you remind me of buster scruggs from the move even how you talk ! It’s cool 😎
This exact thing is kill me right now. I could save money buying in bulk but need to spend money on a bigger tractor to unload it. I still haven’t gone to a bank for any kind of loan but the growing pains are getting tough. Looks like you guys are doing great!! Hope you had a good thanksgiving!!
Have you considered when it would be worth it to buy an old feed grinder and grind your own feed? Our farm is mostly row crop so I plan to have the farmers hold us back a few truck loads so we can grind our own next year since feed grinders are plentiful here in Missouri
@@SheratonParkFarms yeah our situation is a little different then most homestead folks, we own 110 acres of row crop land we share crop with, im hoping not this growing season but the next we can do at least one field of non gmo corn and save it back for pig and chicken feed.
Happy Thanksgiving guys! Its only a bit after 9pm here in So Cal. Dang that's my yearly property tax! I struggle to make that! How long does that amount last you?
@9:23 Do you think if you left the SuperSack of feed on the pallet and brought the whole thing, pallet included, up the hill and into the paddock, lifted up just high enough to clear the ground, and THEN lifted the sack up high right there next to the bulk feeder, maybe that would be safer / more stable? (and thus save you the labor of bucketing feed out from the top of the bag)
I have an old Case skid loader that won't lift a full tote bag. I bucket out of the tote to fill the feeder then I can unload it with skid loader. I love getting bulk feed.
I hope you both had a wonderful Thanksgiving. I'm sure the price of the feed is worth it to have so much bacon. On my new property if my pigs only ate what's growing they would starve .
Have you noticed a difference in gain since changing to a pellet feed? Also take a big tote. Cut the top off and a hole out of the middle on the bottom, big enough to put the opening of the bottom of the bag will go through. Can carry it close to the ground and harder to flip it over
@@SheratonParkFarms 2007 tc55da ...its the last year they made it lower stance but that dont change the rear raising up on me in my hilly farm. I use it to load logs as well but i really weigh the back down
