Where Did The Piglets Go? 

The more we get to hear Hilary, the more we realize you all are made for each other. You guys make each other happy and joyful. You bring out the best in each other. It's refreshing and lovely.

Great thing about Just a few Acres there not money hungry and try to advertise stuff..Only thing you all advertise is if you put out hard work and have fun doing it you feel good at the end of the day. Great video as always look forward to your sense of humor and your happy go lucky self .

Pete, your channel is like "Mr. Rogers" meets " Green Acres" what a blessing to behold! Thank you!

Crunchiness of the snow when you walk and the cows say shut the door you live in a barn ? Great video

In Slovenia there is a popular way of raising pork. Many farmers grow pigs to 60kg and thn in August or September you buy that pig and feed him to 120-140kg and then proces you yourself. You feed to them what you have grown on your fields that year. In Slovenia base feed are beet, potatoes and some barley and not corn and beans.

Highlight of my day... When I see Pete and Hillary post a new video. ❤️

You know your tractor's adapting well when you turn the key and it moos!!! 🤭😀

Pete keep doing what you’re doing. KISS seems to be working.

Your program is like a visit to my Grandparent's farm in Northwest Missouri. I spent the happiest times of my childhood gathering eggs, herding cattle and walking with Grandma to find a missing cow and her new calf. So, thanks to you and Hilary, I can listen to the roar of the tractor, the lowing of the cattle and squeal of the piglets without leaving my recliner. The sounds of your farm are the heartbeat of who I am. Even though I have traveled so far from my roots and am too old now to farm, I do agree with you when you say most problems could be solved by a week on the farm. Please keep your videos coming. May God Bless.

I love your patience with starting the tractor, and with the animals.

Great video. Thanks for taking the time to make it.

Great job with the guitar picking and strumming in the end, man of many talents.

I'm so glad you are not one to take suggestions from strangers without researching first ... my husband and I don't do much for the holidays either ... remember to stay safe and stay blessed

Hello Pete. Your sense of humor really cracks me up! I love how you started this video. The dad jokes are great! I enjoy your channel immensely as we also have a small hobby farm. In one of your videos I heard you mention the town of Locke. I wondered how many towns named Locke there were in the states as there is one by me. The video revealed that we are basically neighbors. I’m located in Binghamton! I’ve lived in Cartland and Syracuse. I enjoy watching your channel even more now that I know it’s in my neck of the woods. As to your pig discussion. We also have the same problem with selling our pork. Everyone wants bacon and chops, but don’t want to pay the price required. So we now only grow pigs for our family consumption. Keep up the great work.

Michael Glanville Thank you. Needed small farm 101 for the reality check. Love what your doing.

Pete, could you do a video about all of those old tools and farm implements you have hanging on the wall where you water the cows? What are they? How do they work? Do you still use them? If not, what replaced them? Those sorts of things. Thanks!

as someone who is definitely not familiar with a farm life or anything close to it, i love your videos. they keep me entertained and i love how patient and kind you are with the animals :) keep up the good work!

Hi Pete and Hillary. I buy a half beef and a half pig every year. I get to pick the cuts and do so off what I have left in my freezer from the previous year. I don’t mind paying a little more for the quality and knowing my ground meat comes from one animal. Great job as always. I’m hooked on your channel

Luckily, in my area they still do halves and wholes. We just give the butcher our cut sheet and pick up usually within a week. I agree with you on having pork instead of steak! Chops, scrapple and bacon are my favorites. We usually also have sausage at least once a week either with pasta or with peppers and onions. Definitely need to know your market and what the next year may sell well. We were mainly vegetable farming and knowing whether to plant peppers, tomatoes, eggplant or a lot of things like cantaloupe and watermelon were tough decisions to make over the winter. Then once you plant, you pray! 👍👍👍

Thanks for sharing Pete.

I love your channel. I always have a smile on my face when watching you and Hillary. The Benny Hill one was comical.😊

i laughed at your comment wonder what's for tea tonight when you were being patience lol and I really agree with your comment about enjoying machinery with character

I do valentine's day with my Lady. But I absolutely refuse to Do Christmas in the way most people. We gather& Cook& hang& eat. But our presence is our Presents. That's the Gift

We love the variety of your videos. We have learned so much about the ways of today’s small farm lifestyle. Thanks to you and Hilary for your continued work and sharing.

I totally understand the predicament you are in with raising everything and doing the processing. Our last beef and pork were managed by us, not the producer. We told the butcher what cuts and processing we wanted and paid the butcher directly. We also picked IT up at the butcher, because we paid them. This saved our producer from that ownership. It was very successful for us. We bought a full steer and full pig in our last order.

I grew up in upstate NY a few miles outside of Watertown in farm country so I really enjoy watching. I'm 60 and have 7 kids and I love to tell them dad jokes (which I don't think they appreciate much lol) so I get a kick out of hearing yours, as well as some new material! I find your talks like this one to be very enjoyable and thought provoking and the content diversity is great! I currently live in Maryland where I've been since '87 and like that it's a bit warmer and less snow but I do miss the north country. Thanks and take care.

Thank you for the lesson. Have a great day and stay warm

Like the channel...let's see your greenhouse/garden, you have plenty of manue. Thanks and enjoy the farm ride.

TXN sharing your thoughts. Excellent educational clip.

Those fluffball monster piggies with their short snouts and bright eyes are pretty cute at that stage of growth. 😊

Great show once again.

Love your video's Pete..Have a great day!

Thanks for the video Pete 👍

I enjoyed your commentary during the tractor starting LOL. Those of us who are older and have lived in the colder weather know that an engine of any sort needs a little cajoling and patience!

Another great video. Thanks.

Pete, if the chances ever arise I would love to sit down and talk farming and farm philosophy with you. As a Minnesota farmer I can relate and I think our differences in markets are even relatable. It is extremely hard to find any pork here that has any sort of pasture time or even small farm growth. The best we have found is a grower an hour from us that will let us buy a hog and he delivers them to the butcher once a month or twice a month. Otherwise he's shipping big numbers. The beef side is kinda crazy, theres a ton of beef in the market in our area and producers are not competing very well so prices are not very conducive to quality pasture growth and grain finishing which is our preference. There's a lot of feed lot type farms even on the small scale here.

I SOOOOOO enjoy these videos!!!!!!!!

gotta love a d282 in the cold weather

Here in South Africa, we call that impatience 'Jo'burg' syndrome. Johannesburg is one of my country's economic hubs, and everybody is always in such a rush to get to where they're going. The traffic is nuts, the people are always angry or frustrated and time means money in the worst possible way. My fiance and I want a farm like yours one day...we're trying to save up for one...because we don't want to raise our kids in the 'Jo'burg' environment. We want them to grow up with patience like yours, and an appreciation for Nature's timing rather than Man's timing. We absolutely love your videos, and you give us a lovely sensation of hope :) Thank you for allowing people like us into your life via a camera.

Very interesting and enjoyable video. I wish you every success - from Wagga Wagga, NSW, Australia.

I can’t even begin to imagine, nor do I want to feel this weather. You make it look so fun, easy and totally doable. Thank you for sharing 🎉

Pete, you are a character...and the world needs more characters because characters make the world more interesting.

Love the snow... We don't get the snow here like when I was a kid... Miss those days.

We used to raise feeder pigs, sell them at 40 lbs. With 50 to 100 hogs, about 20 to 30 farrowing atone time. Very good video.

Great video pete 💯👍💚

Awesome video Pete

Back in the 70's I lived in Columbia county NY and worked on a small family farm. We had Sheep, goats, pigs, chickens, and was just starting to get into Dexter cows. There was never a real market for the goats or the sheep except for what we consumed ourselves. With the sheep it was mostly the wool that we sold and that was mostly to small craft and clothing businesses. The goats were there mostly for the milk that was sold locally to people who wanted an alternative to cow's milk. With the chickens it was mostly eggs and a few broilers that we sold. It is a tough market that continues to get tighter with big commercial farms squeezing out the family farms.

I lived on farms in UK when I was younger, from aged 7 to aged 35 and enjoyed the life and enjoy your shows in USA very much. I just had a brief glimpse of a Long Case Clock in your house. Looked good !! I have two, one 1835 the other slightly Newer, maybe 1855 or thereabouts ! Would like a little closer look and info on Camera please. Keep up the shows, the repairs and the farm working. Many thanks. Don Chapman, ex UK, now residing in Thailand.

Daughter asked, "Dad, what's for supper" Dad said, "We're having cow tongue". Daughter said "EEEWWWW, that came out of a cows mouth, I can't eat that" Dad said, "Ok, I'll fix you an egg".

We ourselves have restarted our small farm. Wanted to let you know how much we enjoy your smiling happiness and look forward to your post. As you keep doing your channel, hope you can keep it similar. Makes us smile in what can be troubling times. Thanks

Look at you 2! I love

I really love pork but I kinda stopped getting it because it just doesn’t have that good ol’ pork flavor I grew up with. So disappointing. I always enjoy your discussions because it helps me understand about the challenges facing small farms. You and Hilary are so cute together and it’s always fun to have her share the limelight with you. Take care you two. ❤️🥰

So true what you said about rib steaks vs beef porterhouse. We use you brine recipe with our own home-raised pork chops and love them! Thanks for another great video.

Thanks for the reminders about farm economics. The meat I consume in order most to least is chicken, pork, fish, beef, but I'm 66. I was a little surprised that its hard to profit in pork. I noticed the price of a pound of bacon is $9.50+ in my area currently(Mich) in supermarkets. Some rural Farm store/butcher shops are 25% to 35% less. Thanks for the channel!

*"What am I gonna have for dinner tonight?"🤔 "MOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"🤣🐄*

Interesting. Thank you.

Hi Pete. Your tractor knows that you need drama in every good show. Lol. And suspense. Keeps us wondering if it’ll start. Lol.

Keep on keeping on. We, mother nature, good stewardship, needs small farms like yours.

My grandparents said to me it's not about valentine's day, it's about the other six days of the week. And the way you and your wife look at each other well who needs flowers just once. 🌹

Very appreciative of practical women! Your a lucky man!

I said: I love that sweet stare between the 2 of you and the sweet nothings. It makes up for a lot of hard work you put into your farm. God bless you!

I’ve been growing my beef operation more in the last year and a half and sold the rest of my breeder hogs about six or seven months ago. When I talk to my fiancé about how I miss them sometimes she looked me straight in the eye and says “no you don’t”.. she’s right.

What we did here in Fulton Ny on our dairy farm, when we raised some pigs we would check with bakery’s and get old bread and whatever else. It’s free for taking away for them . Then we took some milk and mixed it up in a big 55 gallon barrel and feed that every other day unless we had lots then every day with a little feed . Beautiful tasting meat…..and didn’t use as much feed to raise them

I always love the "Dad" jokes Pete! Great video!

In the couple of years that I have been watching you, I have been eyeing off the nest boxes you have sitting against the wall in the cow shed.

That joke about the farmer going to the lumber-yard,,,, that's a good one,,,,Rht. 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻

Thanks for the insight

thank you

Not loopy at all, perfectly said!

Good video 👍 good information 👍👍👍

Spot on. I’m not a farmer. Always wanted to be, circumstances, and now age will not let that happen, well I’m about your you know what? Born February 1969, always wanted to be a helicopter pilot, farmer and truck driver, done the one out of three, have flown, not licensed, but still don’t count. What I’m getting about here is not me, but what you’re video is about. Demand. I don’t know how many times I’ve gone to Walmart to buy something I like, they sold but no longer do… not because not available but no demand. It’s all business, which if you only carry or produce what customers don’t want, your out of business. Just saying… we plan on making a trip up from PA this spring to buy some beef and say hello at the market. Take care and enjoy your videos always.

After decades and decades (waiting)... I have family members who are raising cattle to sell (as halves). I'm in !!! I'd like to find someone raising good pork that way (to sell) too. Heck, I'd enjoy setting up a few tables and dulling some knives myself. I know how to run a vacuum sealer! LOL I've processed game animals for my table, I can learn how to do it "more gooder". I enjoy these types of videos too. Good stuff Pete.

Truly appreciate your understandable explanation of how farming works...not for the faint of heart. Another awesome video! Thank you!

there's a sign in our favorite breakfast cafe "either you love pork, or your wrong".

You make really good videos

Thanks Pete for another thoughtful video. I wish I had a farmer near me here in GA like you. I would be a frequent customer. Also, is that you playing the guitar at the end of the video? Nice!

No store can match the flavor and richness of a fresh farm egg! I know I have beautiful hens that lay the prettiest golden brown eggs you ever seen and tasted!

When I was a teenager in England , my friend cheese, he smiled all the time, he invited me to his grandparents farm , my fondest memories of my youth , thank-you Pete for refreshing my wonderful times on the farm. You may have addressed this before , why not sheep?

Very informative video Pete. I am in the very rural area of Pocahontas County, WV, less than 8,000 people in the whole place. I hear a lot about people traveling to VA to get feeder pigs. I wonder if just raising them might be profitable especially with gas prices now on the rise. Buying locally might be a niche.

I was correct, another very good information filled video. Keep doing what you can to keep us informed. Ohh I didn't want to forget and not wanting to be inappropriate but the conversation on Valentine's with your wife shows one of the reasons why you must have been attracted to her. Wow 😳 very easy on the eyes. Until the next video thanks Pete.

Pete warmer weather is coming we started tapping our maple trees here in the southern Adirondacks. The lack of piglets is the main reason we stopped raising pigs. I love the taste of fresh farm raised pork, way better than the store bought stuff.

well these vids some quality stuff! really enjoying it! thanks Pete!

What no real rose petals oh well I think you and your wife enjoy your each other without rose petals I love to watch your videos so down home and so friendly and you're trying to keep America the way it was and I appreciate that because I'm older than you and I like the way it was but I thank you for your videos and very interesting

Totally agree with the tractor being fussy when it's cold and the interaction of getting them started. You're not the only one who enjoys the challenge. Where's the fun in "easy"!

Was -1°F here this morning. Supposed to be 52°F tomorrow high winds and flooding.

New subscriber here just discovered ur channel by pure chance and gotta say ❤️❤️❤️ it keep up great work

I learned something new today. Thank you Pete! also Gold shaw farm is going through the FDA Regulations with beef production.

Smart move transitioning to beef production. Pork and eggs have been the core of our business here in NC since we started our farm, but with rising grain prices we are backing away from grain fed animals and focusing on ruminants. We've been steadily growing our sheep and goat herds and working on improving our pastures for the past 7 years, mainly because I enjoy raising those species, but now I'm so gald we have those grass fed enterprises that aren't reliant on grain. Lamb is in super high demand here and we are the only grower selling direct to consumer anywhere near us.

Talking to another animal producer he explained to me " folks say oh I can get that at the big box store ,and they don't know its not the same in quality or taste ". Pete your farmers market is a valuable resource as open minded folks educated buy your products. How did your home pick up work ? Word of mouth ?

Hey if you have Problems with starting you're engine in the Winter there is a additive for that by liqui moly. It keeps the Diesel liquid.

I see even the proper small farms are struggling with pork prices .in the UK we've seen a massive price rise in feed and an all time low on pig and piglet prices . I've been watching the markets and piglets are not fetching more than £8 for an 8wk old piglet and sows not even a £5 each in fact a friend bought two in pig pietrain a Dry Berkshire and a pietrain boar for £3.75 plus auction fees about two.months ago . That's that bad once my sow has furrowed this march it will be her last litter here

Your awesome!

Another great video Pete! Just raise pigs for your own consumption since you do enjoy raising them and of course eating pork. I wish there were more small farmers out there selling their meats, veggies, etc. Food does not grow in a grocery store stock room lol You are buying quality from a farmer. The saying "You get what you pay for" is actually true.

My grandpa's 4 main tractors are a super mta, a 706 gas and a 806 diesel, and a 1066 and he always used the gassers in the winter because they started easier, but the diesel tractors in the summer because they are way easier on fuel

you can do a small soler system in the equipment barn

Thank you for sharing..just a dream at the for me..one day..lol

hey Pete sure enjoy your utube channel I was thinking you should take your banjo to the farmers market and during the slack time put a cup out for tips play a couple of song's

Peter, I watched the movie King Corn many years ago. I watched how they raise chickens in the dark on a huge diet of anti-biotics. I have eaten very little chicken since then. I would love to buy and cook a chicken I absolutely knew was organic pastured. I did not eat a lot of chicken anyway, but it cut my infrequent trips to KFC OUT.

Years ago the farmers always said pigs would pay the mortgage. Cows were the icing.