Thanks for the 'pig' update! Another channel I watch calls them 'pigerators' because they love to root about leaving nothing unturned. Keep them in fresh water a little feed/scraps/hay and they do well. When you feel they have tilled that area pretty well, just move the electric fencing to another area and they start all over. Moving them also keeps the odors down.
It is really exciting to see you embarking on this regenerative path. I love how you are working with all of the animals to improve your land and selves.
We get our raw milk from a dairy farm not far from us. Everywhere thier neighbors moved pigs up the field and they tilled up almost an acre a week. It was so cool to see!!!
I love the Sugar Mountain Pigs website. Amazing what they are doing with their pigs. Thanks for highlighting your pigs. Mine are currently in the garden rototilling.
I planned on trying something like that when we first started talking about homesteading! When we finally move, I want to get some older piglets. I also want to do a moveable pig yard, and move them around and then put the chicken tractor over it after I move the pigs off, and then maybe I can change the desert (at least our little corner of it) into something that'll actually grow stuff.
Very interesting. The pigs sound like they are doing for you, what our chickens will be doing for us, turning areas for gardening, into a wonderful place to plant. We will be doing this with our compost, moving it into areas that we want worked. I didn't know there were different kinds of pigs.
Now you see why I usta put 3 in my hog tight 18 X 36 small garden for 3 weeks o a month after the garden was finished. All the garden folage, slugs, bugs, any rocks, and roots were brought up to where I could get them out. I dug post holes 6ft apart and around 2ft deep, and 1./2 filled them with shelled corn. They would root up an area around 3ft dia from the hole.
hi good morning beautiful family Art and Bri i see the pigs 🐖🐖are doing well. enjoyed as always till the next Video God bless beautiful family bye 🐖🐖🐢😔😘😘😘😘😘😘
Looks like someone doing some heavy logging....when I was younger we raise hogs🐖 we would put rings💍 in there nose👃 to keep them from rooting so much thank you for all the wonderful video's 🐒
We have a small area for our pigs but they have a small opening that they can get in and out. They then go in the pasture with our cows and horses where they can graze all day long. Right now we don't have much snow at all. So they are enjoying being free and love roaming. In the spring, summer and fall they go with the goats. They seem to do minimal damage to the pasture. We also supplement with hay, chop and all kinds of kitchen scrapes. Love pigs, I like that breed that you got. I haven't seen many around where we are ( Alberta, Canada) It maybe worth a look into that breed. I like that they don't get huge. Our black boar was over 600lbs and only 15 months old. We couldn't keep him. So he is now in our freezer and he tastes delicious!!
Neat to hear about your grazing / management practices. The small boar is one of the reasons for keeping this type of hog if you want to breed your own. Just less body weight to maintain solely for breeding all year. I've been thinking about it, and apart from having to kill more individual animals, there are a lot of advantages to keeping these smaller animals. Each time you have a litter you can just decide how much pork you want in 6-12 months and keep that many. Just 100lbs? No problem. 400 lbs? Just keep them all, depending on the size of the batch.
we had a large black boar and he was about the same weight. we raised pigs for a few years. right now we are in the process of getting ready for a farm make over in the spring. having your pigs go into the pasture is the best way for feeding them,, we did that in our field for awhile . if you would like to see our channel and what we are about
Great idea! I've heard goats will kill poison ivy and it doesn't hurt them. Have any idea if PIGS will get rid of poison ivy, with it not hurting them?
Have you thought about trying to keep your pigs out in the back pasture once in awhile to help clear that ground or is that not a solid enough fencing also they might do wonders for you in the garden for a day or two. I'm glad you go a heritage breed. I think they are better than more commercialized breeds.
I think I will try them in a section of garden if I have a day. Don't think I would want to plant there for 6 months though, so it would be a limited area.
So rooting by pigs is grazing weeds, grass and plants that farmer does not need along with roots of these weeds and plants and eating hay and food leftovers that also a part of their rooting process....Am I wrong or right about the whole thing? Thanks.
What is happening next door to you? Is it being torn up to build another housing complex? I hope not for your sake. Have a great weekend and BTW........your pigs are doing a good job at rooting and fertilizing.
This video got me thinking. Would it be possible to get a couple of hogs and put them in a overgrown pasture with small trees growing up? Will they uproot the small trees or will it be too much for them? My pasture is totally overgrown and I don't have the machinery for it. The pasture is kind of small.
Checkout Joel Salatin, he has some YT stuff on using pigs for tilling overgrown pasture, Lumnah Acres uses pigs to reclaim overgrown orchard on YT, and the channel Art recommended. There is a lot of good info on 'pasture pig' raising.
We did a video at their place. Hopefully I can go back and focus on the restoration - and get some video of one of the lush patches created by pigs before they eat and root it back down. ruclips.net/video/7cYK2X374kE/видео.html
ART and BRI if I am associated with them it would be odd that the sound would be annoying. I love pigs. It's just the smacking sounds. My Grandfather would smack when he ate. Maybe that's why I find it annoying. By the way your pigs are really sweet.
A pig open mouth smacking on it's food always cracks me up
I love it.
I like it how the pig starts to comunicate to Art behind back :D
Thanks for the 'pig' update! Another channel I watch calls them 'pigerators' because they love to root about leaving nothing unturned. Keep them in fresh water a little feed/scraps/hay and they do well. When you feel they have tilled that area pretty well, just move the electric fencing to another area and they start all over. Moving them also keeps the odors down.
Pigs are great for finding and cleaning up any old spring heads, will root for the water to run a clean route.
It is really exciting to see you embarking on this regenerative path. I love how you are working with all of the animals to improve your land and selves.
We get our raw milk from a dairy farm not far from us. Everywhere thier neighbors moved pigs up the field and they tilled up almost an acre a week. It was so cool to see!!!
I love the Sugar Mountain Pigs website. Amazing what they are doing with their pigs. Thanks for highlighting your pigs. Mine are currently in the garden rototilling.
I planned on trying something like that when we first started talking about homesteading! When we finally move, I want to get some older piglets. I also want to do a moveable pig yard, and move them around and then put the chicken tractor over it after I move the pigs off, and then maybe I can change the desert (at least our little corner of it) into something that'll actually grow stuff.
Very interesting. The pigs sound like they are doing for you, what our chickens will be doing for us, turning areas for gardening, into a wonderful place to plant. We will be doing this with our compost, moving it into areas that we want worked. I didn't know there were different kinds of pigs.
Good video, thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the reminder for the sugar mtn blog-been a while but a wonderful resource!
hello bri, art & family !! great information on your pigs
We need a group discussion for homestead pigs. I like this idea of yours.
Now you see why I usta put 3 in my hog tight 18 X 36 small garden for 3 weeks o a month after the garden was finished. All the garden folage, slugs, bugs, any rocks, and roots were brought up to where I could get them out. I dug post holes 6ft apart and around 2ft deep, and 1./2 filled them with shelled corn. They would root up an area around 3ft dia from the hole.
hi good morning beautiful family Art and Bri i see the pigs 🐖🐖are doing well. enjoyed as always till the next Video God bless beautiful family bye 🐖🐖🐢😔😘😘😘😘😘😘
Wow! Really informative Art! I didn't know all that. Thanks!
Y'all are supposed to be getting snow today. Hope the kids have fun playing in it.
And quite a nice snow it is.
Thanks again for all your knowledge and smart advice. I don't think we want to have pigs but I enjoy learning about them, thank from Josanne
Those pigs are awesome
The best thing is they are not fussy eaters
Pig are amazing at pulling rocks out of the ground that you never knew you had
Fantastic video! I like it!!!
Another great video 👌🏼👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
I LOVE your new camera. I could count that hogs eyelashes. Another great day Another great Update!! thank you Art & Bri.
It's the same model as day one. Sometimes the light makes the difference I think.
I didn't know that about pigs. Thank you.
Looks like someone doing some heavy logging....when I was younger we raise hogs🐖 we would put rings💍 in there nose👃 to keep them from rooting so much thank you for all the wonderful video's 🐒
Yes, neighbors did some logging.
Hello! I was just wondering yesterday why people use to put a ring in a pig's nose. Thanks for the info. Happy Holidays! :))
Which obviously is abusive
Looks like Rosey is filling out since the last video. Babies are growing. :)
Loved the video & info.
We have a small area for our pigs but they have a small opening that they can get in and out. They then go in the pasture with our cows and horses where they can graze all day long. Right now we don't have much snow at all. So they are enjoying being free and love roaming. In the spring, summer and fall they go with the goats. They seem to do minimal damage to the pasture. We also supplement with hay, chop and all kinds of kitchen scrapes. Love pigs, I like that breed that you got. I haven't seen many around where we are ( Alberta, Canada) It maybe worth a look into that breed. I like that they don't get huge. Our black boar was over 600lbs and only 15 months old. We couldn't keep him. So he is now in our freezer and he tastes delicious!!
Neat to hear about your grazing / management practices. The small boar is one of the reasons for keeping this type of hog if you want to breed your own. Just less body weight to maintain solely for breeding all year. I've been thinking about it, and apart from having to kill more individual animals, there are a lot of advantages to keeping these smaller animals. Each time you have a litter you can just decide how much pork you want in 6-12 months and keep that many. Just 100lbs? No problem. 400 lbs? Just keep them all, depending on the size of the batch.
we had a large black boar and he was about the same weight. we raised pigs for a few years. right now we are in the process of getting ready for a farm make over in the spring. having your pigs go into the pasture is the best way for feeding them,, we did that in our field for awhile . if you would like to see our channel and what we are about
Art can you add a link for sugar mountain farm blog? Thanks! This is very helpful!
Great idea! I've heard goats will kill poison ivy and it doesn't hurt them. Have any idea if PIGS will get rid of poison ivy, with it not hurting them?
Have you thought about trying to keep your pigs out in the back pasture once in awhile to help clear that ground or is that not a solid enough fencing also they might do wonders for you in the garden for a day or two. I'm glad you go a heritage breed. I think they are better than more commercialized breeds.
I think I will try them in a section of garden if I have a day. Don't think I would want to plant there for 6 months though, so it would be a limited area.
So rooting by pigs is grazing weeds, grass and plants that farmer does not need along with roots of these weeds and plants and eating hay and food leftovers that also a part of their rooting process....Am I wrong or right about the whole thing? Thanks.
What is happening next door to you? Is it being torn up to build another housing complex? I hope not for your sake. Have a great weekend and BTW........your pigs are doing a good job at rooting and fertilizing.
Logging.
thanks!!
hahah that was datura a powerful delirium
What is going on in the back of the barn. Did I miss you explaining it I watch all you videos
Thanks for the update! What is going on in the background, neighbor property logging????
Nice information
We are getting ready to buy our homestead and the pigs are what my husband is most excited to start
that sounds so exciting!!
Hey Bri and Art!!!! Show us some snow pics, please!!!!! Looks like Asheville got snow, aren’t y’all near there?????
We got a nice snowfall today and it should stay cold and white for a couple days.
ART and BRI - I love snow. We live north of Raleigh and we got snow but it didn’t stick😕. Sure was pretty when it was falling.
This video got me thinking. Would it be possible to get a couple of hogs and put them in a overgrown pasture with small trees growing up? Will they uproot the small trees or will it be too much for them? My pasture is totally overgrown and I don't have the machinery for it. The pasture is kind of small.
Checkout Joel Salatin, he has some YT stuff on using pigs for tilling overgrown pasture, Lumnah Acres uses pigs to reclaim overgrown orchard on YT, and the channel Art recommended. There is a lot of good info on 'pasture pig' raising.
goats would do more for small trees and shrubs
we have had pigs by trees at our farm, they will do great with that area.
In south west Louisiana it is snowing hard
dylan young southern Louisiana too :)
In North Atl also.
The Texas gulf coast got 9in. Still have it on the ground. However a lot has melted
Western nc. 6-8 in on ground.
Franklinton La here is about 5 to 6 inches of snow today love it
CONGRATULATIONS TO YOU, MOM,WAITING FOR YOUR SON.(08/12/2017)H 9:08AM Rio de Janeiro
We always said “Sooey sooey sooey” when moving our hogs. Do they say that in your neck of the woods?
Could you record a video of your friends success with using pigs to restore pasture?
We did a video at their place. Hopefully I can go back and focus on the restoration - and get some video of one of the lush patches created by pigs before they eat and root it back down. ruclips.net/video/7cYK2X374kE/видео.html
How far along is your sow?
show us those pastures?
What's happened to your beautiful trees?
Is that your property being logged or is it a neighbors property?
Neighbors.
That one big looks like its not all American Guinea hog
Interesting how different their snout shapes.
What's happening in the back ground
You are going to have a very muddy nasty mess when the rains in winter come.
are those new neibours behind you
I think they might be Logging
I am a strong lady but I absolutely hate the sound of pigs smacking.
Really? Sorry. Is there a particular association or do you just not like the sound? I love the sound. -A
i love the sound that pigs make when they eat
ART and BRI if I am associated with them it would be odd that the sound would be annoying. I love pigs. It's just the smacking sounds. My Grandfather would smack when he ate. Maybe that's why I find it annoying. By the way your pigs are really sweet.
ART and BRI if I offended you it was not my intention.
Just a suggestion , Do not over feed the boy because if he get to fat he will not be interested in breeding in a future