For feeding pigs, Acorns are a great source of natural food and all you need to do is collect it to save it for winter, and if you have any swampy areas, plant Cattails as they will spread quickly, the pigs will dig up the roots, in the process spreading them all around and like the weed they are they will grow back thicker year after year. For a crop intended to feed pigs, planting a few acres of Rye is good, and letting them graze sectioned off parts of the field before the heads start to form, and planting a large patch of Turnips/Rutabagas are great as they will eat the green when you harvest them and will gladly eat the bulb when you feed it to them throughout the winter. Oh, any kind of hearty winter squash or a meaty pumpkin that you can harvest and feed them throughout the winter.
Love seeing a young man like you getting into farming. I’m moving to a homestead (God willing) in May. I’ll be in Gainesville Fl. If you’re close, I’d like my first pig to come from your stock. Let me know how I can get on your waiting list. God bless you, brother. Wishing you the BEST!
im 3 hours away but I would be more than glad to help out with starting your herd! If you have issues finding anyone closer then let me know. I know I have a bias but so far everyone who sees my pigs says they are the best haha. Have people traveling out of state for them due to word of mouth.
New follower in Live Oak! Are you in Florida?! I love finding fellow Floridians on here so I can get all the info I need. We hope to get pigs eventually maybe in the next year or so but just getting our 4 acres set up.
Hi from wisconsin:) I bumped into your videos doing research.. I'm currently in the process of building my 650 foot pig pen with a small pond. Only 3 feet deep but wide.. Anyways, I'm new to this and just looking to grow my own food for myself and my 10 dogs:) I subscribed to your channel and might be reaching out to you if you have connections and advice. I have 2 julianna pigs currently that have not yet bred. These pigs will be outside year round. Ma and pa are pets, kids will be food or money. Hopefully all the piglets will be mean and ugly so I don't keep them lol. Anyways, good content. Keep the videos coming because I know alot of people are going in the same direction you are currently:) Grocery stores are filled with junk . And people are getting wise to the bullshit:)
Starting up soon in Poland with homestead 1,5 hectares of semi-forested land and crazy EU regulations. First of all, my goal is to feed my family. Then, I will check what future brings...
I went from a waiting list to a dead stop on piglet sales this year. Covid made a huge demand for piglets so I healed gilts back and bred them due to piglet demand and then it just stoped. I am in Va and raise Berkshire as well . Great job on marketing! Also feed is your biggest cost beside time.
If by "exactly" you mean selling baby animals the way the video maker does be ready for the fact that baby chicks are not nearly as valuable as baby pigs. You'll need to do a lot of volume to make selling chicks profitable.
@@Rowow I think I could rent some family land about 10 min from me. I’ve known of the method that Salatin uses for years but have been intimidated by the numbers of large animals. But you seem to have an idea that’s more accessible, selling feeders. A few large animals (though maybe more temperamental?) and selling off smaller animals that I don’t have to figure out how to slaughter. I guess another question is if you’d recommend being 10 min away from your animals. Maybe I should try to dig something a bit closer.
Love the video and there is a lot of information in there, thank you. Only comment would be I struggled to hear some bits, would love it even more if you had a mic
Man great video!! What part of Florida are you in. I hope you start making more videos on the farming side. This was very knowledgeable and appreciated. Take care
The economics are clearly just better in the US. I farm pedigree Berkshires here in the UK, and loose money on every pig produced currently. Weaned piglets only sell for around £50 and if you raise the pig to finishing weight it’s still only around £2 per KG, meaning it costs more to feed them than you can make
I'm gonna guess you spent about $8,000 including gas for picking up feed and supplies and all the stuff you mentioned. If soneone was able to find a lot of stuff for cheap or free, they might be able to get that closer to $7k if they already had land and a well. In the subsequent years, your overall costs will go down and some maintenance costs will be incurred. Don't forget your labor! It seems like a fairly profitable enterprise! Hope the best for you
Appreciate you making these 2 videos. Quick question…How are you selling the the product to your customers? As in, are they buying by the cut? Or are they buying a half or whole pig? Thanks in advance.
yes facebook groups, etc (craigslist used to be great but is now dead) are great ways to see current prices of things and how well they sell. Ill be honest its harder now due to many of these websites making sale of livestock difficult and most farmers have to create their own platforms to market to customers (websites/etc) which is obviously not feasible to use when starting off.
Have you looked into food industry waste “garbage feeding” your pigs? I grew up on a large hog farm with 4000 hogs in Michigan. I don’t know exactly what was in the feed mixture I know it had corn soy as well as food waist from a big bakery Roskam baking. the rules have changed recently and local governments are starting to regulate it more. I looked up Florida and it is legal you just have to be licensed and follow the rules. Hope this helps
First issue is I already tried asking and they already have a farm that gets it. Second issue is the protein and nutritional content isnt good enough. Human processed food is very unhealthy. Third issue is the time to drive around hours picking up feed every week isnt worth it. I go through about $7 of feed a day. I would much rather pay that out of my own money for the time spent. Looking to make my own animal feed from alternative sources instead.
We love our pigs! We bought raw woodland and are using them to clear the land for us to make pastures and garden areas :) We don't feed in troughs, however: I inititally shoot a scoop of feed over the fence to get them occupied and prevent myself from being bombarded by hungry hogs when I go in, and then I go in and dump a scoop of feed in spots that I specifically want them to dig up, like hills, old tree stumps, trees that I want gone... it works well ;) We have mixed breeds right now, as that was what was available when we were ready to buy. My sow is half Berkshire, half American guinea hog; the boar we just put in the freezer was half Berkshire, half mangalitsa. Our other sow is berkshire/mangalitsa/something else, but her first litter was only 4, her second only 3 so she's going to freezer camp next. We have four younglings from the ladies' first litters: one son will be used for next breeding (with all the different DNA between dad and mom, I don't see any reason not to breed son to mother), the other will be grown out for food; the two gilts we don't own, but are looking after them until their buyer gets her own place set up. But yeah, love our pigs! My Pig-pig is the best, though 🥰
I’ve heard that industrial farm pig tastes different because they never go outside and don’t get as much hemoglobin production in their blood. Along with never foraging like your pigs do.
Hi Again! Before I get into some math, the Greg Judy channel specifically does not do pigs cuz Greg claims it's not sustainable to feed and that if you feed you'll go broke. He doesn't seem to think that droughts are not very sustainable when trying to grow pasture either-but that's another topic. A few years ago, Joe Salatin was the first RUclips video that I watched about small farming. The Math: As a former accountant, I just want to stratisfy the balance sheet a bit which will give me a more clear picture: I'm going to give you the $27,000 Gross income. I recall, correctly or not, you said you spent about $3,000 on animals. You then said $300 a month for feed which extends out to $3600 annually. Then I think you said about another $300 in fencing materials. I'm going to add an estimated $750 in property taxes and $500 in electricity usage costs. Liability insurance ...?????? In Format,: $27,000 (-$ 3,000) (-$ 3,600) (-$ 300) (-$ 750) (-$ 500) (-$ 300) Electric Fence Materials ------------ $18,750 $18,750 net profit on $8,250 of costs. This results in a 227% annual return on investment! =============== HOWEVER: I have yet to watch a farming video, or at least small scale farming or regenerative farming if it's on a large scale, that takes into account the cost of the land. Now I know you're only on 5 acres when you talk to part one so you're an anomaly. But most videos I watch, the land was bought decades ago when the prices were much more reasonable, or they're leasing land at a per-acre price that won't even get you a square yard here in the Chicagoland area. Since you already own the land, it is already a "sunk" cost therefore you can ignore it for your own purposes. However, for those of us that still need to procure land, and along with those that need to rent land, we cannot ignore land costs. The summer of 2022 average cost per acre of agricultural cropland in the state of Illinois was $12,000 per acre. This is $60,000 for us five acre spot if you could even see anyone selling it. True, one may be able to finance part of a land purchase which likely will provide better cash flow, but it's still a cost for those of us who are starting from scratch. I forgot to mention: I like how you have it set up so the other pigs may come and go as they please. What keeps them from running away off the farm? But bottom line: I'm very impressed of what you got going on:especially since you're young age. I wish I thought of this or new of this when I was working as I hired hand on Wisconsin farms 40 years ago. P.S. Bleaching Pork? Are you serious? I have read on a veterinarian's website that one of the preservatives used in cheap dog food is the same stuff used to involve dead bodies at morgues. EDITS: 1. Fixed the proper fencing costs. 2. Added an estimated property taxes. 3. Edit an estimated use of electricity costs. EDIT II: Adjusting feed expenses to $300.00 monthly. In all fairness to me, I heard $400 a month spent on feed in the video and I did not hear anything about only $300 of that was designated for the pigs.
Land IS so an expense to those that do NOT own the land. And the landowner must pay upkeep of the land fees, fix the fence costs, and property taxes: hence, even the landowner has stuff that hits the come statement per year. Take it from someone that has an accounting degree. LAND OWNER Land $xxx,xxx Debit Cash or Loans Payable $xxx,xxxx. Credit Definitely a balance sheet item here. LAND RENTER Use of Land Expense. $yy,yyy. Debit Cash. $yy,yyy. Credit Land doesn't go on this person's balance sheet cuz he doesn't own the land. A tenant in a strip mall who does not own the strip mall pays a rent. He does not put strip mall on his balance sheet. The correct place for those that rent land year-to-year is on the income statement and shown as an expense. LAND LESSEE Leasing is always a bit difficult to account for because it has traits of both owning and renting. Will consider all leases under 1-year to be a Rental. ** EdIt** the years of the lease are rather irrelevant. I'm surprised mr. Masters Degree didn't catch my error. The journal entry will be the same as a renter save that you could probably put lease expense instead of rent expense. A footnote on the balance sheet is likely required to notify of the off-balance-sheet financing. **End Edit** ++++++++ Regardless, whether land be a balance sheet item or not is mostly irrelevant. It is the cash flow that I was mostly referring to. However, I think even if you own the land, you should impute a rental cost for the land in order for it to be more legitimate accounting. I know this isn't done much in practice or else Farmers wouldn't grow so much corn and soybeans which has so little return compared to even alfalfa hay the past decade. But if person A owns the land, he is always going to be able to undercut the same person B who has to pay market price rent. I do not own land, but I do own a truck-tracror. I can take more days off or haut shorter length in measured by miles loads than someone who's paying $1,500 a week on a note financing a newer truck-tractor. This aforementioned truck-tractor theory works the same for land ownership versus land rental. EDIT: Since it's been a couple decades since I worked as an accountant and flew by the seat of my pants making this comment; I conflated a capital lease with a regular lease. Since ownership does not transfer to the lessee I think it's just not relevant whether the lease is 4 more than one year. BOTTOM LINE: The lessee does not put operating leases on his balance sheet but must footnote it as a financing option.
@@michaeldunagan8268 I got my BA in accounting some 20+ years ago and an MBA soon thereafter. The question of purchased land being on the balance sheet is not irrelevant as it is an asset/investment as it has value. Value that can be sold for a gain or used as leverage. You can also it use it for a cash out refi. It is correct that if you rent the land it would be an income statement item. However, you were referring above to purchasing land. If you finance the purchase of the land the only part that would impact the income statement is the amortized interest from your payments. The other items mentioned such as taxes, repairs etc.. are expenses but are totally separtate from the land. Unless said expenses reach certain thresholds and are part of a project then would again be a balance sheet item and depreciated out.
you added a extra 0 in fencing, its $300 the feed prices fluctuates from $300 a month to $500. Alot of my feed goes to my chickens, rabbits, and other animals so its only $300 to the animals I show in the video. I go through 1 bag every 2 days. I paid 30k for my 5 acres 4 years ago. So the ROI is more than enough within a few months, especially since im only using a fraction of my land. You can still buy 7-10 acres in texas/florida for 40-50k. Ive seen plenty of listings you can still buy land decently priced. You dont need agriculture cropland for pigs. they actually prefer wooded undeveloped land. Thats what make pigs even better. Yes im serious that stores bleach pork/beef/poultry. Look it up.
@@lonestarsapper7d You are hitting a ball to center field that goes foul despite your resume. All of your replies are irrelevant or redundant. My entire point was that many like me who watch these farming channels don't already own land. Therefore, when the channels don't discuss the "use of the land" costs, it's just a red herring for me. I'm pretty sure it would be such a red herring for the small business administration lender also. I seem to recall Greg Judy mentioning that one cannot profitably " buy cropland in Illinois and Indiana because it's too expensive" but rather one has "to go out to the hills". This was as close and as much as I remember any land costs being talked about buy him or anyone else within the last five years of filming their video. +++++++++ You keep opining about where the asset "land" should be put on the financial statements but I'm trying to say there's a big cash flow problem for those of us trying to get into farming-regardless of where the place land on the financial statements. I just don't see where it's profitable at today's land prices to purchase a farm and make a profit on it let alone a living-unless growing some sort of specialty crop or hundreds of chickens. I'm not talkin' about a hobby or taking a job in town to support the farm: I am talking about a $50,000 a year minimum gross income before income taxes. +++++++ Then here comes this host of this video which may have a key to open the safe which I say is still shut. He claims he's making good money on very small acreage-three quarters of an acre if memory serves. This is a watershed for me relative to other farming videos I have watched because: (1) either the farms had hundreds of acres under control, or (2) they were just a backyard hobbiests raising one or two animals for their own food. And- you see the labor the host has to undertake perhaps twice-daily to run his pigs. Plus, he middle-fingerd the Greg Judy philosophy of just get animals that are herbivores so you don't have to mess with the "feed" issues. Greg does not raise pigs because of this issue alone. Greg is rather a set-it-and-forget-it type of farmer except for the moving the animals twice per day.. I don't know if I entirely "buy-in" with Greg's opinion; yet the author of this video said that the volatility of feed prices has kept him from expanding his pigs head-count. That's one point for the Greg Judy philosophy that "feeding grain is not sustainable.". For that matter, neither is irrigation if you see what the drought stuff is going on out west. BOTTOM LINE; I have neither a financial advisor license nor a certified public accountant license. However, it is my best believe that what I have put in these comments would hold water to any investor or lender. I think it would look pretty city if you go in to get a loan for a business that makes use of hundreds of acres and you don't account for how you going to pay the property taxes on it or how you going to keep the weeds off it or you how you going to fence and keep animals off of it or inside of it. Just my 2¢. And you should know from your degrees that you can't appreciate land which is a very big tax-dodge for buying almost any other assets such as a truck-tractor or a building..
Ive tried to go to every resturaunt around me but they already have people taking their foods. Second issue is the nutritional content is not sufficient, ive seen pigs fed off table scraps and they are not healthy. Human food suprise suprise is unhealthy. Thirdly my feed costs for my pigs is less than $10 a day. So making a trip out every day or few days simply doesnt make sense. I would waste far more time and money sorting through it all. Im currently working on making my own animal feed which ill make a video from soon
Never had a issue with fire/sparks. Typically if it sparks its because its wet. Dry grass doesnt spark. The pigs are smart and can hear when the electric fence is off when it stops clicking/sparking and sometimes get out. But simply chasing them forces them back to where they feel comfortable. Or a bucket of feed :D
The little piglets don't wander off? Or do you have a perimeter fence if they do? I have never seen anyone do that. We are considering pigs in an area of our woods. Most people say don't farrow. Just raise their weight for slaughter. You only are utilizing 3/4 of an acre for pigs? Thanks for sharing. I would love to see more details of how and when the pigs learn the fence. Total space used.
I have a field wire fence on the perimeter of my property. When they are very small they sometimes jump through the holes but within a week or two grow big enough to stop. Im making decent money farrowing only a couple sows. Remember alot of people spread misinformation. Buying berkshire piglets is hard on its own. Yes im only using 3/4 of a acre. Ill do my best to make more videos soon!
How much time do they require over all? Per day? What do your neighbors think? Do the pigs escape and damage stuff? Like damage the neighbors stuff, or pets, or kids?
Average out I would say less than 3-5 hours a week. takes less than 5 minuites to feed them as you saw in the video. I feed them twice a day. Occasionally have to maintain the electric fence like I did today which i spent about 2 hours, which is a rare occurance maybe once or twice a month, plus buying pig feed from the store thats 15 minuites away so another 2 hours on unloading/driving. Neighbors love it especially when they have piglets. They like to feed them scraps and show the kids them. I very rarely have them escape. Out of 3-4 years they only got out 2 times. Ive had feral and other people's pigs come into my property on the other hand over 6 times haha.
What legal paperwork did you have to do in order to sell the meat? I read your comments and saw that you mainly sell piglets. I'm raising a few pigs right now for slaughter. But I can't figure out what the government forces me to do.
different government and areas are different so not sure what you need. In my case if I want to sell my meat I would have to take it to a licensed butcher to process.
Hi what an amazing informative video! TYSM! Currently I have been raising egg laying Hens in NYC. AND KIND OF MASTERED THE CARBON NITROGEN RATIO TO AVOID ODOR. yay! Living in the heart of NY IS CHALLENGING. However, I buy feed in bulk as I have 100+hens. I dream of raising hogs however, that is not legal where I live. I do dream of retiring in Florida or Puerto Rico. I would love your assistance/guidance.
I watched both videos but somehow missed it (#multitaskingmom 🥴) … your annual feed cost was or wasn’t included in your expenses? Also, what kind of feed do you use? Do you ever mess with getting them processed and selling meat direct to consumer or is that more trouble than it’s worth?
I mentioned the feed costs were $400-500 a month (varies drastically due to recent violotility) before it was only $300. Im raising a few to meat for direct to plate, havent done it yet only been doing this for 2-3 years
Awesome information. Do you process your piglets (ear markings, teeth cutting, tail snipping, injections) at all? How old do you sell them at? A few weeks or after weening? Thank you!
They say pork is the other white meat not because they bleach it, because they bred out the fat genetics to make it super lean like chicken. The side affect was a lighter colored meat. I think pork industry had an identity crisis. At first they tried to say they were like chicken. Then they were like beef. Now they are saying they are pork, as in bacon.
Have you lost any piglets to fox or coyotes? If they are outside from momma, I would think that they could be easy prey. Thanks for sharing your farming experience.
ive lost a few weak piglets to hawks during the first week. Otherwise we dont have those around and as the other commenter replied the mother is very protective!
Thanks for the info. Just a helpful tip it would be good if you knew your numbers a little better…. 200-300 per piglet for example is a wide range. Look at what each piglet sold for and give us an actual average price point. How much are you spending on feed and stuff?
gotta be careful with making sure its high enough protein. Seen way too many people make the mistake of low protein feed and results in a malnourished pig thats obese or very unhealthy. my pork is redder than beef!
I have chickens but the profit per chicken/egg is very low. Its good side money but a little unrealistic without going full commercial. I would need hundredths of chickens to make the same profit I do with my few pigs.
@@Rowow I agree. Chickens may double the money but I'd rather make 80% on $500.00 then 200% on $5.00. And it takes a lot of Labor to double that money. When I first started watching videos I guess about two or three years ago, chickens were one of the first ones I watched; I think it was Joe Salatin. And he indeed had just dozens and dozens of broilers and dozens of egg layers. But probably a chickens for my own eggs but I wouldn't expect it to be a revenue driver on any farm that I envision.
Hi yet again. I come up with a calculation that three-quarters of one acre is roughly about 60 yards square; this is the back of an end-zone how to the 50-yard line square on NFL fields. Question: how do you keep the 3/4 of the acre from filling up from all the body waste from the pigs? Except for the one or two animal hobbyists that I watched on RUclips, most regenerative Farmers or small acreage farmers and certainly the biggest acreage farmers ensure to rotate pastures of the animals in an attempt to ward off parasites: namely worms.
3/4 acre is 3630 square yards im not sure how you are doing your calculations but this is the second time again they are way off google "3/4 acre to square yard" my property has no smell and everyone that comes by compliments how clean it is
@@Rowow Thank you for the expeditious and informative reply. I really am in debt to you because I think you have seemingly solved the puzzle of profiting on small acreage using animals. I wish you continued further success and continued good health for you and your animals: and plants! +++++++++ My mistake the first time was either misremembering or transposing a figure. This time I made the error of using three feet which is a linear measurement and not the proper figure to get a yard square. I should have used 27 feet square to equal once yard square. Done with the way I would have done it before computers I went to the internet on MathaPapa: 11√30 yards square is my final answer for a square three-quarters acre. My calculator says √30 is 5.477 rounded to three decimal places. 11 × 5.477 = 60.247. Checking the math: 11√30 × 11√30 = 3,680. I regret my error. ++++++++ I'm watching a NFL football game currently. Given the field is roughly 53 yards wide, we need to go 68.5 yards from the goal line, past the 50-yard line by 18.5 yards or to 1/2 yard past the +32-yard line. I'm basically saying that in less than the playing surface of an NFL football field you're keeping 13 pigs for the duration of 12 months. It just surprises me. I would think all the peeing and pooing 13 pigs would do would fill up that space within 3 months. I guess I overestimate the body waist from pigs. --------------- Thanks again for hanging in there with me through my erroneous ways. 🙂 ////////// EDIT: After browsing around after leaving this, such as this article: extension.missouri.edu/publications/g2360#advantages It seems that you're not the only one that can raise pigs on a postage stamp relative to sheep and cattle. I have been kind of Greg Judy heavy viewing the past 3-4 months. Grazing of these animals requires a very large footprint footprint indeed.
as you saw in the video me feeding the pigs is the longest thing I spend on. Less than 30 minuites a day to feed them twice a day. Im looking to also build a automated feeder once I make my own animal feed. But in general I spend 5 hours a week
Thanks for the reply. I was just wondering if you were. Have always been intrigued by their work. Both the men and the women. Thought you might know other things to enlighten us,haha. Love your channel 😉
I'mma need a source for the whole "grocery store pork is bleached" claim. That sounds suspiciously made up and I can't find anything to support it. The closest thing I could find is that some meat is cleaned with hydrogen peroxide to get blood and other contaminants off of it, but that seems to be done to all kinds of meat, and since I can't remember ever seeing white beef I have to assume this does not change the color of the meat. As far as I understand it commercial pork is white because those pigs are fed nothing but corn. In order for meat to turn red the animals have to eat grass, grass contains a chemical called myoglobin, and myoglobin turns the meat red. The reason your pigs have red meat is because you keep them outside where they can graze on grasses and other plants the way pigs would naturally do in the wild if left to their own devices. Commercial pork meat is white and basically tasteless because those animals are not raised in a way that is natural to the animal, they eat nothing but foods they would never encounter in nature and are just kept in very unnatural conditions. Conditions that are conducive to growing a lot of meat fast but not conducive to developing a lot of flavor.
google "chlorinated pork". They use Sodium hypochlorite for the chlorine, which is commercially known as bleach. They also do it to flour and many other foods. Know what you eat
Do you have a website or contact page? I’m In Georgetown(welaka/crescent city/satsuma). I would like to start pigs for personal consumption. Hoping you can help me get started!
@@Rowow It might mean "upper peninsula.". In the Great Lakes region of the country, the upper peninsula of Michigan actually attaches to the state of Wisconsin.
Good report. Fix the sound, The pigs were talking louder than you, then at the trailer, you mumbling is hard to hear, then you finish with loud music. Great info , terrible sound. I look forward to your pig food crop ideas.
thanks alot for the critique! I just got a wireless microphone to solve this issue yesterday! I have some pre recorded video footage but otherwise most of my new videos should be on the new microphone
You gotta get to the point. I started watching first video, got board started 2nd video 3 minutes of blabber, i didn't watch it. You lost a viewer, it's not my first farm/homestead video Ive ever seen. The only reason I clicked was calling BS on the numbers but now I don't care
raised hogs for 30 years. you don't have a 10 pig avg. per sow in the dirt. closer to 5 or 6. with corn at 7.00 a bushel and bean meal at 42.00 per hundred selling feeder pigs won't pay the feed bill! sorry to burst your bubble but been there done that. also your herd had to be vet certified in order to sell anything not for slaughter.
Way to piss on someone’s dreams… Instead of criticizing this young man Why not use your vast years of expertise and tell him how to maximize his profits…?
You know as I sit here and watch this video I keep re-reading your comment and the more I read it the more it pisses me off and people like you in general piss me off…! You think you’re some expert just because you did something for some length of time… Then you have the audacity to question the claims this young man makes just because you didn’t have the same experience that he has…! I don’t give a Royal Rat’s Ass what the cost of feed is, if he says he’s making a profit of x-amount of dollars then I believe him…! He has no reason to lie about it, he’s not selling some book or program to make money from false claims…! He wouldn’t be doing it if he wasn’t making money at it, yet you and your superiority tell him that he can’t just because you don’t, didn’t, or couldn’t…! I was always taught, if you don’t have anything nice to say then maybe you should keep your mouth shut… Today I’m making an exception and speaking out on this young man’s behalf… Maybe next time you should make an exception too because all you’ve done is make yourself out to be an Arrogant Ass…
If you watched the whole video you heard him say he was selling mostly registered Berkshire piglets… like most other farming operations, registered breeding stock sells for much more than commercial feeders.
I’ve got an x brother in law raising show hogletts making xtreme money per pig. One just sold for $10,000 but like you he’s been doing this 15-20 years
if you are having only 5-6 piglets a litter you should feed your pigs better. Ive noticed when you feed them too little they have reduced litter sizes. Dont be greedy. Saving that extra scoops loses 4-5 extra piglets that could have made you $500. Vet certification is only required for out of state transfer in the state of florida. Different places have different laws
For feeding pigs, Acorns are a great source of natural food and all you need to do is collect it to save it for winter, and if you have any swampy areas, plant Cattails as they will spread quickly, the pigs will dig up the roots, in the process spreading them all around and like the weed they are they will grow back thicker year after year.
For a crop intended to feed pigs, planting a few acres of Rye is good, and letting them graze sectioned off parts of the field before the heads start to form, and planting a large patch of Turnips/Rutabagas are great as they will eat the green when you harvest them and will gladly eat the bulb when you feed it to them throughout the winter.
Oh, any kind of hearty winter squash or a meaty pumpkin that you can harvest and feed them throughout the winter.
You are young and smart and we need more men like you.
Love seeing a young man like you getting into farming. I’m moving to a homestead (God willing) in May. I’ll be in Gainesville Fl. If you’re close, I’d like my first pig to come from your stock. Let me know how I can get on your waiting list.
God bless you, brother. Wishing you the BEST!
im 3 hours away but I would be more than glad to help out with starting your herd! If you have issues finding anyone closer then let me know. I know I have a bias but so far everyone who sees my pigs says they are the best haha. Have people traveling out of state for them due to word of mouth.
New follower in Live Oak! Are you in Florida?! I love finding fellow Floridians on here so I can get all the info I need. We hope to get pigs eventually maybe in the next year or so but just getting our 4 acres set up.
You are a wise young man. God bless you and your endeavours, and keep you safe 🙏🏽
Your pork pictures make my mouth water! And “Think Hard (not work hard) Stay Happy!” Has got to be your next t-shirt for sale!
Good talk. Glad to see things seem to be working working out. It's nice to hear about the ups AND downs of reality.
Hi from wisconsin:)
I bumped into your videos doing research.. I'm currently in the process of building my 650 foot pig pen with a small pond. Only 3 feet deep but wide..
Anyways, I'm new to this and just looking to grow my own food for myself and my 10 dogs:) I subscribed to your channel and might be reaching out to you if you have connections and advice. I have 2 julianna pigs currently that have not yet bred.
These pigs will be outside year round.
Ma and pa are pets, kids will be food or money. Hopefully all the piglets will be mean and ugly so I don't keep them lol.
Anyways, good content. Keep the videos coming because I know alot of people are going in the same direction you are currently:)
Grocery stores are filled with junk . And people are getting wise to the bullshit:)
"Think hard. Don't work hard. Stay happy." wise beyond your years. I wish I'd had your attitude when I was your age.
Starting up soon in Poland with homestead 1,5 hectares of semi-forested land and crazy EU regulations. First of all, my goal is to feed my family. Then, I will check what future brings...
I went from a waiting list to a dead stop on piglet sales this year. Covid made a huge demand for piglets so I healed gilts back and bred them due to piglet demand and then it just stoped. I am in Va and raise Berkshire as well . Great job on marketing! Also feed is your biggest cost beside time.
To supplement the protein for our pigs we used rabbits because they propagate so well and are low cost to raise and harvest.
I live in Florida too and this is exactly what I've been wanting to do along with chickens.
If by "exactly" you mean selling baby animals the way the video maker does be ready for the fact that baby chicks are not nearly as valuable as baby pigs. You'll need to do a lot of volume to make selling chicks profitable.
The chickens I'd raise for eggs and food source.
I like the mulberry pictures
Thank you for sharing the great info!
Great vid thanks for sharing.
Thanks for these videos, they’re inspirational. They encourage me in how I can get on to a piece of land.
Happy to tell you thats exactly what my next video topic is going to be this thursday! How to find and buy land for cheap
@@Rowow I think I could rent some family land about 10 min from me. I’ve known of the method that Salatin uses for years but have been intimidated by the numbers of large animals. But you seem to have an idea that’s more accessible, selling feeders. A few large animals (though maybe more temperamental?) and selling off smaller animals that I don’t have to figure out how to slaughter. I guess another question is if you’d recommend being 10 min away from your animals. Maybe I should try to dig something a bit closer.
Love the video and there is a lot of information in there, thank you. Only comment would be I struggled to hear some bits, would love it even more if you had a mic
You should be very proud of yourself!!!!
Thanks! my goal is to inspire others and correct misinformation
Good video! Thank you for posting.
Very interesting and good luck with the you tube adventure
Man great video!! What part of Florida are you in. I hope you start making more videos on the farming side. This was very knowledgeable and appreciated. Take care
I cant live without pigs anymore! :D
I love these videos, where is your hat from?
not sure I had it since I was young
Nice video!
The bacon from Berkshire pigs is amazing.
BERKWOOD Farms out of Des Moines, Ia makes some great products.
The economics are clearly just better in the US. I farm pedigree Berkshires here in the UK, and loose money on every pig produced currently. Weaned piglets only sell for around £50 and if you raise the pig to finishing weight it’s still only around £2 per KG, meaning it costs more to feed them than you can make
That’s crazy I’m sorry to hear that
good explanation about your operation, but you need to invest in a microphone or field recording device for sound.
I agree already did my newer videos are better
Well done
Ur just a cool guy .. really like what & how Ur doing things 👍
Enjoyed your videos, Thank You
I'm gonna guess you spent about $8,000 including gas for picking up feed and supplies and all the stuff you mentioned. If soneone was able to find a lot of stuff for cheap or free, they might be able to get that closer to $7k if they already had land and a well. In the subsequent years, your overall costs will go down and some maintenance costs will be incurred. Don't forget your labor! It seems like a fairly profitable enterprise! Hope the best for you
The feed store is 10 minutes away, I pick up feed on my way to buying groceries/other things.
Great job!
enjoyed your video curious to know would an aquqponic system subsidize feed cost as well as create other streams of income ?
yes I am! looking to make a video and expand on that soon
Appreciate you making these 2 videos. Quick question…How are you selling the the product to your customers? As in, are they buying by the cut? Or are they buying a half or whole pig? Thanks in advance.
im currently just selling piglets. Raising a few to meat and want to get butchered to sell cuts.
If your in Florida do you have problems with wild pigs
ive had issues with other pigs breaking into my property yes. Its just means free dog food :)
Good video. Can I suggest a mic? Audio was a bit poor for me.
Already got a better one but thanks for the suggestion! One of my first videos ive made learned and still learning :)
@@Rowow You're doing great! Really enjoyed it. Looking forward to the next one
@@GatorMike79 uploading right now it's going public at 3:30
Also where at in FL are you? I’m in Macclenny near Jacksonville and have 2 pigs now I’m hoping will breed soon and start this process for us.
Central fl
Love this!!
Is there a good way to test the market ? Ask in fb groups or what?
yes facebook groups, etc (craigslist used to be great but is now dead) are great ways to see current prices of things and how well they sell. Ill be honest its harder now due to many of these websites making sale of livestock difficult and most farmers have to create their own platforms to market to customers (websites/etc) which is obviously not feasible to use when starting off.
Have you looked into food industry waste “garbage feeding” your pigs? I grew up on a large hog farm with 4000 hogs in Michigan. I don’t know exactly what was in the feed mixture I know it had corn soy as well as food waist from a big bakery Roskam baking. the rules have changed recently and local governments are starting to regulate it more. I looked up Florida and it is legal you just have to be licensed and follow the rules. Hope this helps
First issue is I already tried asking and they already have a farm that gets it.
Second issue is the protein and nutritional content isnt good enough. Human processed food is very unhealthy.
Third issue is the time to drive around hours picking up feed every week isnt worth it. I go through about $7 of feed a day. I would much rather pay that out of my own money for the time spent. Looking to make my own animal feed from alternative sources instead.
Maybe I missed it but do you have an estimate of how many hours you put into it or average per week?
on average less than 5 hours a week
@@Rowow thank you
We love our pigs! We bought raw woodland and are using them to clear the land for us to make pastures and garden areas :) We don't feed in troughs, however: I inititally shoot a scoop of feed over the fence to get them occupied and prevent myself from being bombarded by hungry hogs when I go in, and then I go in and dump a scoop of feed in spots that I specifically want them to dig up, like hills, old tree stumps, trees that I want gone... it works well ;) We have mixed breeds right now, as that was what was available when we were ready to buy. My sow is half Berkshire, half American guinea hog; the boar we just put in the freezer was half Berkshire, half mangalitsa. Our other sow is berkshire/mangalitsa/something else, but her first litter was only 4, her second only 3 so she's going to freezer camp next. We have four younglings from the ladies' first litters: one son will be used for next breeding (with all the different DNA between dad and mom, I don't see any reason not to breed son to mother), the other will be grown out for food; the two gilts we don't own, but are looking after them until their buyer gets her own place set up.
But yeah, love our pigs! My Pig-pig is the best, though 🥰
I’ve heard that industrial farm pig tastes different because they never go outside and don’t get as much hemoglobin production in their blood. Along with never foraging like your pigs do.
very true! my pork is redder than beef!
You mentioned plants and ..shrimp? Can you do a video on the different ways you make money on your farm??
Yes im doing my best to produce content twice a week so ill talk more about that in a future video
Where are you in Florida l am in Flora home thanks for sharing
That’s a hundred dollar piglet in Maine. I wish your video was true. If there was that much money in farming more of us would do it.
More people are doing it. Farm to plate is a very profitable venture thats drastically growing
Hi Again!
Before I get into some math, the Greg Judy channel specifically does not do pigs cuz Greg claims it's not sustainable to feed and that if you feed you'll go broke. He doesn't seem to think that droughts are not very sustainable when trying to grow pasture either-but that's another topic. A few years ago, Joe Salatin was the first RUclips video that I watched about small farming.
The Math:
As a former accountant, I just want to stratisfy the balance sheet a bit which will give me a more clear picture:
I'm going to give you the $27,000 Gross income. I recall, correctly or not, you said you spent about $3,000 on animals. You then said $300 a month for feed which extends out to $3600 annually. Then I think you said about another $300 in fencing materials. I'm going to add an estimated $750 in property taxes and $500 in electricity usage costs. Liability insurance ...??????
In Format,:
$27,000
(-$ 3,000)
(-$ 3,600)
(-$ 300)
(-$ 750)
(-$ 500)
(-$ 300) Electric Fence Materials
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$18,750
$18,750 net profit on $8,250 of costs. This results in a 227% annual return on investment!
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HOWEVER:
I have yet to watch a farming video, or at least small scale farming or regenerative farming if it's on a large scale, that takes into account the cost of the land. Now I know you're only on 5 acres when you talk to part one so you're an anomaly.
But most videos I watch, the land was bought decades ago when the prices were much more reasonable, or they're leasing land at a per-acre price that won't even get you a square yard here in the Chicagoland area.
Since you already own the land, it is already a "sunk" cost therefore you can ignore it for your own purposes. However, for those of us that still need to procure land, and along with those that need to rent land, we cannot ignore land costs. The summer of 2022 average cost per acre of agricultural cropland in the state of Illinois was $12,000 per acre. This is $60,000 for us five acre spot if you could even see anyone selling it. True, one may be able to finance part of a land purchase which likely will provide better cash flow, but it's still a cost for those of us who are starting from scratch.
I forgot to mention: I like how you have it set up so the other pigs may come and go as they please. What keeps them from running away off the farm?
But bottom line: I'm very impressed of what you got going on:especially since you're young age. I wish I thought of this or new of this when I was working as I hired hand on Wisconsin farms 40 years ago.
P.S. Bleaching Pork? Are you serious?
I have read on a veterinarian's website that one of the preservatives used in cheap dog food is the same stuff used to involve dead bodies at morgues.
EDITS:
1. Fixed the proper fencing costs.
2. Added an estimated property taxes.
3. Edit an estimated use of electricity costs.
EDIT II:
Adjusting feed expenses to $300.00 monthly. In all fairness to me, I heard $400 a month spent on feed in the video and I did not hear anything about only $300 of that was designated for the pigs.
However, land is a balance sheet item. Not an expense.
Land IS so an expense to those that do NOT own the land. And the landowner must pay upkeep of the land fees, fix the fence costs, and property taxes: hence, even the landowner has stuff that hits the come statement per year. Take it from someone that has an accounting degree.
LAND OWNER
Land $xxx,xxx Debit
Cash or Loans Payable $xxx,xxxx. Credit
Definitely a balance sheet item here.
LAND RENTER
Use of Land Expense. $yy,yyy. Debit
Cash. $yy,yyy. Credit
Land doesn't go on this person's balance sheet cuz he doesn't own the land. A tenant in a strip mall who does not own the strip mall pays a rent. He does not put strip mall on his balance sheet.
The correct place for those that rent land year-to-year is on the income statement and shown as an expense.
LAND LESSEE
Leasing is always a bit difficult to account for because it has traits of both owning and renting.
Will consider all leases under 1-year to be a Rental.
** EdIt** the years of the lease are rather irrelevant. I'm surprised mr. Masters Degree didn't catch my error. The journal entry will be the same as a renter save that you could probably put lease expense instead of rent expense. A footnote on the balance sheet is likely required to notify of the off-balance-sheet financing.
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Regardless, whether land be a balance sheet item or not is mostly irrelevant. It is the cash flow that I was mostly referring to.
However, I think even if you own the land, you should impute a rental cost for the land in order for it to be more legitimate accounting. I know this isn't done much in practice or else Farmers wouldn't grow so much corn and soybeans which has so little return compared to even alfalfa hay the past decade.
But if person A owns the land, he is always going to be able to undercut the same person B who has to pay market price rent.
I do not own land, but I do own a truck-tracror. I can take more days off or haut shorter length in measured by miles loads than someone who's paying $1,500 a week on a note financing a newer truck-tractor. This aforementioned truck-tractor theory works the same for land ownership versus land rental.
EDIT:
Since it's been a couple decades since I worked as an accountant and flew by the seat of my pants making this comment; I conflated a capital lease with a regular lease. Since ownership does not transfer to the lessee I think it's just not relevant whether the lease is 4 more than one year.
BOTTOM LINE:
The lessee does not put operating leases on his balance sheet but must footnote it as a financing option.
@@michaeldunagan8268 I got my BA in accounting some 20+ years ago and an MBA soon thereafter. The question of purchased land being on the balance sheet is not irrelevant as it is an asset/investment as it has value. Value that can be sold for a gain or used as leverage. You can also it use it for a cash out refi. It is correct that if you rent the land it would be an income statement item. However, you were referring above to purchasing land. If you finance the purchase of the land the only part that would impact the income statement is the amortized interest from your payments. The other items mentioned such as taxes, repairs etc.. are expenses but are totally separtate from the land. Unless said expenses reach certain thresholds and are part of a project then would again be a balance sheet item and depreciated out.
you added a extra 0 in fencing, its $300
the feed prices fluctuates from $300 a month to $500. Alot of my feed goes to my chickens, rabbits, and other animals so its only $300 to the animals I show in the video. I go through 1 bag every 2 days. I paid 30k for my 5 acres 4 years ago. So the ROI is more than enough within a few months, especially since im only using a fraction of my land.
You can still buy 7-10 acres in texas/florida for 40-50k. Ive seen plenty of listings you can still buy land decently priced. You dont need agriculture cropland for pigs. they actually prefer wooded undeveloped land. Thats what make pigs even better.
Yes im serious that stores bleach pork/beef/poultry. Look it up.
@@lonestarsapper7d
You are hitting a ball to center field that goes foul despite your resume. All of your replies are irrelevant or redundant.
My entire point was that many like me who watch these farming channels don't already own land. Therefore, when the channels don't discuss the "use of the land" costs, it's just a red herring for me. I'm pretty sure it would be such a red herring for the small business administration lender also.
I seem to recall Greg Judy mentioning that one cannot profitably " buy cropland in Illinois and Indiana because it's too expensive" but rather one has "to go out to the hills". This was as close and as much as I remember any land costs being talked about buy him or anyone else within the last five years of filming their video.
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You keep opining about where the asset "land" should be put on the financial statements but I'm trying to say there's a big cash flow problem for those of us trying to get into farming-regardless of where the place land on the financial statements.
I just don't see where it's profitable at today's land prices to purchase a farm and make a profit on it let alone a living-unless growing some sort of specialty crop or hundreds of chickens. I'm not talkin' about a hobby or taking a job in town to support the farm: I am talking about a $50,000 a year minimum gross income before income taxes.
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Then here comes this host of this video which may have a key to open the safe which I say is still shut. He claims he's making good money on very small acreage-three quarters of an acre if memory serves. This is a watershed for me relative to other farming videos I have watched because: (1) either the farms had hundreds of acres under control, or (2) they were just a backyard hobbiests raising one or two animals for their own food. And- you see the labor the host has to undertake perhaps twice-daily to run his pigs. Plus, he middle-fingerd the Greg Judy philosophy of just get animals that are herbivores so you don't have to mess with the "feed" issues. Greg does not raise pigs because of this issue alone. Greg is rather a set-it-and-forget-it type of farmer except for the moving the animals twice per day..
I don't know if I entirely "buy-in" with Greg's opinion; yet the author of this video said that the volatility of feed prices has kept him from expanding his pigs head-count. That's one point for the Greg Judy philosophy that "feeding grain is not sustainable.". For that matter, neither is irrigation if you see what the drought stuff is going on out west.
BOTTOM LINE;
I have neither a financial advisor license nor a certified public accountant license. However, it is my best believe that what I have put in these comments would hold water to any investor or lender. I think it would look pretty city if you go in to get a loan for a business that makes use of hundreds of acres and you don't account for how you going to pay the property taxes on it or how you going to keep the weeds off it or you how you going to fence and keep animals off of it or inside of it.
Just my 2¢.
And you should know from your degrees that you can't appreciate land which is a very big tax-dodge for buying almost any other assets such as a truck-tractor or a building..
Great information
When are you selling the piglets? 8 weeks? Or they weaned
5-8 weeks
typically they are weaned and eating grass/pig feed at 5 weeks
How do the pigs deal with predators, suck as coyotes?
never had a issue
What part of Florida man I’m wanting to get in to farming meat for sale would love to link up and share knowledge
I used to work at restaurants and we would throw away about 4 to 5 50 gallon bags of food a day that's not including the food off people's plate
Ive tried to go to every resturaunt around me but they already have people taking their foods. Second issue is the nutritional content is not sufficient, ive seen pigs fed off table scraps and they are not healthy. Human food suprise suprise is unhealthy. Thirdly my feed costs for my pigs is less than $10 a day. So making a trip out every day or few days simply doesnt make sense. I would waste far more time and money sorting through it all. Im currently working on making my own animal feed which ill make a video from soon
I am in Florida. Do you sell piglets? I might want to get some berkshire.
What are your costs... feed, water, electric? I'm always glad to see people doing good for themselves... especially the younger generation!!
I list the costs in the video. Electrical costs are little to none. Probably $20 a year. I use a well
How do you prevent sparks causing fires with the fence? If the fence shorts out, do the pigs know and escape?
Never had a issue with fire/sparks. Typically if it sparks its because its wet. Dry grass doesnt spark. The pigs are smart and can hear when the electric fence is off when it stops clicking/sparking and sometimes get out. But simply chasing them forces them back to where they feel comfortable. Or a bucket of feed :D
The little piglets don't wander off? Or do you have a perimeter fence if they do? I have never seen anyone do that. We are considering pigs in an area of our woods. Most people say don't farrow. Just raise their weight for slaughter. You only are utilizing 3/4 of an acre for pigs? Thanks for sharing. I would love to see more details of how and when the pigs learn the fence. Total space used.
I have a field wire fence on the perimeter of my property. When they are very small they sometimes jump through the holes but within a week or two grow big enough to stop. Im making decent money farrowing only a couple sows. Remember alot of people spread misinformation. Buying berkshire piglets is hard on its own. Yes im only using 3/4 of a acre. Ill do my best to make more videos soon!
How much time do they require over all? Per day?
What do your neighbors think?
Do the pigs escape and damage stuff? Like damage the neighbors stuff, or pets, or kids?
Average out I would say less than 3-5 hours a week. takes less than 5 minuites to feed them as you saw in the video. I feed them twice a day. Occasionally have to maintain the electric fence like I did today which i spent about 2 hours, which is a rare occurance maybe once or twice a month, plus buying pig feed from the store thats 15 minuites away so another 2 hours on unloading/driving.
Neighbors love it especially when they have piglets. They like to feed them scraps and show the kids them. I very rarely have them escape. Out of 3-4 years they only got out 2 times. Ive had feral and other people's pigs come into my property on the other hand over 6 times haha.
What legal paperwork did you have to do in order to sell the meat? I read your comments and saw that you mainly sell piglets. I'm raising a few pigs right now for slaughter. But I can't figure out what the government forces me to do.
different government and areas are different so not sure what you need. In my case if I want to sell my meat I would have to take it to a licensed butcher to process.
Hi what an amazing informative video! TYSM! Currently I have been raising egg laying Hens in NYC. AND KIND OF MASTERED THE CARBON NITROGEN RATIO TO AVOID ODOR. yay! Living in the heart of NY IS CHALLENGING. However, I buy feed in bulk as I have 100+hens. I dream of raising hogs however, that is not legal where I live. I do dream of retiring in Florida or Puerto Rico. I would love your assistance/guidance.
Ill do my best to upload more videos of my farming and manafacturing updates. If there is any specific questions id be glad to answer!
Where in Florida are you located?
I watched both videos but somehow missed it (#multitaskingmom 🥴) … your annual feed cost was or wasn’t included in your expenses?
Also, what kind of feed do you use?
Do you ever mess with getting them processed and selling meat direct to consumer or is that more trouble than it’s worth?
I mentioned the feed costs were $400-500 a month (varies drastically due to recent violotility) before it was only $300. Im raising a few to meat for direct to plate, havent done it yet only been doing this for 2-3 years
Awesome information. Do you process your piglets (ear markings, teeth cutting, tail snipping, injections) at all? How old do you sell them at? A few weeks or after weening?
Thank you!
yes! and great timing im going to make a video exactly on this! editing it right now haha
They say pork is the other white meat not because they bleach it, because they bred out the fat genetics to make it super lean like chicken. The side affect was a lighter colored meat.
I think pork industry had an identity crisis. At first they tried to say they were like chicken. Then they were like beef. Now they are saying they are pork, as in bacon.
Pasture raised pork of any breed develops a redder meat. Certain breeds yes are redder than others, regardless my pork is more red than grocery beef
How old were the pigs you sold
5-8 weeks
How much is it to register each pig?
There is a litter registration fee of $35 regardless how many
@@Rowow thanks
I’m interested in buying a pig how can I contact you . I live in central Florida south of Orlando.
you can find my email in my about me page
Have you lost any piglets to fox or coyotes? If they are outside from momma, I would think that they could be easy prey. Thanks for sharing your farming experience.
Momma pigs are notoriously protective of their babies. Coyotes would have to have just the right opportunity to get a piglet.
ive lost a few weak piglets to hawks during the first week. Otherwise we dont have those around and as the other commenter replied the mother is very protective!
@@Rowow
Wow ... I would never think that an ariel predator would take out a piglet.
Were can I buy piglets?
Just sold out my piglets. I can add you to the waiting list which should be ready in 6-7 weeks. My email is on my channel about me page
@@Rowow Ok that sounds good.
Thanks for the info. Just a helpful tip it would be good if you knew your numbers a little better…. 200-300 per piglet for example is a wide range. Look at what each piglet sold for and give us an actual average price point.
How much are you spending on feed and stuff?
I spend $300-500 a month on feed, or 1 ton a month
alot of that goes to my other animals so id say worse case $300 on the pigs listed
Potato chips and bread great cheap feed
gotta be careful with making sure its high enough protein. Seen way too many people make the mistake of low protein feed and results in a malnourished pig thats obese or very unhealthy. my pork is redder than beef!
If the well goes out, is the water still free?
im not sure what you are implying. That the pump breaks or the well runs dry?
I think he's just saying you better save for future maintenance costs. Good job, and thanks! Keep it up.
doing a great job you should look into egg layers too
I have chickens but the profit per chicken/egg is very low. Its good side money but a little unrealistic without going full commercial. I would need hundredths of chickens to make the same profit I do with my few pigs.
@@Rowow
I agree. Chickens may double the money but I'd rather make 80% on $500.00 then 200% on $5.00. And it takes a lot of Labor to double that money.
When I first started watching videos I guess about two or three years ago, chickens were one of the first ones I watched; I think it was Joe Salatin. And he indeed had just dozens and dozens of broilers and dozens of egg layers. But probably a chickens for my own eggs but I wouldn't expect it to be a revenue driver on any farm that I envision.
Hi yet again.
I come up with a calculation that three-quarters of one acre is roughly about 60 yards square; this is the back of an end-zone how to the 50-yard line square on NFL fields.
Question: how do you keep the 3/4 of the acre from filling up from all the body waste from the pigs?
Except for the one or two animal hobbyists that I watched on RUclips, most regenerative Farmers or small acreage farmers and certainly the biggest acreage farmers ensure to rotate pastures of the animals in an attempt to ward off parasites: namely worms.
3/4 acre is 3630 square yards
im not sure how you are doing your calculations but this is the second time again they are way off
google "3/4 acre to square yard"
my property has no smell and everyone that comes by compliments how clean it is
@@Rowow
Thank you for the expeditious and informative reply.
I really am in debt to you because I think you have seemingly solved the puzzle of profiting on small acreage using animals.
I wish you continued further success and continued good health for you and your animals: and plants!
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My mistake the first time was either misremembering or transposing a figure.
This time I made the error of using three feet which is a linear measurement and not the proper figure to get a yard square. I should have used 27 feet square to equal once yard square.
Done with the way I would have done it before computers I went to the internet on MathaPapa: 11√30 yards square is my final answer for a square three-quarters acre.
My calculator says √30 is 5.477 rounded to three decimal places. 11 × 5.477 = 60.247.
Checking the math: 11√30 × 11√30 = 3,680.
I regret my error.
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I'm watching a NFL football game currently. Given the field is roughly 53 yards wide, we need to go 68.5 yards from the goal line, past the 50-yard line by 18.5 yards or to 1/2 yard past the +32-yard line.
I'm basically saying that in less than the playing surface of an NFL football field you're keeping 13 pigs for the duration of 12 months. It just surprises me. I would think all the peeing and pooing 13 pigs would do would fill up that space within 3 months. I guess I overestimate the body waist from pigs.
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Thanks again for hanging in there with me through my erroneous ways. 🙂
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EDIT:
After browsing around after leaving this, such as this article:
extension.missouri.edu/publications/g2360#advantages
It seems that you're not the only one that can raise pigs on a postage stamp relative to sheep and cattle. I have been kind of Greg Judy heavy viewing the past 3-4 months. Grazing of these animals requires a very large footprint footprint indeed.
@@Rowow he is saying 60 yds x 60 yds. Not 60 sq yards, a 60 yard square, that comes out to 3600 sq yards.
Remember not pet . But food
That's cool Cory. Now grab Trevor and let's go steal some of that dope back from Cyrus.
How many hours a week are you working to make that 27k, if you don’t mind me askin
as you saw in the video me feeding the pigs is the longest thing I spend on. Less than 30 minuites a day to feed them twice a day. Im looking to also build a automated feeder once I make my own animal feed. But in general I spend 5 hours a week
How much area (acres) of the farm is your pig operation taking up?
less than 3/4 of a acre. I have 5 acres but am not utilizing most of it.
Your accent sounds Amish. Are you by chance? You sure do have good work ethic.
no sorry
Thanks for the reply. I was just wondering if you were. Have always been intrigued by their work. Both the men and the women. Thought you might know other things to enlighten us,haha. Love your channel 😉
I'mma need a source for the whole "grocery store pork is bleached" claim. That sounds suspiciously made up and I can't find anything to support it. The closest thing I could find is that some meat is cleaned with hydrogen peroxide to get blood and other contaminants off of it, but that seems to be done to all kinds of meat, and since I can't remember ever seeing white beef I have to assume this does not change the color of the meat.
As far as I understand it commercial pork is white because those pigs are fed nothing but corn. In order for meat to turn red the animals have to eat grass, grass contains a chemical called myoglobin, and myoglobin turns the meat red. The reason your pigs have red meat is because you keep them outside where they can graze on grasses and other plants the way pigs would naturally do in the wild if left to their own devices. Commercial pork meat is white and basically tasteless because those animals are not raised in a way that is natural to the animal, they eat nothing but foods they would never encounter in nature and are just kept in very unnatural conditions. Conditions that are conducive to growing a lot of meat fast but not conducive to developing a lot of flavor.
google "chlorinated pork". They use Sodium hypochlorite for the chlorine, which is commercially known as bleach. They also do it to flour and many other foods. Know what you eat
Do you have a website or contact page? I’m In Georgetown(welaka/crescent city/satsuma). I would like to start pigs for personal consumption. Hoping you can help me get started!
thats about 3-4 hours away. But my contact email is in the about me on my youtube page
Are you from the UP?
I dont know what that is
@@Rowow
It might mean "upper peninsula.". In the Great Lakes region of the country, the upper peninsula of Michigan actually attaches to the state of Wisconsin.
wish i could hear him better
bought a new wireless microphone to fix this issue! sorry about this
Good report. Fix the sound, The pigs were talking louder than you, then at the trailer, you mumbling is hard to hear, then you finish with loud music. Great info , terrible sound. I look forward to your pig food crop ideas.
thanks alot for the critique! I just got a wireless microphone to solve this issue yesterday! I have some pre recorded video footage but otherwise most of my new videos should be on the new microphone
@@Rowow Thanks that was my problem also hearing
You gotta get to the point. I started watching first video, got board started 2nd video 3 minutes of blabber, i didn't watch it. You lost a viewer, it's not my first farm/homestead video Ive ever seen. The only reason I clicked was calling BS on the numbers but now I don't care
Cope
raised hogs for 30 years. you don't have a 10 pig avg. per sow in the dirt. closer to 5 or 6. with corn at 7.00 a bushel and bean meal at 42.00 per hundred selling feeder pigs won't pay the feed bill! sorry to burst your bubble but been there done that. also your herd had to be vet certified in order to sell anything not for slaughter.
Way to piss on someone’s dreams…
Instead of criticizing this young man
Why not use your vast years of expertise
and tell him how to maximize his profits…?
You know as I sit here and watch this video I keep re-reading your comment and the more
I read it the more it pisses me off and people like you in general piss me off…!
You think you’re some expert just because you did something for some length of time…
Then you have the audacity to question the claims this young man makes just because you
didn’t have the same experience that he has…!
I don’t give a Royal Rat’s Ass what the cost of feed is, if he says he’s making a profit of x-amount
of dollars then I believe him…!
He has no reason to lie about it, he’s not selling some book or program to make money from false claims…!
He wouldn’t be doing it if he wasn’t making money at it, yet you and your superiority tell him that he can’t just
because you don’t, didn’t, or couldn’t…!
I was always taught, if you don’t have anything nice to say then maybe you should keep your mouth shut…
Today I’m making an exception and speaking out on this young man’s behalf…
Maybe next time you should make an exception too because all you’ve done is make yourself out to be an Arrogant
Ass…
If you watched the whole video you heard him say he was selling mostly registered Berkshire piglets… like most other farming operations, registered breeding stock sells for much more than commercial feeders.
I’ve got an x brother in law raising show hogletts making xtreme money per pig. One just sold for $10,000 but like you he’s been doing this 15-20 years
if you are having only 5-6 piglets a litter you should feed your pigs better. Ive noticed when you feed them too little they have reduced litter sizes. Dont be greedy. Saving that extra scoops loses 4-5 extra piglets that could have made you $500. Vet certification is only required for out of state transfer in the state of florida. Different places have different laws