Farrowing Gilts on Pasture Pt. 2
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- Опубликовано: 11 окт 2016
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All gilts have farrowed successfully, rain from the edge of hurricane Matthew, reviewing the performance of each gilt.
I (Jordan) and my wife, Laura, own and operate J & L Green Farm in Virginia. It has been our full time occupation for the last 12 years building this first generation, pasture based, direct to retail farm. We are in the small percentage of farmers that actually make their income from farming. As such we address our farm as a business and make decisions with that in mind. What you see here is what it takes. No BS or disney’ifying.
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I recently had a gilt that didn’t know she was a mother. You described the exact thing mine did. 12 in 3 or 4 spots in the pasture. I gathered them all up , took every one to the barn and had to literally hog tie her to let them nurse the first time. After that she was perfectly normal. Thanks for your videos. I learn something from every video seems like.
Yeah sometimes they can be a little dumb starting out.
I am rewatching a bunch of your videos. Really very good, educational.
The 🐖 looks great in their little 🏠 sitting, eating, and walking around with Mom .The 🏠 looks so amazing and they do look like they are in a safe place .Great job I see that you do love them and don't want to let them go.
Adorable!!! Love that they are pastured!
Pretty good litter numbers for outdoor farrowing. Good job!
Very impressive video!!! Thank you for sharing your thoughts!!!
nice work. We used to have a bunch of sows when I was in high school. biggest mistake was getting out of them instead of going bigger. someday, sooner than later I hope, I want to do this pasture deal.
I watched the video were Justin Rhodes visited your farm, and wanted to see more baby pigs! I am not a farmer but just a retired lady from Atoka Tennessee and am fascinated at what all you guys do! Good luck with your pigs!🐖🐖🐖
Awesome love the simplicity
Thank you, best wishes for the New year.
You too! Thanks for stopping by!
Pigs have a right to live long lives .
Excellent video brother
Awesome vid, very informative. Too bad about the losses but bintheredonethat I had a sheep who, despite my providng her a fine shelter decided to have her triplets outdoors in the middle of winter and before I got to them all three were frozen to the ground.
Thank you for sharing
Very educational. Thanks
So nice form sir
I love it baaaaaaaad Dat is so great love it
Omg the piglets are so cute!
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This is my plan in my area when I go back to Manila philippines. I try to make this style
Gracias amigo saludos de mexico
Good job wish I had space to practice this kind of pig farming back in Kenya 🇰🇪
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OMG The babies! 💕
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Hello Sir,
Do you ever run a mixed group of sows and gilts together? So perhaps the older gals can show the newbs how its done?
Or would that not be a good idea?
Done new freind here from philippines
We got into hog breeding for the first time last year with the intention of farrowing in pens instead of crates. We have discovered the high incidence, however, of smashed piglets, and I wonder if you have any recommendations for finding good mothering genetics. We've thought about heritage breeds, but they do tend to have less muscle, and I'm wondering if the best way to fix mothering is really to make that sacrifice.
Gostei, vou implantar esse sistema de casas pras porcas aqui no sítio. Parabéns. 👍🇧🇷
Nice work keeping piglets with Mom
Nice work..I'm going to make like this Sir,in rainny time where did you keep🙏🙏🙏
Thank you for this video. What keeps the piglets from leaving the pasture? Is the electric wire low enough that they stay in?
Awesome
Pampa Rocha Uruguay.. rusticidad y la mayor parte de alimentación es forraje..
Is there a place to get plans for your huts
Will the mama pig attack you if you hold one of her piglets? And if she does, how dangerous can it be?
Thank you for the information shared. Does this system reduce the smell of the pig waste. How do you handle their waste in this system.
Big topic. No, this system does not smell. In my opinion, any livestock system that has a stench I can smell half a mile away is a gross mismanagement. I prefer to capture every nutrient possible through adequate rotation or high levels of carbon.
FarmBuilder well let’s take into consideration that’s farmers are moving to slurry lagoon or have manure piles than build up than spread on crop ground in fall and winter. That will increase the manure scent
Great video. Thos shelter were a lot of work but i bet they helped a lot. How often to you breed the pigs? And do you have one mail pig for breeding?
Thanks! We breed to two farrowings a year. We have 8 different boars at the moment.
Do you have a plan how to build this small houses?
how many litters do you get a year? and do you sell piglets or grown them for meat sale?
4:35 - it looks like that pig is also about to become a couple dozen pork chops, 2 honey glazed hams, several pounds of bacon, and several pounds of sausage patties.
This is awesome. I am am having terrible luck with my own hogs. Lots of stillbirths for some reason. What part of the country do you live in?
Nice
Share your shelter plans? We've tried several other options, still not happy with any of them. Your collapsible feature (genious) along with that lower line at the back for the piglets with that bump bar is awesome.
+della99999 working on it. Website coming in the next month or two and they will be available there!
FarmBuilder I am also really interested in your shelters!!!! They look amazing!!!! Please let me know if I can get plans or at least maybe a general outline of how to build them. Coop156@gmail.com
I would also love to see plans for these.
I have been looking all over your web site for this, am i missing something? relly like your stuff, hoping to make it to a class at some point
Do you have how to build the shelters??
Hi! I love your videos! You are so helpful to this newbie pig raiser! We are raising Mangalitsa pigs. We have 2 pregnant gilts outside with the boar. They have calf hutches but I'm worried they will squish their babies as they all cram into one shelter to sleep! What are your suggestions?
They will, you will need to isolate the sow when she goes into labor. Also the Boar will get real frisky. Best move him out while they have piglets.
What keeps predators away from the baby's ...?
600 lb momma with teeth!
Do you have a website?
Have you any problems with coyotes and foxes killing the just born pigs? Especially during farrowing when the sow cannot fend them off.
what about predators? fox or coyote? excellent videos!
+Rollin Tebbetts not an issue with pigs. Poultry is another story!
How do you keep the piglets inside of the electric fence? Or do you trust that they will stay with their mommas?
We don't but they don't go to far away from the moms.
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Hi 5:41 what are the dimensions of the box?
How do you keep them in the paddock? Is the paddock hotwired?
that's explained in the previous video "Part 1"
may i ask how large the pasture is that the gilts are on ?
each paddock is roughly 1/3 - 1/2 acre. Under normal conditions they are moving every 7-10 days. When farrowing though its about 3 weeks or whenever the piglets are ready to walk over to the new area.
we have our 1st gilt & with a little luck we hope to keep 2 females from her 1st litter for our breeding program.
On pasture piglets like in the video do you clip eye teeth?
No.
I am wondering will the woods and 2X4 be saturated? since it is not waterproof with all those woods?
Not a factor.
@@FarmBuilder sorry, I am not getting it? So it is safe from water?
wow lot of piglets we only have 5 sows so we dont hve as many piglets as you guys do
There so cute
Farm Builder, sorry, I do not know your name yet, what breeds do you work with?
Good thing they don’t crush the piglets?
HI what is the size of the farrowing boxes
Richard Loch I have fairly big Sow’s so I made mine 8ft long and 6ft deep. I also made mine high enough so I can walk inside. Easier to clean, add straw etc. His look like they are about 8ft wide (full sheet of plywood) and approximately 4ft high.
I would love to see some plans for your shelters. Is your website up yet?
Getting there!
I guess the sisters will need a semi-detached shelter with no party wall ;)
how do you tell if your pig is pregnate
+Michael Gutierrez you can watch out for a recycle, have a vet ultrasound her or wait 3 months after the boar went in!
New to the channel... do you AI or do you keep boars?
Boars. They do the deed with pleasure.
What's considered a good litter of piglets?
8 at weaning.
Do you ever assist with the actual birthing process?
If needed of course.
How many sow you breed?
About 90 right now.
What are mummies?
Half developed piglets that died in utero.
What kind of feed do you use?
+Shadow B Farms right now it's about 1/3 course ground corn & oats, 1/3 peanuts, 1/3 apples + mineral.
dfishman76 the corn and oats come from sunrise feed. Peanuts and apples we have our own connections for. We mix it all together here. Minerals are from Fertrel.
Do you have a video on how tall feed and mix etc... in one I saw a ibc turned into a scoop for tractor. If you could do one that would be really helpful
To the sausage house 🤣😂
how do you keep your sows?
What do you mean beyond what's in the videos?
I haven't been raising farmyard pigs maybe more then 7 years now, it seems after the second litter of piglets they don't conceive after that, so my question to you how long do you keep your sows, or maybe this would make more sense after being a Gilt how many more litters does she have after that?
@@davidyoder2731 usually 5 years. You should be getting 8-10 parities out of a gilt. I'd suspect you might have a disease issue or conditioning issue.
@@FarmBuilder maybe I get to brag, my sows might be over producing, the most I had so far out of one sow was 18 and they all survived and the last litter my sow had 16 only 13 made it out of the 16, but I am into Heritage breed old spots , large black, red wattle, I think you are right on conditioning, disease no 2 my knowledge, I am suspecting it is the feed I am feeding them they're not getting the minerals that they should in their feed, it's just a mixed ration from a feed mill I believe I should start supplementing my feed
WHY not give the 2 sisters a double size shelter? That way they won't accidentally hurt them either.
Not good advice
@@TRINITY-ks6nw It wasn't advice. Notice I asked WHY?
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I like this kind of pig,but I can have this
Kind of pig,,,,
GOOD HOUSE FOR MOTHER PG SIR
Piglets would freeze
We farrow in down to -10F temps without major problems.
@@FarmBuilder how many pigs born how many do u loose
To the sausage house for the rejecting pig mothers, huh? The piglets will be put in a more loving environment while the heartless sow will become a dozen pork chops, 2 honey glazed hams, several pounds of bacon, and several pounds of sausage patties. You can probably get even more than a dozen pork chops from a pig that size, I'm guessing. Actually, would it be 2 hams, or 4 from one pig? Do some hams also come from the front legs?
back legs.
@@FarmBuilder, yes, I didn't think that hams ever came from the front legs too.
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those are not gilts!
Yes, they were.
FarmBuilder a gilt is a female pig less than six months that has never farrowed. Those pigs that you are calling gilts are in fact sows. Any female pig that has given birth to piglets is a sow.
This was their first farrowing. Maybe definitions are different but to me a gilt is a female that hasn't farrowed regardless of age.
Really thats her fate? Remember she is someone not something, instead of slaughtering her because she can't provide you some piglets why dont you consider bringing her to a forever shelter to a sanctuary. make a call I promise you'll have someone there rather expeditiously and maybe you'll understand what it's like to feel good for the doing the right thing.
I know what it's like personally not to be able to have children and it's very painful and as you know or maybe you don't know, pigs are highly intelligent not far past humans.
let her live her life probably another 20 to 25 years at a sanctuary where she can be who she is and be happy and be free not saying you should do this with all your pigs but every now and then there is something that is right and just about it. My Hope Is that one day you'll switch over to another type of farming that doesn't involve slaughtering of highly intelligent sentient beings
obviously I disagree with your assertions here but take no affront from your beliefs. The fact is all life is built on the death of other life, even down to the microbial level. Our task as farmers is to steward the land, resources and animals for a better tomorrow than today. I firmly believe animals play a key role in this process and are integral to human nutrition.
FarmBuilder amen
do you eat if you do then shut up
FarmBuilder well said, we don’t need to be offensive in the defence of good farming just polite and informative like you have been. There should be room for all opinions. Thanks for what you do keep it up
Tarra Sage here we go again,they are FOOD NOT PETS! If they can't produce piglets to raise as meat,they are useless to keep,except for food!
So nice form sir