Meet our Pig Dozers! Using pigs to regenerate our pasture - Free Range Homestead Ep 6
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- Опубликовано: 1 авг 2024
- We take you with us as we collect our first 5 pigs and put them out to pasture on the farm.
Chapters
00:00 Introduction
00:24 Collecting the Pigs
02:52 Putting them in the 1st Paddock
04:03 Amazing Foragers
05:02 Electrocuted Dog 😞
06:01 Finding Earthworms
07:00 The Electric Fence Set Up
08:04 More Foraging Pigs
08:43 Feeding the Pigs
09:38 The Next Day
10:00 Uncovering Trash and Treasure
12:23 Pig Watering System
14:20 Getting the Pigs Used to Us
15:22 Moving the Pigs
16:37 Electrocuted Pig
17:29 Makeshift Fence Tester
18:41 Clucky Hen
19:33 Paddock after 5 days with Pigs
22:39 Pig Patting
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I'm happily surprised at how well you have transitioned all of us from sailing to homesteading. Each episode is a gem.
Variety is the spice of life! Hopefully we'll have a bit of marine activity again in the summer ☀️
We loved the sailing but we love the people more.
We came for the sailing we stayed for the people. 😎
@@FreeRangeLiving Pig overboard !
Im trying to imagine my Free Range Swine apparel ... will there be another logo contest ?
What a delightful episode. With this sort of quality who needs the BBC TV. Great filming, narration and postproduction, what an awesome channel. Thanks.
Great looking pigs. Double the gift. They are hard workers and make great chops & bacon.
It's just one small step for a pig but a giant leap for a pigdozer!
dang that pack of 6 pigs is far more destructive than herds of 30 goats ive seen!
Bacon, sausages, Ham, Hock, Gammon, Trotters, Loin, Ribs, and a good old Joint of Pork and Crackling or four! What's not to like about Pigs? But in the meantime, of course, they will expose and turn over your land one strip at a time for minimal cost and effort on your part. A very friendly and intelligent creature, much undervalued by most.
You have transferred your sailing video skills well to farming. The drone shots, really help with understanding the pig pen.
I mean….the transformation those pigs made is remarkable! Have a great day:)
Even I jumped when that pig got zapped !! Certainly good bulldozers, and way better than chemicals for knocking back the Bracken.
Porcine heaven is an education for me. Friendly little bunch, or at least not a combative gang. Jet getting cuddles, chooks gurgling away, and you two having fun relating to the land, the animals, and one another. Inspiring.
We all get a little "clucky" from time to time. 🐔🐣🤣
Great looking pigs! They really work hard.
Very interesting vid, thank you. I had no idea how vigorously that pigs went about their foraging. Amazing creatures.
I'm loving this next step in you're lives. Thinking Armadillos want to learn of your pigs.
Maaan I knew Troy was a wizards purely from the sailing videos.. but seeing how quickly hes setting about being a land lizard. I'll said it again, he's a good ollddd school Ozzy gentlemen! 😜🤘
Good work guys! Never change! ❤️
Great job love watching pigs Allan for south Australia great
I have always enjoyed the interaction between you two, there is truly nothing you two cannot accomplish together. Thank you for all of your adventures. Your clearing land with pigs, no machinery how cool is that
Really enjoying your bucolic adventures 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
This seems such a natural transition for you guys. Really enjoying this.
I have never seen pigs foraging (despite living by pigs when I was a young child), so this episode was a treat. Fascinating and enjoyable. Thanks so much.
I like sailing and I like pigs too. Its all great! I may sail to Aus and start farming! Thanks guys.
You are going to need to resist the urge to play with your food guys 😁😁😁😁
Cheers Eric
Great stuff, those things are like automatic rotavators! Brilliant.
I swear I felt that.
It is unpleasant
Education, sailing and farming
Things that realy is Living!👍😎🤗
It's amazing how much earth the pigs churn up, and great when confined, but now people can also see how much damage the feral pigs can do to the fragile Australian Bush, and why they are hunted.
An old Bushie trick is to fold a blade of grass around the fence and listen for the tick.
Near the beginning of the video, when you were loading the pigs onto your trailer, one of them tried to go back into its previous location. The fellow tried to stop it with his legs. When the pig felt the legs squeezing its snout, it charged straight ahead. That is a very important behavior to know about. If a pig is hit on the snout, it will charge ahead. I've seen them shocked by the electric fence about their snout, and they charged through the fence. My dad had a sow when I was five years old and he had her penned in with electric fence. She found out what the fence would do to her so she would stay away from it. However, after she gave birth to a litter, she would watch the little guys. If they went up to the fence and squealed, she would back away. But, if they went up to the fence and went under it without getting a shock, she would come up and steamroll the wire, squealing all the way!!! They are fun critters to raise, and very smart!!!
Yes we will have a hard pen with hot wire inside the timber for our sows when they farrow. These pigs were trained to electric before we got them which was nice but we make sure to move them often and keep them in tasty food so they don't test the fence much.
I was quite sure, years ago, when I started watching you two sailing the circumference of Australia I had found a real RUclips treasure. Now I am absolutely convinced! Things change in life and situations but never a natural chemistry. Always a joy when one of your vids is released. I wear my Free Range Sailing T-shirt proudly.
Excellent as usual!!!
Good work to both of you!
If you grab a piece of long grass and lay it across the fence, it'll transfer a small percentage of the electricity. Not enough to hurt you, but enough to tell it's on.
Pigs are a lot of fun. Soon you will be taking them for walks in the woods, just like a dog. They have pleasant temperaments but can be testy if they have babies to protect.
I had no idea pigs are that efficient at turning up the ground. Invaluable on a farm...I watch a channel called Mossy Bottom and he speaks very fondly of his pigs and now I see why.
It has to be seen to be believed.
It’s amazing what those pigs did. I have never been around pigs so whatever they do is new to me. Fun to watch.
.. Cheers to you. ..
Wonderful! Loving this transition from my recreation, sailing to my heritage, homesteading.
Hello from Pennsylvania
sailing or farming it is fun to spend 1/2 an hour with both of you
They can hear the pulse in the wire cheers from tassie
Thank you. I never realised how good pigs were at foraging and turning over the ground. They seem happy and in their element. It is a travesty that many are kept on concrete. Not only do the pigs love it but it is good to see the big smiles on your faces. Happy farming.
Pigs are MAGIC, and far more intelligent that many realise. And you can eat nearly every bit of a pig.
Hey guys! It's really cool seeing you take this next step in your life, Sam has been watching you sail and dreaming about living that life while we have been homesteading here in Australia. It'll be great to see all that you can achieve as you plant your roots into solid ground. All the best, Diane and Samson 🌿
Gidday Pascal and Troy, have raised a few pigs in my time, mainly for the table.
Here's 4 suggestions.
1. You know the blue plastic 44gal drums? Cut top to bottom all way around, turned sideways and staked either end and wired to secure it.
Bullet proof feed trough and little spillage.
2. A scratching pole. They will love you forever.
3. Source a unwanted hills playground frame. 3 rails either side, lengthwise, clad in old corrie gal. Toss in a few bales of straw (not hay)and you will find out pretty quickly that they will use it for sleeping and shelter from inclement weather.
4. Easiest way to get them to settle around you is for you to pat and massage them when they are feeding from the trough. This will make you chuckle, pigs just love a massage.......if you do it right, they will casually lay down and fall asleep at your feet.
Such a cool experience!
Don't know what the equivalent is to fair winds from a farming pov but you get my drift.
These pigs love a massage now and have learned to flop down for tummy rubs. They get a new 20x50m paddock every 10 days so their furniture needs to be mobile but they do love a scratching post as you say.
@@FreeRangeLiving ah......
Forget to mention that I put 2 wheel barrow wheels on either side on a eccentric cam. Push the cam down and the shed lifts one end, 2 handles at the opposite end and you just simply move it whenever needed. And..........the straw then simply decomposes. I'm sure Troy (mc gyver) will be able to figure out how to do it.
Cheers to you both.
Pigs are cool. And they are very smart. 🐷
a long piece of green grass is a way to check the fence. just touch the end on the wire and slide it closer until you feel the current.
for a quick check on the electric fence mate use a piece of green grass it will give you a very mild shock, love the new show guys
I am finding this homesteading extremely interesting as my family on my mothers side come from small holders while working on bigger farms. This is way way back in my youth but I can relate to all you are doing and experiencing - it is very much like reliving a forgotten time for me and reminds me of my grand parents who have long since passed away.
Great stuff!
Next: truffles! Enjoying the transition from saltwater to dirt farming
Awesome
I was at first unsure how the change from your sailing channel would go. I must say I have enjoyed these first few episodes. Mirool brought you VERY close to my home in Grafton on the Clarence River on which I drove ferries for several years and you have settled close to my ancestral home of Darkan (halfway between Williams and Collie in WA)! So each environment is something I am used to! Thanks! Go well.....those pigs are powerhouses!
I love chooks!
Seriously guys, I loved your sailing vids, but watching the new chapter in your lives is a real joy!
_Life is such a big experiment._
All your videos demonstrate how adaptable us humans are throughout each of our lives, if we have the right approach to opportunities that come our way.
What you're showing us is not taught in schools, but are important life lessons about adaptability in a rapidly changing world.
Good to meet, Kevin, Miss, Porky and Troy2. I think they make a great team. I hope thats not too rash. Great Keppel Island or as some know it Goat Keppel may be able to feed the local croc farm. Just a point of interest for you.
That's so awesome !!! I'm a 20 year butcher / pig farmer in Florida ... Get good a building fence .. and look into growing daikon radishes they grow super big and huge have 16 % protein and pigs love digging them up and eat them if they grow like wildfire in the fall cooler months ... Cucumbers and pumpkins are natural dewormers for them and if they're on pasture they poop seeds out and grow plants voluntarily throughout the farm... We have two acres of wild veggies that we pick and foraging from and do nothing too ... Wild bonus ....and the pigs grow some treats for them selves too ....
Thanks, we wanted to grow daikon and now we see another great use for it. As soon as winter is past, I will be definitely seeding the ground to cucurbits after the pigs pass and might start feeding them buckwheat. Any other pig/ plant suggestions more than welcome.
Pigs are quite intelligent animals.
Decades ago I used to hunt feral pigs on Stations in NSW.
They are a major problem for pastoralists from the Northern Territory down through Western Queensland via the channel country into New South Wales.
They are a serious nuisance for reasons such as degradation of pasture and sheep predation particularly during lambing as well as transmission of diseases like brucellosis and tuberculosis.
The diseases are a very specific problem because in the NT at least cattle are regularly tested for those proscribed diseases and outbreaks can cost station owners substantial sums of money.
On one occasion while 'dam jumping' three of us surprised a fairly large mob on a tank east of the Tibooburra road during mid-day heat.
This was normal practice because as you probably know pigs cannot perspire so they usually try to get relief from excessive outback heat by wallowing in nice, squishy mud whenever they can.
When we thought we had dispatched the bulk of that particular herd we took a break under a large gum tree and I wandered a short distance away to 'water the scenery'.
At that point I came upon a smallish, adolescent size pig lying upright on it's belly barely concealed behind a log with it's eyes tight shut.
I called to my companion saying "when did you shoot this pig"?
He replied "what pig is that"?
I responded with "the one lying behind this log" and at that exact moment the little pig's eyes flew open and it took off like a top fuel dragster with my extremely committed and tenacious companion in hot pursuit!👀🤣
That was one of a few particularly memorable occasions when wild animals really surprised me with unexpected demonstrations of intelligence and as a consequence I have long thought it is a shame feral pigs are such destructive brutes.
Because if it were not for some particularly obnoxious traits like cannibalism and gruesome mutilation of sheep, they might otherwise be likable.
I used to hunt them too. Very cagey critters.
Just found you great show enjoy your pigs. I subscribed
That was a cool episode guys. Well done. Cheers, Mark from Tas!!!
Congratulations on the pigs an chuks... It's beautiful to see how lush everything looks. tho I hadn't a doubt both of you would figure it out an make the best with what resources you have at hand. Happy as a hog in fresh dirt... Those pig's uncovered some great finds there. I love the electric fence , grew up with them an moved them often... Really enjoying every episode, it's down to you both. Just good intelligent people doing stuff I love .... Living this life taking chances an making it work. An moving on to the next opportunity with gusto...Thanks again for sharing your lives with us grateful for the wisdom ✌🏼💗😊❣️
DonnaKawana
These pigs get new 20x50m paddocks every 10 days so they have learned to look forward to moving day. They get pretty excited when we lay out their new block!
@@FreeRangeLiving I bet they just love all the grubs an worms an such .. something sweet about a pig with a dirt pile on their snouts... Going to be some fertile land once the pigs an you guys are done preparing it for planting... Happy steading guys.. oh pup doesn't much go round the electric fence an that bit her wee nose... Yes...! Too cute..✌🏼💗😊❣️
Awesome episode guys 👏😊
WOW! I had almost talked myself into being disappointed when you moved ashore. I surly fooled myself, still one of my absolute favorite channels. Thanks
It's starting to smell a lot like a free range homestead around there. Thank you for the great episode as usual.
great!
I started watching your channel many, many moons ago because I love great sailing channels, and yours was top of the heap. Top of the heap, primarily because of who you folks are. I haven't missed an episode since because of who you folks are. So inspiring. Thx so much. Go farming!
I want to be there with a good spade and start digging. Digging and manure/compost: given those, you can make a plot which will feed people well. Golly, but this is a great series of videos to watch.
Love your videos, I came across you guys yesterday and spent hours binge watching I'm in Victoria east gippsland we are only on 1/4 acre have Chickens and veggie patch with lots of fruit trees and vines etc, it's a great way to live. I follow moat cottage, huttons Valley Permaculture and self sufficient me which are awesome channels to. Stay safe and well guys xx
Thanks for the lovely message and welcome!
Free Range Bacon!👍
VERY COOL You have Meshed in with your New Lifestyle Just Like a Fish to Water ... Beautiful Work The Free-range Homestead is AWESOME and THOSE are Some HAPPY Happy Pigs
yay!
Love it, animals are so peaceful really, the wilderness is therapy.... and you gotto love pigs lol
I watch 8 sailing channels and one homesteading channel!!I’ll watch whatever you feel like teaching me about!!
your soil WAS fine
I agree! We're loving every minute of this too!
You all are amazing.
That was a very enjoyable, informative watch - well done guys 😊😂
Good job, Thanks for shareing.
Awsome guys.I used a spark plug jammed into a piece of alcathine with a wire on the end to test for electricity on fences.
Do you ground the plug?
Pascale massage those hog's and maybe it'll tenderize the pork. They massage the Wagu beef in Kobe, Japan. They use plum wine and massage it in.
So, apparently I knew even less about pigs than chickens, but I love learning new stuff! The pigs seem as happy as could be and what bulldozers they are! 🙂
I really enjoyed this video. Thanks.
Great episode, pigs and chicks! Those pigs sure are good at tearing up the soil, earning their keep. Until next time!
Hi guys fantastic to see the transformation that you guys have done from being on a yacht to living on the land it is such a great thing to see you have pigs now and the excitement they have given you already thank you once again for the great videos and all The laughs cliff from Logan city Queensland Australia
You do bring peace and joy, no need more words, oh! By the way pigs and chikens are concerned too.😁
See you Soon.
As with Fqree Range Sailing, always very interesting amd well presented 👌🏻 Only issue I have is with Pascale's parents for only having ONE daughter😍!! 😜😅
That was great.
Keep it up doing a great job
Four legged bulldozers
Pigdozer
Pasci you are the same as my wife. She also thought luck out was a bad thing !! Lucked out means something good happened !!
Hi Troy & Pascale, your pigs certainly make good rotavatation operatives the ground should be great for garden crop’s in a few months. All the best to you both from the UK
Great looking pigs (and I worked on a pig farm in England ) , they will destroy the ground in your enclosure in very short order and you will probably have to relocate them several times . Dunno how big your ground is , but you're need a lot of it :)
They move into cells, 20m X 50m for ten days. The main paddock will be divided into 20 paddocks so any patch will have 10 days impact, 190 days growing pasture/food.
Yay! Free range bacon.
Porcine Paradise! They are amazingly intelligent animals and also very clean although you wouldn't think so from all the havoc they create.
Yes, they are terribly slandered by being called dirty
Pigs sure can plow a field quick. A rich Politician in Hawaii once planted about $10k of exotic flowers and thought vandals had attacked his place one day-called the cops-turns out it was wild boars....devastated his property overnight.
will miss the sailing fishing and the bikinis lol xx but this is very good thanks xxx
Sorry, but I gotta say, liked your sailing channel best and I’ve never sailed in my life. On the home front, you can’t teach me anything. Oh well, new channels I must find !
I never knew pigs plow. 🐷🐖🐽
Those pigs do an incredible job. Is that Gallagher electric fencing? It is the best in the business by a long shot, above and beyond any other electric fence maker by a multiple. No doubt.
Disclaimer: I was sponsored by Gallagher many years ago for a Tasman Sea rowing campaign. Regardless I'd say the same about their product. 🙂
Double Disclaimer: Gallagher head office is in our home town. Regardless I'd say the same about their product. 🙂
Nice one guys. Thank you for sharing. My father in law was a dairy farmer who also kept a lot of pigs. Pedigree Landrace. And when I went dairy farming, I just had 2 pigs. One for pork, and one for bacon. He gave me lots of advice on fattening them up..such as don't be tempted to give them milk. Milk is 89-91% water. He was also a pig judge at the A&P Show here in Nz. So I took notice of his advice. He obviously knew more than me. Thanks again for the upload. Take care.
@@bryanbadger6841 hi there Bryan missing the A&P shows. Nostalgia.
Did he have a problem with apples? We've been gleaning from an orchard their unpicked fruit and those pigs have eaten about 3 trailer loads by now. They sure do love 🐖🐖🐖
@@TheCruisingKiwis and for the record. Yes I used Gallagher. Lots of grunt. (Pun intended.)
Are you still cruising.? If so, I can't locate your channel. Atb.
@@bryanbadger6841 go Gallagher! Yes we've been liveaboard for four years now. Here's our latest episode ruclips.net/video/S1yjf0RrtTs/видео.html
Awww, lovely piggies! My only problem that I had with having pigs, is I get too attached. And then at harvest time... 😪
You will be able to touch them on your dinner plate
Well I hung around and have enjoyed the transition. As a full time cruiser I follow mainly sailing channels, but have followed 'Andys Little Homestead' (recommend) for my terra firma fix. keep up the good work but get back to the water to keep your sanity, and maybe work the land in your special bikini and boots. Oh Pascal could wear hers also if she feels left out 😅