A Pigs Life - On a 26 Acre Homestead
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My best homesteading canal❤
Greatings from polish farmer.
Very powerful video. Keep up the good work!
Great video!
Respect
One of the best videos on pig raising I think. Well done Young Mr. Well done
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Could not have said it better!!! Much respect!!
That's Awesome!
We feel the exact same way about raising pigs - so rewarding!
A relative on my mothers side of the family raised pigs for a couple of years. Like you he could not get pigs to eat Turnip, no matter what he did to them. After that he refused to eat Turnip. If a pig refused to eat something, he was not going eat it either.
Put a small log in their cage that they can roll around. They’re naturally doing that with the scoop…pushing it and flipping it over to look for grubs underneath.
You are doing an amazing job.
Great video 👍🏻
So impressive. And Bacon had a great life and was loved but he had his purpose. To bad more people dont understand where their meat and food come from. Nicely done!
I love that this is how you raise your food and treat them with such care. I also love how you're respectful of others and that their abilities many vary and don't look down on those who don't do exactly the same as yourself. For multiple reasons, there are people who can't homestead or go to the local farm whether it's financial reasons or health reasons that prevent it. This is sadly the reality for many and it's great to see while you encourage this you still understand and are respectful. Sadly in our culture that's a rarity so extra respect to you for that.
It was neat to see what all you made when you butchered your pig. Would like to see a video of all you have learned with food preservation.
On my path to being more like this. I love it
This winter is the first time having piglets born on the homestead. I have a quarter acre fenced off in 3 sections just for my pigs and hopefully fence off more this summer. I live in vermont
Opening statements are making me tear up. It’s beautiful.
Love your kids. Would like to see how you render down your pig fat to use for lard
❤❤❤ This video 😊
Dang, although I love this it kinda sad.
Great video and very informative Zack
Well said brother! 👏
Bless you
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That's a good blog.
Have a WONDERFUL week.
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Great video. Thank you
Brother. Powerful statement. Agreed. I can’t wait to get out in the woods and the marsh with my kids and do some hunting. Although I may never homestead, going out and hunting is about as close as you can get.
Another very good video coming from you. 👍
Thanks for sharing! Keep rollin them videos out!
Looking good 👍
Yall are doing great work. Looking forward to buying some IPPs off you in a couple years when I get more land. Down here in Berea KY, and you two are doing all the right things. God Bless
Piglets are sure cute. I remember growing up having some and in my teens, my brother had pigs on his beef cattle farm. It is good to know where your food comes from. Thanks for sharing the pigs journey.
They are are a lot of fun!
God blessed you. Peace and love.
Love the videos ,rancher up in western Canada
Wholeheartedly agree 100%!!!!!
I hope one day like you imagine will come to pass. It would require a great number of people to want the same thing at the same time. I hope it happens because only then will people begin to truly understand the power of the food they eat and how it not only sustains us but ensures our good health! God bless and I look forward to more of your videos!!! Loved watching this!❤️🇨🇦🙏🏻🥰🍁
I've been watching Dowdle Family Farm for ideas for growing pig food.
Great video. And a wonderful lesson for those who haven’t been lucky enough to grow up on or live in a farm.
The 🐷 they’re so cute 🥰and the pork meat 🍖 so yummy 😋🥰🥰🥰
Hi Zack, great video about raising your pigs from start to finish.
I can appreciate and respect the emotional reasons that drive your approach to care for your pigs. Please leave it at that. There is no need to criticize others for not doing it “your way”. Not everyone should or can do it your way. The VAST majority do not have the available land, finances, abilities, and so on to do so.
To be fair, not everything you do is good or correct either. The paddocks grazed to bare earth degrades soil health, increases compaction and allows for wind and water erosion. Your pigs have to deal with the extreme heat, extreme cold, parasites, dust and predators. All of this adds up to taking 10 months to finish which should never be the case.
In conclusion, just because you like what you do doesn’t mean what others do is bad or wrong. Based on your comments, you do not have first person experience with commercial production. I can tell you by watching your channel that you are trying to get better every week. I can also tell you by working in the US swine industry for over 30 years that everyone in it is trying to get better each week also. All of our lives and livelihoods depend on it.
I appreciate the response and the joy about America is we are all entitled to our opinions.
I don’t believe I need to be an in industry for years to understand its basic principles. Although I disagree with factory farming and pigs or cattle on concrete, this is a free country and if there’s a market for it, then it will financially prosper. My reasoning for videos like this is to sway the American population away from concrete pork, beef and dairy and focus on more regenerative agriculture practices. You are right, I’m no expert, I’m just a guy eager to learn more about this farming thing.
I’d have to disagree on your assessment of our paddocks. Although currently we have our pigs tilling up a portion of our cow/hay pasture because it was 90% weeds. The over all idea of what we are doing is providing our fields with a better opportunity for soil health. Those pigs arent compacting the soil, they are aerating the soil. We move our pigs about every 7-10 days to a new paddock. If we left them in the same spot for months, your assessment of our operation would be spot on. They would deal with disease, parasites, and the soil would suffer. But what we are doing is benefiting the soil, and the health of our pigs. All animals deal with weather extremes, and predators, there’s no stopping that, that’s life, that’s god, and I’m not getting in between that. Now we do things like give them shelter from the cold or trees to shade under in the heat.
Our pigs are Idaho Pasture Pigs. They take 10 months to raise to butcher weight because of the breed they are, not because of the life they live. Sure maybe we could finish a little earlier if we stuffed them full of grain like a commercial hog but we choose not to do that.
I really appreciate your comment, i think America’s needs more of that. It’s good to disagree and to challenge, it makes us all better.
@@ThePasturedHomestead Thank you for your kind response. I would challenge you to learn about tillage or aeration as you called it. You, along with most farmers who are now learning they have operated in error for 150 years by plowing/tilling/aerating are adopting no-till and derivatives of it. Tilling destroys soil structure, exposes what organic matter that is in the soil to the environment accelerating its degradation and release into the atmosphere. After tillage, the soil particles settle in a a more compact state with each rain and tillage event and season until it is rock hard, especially clay soil.
A suggestion would be to offer your pigs feed ad libitum. You are losing out on your pigs natural tendencies of high energy, curiosity and aggressive attitude (ie chew your boots) by limit feeding them meals. I do no believe your slow growth is because of the type of pig you chose to raise. There is no one in commercial barns forcing feed down the throats of pigs. All pigs have innate appetite eat and drink.
Something to ponder…there are approx 110M pigs finished, not including sows in the US today. How many acres of land would we need to dedicate to pasture to raise those pigs that we do not use for that purpose today?
Absolutely loved this video! I’m fortunate in being able to buy our meat from a farmer butcher. I know my meat has had a good life. I wouldn’t buy store bought meat. I find it is tough, flavourless and insipid in colour even when cooked! It shrinks while cooking and there’s also a lot of colourless water that you get during cooking. As I say I’m lucky to be able to buy my meat direct via a farmer butcher it’s taken me years to find this facility. Now I treasure it as a precious gift. A good life makes good flavour, you don’t need a big portion because the flavour satisfies the appetite. I just love your philosophy!❤
I think you should submit this film to Justin Rhodes' film contest. It was so peaceful and really made me want to get a pig.
How funny, we actually did!
I just watched on The Film Fest. You should be so proud. It was one of the best that they chose!!! I hope it grows your channel to the max.
Very cool You have definitely good principles and values Wonderful Quick question why do you skin the pigs? Do you not like the pork cracklings And other things that are made with the skin
You are so inspiring, I hope you know this. Humble humanity and love, that’s what I’ve been seeing in your few videos I watched. New sub and I encourage you to continue. I am soo getting me some pigs this year.
You are so clever, seems like you haven't been doing anything else all your life.
Makes me wish I wasn’t allergic to pork. I have to settle for lamb.
Enjoy the channel. Have you thought about growing sorghum?
Thank you! I haven’t thought about it yet!
Man oh man what a great learning experience the the homestead lifestyle can provide for everyone who is willing to put the work. Zach and Ashlyn I'm praying 🙏 for your continued success and prosperity in this life that that you have chosen to live hoping that you have continued success in raising many more of the types of farm animals that you intend on having at your farm, as well with the RUclips channel and with your life together 💞.
Thank you for always supporting us and leaving such kind comments, We appreciate you !
Just found the channel and i love the slow nature focused life, i live in the city and its really nice to dream about living in the countryside working wiht your two hands were your stresses arent papers having to be turnt in on time or tests filling up the schedule. Or working a seemingly meeningless job for almost no pay
saw that you guys are getting married this year. are you planning on having kids or are you guys more focused on the animals and growing the homestead?
much love from Sweden
Glad you enjoy it! We agree it’s a much slower and peaceful life out here. We do plan on having kids in the next year or two!
@@ThePasturedHomestead Very smart, gotta love extra labor
I understand your feelings, and taking pride that you gave them a good life, and I can really respect that...but I don't think I could ever butcher an animal I raised, or even knew.... It would just be too much for me...😭
My wife and I found your channel in the past week and have been watching all your videos from the past year. Our question is do you and Ashlyn have plans for children and if so, what is your plans for them on the homestead and how you raise them?
We’d love to do something like this in the near future and currently have a 1 year old we would love to raise on a homestead.
Yes we sure do! We plan on involving them in all of our activities. For them it’ll be just a way of life. We plan on giving them plenty of entrepreneurial opportunities. I can’t wait to see their little minds work.
We also plan on homeschooling!
That is great to hear! that is what we are planning as well! Just trying to work the logistics of work and homestead out. We wish you the best of luck!@@ashlyn.thepasturedhomestead
Great stuff? What grinder are you using?
It’s made by Everygrow
How did you deal with buying an Amish house? I’ve found some properties we like but some are Amish owned and more or less seem “unlivable” for my family of 5. With no electric, water, HVAC, septic etc I feel like that’s all probably $50k right off the bat while trying to live in a construction zone. Then you have flooring and drywall etc since it seems like they build from plywood. Any suggestions or should I just be searching for a regular home? We’ve also contemplated buying bare land and putting in a modular home?
are you just feeding corn and oats?
Corn and soybean meal for the pigs
Isn't it wasteful to throw the grain on the ground?
Pigs don’t waste a single crumb
How much does you hog grower cost a 50lb
Great video!
Great video!