Interesting observation John. I am always amazed to see how farms and farmers are moving back to more traditional ways of raising animals and going "against the grain" (har har) of conventional farming. Of course it takes longer to grow out a pig on pasture but quality of meat, the life of the animal, and the state of the land are more positively affected. Thanks for sharing!
@@farmmarketing I remember an American farmer using tree crops, especially red, white, and red-white natural hybrid mulberry trees and acorn trees and nut trees and persimmon trees along with grasses as forage of all kinds and the mulberry trees are producing so much mulberries that he has to ask an another farmer if he wants his pigs to forage on the mulberries or else they will go to waste! In New Zealand my country was able to acquire kune kune pigs in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s for kune kune pigs are grass eating herbivorous pigs and feeding them grain only makes them fat.
I agree it makes the piggies happy but the inversion of the soil strata is detrimental to soil organic matter %. You will burn up soil carbon after than you can replace it. Also, pasture pork production can be a huge impact to surface waters through erosion if not done properly.
I love piggies so much! That greeting they do is just beautiful they are always talking, I miss keeping them, always put a smile on my face. Your doing a great job they look very happy 😃
I remember an American farmer using tree crops, especially red, white, and red-white natural hybrid mulberry trees and acorn trees and nut trees and persimmon trees along with grasses as forage of all kinds and the mulberry trees are producing so much mulberries that he has to ask an another farmer if he wants his pigs to forage on the mulberries or else they will go to waste! In New Zealand my country was able to acquire kune kune pigs in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s for kune kune pigs are grass eating herbivorous pigs and feeding them grain only makes them fat.
Your farm philosophy is exactly like ours. Until that one bad day, they are given the best care we can provide. We only have chickens and turkeys, but we say that happy poultry tastes better and lay tastier eggs. It breaks my heart when animals are raised in horrible conditions by apathetic owners. Your piggies look so happy!
@ 2:35 I like to think that the meat taste way better as well, seed the ground a day before you move your pigs, they will help you planting the new grass seeds if need.
John I'd like to see if or what you do with the area after the pigs have been through. Do you do any management on those holes/wallows that they make? If you intend to run the chickens through later obviously the ground wouldn't be as even
All my pigs have always had a shade structure and wooded area to hide away in. They are always moving around the farm and find places to make a wallow anywhere they stop.
i knew nothing about pigs the first time i raised on i had her in a grassed pen 60 by 30 with a 10 by 15 covered area i had fruit bagels and cracked corn with molasses for food and for the first 6 weeks in her pen she did not even touch her grain and other foods she ate all the greens grubs and roots before ever touching her food
I'm always ticked watching the pigs follow you around. Do you think the pigs can ever be raised on grass alone? Or do you have to give them the grain for health reasons? ~Smile!
Maybe not grass alone, but they for sure shouldn't have grain. I would plant a lot of roots and tubers and allow them to eat plenty of insects. They're meant to dig amd have similar digestive systems to humans, so carrots, sweet potatoes, beets, turnips, etc. Would be so healthy for them, let alone allowing them the enrichment to scavenge and dig.
Ideally pigs would never be feed grain unless you planted something like Rye or Barley or Oats and wanted them to eat it down to build up their fat stores for wintering. Feeder pigs like John has are typically a 6 to 9 month investment that should be fed vegetables and various other greens. If possible nuts and fruits are also a great option for feeding pigs as it attracts many bugs they eat along with getting amazing high-quality fats and sugars. That is what you would want to finish a pig on and make their meat taste like a thousand bucks!!
Hey John, just wondering what the pasture looks like, say a few months after the pigs have gone off it. Does the grass come back stronger in your opinion, or do other species move in as well?
Hey John, I am curious how long it takes before the pigs are reintroduced back to a piece of land they have already rooted. I have a small pig farm here in Idaho and have always wanted to try pasture raising pigs but with only 12 acres to graze I'm not sure it would be enough. Thanks!
we love our pigs, but our girls last year were divas! they got spoiled on raw milk and wouldn't eat pumpkins or melons or much grass, so they cost me a fortune trying to get them to weight and even rotating them every 3 days want enough to prevent huge trenches. trying to find non GMO pig feed out here is a nightmare. this year we switched to smaller kunekune mix to see if they graze better. so far so good!
Glad you're having some better luck this year. That's the trick with me trying to put out information some times, what I say or do can't apply to everyone. Then even year to year things on farm are different. I learn so much each year. Thanks for writing in!
Could you please let me know if I can free- range my piglets once they are born? Their mothes ((one Large White and one Landres), were both raised indoors all their lives. I'm told that ticks & biting insects will make this move unwise. I live in a part of Africa where the sun/greenery on my large expanse of farm land is plenteous and ideal for free-ranging. I would have thought that since being outdoors is natural to them (or should be), nature will have it's own way of dealing with such a problem?
Hey John, I have a video up on my channel showing my pigs eating my homemade silage. I believe you may find It interesting. It really has sustained them thus far this winter. Of course they won't eat hay, but they chow down on silage.
John thank you so much. Did you do a video about how much you feed per pig in a season? I'm trying to work up my expected costs for next year when I start this. And by the way, love these pig videos. Pigs always make me smile.
Just 5 pigs? You could manage a 16x16 livestock panel fence (with some shade) and move it every day. One acre would be plenty for me, but you didn't tell us anything about your climate or pasture or soil
New to raising pigs and want to set up my acre for a rotation style with a few pigs. What should I plant in the acre that the pigs will like and grow back.
I'd just run the pigs in what you have, let them do sone tilling and sow whatever you want behind them. Keep the season in mind during your seed selection if course
They dig in the ground to find Truffles 🙂 Also love how you care & feel they should only have one bad day in their life. How can I buy from you,what state are you in?
Hey John, thanks for your great work. Question about the tusks and teeth of the pigs. Do you get them cut? When would that happen and what are the concerns?
No once again you are wrong. Also what do you think happens in nature if you don't have balance. If you don't have the animals eating the grass the grass doesn't renew and gets choked out. If you don't have predators eating the herbivores they over populate and eat all the grass . it's called balance. Plus the herbivores add fertilizer to the soil for more grass. Stop living in a vacuum. John is doing a great job and this is how raising our food is done right!
Oh and yes I will die from eating meat and you will die from eating veggies. Death is a fact of life can't escape it everyone and everything dies sometime. Idiot.
Great to see happy pigs. Have you done a video about the fencing of them. It looks pretty straight forward, and I would like to know if it would work for me. My land is not flat and level like yours is.
Pigs seem to be able to supply so much more meat than chickens in the same area but maybe twice the amount of time. I don't know actually how many chickens you could get in the same area but I do like chickens better though. So what happens to the space after the pigs, or chickens for that matter? Growl those cover crops, grow grain, grow vegetables, fruit trees, berry bushes, what? Is it good areated soil? Remember, you have to compete with those factory farms for success not just for quality product.
Diarrhea when they were babies? Wonder if they had been given GMO grain sprayed with glyphosate before you got them? That’ll do it and cause low reproduction rates as well. Glad you’re raising your happy animals on the grass!
My belief system atm makes me some kinda hippy gnostic vegan permaculture market gardener wanna-be. Do you feel the pigs intrinsic value as a roto-tiller justifies its contined existence. I want to no till grass feed crops for human consumtion and am wondering if the pig might be a good working partner for me. What do you think?
Pig tilling is still tilling. Probably less bad than churning it with a rototiller, but it's still exposing a lot of sool to the air unnecessarily and burning up organics matter. When the pigs are a yield that's ok, you just come behind, plant and mulch it and go on with your life. But without a meat yield? Is it really worth it? Also bear in mind adult pigs are more powerful than the feeder pigs of the same breed due to maturity. They can break things the feeders could not.
right now our 2 piglets are in chicken tractors being moved around the old garden. what's the best low cost fence when we need to open up to more land? thx
grumpstar7 look into premier eletric netting fencing.thats what he uses. Super easy can use it for chickens to cows. multi use. worth the money. 100% move able.
grumpstar7 i use premiere 1 electric netting for pigs, goats and chickens. all my neighbours are running after there pigs cause they excape through there fence, while mine dont. i wouldnt change it unless i put up permanent paddocks. i just use solor chatger as well, works great
They eat just about everything. By sitting and observing I'm able to tell what they like best. There's a few plants in my pasture that I haven't been able to identify yet. In general, if they're there long enough, they'll eat it.
that's always a tricky question because it varies from farm to farm and mostly depends on your pasture quality. If the pasture is like John's then you could potentially have up to 35 pigs per acre, although you would be moving your pigs almost daily possibly every 48 hours. If I was in John's side of things I would shoot for 25 pigs per acre and rotate every 5 days, Ideally you would have at least 6 more acres of good pasture to rotate them to so every acre gets at least 30 days to rest before having pigs on it again.
I would say no, not without knowing more. Not everyone's biosphere is going to be able to provide all the nutrients that I pig needs to grow well. I'd have to know way more than I do about pig nutrition and forage nutrients before I could make that claim. Sure, pigs grow in the wild off just forage but they're better adapted and they're not being raised for production. There's a balance of what we consider "natural" while also paying the bills and making sure our management is humane.
I wouldn't say that they prefer grass over grain, the reality is that because they are able to ad lib grain feed they are really just looking for a little extra. If you didn't let them have either for a while and then gave them the option I am sure they would choose the grain.
Woodys Farm Exactly. If you have unlimited cookies, the novelty is going to wear off and it's unlikely you're going to go nuts over your daily fresh cookies. But if you only get one cookie per day, suddenly cookie time gets a lot more exciting.
Woodys Farm actually if you look at pigs in the wild there is no grain in the general sense. He is mimicking nature and letting the pigs act like pigs. If he removed the grain all together he would still have very healthy pigs they would just take longer to grow out. I fed my last pig using no grain and let me tell you, YYYYUUUUUMMMM! The rules for raising food is in observing and then copying nature. No cookies in nature
You could, and some people do. I don’t have the fencing yet, and I like to control the impact that the pigs have. Keeping them out of an area can be as important as keeping them in an area. You need to let the land rest, and you can only do that with exclusion.
Grass actually has a LOT of protein. As for how much of it the pig can extract for their nutrition I couldn't tell you lol *EDIT:* one thing I can tell you is Walter Jeffries of Sugar Mountain Farm raises his pigs primarily on pasture and hey. They get a bit of scraps from local businesses as a supplemental but those pigs are pounding down a LOT of pasture daily
pigs are not looking to eat dirt . instead they are eating roots and bugs in the dirt .. pigs can be very scary .. to prove my point next time one of your chickens dies throw it in the pig pen .. it will freak you out the way they go after it
the diarrhoea problem is what's known as scours in piglets - here's a link describing the cause and the treatment for it. www.business.qld.gov.au/industries/farms-fishing-forestry/agriculture/livestock/animal-welfare/pests-diseases-disorders/piglet-scours
Pigs love snakes they call them snacks
Interesting observation John. I am always amazed to see how farms and farmers are moving back to more traditional ways of raising animals and going "against the grain" (har har) of conventional farming. Of course it takes longer to grow out a pig on pasture but quality of meat, the life of the animal, and the state of the land are more positively affected. Thanks for sharing!
You're very welcome. I'll never claim to have all the answers, but I sure have learned a lot. It's a lot of fun to share what we're trying to do here.
@@farmmarketing I remember an American farmer using tree crops, especially red, white, and red-white natural hybrid mulberry trees and acorn trees and nut trees and persimmon trees along with grasses as forage of all kinds and the mulberry trees are producing so much mulberries that he has to ask an another farmer if he wants his pigs to forage on the mulberries or else they will go to waste! In New Zealand my country was able to acquire kune kune pigs in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s for kune kune pigs are grass eating herbivorous pigs and feeding them grain only makes them fat.
I agree it makes the piggies happy but the inversion of the soil strata is detrimental to soil organic matter %. You will burn up soil carbon after than you can replace it.
Also, pasture pork production can be a huge impact to surface waters through erosion if not done properly.
I love piggies so much! That greeting they do is just beautiful they are always talking, I miss keeping them, always put a smile on my face. Your doing a great job they look very happy 😃
I remember an American farmer using tree crops, especially red, white, and red-white natural hybrid mulberry trees and acorn trees and nut trees and persimmon trees along with grasses as forage of all kinds and the mulberry trees are producing so much mulberries that he has to ask an another farmer if he wants his pigs to forage on the mulberries or else they will go to waste! In New Zealand my country was able to acquire kune kune pigs in the 1960s, 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s for kune kune pigs are grass eating herbivorous pigs and feeding them grain only makes them fat.
My pigs love grass - especially the little piglets. But they absolutely LOVE weeds - preferably with the root system still attached.
Few things make me happier than seeing my livestock eat healthy.
Your farm philosophy is exactly like ours. Until that one bad day, they are given the best care we can provide. We only have chickens and turkeys, but we say that happy poultry tastes better and lay tastier eggs. It breaks my heart when animals are raised in horrible conditions by apathetic owners. Your piggies look so happy!
Do you ever plant root crops for them to eat such as carrots parsnips radishes
@ 2:35 I like to think that the meat taste way better as well, seed the ground a day before you move your pigs, they will help you planting the new grass seeds if need.
Good stuff! We have about 3,500 square feet for our pigs and they love digging up everything.
John I'd like to see if or what you do with the area after the pigs have been through. Do you do any management on those holes/wallows that they make? If you intend to run the chickens through later obviously the ground wouldn't be as even
You should have an area where the pigs have shade. They don't have sweat glands, so they have to roll over dirt to stay fresh.
All my pigs have always had a shade structure and wooded area to hide away in. They are always moving around the farm and find places to make a wallow anywhere they stop.
i knew nothing about pigs the first time i raised on i had her in a grassed pen 60 by 30 with a 10 by 15 covered area i had fruit bagels and cracked corn with molasses for food and for the first 6 weeks in her pen she did not even touch her grain and other foods she ate all the greens grubs and roots before ever touching her food
and the next spring in that pen was amazing the grass grew 7 feet before i was able to get out their and mow amazing for the soil
I'm always ticked watching the pigs follow you around. Do you think the pigs can ever be raised on grass alone? Or do you have to give them the grain for health reasons? ~Smile!
Maybe not grass alone, but they for sure shouldn't have grain.
I would plant a lot of roots and tubers and allow them to eat plenty of insects. They're meant to dig amd have similar digestive systems to humans, so carrots, sweet potatoes, beets, turnips, etc. Would be so healthy for them, let alone allowing them the enrichment to scavenge and dig.
Ideally pigs would never be feed grain unless you planted something like Rye or Barley or Oats and wanted them to eat it down to build up their fat stores for wintering. Feeder pigs like John has are typically a 6 to 9 month investment that should be fed vegetables and various other greens. If possible nuts and fruits are also a great option for feeding pigs as it attracts many bugs they eat along with getting amazing high-quality fats and sugars. That is what you would want to finish a pig on and make their meat taste like a thousand bucks!!
Grass alone no, but good pasture yes
Happy pigs make happy bacon.
Damn right
^ Troll spotted.
Vegan bacon isn't bacon. That's like calling bacon "meat lettuce, it's better than plant lettuce because it's made of meat".
Hey John, just wondering what the pasture looks like, say a few months after the pigs have gone off it. Does the grass come back stronger in your opinion, or do other species move in as well?
In a pasture like that I would think the grass seed bank would be quite high and it would all grow back just fine.
Very informative...thank you...this will help a lot for our piggery
FRESH GRASS ARE PERFECT FOR THE PIGS
Are you sure they are eating grass and not looking for bugs to eat?
Hey John, I am curious how long it takes before the pigs are reintroduced back to a piece of land they have already rooted. I have a small pig farm here in Idaho and have always wanted to try pasture raising pigs but with only 12 acres to graze I'm not sure it would be enough. Thanks!
we love our pigs, but our girls last year were divas! they got spoiled on raw milk and wouldn't eat pumpkins or melons or much grass, so they cost me a fortune trying to get them to weight and even rotating them every 3 days want enough to prevent huge trenches. trying to find non GMO pig feed out here is a nightmare. this year we switched to smaller kunekune mix to see if they graze better. so far so good!
Glad you're having some better luck this year. That's the trick with me trying to put out information some times, what I say or do can't apply to everyone. Then even year to year things on farm are different. I learn so much each year. Thanks for writing in!
Thanks John.
You're welcome!
Could you please let me know if I can free- range my piglets once they are born?
Their mothes ((one Large White and one Landres), were both raised indoors all their lives.
I'm told that ticks & biting insects will make this move unwise.
I live in a part of Africa where the sun/greenery on my large expanse of farm land is plenteous and ideal for free-ranging.
I would have thought that since being outdoors is natural to them (or should be), nature will have it's own way of dealing with such a problem?
Only disadvantage is that you have to inject more often against parasits, worms etc. But i not really see why that should be a problem.
Hey John, I have a video up on my channel showing my pigs eating my homemade silage. I believe you may find It interesting. It really has sustained them thus far this winter. Of course they won't eat hay, but they chow down on silage.
Question about water in your plastic tote. Doing this at our farm always caused lots of algea to buildup. Do you care?
John, have you ever had a pig been bitten by a snake? Or how do pigs react when they see a snake? I"d appreciate your comment.
John thank you so much. Did you do a video about how much you feed per pig in a season? I'm trying to work up my expected costs for next year when I start this. And by the way, love these pig videos. Pigs always make me smile.
My pigs love green grass
Good Morning!
Sir what types of grass are pigs like most?
This is fantastic!
How many acres would you suggest for raising under five pigs on pasture?
Just 5 pigs?
You could manage a 16x16 livestock panel fence (with some shade) and move it every day. One acre would be plenty for me, but you didn't tell us anything about your climate or pasture or soil
I've been informed that if I must free - range my piglets, then they must be injected with antibiotics because of the possibility of infection?
Great video, thank you for posting.
Great stuff. Thank you for sharing.
Hallo, one question i feed my pigs twice a day with grain if i give them one meal grain and one meal grass would it be poor feeding or?
Which grass is best for pig........wate is grass farming start
Can I know the best grass for my pigs so I can get the seeds sir
New to raising pigs and want to set up my acre for a rotation style with a few pigs. What should I plant in the acre that the pigs will like and grow back.
I'd just run the pigs in what you have, let them do sone tilling and sow whatever you want behind them.
Keep the season in mind during your seed selection if course
Hi what kind of pasture can you grow for the pigs and which one is the best for the tropics?
I just got 2 American Guinea hog 1 month ago. Do they need shots or something do you know?
They dig in the ground to find Truffles 🙂 Also love how you care & feel they should only have one bad day in their life. How can I buy from you,what state are you in?
And look at his tair going all crazy because he is so happy.
we feed our pigs with corn,barey then we give them clover,pumpkin and leftover vegetables as an adittion
Hey John, thanks for your great work. Question about the tusks and teeth of the pigs. Do you get them cut? When would that happen and what are the concerns?
Why would you detusk a pig?
Just treat them well lol
john what is the protein % you feed your pasture pigs?
As a kid I'd give pigs the grass I'd grab nearby. They'd always eat it.
Informative. Thanks. But can pigs do well living on tiled floors?
No
Yay piggies!!!
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No once again you are wrong. Also what do you think happens in nature if you don't have balance. If you don't have the animals eating the grass the grass doesn't renew and gets choked out. If you don't have predators eating the herbivores they over populate and eat all the grass . it's called balance. Plus the herbivores add fertilizer to the soil for more grass. Stop living in a vacuum. John is doing a great job and this is how raising our food is done right!
Tell those pigs to be vegan. They're omnivores, as are we.
Oh and yes I will die from eating meat and you will die from eating veggies. Death is a fact of life can't escape it everyone and everything dies sometime. Idiot.
Great to see happy pigs. Have you done a video about the fencing of them. It looks pretty straight forward, and I would like to know if it would work for me. My land is not flat and level like yours is.
That's actually coming this week. I have all the video. I'm in the middle of editing it. Glad you asked!
Excellent content and video, my fellow pig farmer. New Subscriber 😉
Pigs seem to be able to supply so much more meat than chickens in the same area but maybe twice the amount of time. I don't know actually how many chickens you could get in the same area but I do like chickens better though. So what happens to the space after the pigs, or chickens for that matter? Growl those cover crops, grow grain, grow vegetables, fruit trees, berry bushes, what? Is it good areated soil? Remember, you have to compete with those factory farms for success not just for quality product.
So like. Could I sell you the grass I cut from my lawn? I live in Bristol
Diarrhea when they were babies? Wonder if they had been given GMO grain sprayed with glyphosate before you got them? That’ll do it and cause low reproduction rates as well. Glad you’re raising your happy animals on the grass!
What breed of pig is this?
My belief system atm makes me some kinda hippy gnostic vegan permaculture market gardener wanna-be. Do you feel the pigs intrinsic value as a roto-tiller justifies its contined existence. I want to no till grass feed crops for human consumtion and am wondering if the pig might be a good working partner for me. What do you think?
Pig tilling is still tilling. Probably less bad than churning it with a rototiller, but it's still exposing a lot of sool to the air unnecessarily and burning up organics matter.
When the pigs are a yield that's ok, you just come behind, plant and mulch it and go on with your life. But without a meat yield? Is it really worth it?
Also bear in mind adult pigs are more powerful than the feeder pigs of the same breed due to maturity. They can break things the feeders could not.
right now our 2 piglets are in chicken tractors being moved around the old garden. what's the best low cost fence when we need to open up to more land? thx
grumpstar7 look into premier eletric netting fencing.thats what he uses. Super easy can use it for chickens to cows. multi use. worth the money. 100% move able.
grumpstar7 i use premiere 1 electric netting for pigs, goats and chickens. all my neighbours are running after there pigs cause they excape through there fence, while mine dont. i wouldnt change it unless i put up permanent paddocks. i just use solor chatger as well, works great
also I think they are going after the grubs and vermin in the soil.
what are those things you use for houses
Are you able to determine what the grass & other plant species they are eating?
They eat just about everything. By sitting and observing I'm able to tell what they like best. There's a few plants in my pasture that I haven't been able to identify yet. In general, if they're there long enough, they'll eat it.
John, how many pigs on how many acres?
that's always a tricky question because it varies from farm to farm and mostly depends on your pasture quality. If the pasture is like John's then you could potentially have up to 35 pigs per acre, although you would be moving your pigs almost daily possibly every 48 hours. If I was in John's side of things I would shoot for 25 pigs per acre and rotate every 5 days, Ideally you would have at least 6 more acres of good pasture to rotate them to so every acre gets at least 30 days to rest before having pigs on it again.
John, how long will it be before pigs or back on that same piece of ground?
I have few enough pigs and a lot of land so I don't run over the same ground twice in one year.
how do you keep them contained ?
Great video
Do you think you can raise them only on pasture and zero feed
I would say no, not without knowing more. Not everyone's biosphere is going to be able to provide all the nutrients that I pig needs to grow well. I'd have to know way more than I do about pig nutrition and forage nutrients before I could make that claim. Sure, pigs grow in the wild off just forage but they're better adapted and they're not being raised for production. There's a balance of what we consider "natural" while also paying the bills and making sure our management is humane.
can pig just eat grass only like goats ?
Good job, I love it 😍
1:34 look at the tail
I would like to see 2 book on raise pigs.as well as the chick.
I wouldn't say that they prefer grass over grain, the reality is that because they are able to ad lib grain feed they are really just looking for a little extra. If you didn't let them have either for a while and then gave them the option I am sure they would choose the grain.
Woodys Farm Exactly. If you have unlimited cookies, the novelty is going to wear off and it's unlikely you're going to go nuts over your daily fresh cookies. But if you only get one cookie per day, suddenly cookie time gets a lot more exciting.
Woodys Farm actually if you look at pigs in the wild there is no grain in the general sense. He is mimicking nature and letting the pigs act like pigs. If he removed the grain all together he would still have very healthy pigs they would just take longer to grow out. I fed my last pig using no grain and let me tell you, YYYYUUUUUMMMM! The rules for raising food is in observing and then copying nature. No cookies in nature
Can't you just keep them on one giant paddock vs. moving them?
You could, and some people do. I don’t have the fencing yet, and I like to control the impact that the pigs have. Keeping them out of an area can be as important as keeping them in an area. You need to let the land rest, and you can only do that with exclusion.
Will take longer since the grass doesn’t have the protein to gain weight
Grass actually has a LOT of protein. As for how much of it the pig can extract for their nutrition I couldn't tell you lol
*EDIT:* one thing I can tell you is Walter Jeffries of Sugar Mountain Farm raises his pigs primarily on pasture and hey. They get a bit of scraps from local businesses as a supplemental but those pigs are pounding down a LOT of pasture daily
Datz niz , thnx
And put rings in thier noses so they wont root.
Create work, please can pigs depend on grass as there major feed
pigs are not looking to eat dirt . instead they are eating roots and bugs in the dirt .. pigs can be very scary .. to prove my point next time one of your chickens dies throw it in the pig pen .. it will freak you out the way they go after it
Piggy wants to drop a few pounds ...I guess they are self conscious of their body image too.
the diarrhoea problem is what's known as scours in piglets - here's a link describing the cause and the treatment for it. www.business.qld.gov.au/industries/farms-fishing-forestry/agriculture/livestock/animal-welfare/pests-diseases-disorders/piglet-scours
When you cahnge any livestocks diet that drastically they will have diarrhea
damn gurl other that farming pigs you fine as hell
Your feed mix isnt right is all I can say.
chlorophyll? more like bore-ophyll.
How can you see these individuals as resources? There is no moral justification for your supremacism. What a betrayal to them.
everything you said that is good for the pigs, is also good for a human. so why eat the pigs to be unhealthy??
very healthy pigs.