The Surprising, Ecological Benefit of Pigs and Their Wallows on a Farm
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Serious respect to you guys on all levels, superb pig management,land management - everything! From an ex pig farmer ☺️
Thank you! We are working on it. There’s a lot to learn still though.
One of my neighbors used to mix chicken, pig, and cattle manure for his wheat crops. It was a smelly mess, but his crops were some of the finest I've ever seen!
Nice. It can be a real boon for soil health for sure!
Adding some biochar to the mixture would make it even better, lasting forever in the soil and making the manure less smelly.
Suggest your neughbor try some daikon radish and other root crops seeds when he plants his wheat, to see if it makes a difference.
@@andresamplonius315 unfortunately, that was more than 40 years ago. We moved to the city when I was 13, I'm 59 now.
disturbance in woodland ecosystems like this is crucial and the whole system suffers w/out it. in the form of periodic fire or wallowing pigs, disturbance keeps aggressive plants from taking over and builds space for dozens of important critters, like you showed here!! great video!
amazing work you and your pigs are doing! its so important to stress the difference between disturbing and destroying or exploiting. disturbance is SO important to many parts of the ecosystem -- i cant count how many times ive talked with botanists about land management and them bringing up pig pasture as a beneficial tool for that reason! not only does it keep aggressive species at bay as others have already said, but it benefits more specialized plants as well! a professor of mine said that a site he studied had pasture pigs rooting around on it, breaking up rhizomes etc, hed never seen so many orchids in one place :)!
I've been wondering what Jon Gruden has been doing.!!! Good to see you, coach!!
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Lol
This guy got a relaxed crocodile hunter vibe. I dig it.
The paddocks I'm putting in here in Florida is all sand. I will be bringing in dirt to line wallows, and hopefully the pigs, in time will step and pack em in to hold water. The problem with florida is, when you add dirt etc to make gardens, for example, everything you add leetches down and disappears in short order. I wish we had clay
True. Especially here in the peninsula. There is some clay, but it's about 6 feet or more down and even then it's not much.
@@mrpete9958 ya. I have dug down and it has so much sand mixed in, it isn't even worth the effort
We have a little sand but mostly clay. From what I understand, building organic matter works but it’s time consuming.
great and informative video! came from the short which was also great :)
Awesome, thank you for letting me know you came
From the short!
Love the channel!
I have 6 kune kune's on pasture in N FLA
Nice. Do you like the kune kune?
@@DowdleFamilyFarms Oh yea.... super sweet.
We got pigs, goats, chickens and ducks on 15 acres.
I love all these videos!!
love yall work
Love the narrative style
Thanks
My husband and I live 2 1/2 hours from your farm. I have been watching your videos for about 3 months now. I got my husband interested in your videos also. We thought it might be nice to try some of your products, beef, honey and pork. We went to your web site could not quite figure out how to get beef, honey or chickens. Some pork products were available, we were thinking ribs, pork butt, chops, etc, but saw a limited selection. Perhaps you could advise me further. We would love to come up and meet y’all and figure things out. Maybe I need an email address? Anyway, thank you for your wonderful videos and looking forward to having great meat on our plates.
Email rob @ dowdlefamilyfarms.com. I’m hoping to get the website figured out today.
Our IPP's will root if we let them graze too long but they never want to wallow for some reason..I always make one for them but they just don't use them?
Interesting.
I don’t even eat pork but I really enjoy the way you farm and treat your animals. I want to have a small farm one day soon and I hope to follow in your direction
So in short they do attract moscetoes for the slaughter