Homemade Pig Feed and Expanded Goat Area
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- čas přidán 13. 07. 2024
- This year we are mixing up our own homemade pig feed. It is made of cracked corn, soybean meal, and mineral salt. By mixing our own hog feed we should save money. Also we are going to look at the billy goats and their expanded area. We added another section of electric netting and it added lots of extra space for the goats.
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I know the mineral amount seemed low to me, but that is what it calculated out to. The pigs will be raised on dirt, an will get additional mineral as they root up the ground.
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Man you need 35-45 minute videos. They are that good.
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Yeah but he does have a job so it would be harder for him to edit and record longer videos
I loved seeing the pigs with the cats and dogs.
Happy fathers day Evan...... I am so proud of you two for all you do. I love seeing the animals and how they socialize together. Have a great rest of the summer. Hugs from Minnesota
If you have a cement mixer, you can use it to mix feed and other dry material.
That is an awesome suggestion!!!! Evan will probably find one on a deal just to make a video about inspecting it!
You didn't mention your back. You must be healed up! ☮
Everything is looking good and you have got things moving in the right direction, a working farm.
Looks great, making me want to do some Pigs now! Thankfully I have my Uncle to get Advice from He's raised them for many yrs.
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I am glad you have slowed down and are getting some rest.The pigs look like they are getting fat and are having a great time with the chickens. Matter of fact they are so cute. Take care ,and God bless.
Interesting and funny love watching your animals and your progress. Thank you.
Sometimes we need a "lazy day", especially with everything that is going on in the world today.
Thank you for sharing your experience on the farm. Have a happy 'Fourth of July'. Be safe, healthy and successful. 👍
If you plan on feeding wet feed get a sheetrock mud mixer from your local lumber yard and use a drill to mix in a 5 gallon bucket 🪣 wet feed helps with digestion too
Things are looking good, nice job.
you can always add water to regular pig feed to turn it into slop
Great video Evan I really like seeing the pigs and goats . You can fee the pigs ome garden waste also and they will get minerals from that also
Yeah the pigs will be getting all the garden scraps.
Evan you should look into making or purchasing a compost tumbler to mix up your feed.
I look forward to your videos.
I found an old cement mixer. We do our compost mixing with it. You might think of one for mixing your feed.
Enjoy watching your video
Pigs look great Eric. Interesting how they get along with the cats but not the goats. Have a great week
Always a delight watching your videos. The piglets are so cute! Are you going to feed them food scraps and leaves from the garden as well? Your enthusiasm for raising animals really shone in this video.
I enjoyed the video and I just wanted to drop you a note and let you know that I mix my goat feed for my weaning babies fresh every year. And I bought a cement mixer from Harbor freight and that is what I use to mix my feed. It is dedicated for that and will never be used for anything else. Offhand I can’t remember the size but it cost me about $120.
My recipe for hog grower was 3 bushel of oats, 2 bushels of corn and one 88 lbs of feed supplement which is mostly soy meal and celineum fiber. I would run it all thru my hammer mill combination mixer. It made nice long pig.
Wondering if that new drill auger you have for planting the garden would help mix it up at all. Another great video Evan!
Awesome way to make your food and save money! Maybe you can get a can with a lid that secures really well and make a double batch of feed in it and then secure the lid and roll the can so you dont have to hand mix it up.
You're doin great!! Love these videos! You deserve a lazy day, 👍
The pigs are cute. The other animals are nice too. 👍👏
We are making our own feed for the pigs also and I like your ingredients. I was interested in the mineral because I couldn't find any recommend for pigs but reading the bag I don't see any lysine. That is interesting because all my research says they need it to use the protein.
Boy goats = Bucks lol. Good info on the poultry netting vs goat/sheep netting. We have been trying to decide which to get.
as aeuropean that half percent math out of 30 lbs equals 2 ounces was super panful haha
Love watching the pigs and cats playing together. Great video as always!
Great video buddy thanks
Awesome and God bless
Great Info,
A half inch drive drill & a plaster/mortar mixer (paint mixer) would be a easy affordable mixer (the ones with guards)...
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You are spot on with the low salt content. My pigs will not touch their feed if it's too salty. Also, bean meal is not the same as ground soybeans. Don't substitute ground whole beans, as young pigs growth will be stunted.
Don't really know your field layout but, my dad used to take about 4 acres of marginal ditch dump ground and planted it to field corn for us and a few cows to eat, he also turned in several feeder pigs 🐖 to help hog it off in the fall.
We called our boy goats Billy Goats.
Ithaca Comments male goats are properly called bucks, the neutered ones are wethers, females are does, and if kids are under a year, they are bucklings and doelings. So can we all use the proper names?
@@cathiwim That's very interesting. Any idea how the names came to be?
TYVM!
A good source of feed for both the pigs and yourself is turning trees you cut down into mushroom logs. You will get a few years of mushroom harvest depending on the size of the logs used then to dispose of the logs toss in with the pigs and watch them rip the logs open to hunt down the fungi strands. Different tree types need different fungi types so it is a local research process of finding the tree types and matching them to fungi inoculation types.
Think of it as a treat for the pigs like how the goats love when you throw them limbs you cut off the trees as they eat the leaves then start stripping the bark off them.
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Check out Morrison’s feeds and feeding. Also if your pigs are pastured, you will not need as high a protein or as many minerals. Keep up the good work. Have you considered a mortar mixer for mixing your feed. Thanks for sharing.
You should mix the mash the night before it works alot better.
Nice job on the feed mix. Hey any time you can save sum cash is great.
You should try to find a restaurant or a veggy market, they will have plenty of good vegetable for you hungry piggy !
They usually pay to dispose of them ... You're free !
Best sleep is when it's raining!
Dang right
I've noticed that all y'all that have goats graze them on grass but they are much more efficient grazing on brush.
Ya use what you’ve got
So cute pigs baby
Great video thanks!!
For the 2 different mixes (piglet and grower) how many kilos per day do the pigs need to eat please?
Hiya, nice video, thank you. One question, nothing for the male goats to climb on? Large rocks, cable drums or pallet stacks & planks? OK two questions.
Provimi, kalmbach, make mineral for feeds. The key word is pre-mix.
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Great video Evan! HAPPY FATHER'S DAY!(LATE) WATCHING YOUR VIDEO JUST MAKES MY DAY BETTER! Thanks!
You might be able to find an old hammer mill you can grind up corn and soybeans
So just feed corn & soy meal. But time vs mill costs. That equipment is still out there though, even small scale hand operated.
Red Solo cups have lines in them, from 1oz and above....
There is a difference between liquid ounces and dry weight ounces it has to do with differences in densities....
@CountryViewAcres - how was the cost comparison to regular stock feeds? What % decrease did you achieve?
Dont know if you watch Farmer Tyler Ranch but he has a video or 2 out about mixing his own pig feed maby it can help you a bit
Soak your feed over night and it will work out better.
On the scale you are operating buying your maize and soya already prepared (ground up) it is sensible to buy it in small bags like that although you are not getting the best cost savings as the mill is adding a substantial amount to the cost of the raw material.
As you grow with more livestock and poultry it will be easier to make significant cost savings. A cost saving may be possible by buying your cracked corn in quarter or half ton big bags when the various livestock are eating it quick enough. You can probably lift and handle them with your loader and these bags are usually recyclable.
Consider using a large concrete mixer as it will mix food much better than doing it by hand. (Using a gas torch on high heat on the outside of the tub will explode all but the most stubborn concrete off the inside of the tub but wear full face protection as it explodes and throws bits everywhere!)
You clearly enjoy equipment and machinery auctions keep your eyes skinned for a hammer mill and mix setup particularly at retirement auctions - they are often dirt cheap especially those that are bolted down in a barn and rarely worn out either. Possibly consider a local advert wanting to purchase such equipment.
The male goats have browsing rather than grass. That is probably why they did a better job.
Wheat middlings are normally 16% protein....it can be used alone or fed as wet or fermented feed..
Commonly called wheat shorts. By product from milling flour.
Good job Evan,sure doing well around there. Hope the pig feed puts the meat on the plate okay. They are sure enjoying the barnyard. Maybe fit them with helmets and let the games begin 🤣. Keep up the good work and videos, thanks for sharing with us. Fred
Watching this a year later. I'm curious to know if you ended up changing it. Would you use this same recipe again?
Last year I raised mine and mixed 12# soy meal 10 oz mineral and 50# cracked corn. They didn’t gain wait as id hoped.
Hopefully I have better results. But it sounds like our recipes are very similar.
Country View Acres I was told I should have used ground corn and soaked it.
Might i ask how much you were paying per pound for the pig feed from your mill. I recently got 6 pigs this year and have been buying feed at .16 cents per pound and was wondering how that compares to your mill and to your homemade mix.
Look around for an old concrete mixer and mix it on a bigger scale once you get you’re recipe right
Be fun to do an off the cuff comparison from last years growth vs how your mix works. If they don't get 'there' could just feed them longer. Given that the appt isn't messed up. You did pretty well cost-wise last year imo. So mix vs the commercial feed should save more $.
Could swap the goats around a bit & move the guys to the areas the gals are going light on. Lumanh acres bucks seem to do a better brush clearing job then the does too.
Heal Well & Y'all be well too (Happy FD to you to)
Ron Smith thats because if bucks aren’t breeding, they are eating!! Lol! Not too much different between species, Ive found!
Any way using the idea of a cement mixer for your mixing your hog feed. Just thinking.
Remember this principal on feeding your animals, you are what you eat, if you feed them high protein, they will have lots of protein in their bodies which you will eat, its not a bad thing necessarily but you also have to keep in mind too much of a good thing can turn into a bad thing.
Getting up at six.You are idle but I forgive you because you are a grafter.xxx to you and yours.
If you going to be serious about making hay you should pickup a old swather, my grandpa has a old owatonna and it cuts good up to 8mph and it puts it in rows already.
if that is the only place you keep the pigs then you need to start moving them around the property, i move ours every other week from one pasture to the next, keeps weeds down and cuts costs on feed...
May be fermenting to get the cost down just an idea
how did the feed work? would you recommend it?
What is the mineral composed of? And can you make it?
Don't worry about the audio. Can you edit and add on the videos. At least it's on videos.
How the garden doing
Evan, you crack me up. The saying is all said and done. What you say is all done and said. Once it's done, it can't be said. Done is done. I'm just being silly and critical, I know that but just think about it for a second. I absolutely love your channel no matter how messed up your sayings are 😂❤️😂 it's all said (which comes first because you say it) and done because now it's done ❤️❤️❤️
Exact same recipe made 5 years ago
Hello, sir. Can we replace corn with rice bran? Thank you
Get a portable concrete mixer to mix your feed....
How big did they turn out
So how much does each pig eat a day or do you just feed alll 30 pounds
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I really enjoy watching your videos. Question: do you ever have any predator problems with the boy goats in that electric netting or does it keep out the predators also (coyotes, etc.)? Thanks and stay well.
If you are going to mix much feed, consider an old cement mixer
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It has been about a year now,, and no problems so far with predators with the billy goats.
Is your back feeling better already? It seemed like you didn't really had trouble working around the yard.
Yes, my. Back is feeling much better.
Please recheck your calculations, minerals should be less for the second formula as weight has reduced from 30 pounds to 25 pounds
The 30 pound batch was really 2.4 ounces of mineral and the 25 pound batch was 2.0 ounces. So, It rounded down to 2 ounces.
@@CountryViewAcres Looks like you could use an even smaller measure for the minerals - maybe even a shot glass or something similar.
What's the second ingredient? Soyabean doc or soya chunk?
How many yards are in one roll of netting
I know it takes a lot of time, but can you make a long and a short version of some or all of your videos. Put the longer versions on another channel. For those who like the longer versions can enjoy themselves over there. Would subscribe to both channels. I like your videos a lot particularly the animals. I would have loved looking at those goats a bit longer. I love the rain and the chickens, all of it. Make a rain video. You hardly see those on YT without them being ten hours. Make a real rain video and people will click by the thousands, millions even.
are you concerned by the omega -6 polyunsaturated oil content in the soya and corn? I would try to find other sources of protein and energy
If you eat meat from the grocery store that's what they're getting fed.
Hi what does it cost ti feed them
How much feed do you feed those two pigs each day? Thank you, enjoyed your video.
It changes as they grow. About 3% of their body weight. But basically get a feel for what they eat. You want a little bit if feed left over the next day. If they eat it all add a little more to there ration.
Evan I came back and watched this video for the second time and noticed the cat . Is the cat working , catching the mice ?? You have to keep the cat kind of hunger or they won't hunt
We feed them once a day. And all four of them run for the food. So I would say they are hungry.
In order to maximize feed growth pigs need feed in front of them 24-7 . I feed alternative feeds that are cheaper Brewers grain ..ddg.. bread snack cakes and waste dairy milk
Put the pigs out in the woods and they will eat a lot of natural stuff and save you feed $$$. The meat will taste better too. A mineral block would be easier and save you time.
I think your ginger barn cat needs a visit to the vets else you will be over run with kittens
The Tom cats went to the vet and got fixed yesterday.
Would a cement mixer work for mixing?????
Your feed.
Corn? How healthy.
Why not grow vegetables for them,potatoes cabbage turnip carrots.Years ago nobody paid for pig food,they lived on scraps called pig swill.