Pastured Pork Fodder System
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- čas přidán 21. 11. 2015
- Non-Gmo, non-soy feed is expensive. We set up a sunflower sprouting system to help offset some of the cost of feeding the pigs as they get older.
This is a simple system set up with some 5 gallon buckets and a drill. You will need to purchase black oil sunflower seeds which are readily available at your local farm store. You will also need water.
The stacking buckets and saving rinse water... that is SO brilliant! Love it!
Board & Batten Design Co. thanks! And that reminds me- it’s finally warm enough to start again this year! I need to get them out. :)
Mrs Dirt said it all!!! I am very impressed!!! You and Chris will be doing documentaries for PBS by this time 2016!
+KOSSGroupLLC Thanks! we all know +dirtpatcheaven has had her share of kiddo camera operators and DIY/selfie vids... It's easier with Chris here helping.
Sorry I had missed this, and glad to catch it now. Thanks for linking from your latest :)
Video very well done and I love the ending....LOL.Merci beaucoup.
Glad you found it helpful!
Our fodder which art on the farm helping us...
LOL I had to say it out loud. 😂
nice video I love it
Wow, great video! So jealous of your editing!
thank you so much! We worked hard on this one. :)
sprout then a few days more for more of a yield and high nutrients. we do sunflower and wheat for our chickens, rabbits, turkeys. saves alot on the feed costs and they get fresh grown goodies.
+getsmartnow2011 You sprout wheat seeds?
I did notice that the sunflower seeds sprouted better in warmer weather.
I am allergic to soy and I would really love to eat some of that pork. Nice video!
Thanks!
Sunflower seeds, good ideal. You cut your feed in half by mixing in the sprouts. At a lower cost, the water was cheap too.
Yes, and our water was free, because we are on a well.
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I have had a well for 10 years, it is cheap or cheaper then city water, but not free, most thing are not free. It is a hidden cost or someone some where is paying for it.
nice
We still use this system.
how does the seeds decrease your amount of feed? I saw you mixed them. I love the video.
+beth mitchell They reduce the amount of feed that we have to buy. since a 50# bag of seeds sprouts into nearly 150# that is nearly 2 bags of feed that we don't have to buy ($50). The animals still get a full belly.
do you just use the normal unflower seeds you get in stores or what type do you use I can get a 20 lb bag of sunflower seeds from my Wal-Mart would that work or no.
+muscovy duck&chicken breeder we just get the 50# bag from our feed store for $17. If the seeds your Walmart has are not roasted, then I don't see why they wouldn't work.
+muscovy duck&chicken breeder Also, I looked at the bag today during feeding, it says they are "black oil" sunflower seeds.
if the sprouts are so young they couldn't manufacture food would the only change in volume be the adding of water to the seed and no change in food volume. in fact when the sprouts first sprout they are burning food stored in the seed, so there should be less food for the pigs.
hmmm good information. I'll have to do more research.
I'm not sure I understand why the sprout and greens would have the same amount of seed, equaling the same amount of protein and nutrients. It seems (to me, not an expert) it should be more. I'm not disputing the science, as you kindly noted above, I make no claim to be an expert. But in my practical experience, my animals have always gained while they were growing, as well as maintained a healthy weight while eating sprouted seeds. This may be because we use it in addition to feed, produce, and graze, and not as a replacement. One other thing to note, the animals go CRAZY for the sprouts, they love them, much more than the raw seeds.
There is probably a trade-off. Dimitri is probably right in that you are mostly just bloating the seeds so it has a bigger volume. But on the other hand, it probably is true that the microgreen allows the pig to digest it better and extract more of the nutritional than they would from a hard seed. just think about eating a hard bean, you would get almost no nutritional value, but soak it in water overnight and suddenly you can eat it and get a lot of the nutrients out of it.
Why not drain the water back into an empty bucket instead of on the ground? Can't that water be reused again?
Great question. That water could be used again! However, we live where we have abundant water. We get frequent rain and have two wells and two creeks on the property. Returning it to the ground allows it to percolate to the aquifer and be reused by us later. If we lived in a drier climate we might save it for the garden or animals.
people can eat these too, that is why I grow them
I've just learned that! I might have to grow some for us. :)
just when the first leaves are out and you can barely see the second pair is when you cut them, don't eat the roots. I have many videos on microgreens
I'll go look you up. thanks for the tips!
Just subbed. :) Will come back and watch the micro greens vids later today or next week.
what is the ratio of feed and fodder per feeding?
+beth mitchell we weren't actually measuring, but between 1/3 to 1/2 fodder
thank you so much. Just put my seeds to soak!!!
+beth mitchell Great! In these colder months an extra day of sprouting is sometimes in order.
if you would keep growing it out it would go even far ether
are you in texas ? I'm from paris texas
We are in Missouri about an hour east of Springfield. - Chris
Ok i use to live in licking
I drive through there twice a week on my way to a job in Salem!
PSA: Please for everyone watching, remember that pigs are omnivores, not herbivores, and do not have the necessary organs to digest grass as cows or horses do. Simply putting them on grass does nothing to feed them, and they will have to be supplemented with grains at a minimum.
This seems like a no brainer, but you would not believe how many people think they can pasture raise a pig the same way they would a cow.
Yes, our pigs are fed a pig grower, and a variety of veg from our garden, meat scraps, sprouted sunflower seeds, and they do in fact eat grass and other plants that grow on our pasture. But for me the pasturing is as much about the quality of life, with room to roam and root, (rather than a mass produced pig on a feed lot) as it is about giving them access to things that grow in the pasture.
The girls might like a little job of growing the pigs some barley fodder, for there dessert...
+Maurice Brown Barley fodder? I'll have to check into that.