Rotationally "Grazed" Pigs Make the Tastiest Bacon. And It's Easy Too!
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- Pasture raised pork. It's the dream of all homesteaders! But how easy is it to actually move pigs from pace to place? We found out it's actually pretty easy, and so good for the pigs.
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Hi! I’m PJ, and my family loves the homesteading life! It’s something my wife and I have always wanted to do, but we grew up with ZERO HOMESTEADING EXPERIENCE!!!!!
We grew up in beautiful southern California, 15 minutes away from the beach. As amazing as that was, we both dreamed of a life closer to land and animals. After getting married and moving to Utah, our family slowly grew. We had become a family of four living in a townhome with a small backyard filled with potted plants.
In 2019 we dipped out feet into homesteading on 1 ¼ acre lot in Utah. In 18 months we were ready to do this for real. So in 2021 we packed everything up (including our sheep) and moved to North Carolina to 12 acres and we love every inch of our homestead!
We raise Dorper sheep and have big plans for:
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Try following your pigs 3 days later with chickens, it will help prevent bare patches and further reduce the parasite load, and fly problems
I do that often too, but maybe didn't mention it in the video.
Not every time, sometimes it's just a pain to move the chickens, since our DIY tractor just broke. But our new build should make it pretty easy.
My setup is very similar for pigs, I follow the pigs with seed that I want to be a cover crop like buckwheat/perennial rye etc and that keeps weeds down in the disturbed areas. Great video.
That's brilliant! Makes so much sense. Especially since they don't tear the entire place up, so you can just do it by hand and not waste so much seed.
so much fun to watch you take your learnings from sheep and seeing how it works for pigs. our kune kune pigs came this year and thrive on the grass. the 5 big pigs we have just have a massive dust bowl right now, kept in by a 20 by 20 foot paddock of pallets.
with your wattles, are you seeing a difference in the feed bill... confinement vs pasture raising? i dont even bother feeding grain to the kunes when out on pasture. they just do so well on the green stuff.
Kune Kunes seem to have that reputation of being gentler on pasture. I guess actually eating the pasture too. My wattles will eat clover and garden scrapes, but it seems like every day they are hungrier than the day before.
I have nothing to compare it to, but the feed bill is more than I thought for sure.
Hi from zambia! Can you keep sheep together with pigs? Im thinking to introduce them as weaners and rotate the paddock.
I suppose it's possible, I haven't tried it. Lots of factors to consider.
Hey Pj good video, so you don’t run the pigs over sheep pasture?
Thanks! I don't run them on the sheep pasture because I want to preserve the pasture for, well, being pasture. If I aggressively moved them every couple of days, and went through the trouble of setting up fences I'm sure we'd be fine. But, these pigs do create a lot dead spots even if they are only around for a week.
@@homesteadingwithPJ I was thinking, at some point, you’d like to loosen the soil, get some fertilizer in there, aerate, thought pigs would be a good idea, maybe not every year, but maybe every couple of years