Newbie here and did a binge watch yesterday and subscribed. Great oration and delivery. Very professional. Like that you are kind to your animals. Greetings from Ireland.
Dude exactly what I like to see. You spent the extra cash on the heavy duty gates for cattle. So I wanna no are they able to life the gates and push through let me no man. Have a good day
Seeing how happy the litters are and the mommas it makes me want to start my own operation just don’t have the time or money for something like this and with Covid hard to find good hogs
Nice work! Cannibals, chronic crushers, and those that farrow in bad places are good candidates for an immediate trip to freezer camp. Breed the ones with the best mothering instincts, eat the rest.
I've monitored some pig channels. No one has ever mentioned they had a cannabilism problem. We sure have. All I could figure was no one else wanted to admit to it.
I have always used electric fencing fences for both dry sows and farrowing pens. Our farrowing huts are a design which looks like a half water tank with two sheets of corrugated sheeting, Pens for a year on barley stubble consist of two wire 30 meters apart, separated by a wire spring gate every thirty meters, moving the farrowing hut after each wean. We started at 250 sows, weaning 24 piglets/sow/year, we increased up to 2000 sows weaning 26/piglets/sow/year. We need a link to post pictures here for comparison.
Hey Jordan! I love your videos. We are raising 3 different breeds of pigs with 3 different boars. We keep each breed in their own paddock. My issue is trying to catch piglets to wean in 3 separate paddocks. Do you have any ideas? Your piglet corral is great but I cant justify that for each group
@FarmBuilder I just found you recently on CZcams, have enjoyed watching a bunch of your pig videos. I am a fellow veteran getting in to raising pigs for food for my family and piglets to sell. I have some questions about the business side of the pigs, was curious if you could help me.
Just started our pig operation in ND I want to do the outside farrowing pen but man I'm so nervous about winter here. Ive seen -60 windchill before its no pretty and it makes me nervous
Looks great for the sows. Once the littles jump that board, you will need some smaller wire at the bottom of the bull fencing to keep them with their sow. It won't take too long and they will be out and about.
I must have watched this video 10x and still need some sized kick in the behind to wake me up and fathom that pigs can farrow in minus 18°C - no problem. But yes. They are dry. And reasonably protected by the shelters. And camped in. Cost-effectively. And practically. In relation to potential losses. With multi-purpose panels. When God allows me to. Am I certainly pumped with knowledge. I have a question. Will it be practical, when space/land allows, to have a stationary farrowing paddock, and not move the farrowing setup every time/move the sows and piglets to an adjacent paddock. Maybe only 40 yards distant, after two weeks? Meaning the farrowing paddock in the centre with eight paddocks around it. E.g. so laid out in an initial terrain layout/ Many thanks.
@@FarmBuilder i was just curious if processors would pay more for pasture raised. I work as a farrowing manager in a confinement barn love working with the pigs but starting to not like being in a building all day lol
Newbie here and did a binge watch yesterday and subscribed. Great oration and delivery. Very professional. Like that you are kind to your animals. Greetings from Ireland.
Great video! I'm starting up a pig operation in Minnesota and found this video very useful. 👌
This is really excellent information. Thanks! And thanks to Justin Rhodes to locating you for us all!
Really enjoy your videos!
U are an inspiration...
Thankyou for all the videos...
-From Nagaland with Love
Great video/ channel, I’ve been binge watching for a few days now !
Good plan!
You've got quite a operation going
Love your videos. Thanks
You do a great job explaining what you are doing.
Thanks Jim.
Dude exactly what I like to see. You spent the extra cash on the heavy duty gates for cattle. So I wanna no are they able to life the gates and push through let me no man. Have a good day
Some did push through. We are no longer using them for the pigs.
Wow! So glad your enterprise is going so well.
Seeing how happy the litters are and the mommas it makes me want to start my own operation just don’t have the time or money for something like this and with Covid hard to find good hogs
Nice work! Cannibals, chronic crushers, and those that farrow in bad places are good candidates for an immediate trip to freezer camp. Breed the ones with the best mothering instincts, eat the rest.
I've monitored some pig channels. No one has ever mentioned they had a cannabilism problem. We sure have. All I could figure was no one else wanted to admit to it.
Thank you for telling the TRUTH et having a plan
I have always used electric fencing fences for both dry sows and farrowing pens. Our farrowing huts are a design which looks like a half water tank with two sheets of corrugated sheeting, Pens for a year on barley stubble consist of two wire 30 meters apart, separated by a wire spring gate every thirty meters, moving the farrowing hut after each wean. We started at 250 sows, weaning 24 piglets/sow/year, we increased up to 2000 sows weaning 26/piglets/sow/year. We need a link to post pictures here for comparison.
Big operation! you can email me at farmbuilders@gmail.com
Hey Jordan! I love your videos. We are raising 3 different breeds of pigs with 3 different boars. We keep each breed in their own paddock. My issue is trying to catch piglets to wean in 3 separate paddocks. Do you have any ideas? Your piglet corral is great but I cant justify that for each group
im buying two one month old feeder pigs next month, still very anxious about the cold and how they will fare in it.
Some nice litters
I may have missed it in this video or maybe it’s in another, but what does your water setup look like for this?
@FarmBuilder I just found you recently on CZcams, have enjoyed watching a bunch of your pig videos. I am a fellow veteran getting in to raising pigs for food for my family and piglets to sell. I have some questions about the business side of the pigs, was curious if you could help me.
How long do you keep your sows around? When your down with them do you market them the same as 6 month feeder pigs?
4-6 years and yes, they are processed for meat at the end.
What do you use for fence and do they respect it
Just started our pig operation in ND I want to do the outside farrowing pen but man I'm so nervous about winter here. Ive seen -60 windchill before its no pretty and it makes me nervous
I would be too with those temps..
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What about if it rains? Are they ok?
Is it possible to get a general plan for your portable farrowing shelters?
It'll be out here someday..
Okay... at this point don’t need it until next fall
Looks great for the sows. Once the littles jump that board, you will need some smaller wire at the bottom of the bull fencing to keep them with their sow. It won't take too long and they will be out and about.
they wont venture to far from mommy.
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Send those cannibals to the butcher.
Thanks Jordan. What brand is the fencing/gates? Thanks
A small company called Vest Gate. Email me and I can send you contact info.
What are the main reasons you chose the Duroc / Hamp cross?
Quite simply it's what we had.
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What breed/Cross are your pigs? Hamshire+ Duroc+?
Yep.
Sir,
What breed, or breeds are you breeding with?
Those are some healthy looking animals.
We have duroc/hamp crosses.
@@FarmBuilder
Thanks.
I must have watched this video 10x and still need some sized kick in the behind to wake me up and fathom that pigs can farrow in minus 18°C - no problem.
But yes. They are dry. And reasonably protected by the shelters. And camped in.
Cost-effectively. And practically. In relation to potential losses. With multi-purpose panels.
When God allows me to. Am I certainly pumped with knowledge.
I have a question.
Will it be practical, when space/land allows, to have a stationary farrowing paddock, and not move the farrowing setup every time/move the sows and piglets to an adjacent paddock. Maybe only 40 yards distant, after two weeks?
Meaning the farrowing paddock in the centre with eight paddocks around it. E.g. so laid out in an initial terrain layout/
Many thanks.
Yes, that's a "wheel" style and we've done that on pasture. Huts in the center and paddocks moved around the "hub".
@@FarmBuilder
Thanks Jordan!
And regards. To Laura as well.
Your pens are still alittel bit to small for the mom and babies to lay down at the same time
Do you grow your pigs out and sell to a processor?
We slaughter under our own label.
@@FarmBuilder i was just curious if processors would pay more for pasture raised. I work as a farrowing manager in a confinement barn love working with the pigs but starting to not like being in a building all day lol
Niman ranch does if you can get in with them. Around a buck a pound I've heard.