RAISING PIGS FOR MEAT the full story! The Little Farmette
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Published 2022-02-13
For the homesteader just starting out, this video is for you!!
Here's our first attempt, it's pretty entertaining haha!
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The Little Farmette is a family focused web-series, highlighting pivotal moments in The Neilson Family’s new life. How big city living has changed to a quiet, simple life in the country. From their busy schedule in Ontario, to their bold move to PEI on 60 acres; they’ve set out to learn how to not just take from the land, but live along side of it.
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All Comments (21)
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Dogs look up to you, cats look down, pigs look you in the eye! Lovely animals, as clean as people allow, or as dirty as they are. Treat them with respect and then you can eat them with a clear conscionse.
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I found out that you cannot easily load them the day of hauling to the butcher so about three weeks from butcher date, I back my cattle trailer to the pen entrance and open it...I gradually put feed leading up to the trailer inside..this has worked perfectly every time I do it! Great video!!
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Thanks for sharing! 🥰
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Oh my goodness, so much work!!!! Educational too! I didn’t realize they could clear a pasture like that and fertilize it at the same time.
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I always teach the pigs a little whistle along with putting the food in wherever you want them to go always train them and feed him inside the trailer before you have to take him in the trailer 3 days prior
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Well well well if it isn’t the cast of my childhood show God Rocks
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We had this happen with our first two hogs. One of them would not go in!! We tried for 7 days. This year we backed up our trailer to their pasture and fed them special treats in the trailer all 6 months. Sometimes on the hot Summer days they chose to sleep in there. Live and learn. We love raising hogs too!!!
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A Filipino family I worked for used ground pork in their lumpias, which is like egg rolls.
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Wow. Really enjoyed watching! I need some old hayfields turned over this year and now I have a delicious idea on who I should get to help me! Thanks and cheers from Ontario, Canada
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Wow, I'm so impressed, and grateful that you shared this video. I want to do this too. A small farmette, some chickens, a few pigs, a few cows, that's it. I like the method of getting piglets early in the year and then raising them for a fall butchering, avoids the winter somewhat, and avoids dealing with a 1000 lb breeding pig (can be dangerous)
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So happy I stumbled across this channel!!! Will binge watch today!
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What a lovely video. Well done and thank you. xxx
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Build a chute so they can’t turn around and slope to trailer works great for me
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Nice that you don’t have any neighbours concerned about the wafting aromas during their next garden party!!!
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What a gift to have that great pasture! We are building pasture from the pine woods that are prominent on our property. Love the video. Nicely done!
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Your Grampa would be so impressed!!
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I'm happy to have stumbled across your channel & subscribed 😀. We are about to get our first two piglets and have a few nerves. It's a learning process and I'm sure we will be fine but watching this video did helped. 😀😀
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I love pork but i think pig is something i couldnt be able to slaughter myself. good on you for giving them a good time
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I loaded my pigs in one try. Here's how. Get their favorite treats (died whole corn, Cheetos, Cheez-Its, Oreos, etc.) and leave a trail of them leading into the trailer, and put a big rubber tub of food (ground corn) and a bunch of straw in the back of the trailer. Leave for 10 minutes. Come back and close the door on them. Eazy-peasy! :D
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Great video. Wife and I are going to give this a try. Will probably go in with another family grow out 2 or 3 and possibly process ourselves which is somewhat emotional but we will be grateful. I want to experiment with maybe using macnuts, pumpkin, and sweet potato for finishing feed as well as considering what type of breed to grow out. Thinking of IPPs maybe…looking at grow out time and fat content of meat…I hear magalitza are quite fatty but that meat looked fantastic 🤙
