Farrowing in 0° weather and tackling the next biggest problem in any management system.
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@hanorabrennan88464 жыл бұрын
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.
@ka61485 жыл бұрын
Good plan! You've got quite a operation going
@Shiloh34984 жыл бұрын
Great video! I'm starting up a pig operation in Minnesota and found this video very useful. 👌
@dmgthree60513 жыл бұрын
Great video/ channel, I’ve been binge watching for a few days now !
@jimharris40135 жыл бұрын
You do a great job explaining what you are doing.
@FarmBuilder5 жыл бұрын
Thanks Jim.
@strausszahard92515 жыл бұрын
U are an inspiration... Thankyou for all the videos... -From Nagaland with Love
@the2012fad5 жыл бұрын
This is really excellent information. Thanks! And thanks to Justin Rhodes to locating you for us all!
@kincaidfarm7443 жыл бұрын
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
@FarmBuilder2 жыл бұрын
Some did push through. We are no longer using them for the pigs.
@amyjones24903 жыл бұрын
Wow! So glad your enterprise is going so well.
@aaroningram27255 жыл бұрын
Really enjoy your videos!
@amyjones24905 жыл бұрын
Love your videos. Thanks
@austinsinclair41474 жыл бұрын
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
@KBlanca5134 жыл бұрын
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.
@sandyruther29363 жыл бұрын
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.
@Rhodietoo3 жыл бұрын
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.
@FarmBuilder3 жыл бұрын
Big operation! you can email me at farmbuilders@gmail.com
@TRINITY-ks6nw3 жыл бұрын
Thank you for telling the TRUTH et having a plan
@josephbXIX2 ай бұрын
im buying two one month old feeder pigs next month, still very anxious about the cold and how they will fare in it.
@jrodney658 ай бұрын
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
@madmainer87585 жыл бұрын
@FarmBuilder I just found you recently on KZfaq, 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.
@danhutson34603 жыл бұрын
Send those cannibals to the butcher.
@robertsseed40955 жыл бұрын
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.
@joncomans63695 жыл бұрын
they wont venture to far from mommy.
@John-ls6hz4 жыл бұрын
Some nice litters
@tylersage5 жыл бұрын
How long do you keep your sows around? When your down with them do you market them the same as 6 month feeder pigs?
@FarmBuilder5 жыл бұрын
4-6 years and yes, they are processed for meat at the end.
@haydensievers5099 Жыл бұрын
I may have missed it in this video or maybe it’s in another, but what does your water setup look like for this?
@jaybaker96843 жыл бұрын
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
@FarmBuilder3 жыл бұрын
I would be too with those temps..
@wallacewimmer51912 жыл бұрын
👍👍
@stormyfarms23255 жыл бұрын
Is it possible to get a general plan for your portable farrowing shelters?
@FarmBuilder5 жыл бұрын
It'll be out here someday..
@stormyfarms23255 жыл бұрын
Okay... at this point don’t need it until next fall
@LBurnsy5 жыл бұрын
💕
@richardh83555 жыл бұрын
👍
@caninedrill_instructor58615 жыл бұрын
Sir, What breed, or breeds are you breeding with? Those are some healthy looking animals.
@FarmBuilder5 жыл бұрын
We have duroc/hamp crosses.
@caninedrill_instructor58615 жыл бұрын
@@FarmBuilder Thanks.
@Shiloh34984 жыл бұрын
What are the main reasons you chose the Duroc / Hamp cross?
@FarmBuilder4 жыл бұрын
Quite simply it's what we had.
@antonhuman84462 жыл бұрын
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.
@FarmBuilder2 жыл бұрын
Yes, that's a "wheel" style and we've done that on pasture. Huts in the center and paddocks moved around the "hub".
@antonhuman84462 жыл бұрын
@@FarmBuilder Thanks Jordan! And regards. To Laura as well.
@dustinfisher294 жыл бұрын
What breed/Cross are your pigs? Hamshire+ Duroc+?
@FarmBuilder4 жыл бұрын
Yep.
@carterbranvold11334 жыл бұрын
What do you use for fence and do they respect it
@dansullivan54803 жыл бұрын
Thanks Jordan. What brand is the fencing/gates? Thanks
@FarmBuilder3 жыл бұрын
A small company called Vest Gate. Email me and I can send you contact info.
@indaywakwak4 жыл бұрын
What about if it rains? Are they ok?
@mitch70663 жыл бұрын
Your pens are still alittel bit to small for the mom and babies to lay down at the same time
@justforfun46233 жыл бұрын
Do you grow your pigs out and sell to a processor?
@FarmBuilder3 жыл бұрын
We slaughter under our own label.
@justforfun46233 жыл бұрын
@@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
@FarmBuilder3 жыл бұрын
Niman ranch does if you can get in with them. Around a buck a pound I've heard.