Glad to help

We're going to try to do one a month with them .

It needs to be well drained if possible. Concrete to feed and water on helps a lot and avoid feeding on the ground. They're going to make a mud hole if they can to cool of in just can't be the whole pen

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay thanks again. Also, I built the pen before I saw your pens. I didn’t build it strong enough. I will build very much like yours, 4 x4 posts at 4’ spacing, including a loading ramp with appropriate gates. I will definitely keep a spare empty pen when/if I expand or just need a fresh pen to rotate into. I’m on 24 acres and have several other suitable well-drained sites for my pens.

We're in eastern NC . homesteadingthehardway@gmail.com

Many thanks Johnny looking forward to seeing y'all !

We've got a few we'd like to do , unfortunately we hurt some people's feeling with this one . I've had to delete several ( OMG chemicals I'm not giving my animals chemicals ) comments that we're trying to say use everything from essential oils to green tomatoes

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay Well I wouldn’t worry about them folks. Like my grandma use to say....It takes all kinds. I do see these same type of people on homesteading or raising bottle calve FB pages. They think all animals are pets. I always say that calves are not pets and they grow up to be cows. Not sure any of them folk ever worked cows 😁 And don’t think they could. Stay safe. God Bless

@@ketchhomesteadoutdoors4048 I see that first hand a lot . They buy a calf to raise for beef , get attached then they have a 1600 lb Holstein bull that's aggressive that they are terrified of . Then they call me please come get him, he's free , we don't care what you do with him .

Where bouts are you located? I'm in Seven Springs between Goldsboro and Mt Olive

@@stevenjohnson3565 about 10 miles north across the river from you Steve

Glad too , we're going to try to do a few with them

Thank you , we try to be helpful and honest .

You couldn't be more correct, I'm trying to move down to eastern North Carolina to be a part of all of it

Try to use injectable ivermection if you can , I haven't had much with safe guard .

I'm glad to help , I want to see people succeed.

Thank you for watching Miss Grace

Lol you're right

Wish I'd have known they had a head gate ! We're trying to spread the truth Andy but its like pushing a chain up a hill

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay our office is supposed to be getting a head gate and stuff as well but haven’t yet. Another thing our office has is the plastic layer for planting produce

Hope it helps folks out !

Thanks Johnny

True and a lot of people don't know they exist !

That should be fine , just be cautious about housing pigs in an old coop it can cause serious respiratory problems

We're going to do more like it Anthony

Thanks Geeky , what kills me is she's from the Agriculture and vet collage plus my hands on experience and I've had to delete a handful of stupid comments already

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay Not surprising my friend. Never underestimate the power of human stupidity.

@@geekygardens I'm learning fast Geeky ! But it still boggles my mind

Hey y'all , been looking a new video where y'all been ?

It is important , I hope it helps !

You're doing fine , they do need a mud hole to cool off in . We worm at weaning usually about 30 lbs then worm them again at about 100 lbs for meat pigs . Unless there's a problem we don't worm them again before slaughter. I use ivermectin injections if possible, if you can break the life cycle of the parasite you've got it beat . Reinfection is the issue just try to have where the pigs eat clean and dry

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay thank you very much for the reply, I can't do the injections , I went with the equine paste directly in there mouth , I know the injections would be best just not possible for me alone. thanks again

The extension office has an agent for crops , fruit trees about everything preacher

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay yep on that land we bought they came the extension officer came and tested for grazon

@@preppedforeternityhomestea2848 they are very helpful . Trying to let people know they're a resource

No diatomaceous earth doesn't help in any way it's just an abrasive , tilling and burning seems to help some . Honestly if a pen get a heavy parasite load it's best just to take it down

I'll check y'all out for sure !

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay thank you 😊🙌🏻

It's seems to help but I'm not sure how much .there's a lot of things help a little if you do them all it adds up . Clean as possible pens ,bleach shelters , lime ,rotation, regular worming helps the most , careful with introducing new animals. What your shooting for is worming twice a year as a precaution instead of every two weeks because of a heavy parisite load and immediate reinfection

Glad too Wesley , you've got those pigs of yours looking good

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay thank you so much more videos coming soon

I've heard several different things on using it . The local guys use powder at a high dose but from what I've seen it doesn't do much . Raw could work better

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay I agree nothing works like actual wormer.

@@bellatordeveritas1638 in the old days they used lye mixed in soaked corn , it got rid of the worms and the pig too half the time the way they tell it . Then they started using arsenic , then they went to keeping pigs on a floor all to control parrisites . It's not a problem on modern farms because the pigs never touch dirt so people have forgotten how hard they are to handle or get rid of , used to be 50 percent mortality or more on a hog farm was just normal . Vitamin deficiencies, parrisites and pneumonia etc took a toll now we have good suppliment for the feed , antibiotics and wormer . People won't use them ?!

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay i live in sw Iowa on a farm my family has run all sorts of different livestock on for the last 50 years and has been a farm for probably 100 years before that and my hogs are on dirt and my goats are pastured so a worming regiment is a must

Thank you !

You can break the life cycle John , we've been parasite free for a while just have to have to leave the worm eggs in a " dirty " pen and be careful bringing new stock . Its stopping reinvention that's the key

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay you can move em and slow it way down but if one egg is still present it will start again. Check with every vet I meet and professors at my nieces vet college and nobody has anything that kills all the eggs. If you have found something please let me know.

@@johnwood738 don't worry about killing the eggs just move the pigs away from them . Worm the pigs on a hard floor ( where they can't pick up any eggs ) then put them on clean pens after they poop out the eggs it works , we explained it in the video . Our pigs have tested clean for a year

@@johnwood738 but remember we had to move the whole operation to do it , it couldn't be done if all your lots are infected unless you concrete everything

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay don’t want to start a commotion but I have and never been able to get them completely clean ,got them low enough to be undetected for a while but it has always started up again with time pigs I have now all came from concrete and moved a mile to the other side of farm and have had to worm again after a time. Maybe just my luck?

Sometimes it can take months for them to come back if the pigs pull them down too far , Biggest thing is pump the feed to her while nursing if she's a good milker she might need 25 or 30 lbs a day plus a pound per pig if they're eating . Bread or sweets are the fastest way to put some finish back on

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay I appreciate the help I unfortunately have to do thins just a little different than you guys based on the region I live in winters are harsh and availability of bread or buns is very slim not that I can't get it but is 60 miles round trip for me to get it so I base my feed of grains because it's my best option still haven't gotten a grinder but the county agent helped me build a ration of corn screens and yellow peas that should do the trick for my sows in gestation and farrowing im soaking the feed cuz those peas are hard as a rock but im trying to find a hammer mill not a mixer just the mill for the peas so I can grind them down and store in dry barrels and I'd just mix my daily rations just haven't found an old mill been looming bout to make a trip to Minnesota and see what I can find next time I'm home

An injection would be fine , not sure about oral or in the feed .I worm ours two weeks before they have pigs

If you mean the piglets , we worm ours a week before or after weaning ( 6 to 8 weeks )

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay Okay cool I’ll follow your method 😎 this is my first season with piglets

@@Giovanni-gp2wl if you have any questions we're glad to help

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay thanks man I appreciate you