All I can do is keep going , never have know how to quit

Thank you , I have high hopes for the red one

I should have really messed with him lol I called him on the phone and he took the ad down

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay You should have asked him if he wanted to buy some real hogs.

@@MarkWYoung-ky4uc I wasn't overly pleasant to him to be honest , I may have made a threat or two maybe three

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay "Only the Shadow know???"

Still think they don't need me in the middle adding extra steps lol

That's a good idea , thank you

Glad to help, thanks for watching

Glad to help

Hopefully we'll get one up a week from now on , he is nice I'm very hopeful he'll throw some nice pigs

I moving around a little can't do a lot , On a commercial farm with the setup for it AI is fine but small scale it's just too much trouble for me anyway

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay if it wasn't for my wife Lisa helping me I couldn't do it here. I'm keeping you on the prayer list.

@@PineyWoodsHomestead thank you , I'm improving a little but I'll never be back 100 percent

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay I'm right there with you Chris. It's frustrating I know. One day at a time....

What bothered me the most was how sorry looking HIS pigs were , I know there was some fuel wasted going to look at them lol

Looking forward to it

Finding good pigs is just hard too many people raising them just don't have a clue what they're doing or even what kind of hogs they have . Most of my customers come from word of mouth because like most growers I don't advertise online , try asking at the feed mill and the processor usually can tell you who has good stock . The local livestock agent would probably know too

There's several people growing Gloucesters in NC but I haven't been able to find SPC hogs anywhere

Mine are the SPC registered two of them are 98% pure. The farm I got them from has been growing them for 60 years so the have some of the best bloodlines in the nation.

@@christiangunter2436 I think I talked to those people once a few years ago

I'm trying to start a list of good breeders , have a lot of people contact me looking pigs . You should email me your information homesteadingthehardway@gmail.com

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay fair enuff bud we may be able to work somthing out and go from there IL email ya for sure

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay I tried to email ya but it won't let me bud don't now if I done somthing wrong or if it's on your end

That's been tried what you end up with is a razor back . Livestock tends to de evolve without management and lose most of the more desirable traits . You'll end up with a hardy animal but lose growth rate and meat quality, long horn cattle are a good example.

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay oh wow, definately dont want a razorback 😆

Thank you for watching

The bugs you see flying aren't flies but not much traps and bait help . They're only a problem here early spring and late fall when it's cool

Thank you

Truth is knowing how to work and having common sense will get you through most situations . Most people don't realize how many different things you have to learn on a farm . All those things are scarce nowadays

Wish I had ten more just like the red one . Y'all have some good stock !

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They have been rising steady since 2020 there's several reasons why . Raising grain prices are going to make even higher this year it's already 27.00 a hundred now for hog feed

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay yes, you are right! thanks for your reply. Cheers from Belgium

That's not unusual , she'll never catch up . There's just a little difference genetically even in the same litter and sometimes pigs string out , it common for mine to have 50 lbs difference between heaviest and lightest in a pen of tops . It's a problem even in a commercial finishing floor when they say a house of pigs weighs 250 lbs that's an average , some weigh 200 some 280

Thank you !

Thank you

You can make a little profit but you have to get setup first and build a market .Having a source for grain and Making your own feed is first and finding good stock is difficult. The videos you see saying they made thousands haven't figured cost, big difference between gross and net . I will say selling pork instead of pigs is a better way to go but again you have to build a market and a reputation. It's definitely not a get rich quick scheme and like any farm enterprise numbers make all the difference and it's easy to lose money . Good pens , good stock , good management and a little luck you can make it work

Glad to help if I can

Thank you 🙏🏻 sir. For answering me back Last night. I forgot to tell you I live on 2/ aces with the house an garage in the middle so I will be using a 1 1/2 Acer. Was going have my son set up 6 to 10. 20x20. 400 sqft. Pens to rotate them my grass an soil is really really good grass grows really fast ! But hopefully 🙏🏻 it will keep them yard an smell down an not get tore up 🆙 if I move them weekly praying 🙏🏻 will help with food from the grass an then what would you recommend for a good food to give each day ?? P.s. can an do they like an eat hay. Because I can get it really cheap an easy right beside us ??? Last can we buy a really young durock just off mom an on regular food was hoping to buy one boar 🐗 two girls. ?? To start with can u give me a price there a KZfaq guy in W.V. I watch a lot of I was thinking about purchasing from but I want to stick with who we fill comfortable with. An my kids don’t care to make the drive FOR HONESTY AN GREAT HELP AN PIGS ETC 👍🏻👍🏻🐷as I said in the first message my sister live in Monroe nc. !! Was hoping you was Close to her ??? I’m going to send you my cell phone number for you can text me anytime I’m not sleeping much because of some health problems I’m praying 🙏🏻 to go away. An also my email is. Hd2sprouse@gmail.com. Text is best but you can use any one ☝️ case u want price an location private. ? Well sorry for the long text message but to get it all out it took it lol Thanks 🙏🏻 mr. Chris. My name is Henry In Columbus Ohio. Be praying 🙏🏻 for you to god bless 🙏🏻🙏🏻🐖🐖🐷🐷

@@bulliesforlife1465 Unless you ring them they'll root the grass up in less than a day tbh , all you need to do for the smell is lime the pens and rotate so they can dry out . My hogs are on two sides of my house 30 yards away the smell rarely an issue as long as you tend to it. Remember pigs forage not graze so they destroy pasture and the salt in the urine slows regrowth

@@bulliesforlife1465 my email is in the channel description. I know where some good pigs are not too far from you

That's a common problem it's normal to raise more in the winter because the pigs get under the heat lamp and away from mama . I'd probably give her one more chance maybe let her farrow when it's cooler but two short litters here because she doesn't mind the pigs and yes she'd be sausage and I wouldn't keep any guilts of her to breed

Yes , we make all our own feed . Soybean or bone meal , corn , wheat/rye and mineral and vitamin supplement. Mostly feed a 16 percent protein ration

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay Good deal I ordered some soybean meal. 2 weeks ago and it has yet to come in. Thank you for responding back to me. Have a blessed day.

York or Hamp either one would be a good meat cross . Honestly a proven cross bred boar would be fine but you can get a little better price for a straight cross

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay thank you for the info

Yes and I know some good breeders scattered around the state . When you get ready for some I can probably point you to some

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay ok great, thank you

You can run two or three sows and a boar and make the money work . Just have to have good pigs you can get a good price for , the demand is there . AI is unreliable enough especially if you're inexperienced and don't have the setup that I wouldn't recommend it

@@HomesteadingtheHardWay thank you, you are a wealth of knowledge

Don't have a signal in the shop

That had to be horrifying

People don't realize just how permanently bad genetics and inbreeding can mess up their livestock

Wow, Jim - that had to be a sight. I’m gonna drop you a line, would be interesting to see