RAISING PIGS FOR MEAT the full story! The Little Farmette

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If you're interested in raising pigs to feed your family, here's our full 8 month process! From young boys to a freezer full of meat, we'll show you how we did it.
For the homesteader just starting out, this video is for you!!
Here's our first attempt, it's pretty entertaining haha!
• HOW TO on Backyard Pig...
About the show
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.
Join Musician/Producer (Sheryl Neilson), Agency CEO (Todd Neilson), and their four crazy kids; to see if they can accomplish "the good life!"
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@robinclarke9978 Жыл бұрын

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.

@jarrodwilson141 Жыл бұрын

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!!

@thelittlefarmette 11 ай бұрын

Thanks for the info! Yes that would be much better!

@starwizardmanonthestarwiza2469 Жыл бұрын

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

@bettyneilson1091 2 жыл бұрын

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.

@shxdow9807 11 ай бұрын

Well well well if it isn’t the cast of my childhood show God Rocks

@DaydreamersHomestead 6 күн бұрын

Thanks for sharing! 🥰

@justinmckinney4650 Жыл бұрын

Build a chute so they can’t turn around and slope to trailer works great for me

@SpinDizzy-fr8bc Жыл бұрын

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

@thelittlefarmette Жыл бұрын

Haha! Right? Hard workers and zero complaints! Thanks for watching :)

@latriciathomas4019 Жыл бұрын

A Filipino family I worked for used ground pork in their lumpias, which is like egg rolls.

@robertgulfshores4463 5 ай бұрын

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)

@thelittlefarmette 4 ай бұрын

Oh my goodness! Yes, and thank you! We loved putting it together and also did pigs again last year. We did 6 this time!

@crazyfam3118 2 жыл бұрын

Your Grampa would be so impressed!!

@sevenjacobs 2 жыл бұрын

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!!!

@thelittlefarmette 2 жыл бұрын

So frustrating but so rewarding! We loved them

@BarlowRootsHomestead Жыл бұрын

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!

@thelittlefarmette Жыл бұрын

Yes we love it! And thank you so much!!!

@bettyneilson1091 2 жыл бұрын

Nice that you don’t have any neighbours concerned about the wafting aromas during their next garden party!!!

@pvp6077 7 ай бұрын

That's the benefit of being on farmland, even if they have an issue that's their problem. The farms near me are all corn fields and they reek to high heaven every time they spread manure, but that's just life in a rural area. The sheep, horses, and cows they keep are all less than 10 animals per farm, just for the family not commercial, so they don't smell like much of anything. Now, the sheep farm I worked on, that stunk like crazy. Just a huge herd of sheep on pasture part of the day, in open barns the rest of the day. That smelled for at least a kilometre away when the wind hit right. A few animals in a field is nothing, but a whole herd stuck in a small pen or barn is wretched. Personally, I'd rather live next to a field of farm animals than a person who lets their dog out in the backyard and doesn't clean it every day. Smelly neighbors are everywhere but some stinks are worse than others.

@belovedshername Жыл бұрын

So happy I stumbled across this channel!!! Will binge watch today!

@thelittlefarmette Жыл бұрын

Aww thank you! It’s been so fun putting these together :) hope you enjoy!

@jeanetteanddean 2 жыл бұрын

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. 😀😀

@thelittlefarmette 2 жыл бұрын

It is a bit nerv racking at first, but if you really get to know them and they start to trust you...it's so easy! We'll do it again, it was an amazing experience. They do get HUGE so be prepared haha! T&S

@glenmorris8389 10 ай бұрын

What a lovely video. Well done and thank you. xxx

@gulldaw272 Жыл бұрын

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

@thomasreto2997 2 жыл бұрын

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 🤙

@Mmmyess 2 жыл бұрын

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

@mylesneilson5592 2 жыл бұрын

does this work on annoying sisters aswell?

@thefrenchgardener1865 6 ай бұрын

Terrific video. I will be getting two feeder pigs in the Spring and really look forward to raising them. Will you be getting more pigs?

@thelittlefarmette 4 ай бұрын

Yes we did 6 last year! Same amount of work, but much more reward :/ haha

@ruansiebert Жыл бұрын

Awesome

@merikatools568 6 ай бұрын

That's a big ole sow ya.got.narrating

@twofstu1 Жыл бұрын

Nice video

@garycenter7408 11 ай бұрын

Train them by feeding them in the trailer

@starwizardmanonthestarwiza2469 Жыл бұрын

How is feeding the same time everyday and make sure you don't feed them for 8 hours and then try to put them in the trailer after feeding them in there and not trying to capture them but just feed them in the trailer a few days in a row and you'll be doing a lot better

@starwizardmanonthestarwiza2469 Жыл бұрын

It's so addicting raising pigs I just wish they sold for more money than what they do. It's rough having a pig business in California

@johnharris9952 3 ай бұрын

The formula to tell how much the pig weighs. Heart girth x heart girths times the Pell decided by 400. This figure will be within 15% of the pigs weight. 240 lbs is all the lean you can get on a pig. Any weight over 240 is lard.

@johnharris9952 3 ай бұрын

Decided by 400

@johnharris9952 3 ай бұрын

DEVIDED BY 400