Is this video meaning to claim that mangalitsa pigs can survive on a diet of solely just rye cover crop grass and no other supplemental grains? I’ve been on farms that did a similar intensive rotational grazing system which involved not just planting rye but a whole variety of diverse nutrient dense high bio mass cover crops…this is actually not uncommon in pastured pork systems: they all still supplement with other feed grains, minerals and even compost scraps. This video makes it seem like they are raising not just feeders but birthing pregnant sows on solely rye grass? 🤷‍♂️

Imagine I’ve never owned a pig and never planted a crop - but I absolutely love learning these things. One day I’ll farm.❤

The details of farming are always interesting to me. I may watch hundreds of videos and read dozens of books on the subject but will proably never farm myself. It just scratches a itch in my brain.

I am hungarian and I found this randomly browsing pasture maintenence videos for farm animals :D Glad to see people are doing well with this magnificent animal on the smarter side of the planet! :) Learned almost everything I practice today from videos like this :)

The hogs will work the manure into the ground in the existing pasture- minimum tillage is better than “rototiller” - a chain rake or chain link fence towed to break any clods/level ground. Add forage radishes, crimson clover and buckwheat to diversify the crop- its better than a mono crop

I raise mangalitsa pigs. People tell me how intelligent and compassionate pigs are. I tell them pigs are as compassionate as a shark. I processed a five-month-old male yesterday, and his sisters were delighted to lap up his leftovers. Damned city Folk.

Fantastic video. I have heard much about the uses and benefits of rye and you added one more positive take on this wonderful plant. I have never heard of the pig you mentioned so thank you for that recommendation and I will be sure and watch your pig video.

Mulberry trees also grow very quickly if heavily prune and leaves can be eaten.

I planted barley and oats for my pigs but I’m excited to add some field peas and rye. I love pastured pigs

Thanks for sharing. I love learning anything farm related. Still hoping to have a hobby farm some day.

Wow, the information in this video was truly amazing.

i love the idea about having pigs, i just love animals and spending time with them. We have had ducks, meat chickens.

Thank you for explaining the cattle panel at the end and also thank you for the video!

We at *Messy Times* use a broadcast spreader just like that on our back forty. It works a treat.

You’re ahead of your time don’t stop I learned a lot from you I have chickens I like to raise animals and I need more land I don’t require as much with that but it is important Florida Tennessee

I have iron age pigs and they eat alot of alfalfa bails in winter and love it .

Thank you this is fascinating . Always liked pigs . I am a city slicker learning from you .

2.03 lbs includes all the water in that forage. to get the dry matter (DM) weight, you gotta dry the sample out before weighing it. DM weight is more accurate when calculating forage. DM weight can also be found online for a lot of forages.

Watching all these interesting farming videos, makes me want to become a farmer.

Interesting. I'm going to add this knowledge to what I got from Gabe Brown's book

Wow! Great information, thanks!!!

Just bought a 161 acre farm. Will be doing this for sure.

Thank you for this vid! I learned something👍

Sounds impressive! Equates to around 2ton dry matter. Like the marketing and advertising! Keep it up.

Just pack in a bunch of biochar to get up to 9% even carbon per acre tilled in 1 time and done, then you can simply water in all the manure no-till. Better than that you can foliar with a nice vortex brew of compost tea, and then those microbes can reproduce from 12 cups of composted manure to equivalent to 10 tons worth within 24 hours, using some simple molasses and compost brewed in a tea.

Nice idea...

This video is seven months old, but something got the algorithm to start promoting it. So many recent comments. Great video. I just subscribe to your channel.

Excellent information, channel looks good. Thank you.

Great advice!

Great video Mark and Joe

Tamworth pigs are bred from a variety known as the" Irish grazer "

this rye deal, looks good,, going to try it,, thank you for the video,,

Great video, I planted some rye for my pigs first time in October not grazed them on it yet so this was well timed for me (I have diakon and phacilia also in that mix), I don't get snow in winter so can strip graze until March on turnips and then move to ryegrass/clover/chicory paddocks 7 day rotation. My pigs dig so I don't need to rotovate, and I keep them with one strand of hot wire, I have a few videos too, will subscribe, thanks, Dunk

Very interesting. I just subscribed!

Good video, thankyou. Would like to see a chart of what you do and when and how many pigs you keep on what size ground.

wow this was in my feed? was thinking about this on the way home driving.

Interesting

ThankQ

Thank you

My sorgram Sudan grass hit 9 feet tall. It makes lots of feed.

love it

Good job

Hurrah! Thank-you. I sow a grazing rye plus winter vetches cover crop in the Autumn on my allotment. The vetches fix nitrogen, so an extra benefit. We can't raise pigs there. I would!

My Grandparents didn’t buy Commercial Feed, They Would Chop, and Pull Grass, and Weeds to feed Their Pigs as well a Hand full of Hardwood Stove ashes for Worming the Pigs. Then when Their Corn Was Mature they would Feed Their Corn to finish them.

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Interesting. I loved the financial breakdown. What is the names of the pig the WILL ear the eye? Do they bring going money at butchering time as the pig that do not eat the eye?

Good info. We tried pigs for one year because we had problems with coyotes and bobcats when we had sheep. It was interesting. They eat so much, so growing some of our own food would be great. I wonder if there's something other breeds of pig, like basic Yorkshire, would eat that could be easily grown. Thanks for sharing!

I see those push seed spreaders on craigslist free around me all the time if you want a broadcast spreader

great work guys! very cool! pigs and hogs eat literally anythang :'d

right area you can do a sunflower, mix with other things.

i want to address something implied in a couple of messages below. Pasture raising hogs is suggested to get more yield from the property you have. Pasture isn't like corn or bean growing in that you don't have a defined planting season or harvest season and you, the farmer, doesn't have the issues of distributing food or storing what you raised. Is that really true? Is the pasture land you are using capable of making more nutrients if it was planted to corn or beans? What are the expected yields in your area? Raising a hog to 300 lbs. that is heavy for a commercial hog, will take roughly 1000 lbs of feed made of corn and soybeans mixed in a 4:1 ratio. This is for the main commercial breeds: York, Hamp, Duroc, not the settler breeds like the mangalitsa. The rate of gain will be such that the commercial breed hog will reach that weight in 6-7 months. The settler breeds will take 12 moths or more. 1000 lbs of feed is roughly is roughly 16 bushels. Around where I live, the average corn yield is 180 bu and acre. That would be 11-12 hogs raised from the feed raised on one acre. Can pasture feeding produce 12 hogs per acre in a year? Unlikely. We raised commercial hogs on pasture lots feeding a commercial feed we ground and supplied from our own farm. We raised roughly 400 butcher hogs from 40 acres of land year round. We are in Michigan, so pasture forage isn't available at least four months a year. Lastly, hog health is an issue. Hogs collect parasites off of open ground. Our preventive measures included moving the hogs to fresh pasture every two months and only using that area to raise pigs every second year. Even so, we wormed those animals with chemicals every season. Trichinosis is the worse because it depends on a part of its life cycle for being ingested by the pig. It is also one of the most harmful pathogens an animal can pass to human by eating the hog's flesh. Going to concrete floors has for the most part broken that cycle making commercial hogs much safer for catching trichinosis. It is not the only parasite to look out for, Ring worm, round worm and tape worms all have a similar life cycle process and inflict a lot of lost yield in hogs that are infected. Look at all the issues before pursuing pasture raised and fed hogs.

About how much purchased pig feed or other grain ration do you feed your pigs? Knowing the amount of other feed/minerals you have to purchase would be very helpful to me to see if this would be cost effective for me. thanks

Wild edibles like LambsQuarters and Palmers Amaranth are highly nutritious and are considered invasive species meaning they self propagate easily, which I love for easy of growing! Try adding that just once!

His estimated production is kind of misleading. What matters is the DM not the green weight. Most of what he weighed was water(about 80%). Annual Rye produces between 1 and 3 tons per acre not including roots. Just something to consider….Great vid none the less👍

wonderful... except I have a bone to pick with the mispronunciation and naming of the pigs; they are actually called "mangulica" pigs :) glad to see Americans discovered this one, I hope they stay true to their roots. Cheers

I have that in my yard but didn't know what it was!

I was thinking of getting customers who want to buy pigs to prepay and later going to an auction and sell those pigs to clients. Maybe you guys can take that method. Best thing is to post ads online of pigs for sale and to test the market. Ive had farm toys since before i could walk and always dreamed of owning a farm. Maybe i can even get a contract with Farmer John or a beef company and they can pay me to raise their Product!!!! Dont tell me the sky is the limit when there is footsteps on the moon. Welcome to the University of KZfaq, i will start a youtube channel soon of a rookie going for the American Dream

Suggestion: get some Regenerative Agriculture in your reading list. Roto-tilling loses a lot of essential elements, so rotate your animals in smaller paddocks (internal electric fencing is cheap, movable, you have control, animals teach themselves to stay away) and let microbiology deal with the manure where it fell. Get into making compost teas and spraying techniques to accelerate plant growth and the biology in the soil so it becomes even more productive. Add legumes, higher succession grasses, forbs to your seed mix (each extracts different airborne nutrients) to build up soil health. Include turnips, carrots, any tubers in that mix. Avoid leaving bare earth, leave a plant residue (humus) on your paddocks to protect, cool & retain water in the soil.

Bakers green acres got a video upgrade, nice

does the mud on the roots count as part of the 2 lbs?

@YogiHollowFarm Something you might consider for your piggies.

at first I thought you were a bs'er, then you revealed your sources from a mature man who appears to be successful at this.

Just found the channel nice work guys. Where are you located at? Sorry if you said that didn’t catch it

So the end of the day use cereal rye for pasture food and supplement with grains.

Sounds like good advice. What do you think about Kale?

Hey Joe

seriously, solid field rotation at its best. I've been looking at doing something similar for cattle but this guys efficiency is insane. doing this dwarfs the USDA statistics for necessary land allotments for per capita prediction.

I've seen a few comments asking about your stocking density, but haven't seen a reply to any. We raise pigs, but we're on a raw woodlot and using them to clear, till and level the land for us so we can sow pastures and gardens behind them. I'm curious how many full-grown sows you run on one quarter-acre paddock, and how long before they need to move again? This information will help me plan for next year ;)

Any idea what the “peas” he planted at the end were? Looks like some standard dry beans or peas from Costco.

Excellent video!

When people talk about rye, I don't know if they are talking about rye grass, or the type of rye that is used to grow the cereal grain. I'm assuming this is rye grass.

I was thinking of growing beets, turnips , peanuts etc an setting up pen size wire fencing and just letting then root them out ?

rye grows like weeds here too

20,000 lbs of fresh vegetation. Do you have numbers for DM (dry matter)? That's what calculations are usually based on when determining the amount of feed offset.

You are basically using the Norman Three Field System that has ensured fields around my village have been continously croppoing for over 1,000 years.

What type of rye and when was it broadcast?

northern michigan

What kind of rye seed you planted? Can you put a link and let me know where to buy it. Thanks a lot.

Keep in mind that the numbers here are not dry matter yields. Fresh cut vegetative forage will be 80% or so water.

Do you think that the iberico pig would be a forger like this one?

Black eye peas make great pig chow

Are you talking about rye grass or cereal rye?

Howdy, mind if I ask, what camera do you use for your videos??

I raise pigs in Northern Az. Would this grow at a 6000ft high desert environment?

I would love to do this with my land. I currently have 15 acres and two are given to my couple of Kunekune pigs. I'm hoping to get a set up for my pigs similar to this.

green forage, like what you're weighing, is between 80 and 90% water. If you cut it and dried it to 15% moisture hay you'd have about a ton of hay off your quarter acre. Cut, baled and stacked on a buyers trailer, that ton of hay is worth about $150. Pigs do eat green grass, and a lot of folks claim to have raised their pigs on "pasture", and in fact some breeds of pigs do pretty well - american guinea hogs, for instance. kune kune hogs. But not mangalitsa. Feed 'em a complete ration and give them access to forage, super. Feed them on forage alone, particularly a quarter acre of forage, and you'll have bare ground and skinny pigs pretty quick.

Why even till it? Id just broadcast and run the drag over. Pigs are so good at tillage that folks used to use them to clear land and prep fields. It's been proven that no till is better for soil health anyways. I guess it would make sense if its hard packed though.

I've been spreading wild spinach (genopodium album) which is actually a type of quinoa on my little two acres for my AGH pigs. If you water it a little it grows 15 foot high. I pull from the lower parts of the plant to give to pigs and let it keep growing. I don't weigh it or anything but man its a lot of free nutritious chow for the pigs. I've never seen a plant that grows like genopodium. No tilling of any kind required to plant it. Just pull the seeds off in the summer and toss them on a somewhat sunny spot and wait till next spring. I live in Oklahoma by the way, with long hot summers. Genopo LOVES the heat.

U can plant the magic plant... Moringa; plentiful nutrients.

You feed your pigs dirt? Most of the weight from the rye you weighed was dirt. How do you harvest rye with the roots on?

What kind of rye does he plant?

Not knocking what you’re doing at all but measuring yield on a dry matter basis is a far better compass as you’re dry matter yield was probably closer to.06 pounds per square foot.

What kind of rye is it?

Have you tried seeding on top of the manure without turning under to avoid tillage?

Didn't know Bert Kreischer had a pig farm!

Is the meat flavour gamey or fishy compared to commercial fed feed pigs? If you have a comparison...

How many pigs can you keep with that quarter acre

where do you relocated the pigs when you used their field with manure?

Does he use any other crops besides the rye and field peas?

That rye is nothing like the rye I spread this fall. Those look like the size of paintballs! Whaylt is the specific name of that seed