Female calves mean more milk producers. Male calves mean steaks in the freezer.

I eat lard every day

Good content !

very interesting, thank you

love your videos. just wondering though, on your 10 000 sq feet of rye that u spread about 2 lbs of seeds "" 2 coffee tins worth"" how many pigs can you put on that feild and for how long? like if you put 20 mangalitsas on there that are lets say 6 months old how long would it last? that was a random number i pulled out haha

Great video Your one of those Guys that have it all👍🏻😁

Mark, Its actually myoglobin nit jhemoglobin that is responsible for meat color range. The more myoglobin the redder thev meat. The red juice that comes out of meat being cooked is not blood but myoglobin. There is next to no blood left in butchered meat. The reason for the light pinknhue of commodity pork is lack of excercise/ movement. Its why wild hogs are so much darker as dark as any beef. They are running rootn etc all day/night. That versus in a feedlot pen inside with enough room to take a few steps and turn around. Concrete floors to better flush. Allow hogs to free graze on pasture or in the woods during acorn season etc and you get a totally different meat. A bit more good not bad, gamey flavor, and deep dark red. Careful feed supplement a bit of feed and you get nice white fat content. The whole bs pig is a white meat is a creation of the pig comnercial industry to increase sales under the completely false campaign still going on but proven wrong even by the large cardiovasvular surgeons research groups. Fat intake is not the cause of vlogged arteries or high ldl. Its sugar and seed oils.

Hooray for liberty pigs!

Hope it don’t come to eating tiny meatless dogs

Good points. Never underestimate the value of planning and practice. -KJ

Americans are so brainwashed when it comes to the food-health/ill health dichotomy. They're more concerned w an oil change.

words of wisdom

105 here in copperoplis California

Yes! Thanks Mark.

Go Mark go! Thanks for the video of your milk cows.

Beautiful place to live 💕

Thanks for sharing!

Anyone can Farm! (I added your slogan)

When I was a kid I was sent out to get the cows in 😊

Wow!! What a hard hitting lesson! Learning never ends! So glad you figured this out quickly!

That really stinks. Copper wire and/or pipes help keep algae from happening. I wonder if you can treat the pond with some diluted chlorine? And a solar powered fountain to keep the water moving.

Build a gravel skirt. Run hot wire completely around the pond. Off set your hot wire across your gravel skirt so the cows wont get in your pond. Greg Judy has some really good videos showing his set up. But with algae, I know nothing about that. Hot weather is hard on small ponds.

aerosals in the air.. in my area, love bugs are always prolific in may and sept. i've seen one this year.

Good to know, we are making several small ponds on our property this summer for our ducks. 👍

I'm sure you're researching this. Some lilly plants, fish, etc will help reduce the potential for bad things.

You should check out what Greg Judy does to his ponds for cattle to drink from. His set up of pond keeps it cleaner.

Great public service announcement!

Sorry about the cow that you lost.

My grandparents said they always fed cow's milk to their chickens. And I remember mom talking about how much chickens loved curdled milk. And their pigs too.

Pretty interesting tips. This will be my first year doing Turkeys and Meat Birds (chickens). Great to get out of the city and into the farmland.

Thanks Mark!

Look like she's a happy camper😊

Life is merely what you make of it. There will be no shortage of hardships and struggle in life, but what good journey is without them? Have you ever enjoyed a book or a movie without complications and struggle? It’s such a blessing that we get to grow and overcome, every day of our lives. And of course, a good woman and family is the greatest earthly reward of all.

Happy Birthday Jill! I am really grateful for you too!! We are blessed! I am grateful for your entire family!

I love the way farmer brains work. Q and A time : Q Why would pigs eat charcoal? A: Well I dont know, but they DO. So I can act on this information.

Happy Birthday Jill! We are grateful for you guys.

Excellent video lot of information. In a small video.4K, Video quality

Great news, Mark! I started practicing, the Attitude of Gratitude almost twenty years ago! It was a game changer for me!...Happiest of Birthdays, Jill! Have a Blessed day!

Happy Birthday Jill!

Yes! Get 'er done, Mark!

Happy birthday, Jill! 🎉❤😊 And be grateful she chose you 😀

Happy Birthday Jill!

Attitude of gratitude, thank you, God

Chicken livers, chicken hearts.

Do you just put the fat in a bag of salt or do you have to completely cover it salt, and do seal the bag?

Nice job someday I will be up and running 😊

Efficient farming!

You live in a place that has ticks correct? Im looking to buy a 30-60 acre farm in a state that happens to have ticks. I currently live in a state that doesn't have them. Everything i have been reading online has said to keep your pasture areas and your yard low to keep ticks away from you and your animals. I want to pasture raise them like you are. My question is, do your animals have issues with ticks in that nice tall pasture? And how do you deal with the tick issue?

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We have been busy trying to build our house on our future homestead. It’s like pushing a snowball uphill in a blizzard. Next spring going to “break ground”.