A Pig's Tale - Sows living the alternative lifestyle

[@agforthefuture]

Excellent video. Thank you for being an advocate for the industry.

[@ericatuddao3290]

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[@elsazhang8427]

Hi

[@PippiLongsox]

I've been to Dykhuis Farms. The family and farm employees care for their animals humanely and are excellent stewards of the land. The farm has not only a printed mission statement, but also a list of core values that focus on caring for people and the environment--so much that prospective employees line up at the door for spots on the staff. The family believes in using their gifts to enhance their community, and they walk the walk.

[@jarcher5159]

Manure storage is designed to minimize those gases. My family’s barns are flushed under those slats 6 times a day (think giant toilet) to remove all of the waste. Other designs fill part of that space under the floor with water capturing the gases, then that water is flushed out every 3 days or so and then refilled so there is always enough water to cover the manure. The wellbeing of the animals and workers are vitally important to us because they are OUR animals and well…we’re the workers!

[@shellymb]

I thank you for giving these animals a more humane life where they can practice normal behaviors compared to farrowing pens. I believe the aggressive behaviors that you have seen while in pens will improve with future generations. In Europe they have managed pigs for generations in pens. Compare that to the US where pork production has not even concidered selection for decreased aggression as every animal lived in isolation its whole life without asses to interact with others. selective breeding and environmental enrichment is the key. Dont know if its possible but considering a type of bedding that could encourage rooting.

[@WandaPatsche]

Knud, I am a hog farmer and we only use antibiotics for a specific reason. We have a vet that oversees every drug we administer. There are different types of MRSA and MRSA in hogs and humans are not the same. And the research that has been done shows that there is NO increase in MRSA infection with those people who work with hogs. I am concerned about resistant bacteria also but am assured there is very little/no risk with hogs.

[@chickenfryer]

What about the gases from the decomposing manure stored under the barn? Doesn't that effect animal well being as well as the health of the workers?

[@Jcmadad]

Great Video and very informative.

[@knudoboy]

how much antibiotics used? How many resistant bacteria like MRSA found in employees and pigs?

[@MrBagginsEsq]

I here straw in the pig pen allows for the pigs to expierence the natural behavior of plowing! Just a suggestion! Looks pretty clean, but I think something needs to distract the sows so they don't fight!

[@genarorodriguez6038]

I currently work in a hog barn and wow i want to work with you guys only problem i live in Missouri

[@alicejohnson8222]

No problem I will help you send me your direct number

[@AmarSingh-fv1wf]

Hello I am very pleased your farm structure

[@bond196012]

Hello Erin what your advice that you can give me cause i want to start as hobby farm with pigs but i don't know nothing at the moment about them and if i wish to buy three for you at the age of month to two months old different blood line can you help me? i live in Ontario Canada Brampton area thank you for your time and may the good lord bless your farm i love it thanks. John

[@speedyguy5540]

nice short educational video sad to see most of these negative coments from people that have no idea what they are talking about. it is atough buisness to be in cheers to all my fellow producers. look in thr mirror with pride for we with the good Lords help and blessing are feeding the world

[@monicarothbeck7393]

Speedy Guy ~ I don't call keeping pigs confined to Gestation Crates and sending them off to slaughter very educational. Maybe in your eyes and heart you enjoy slaughtering animals. Whatever floats your boat Cheerios - get it ! P.S. You should not make it right by using God in it either.

[@Darkrider8893]

@@monicarothbeck7393 You are one of those people that don't know what they are talking about

[@monicarothbeck7393]

Xelno, Helloooo! Your funny, you know a lot more than your showing. It's not a nice nice place for farm animals to be cramped all together and confined together where they can't move and turn around in. I already posted so just read it again. PETA IS AN AWESOME GROUP.

[@Darkrider8893]

@@monicarothbeck7393 Cool so your against it. What does that change? Nothing. Its still going to keep happening, and there is nothing that you can do about it. Not to mention that you ignore all the science that goes into these kinds of things, but none of that matters right?

[@pmvet1]

is good but....they are too crowded

[@MrSwine2522]

now in 2020 this concept start to go globally

[@beandavid3651]

I liked the video. Your treatment looked so much better than the abuse at Hormel farm video. What happens after they give birth? Do you change them to a different location? To a restricted pen?

[@FarmingUnclear]

Oink. Thank you for feeding us. 🍖🥓🥩

[@benedictcumberbatch4275]

0:35 dang those pigs are huge

[@tapshoe999]

Thank you for doing the right thing. Why can't every other pork producer care for their animals. Just seeing the sows in cage confinement is torture. Your facility looks clean and the animals look comfortable.

[@kiesha86]

15k sows ? holly cow

[@speedyguy5540]

Dear Monica I can tell you have made up your mind by reading your comments I will not try to change it I will not waste my valuable time on someone like yourself. I will leave you with this one last comment however our good Lord put these animals be it pork beef chicken or fish for us humans to butcher and eat for the nourishment of our bodys. Got a couple of nice rib eye steaks on the grill right now better go and check on them.CHEERS!

[@muhamadkhushi6560]

Dear madam I want do the work in your pig farm house. I have a pig farming training certificate and poultry farm training certificate by india government. ( IVRI ) department.

[@Hannahxox44]

yeah, it's not good to keep them all locked up inside like this but it is SO much better than how factory farms treat them! this is like heaven compared to that! thanks for caring, love! keep it up! xx

[@rw7051]

Carl Icahn was just talking about individual gestation cages for pics. They cant even turn around for months. He wants mcdonalds to address this.

[@OfficialJong]

It's not perfect, but pen gestation is far better for sow welfare than gestation crates.

[@elsazhang8427]

We supply pen gestation\

[@AsadKhan-yg3zd]

Hi How are sistar plzz help me i need this job I like this job to much

[@e.t.2914]

People do know these pigs have little hair and sunburn right? Demanding these pigs to live outside makes about as much sense as stripping a human naked and telling them to go live out under the sun. More space would be nice, but they are comfortable.

[@Darkrider8893]

They actually live better lives than a lot of humans

[@motherofcatfish2772]

Would anyone be okay with treating dogs this way?

[@mrbluetit6275]

if this was an Asian woman telling the western world how she is different to other farmers because she takes care of her dogs for the yulin festival, people would be utterly outraged.

[@longtail4711]

Most of the dog meat sold in China are snatched pets. There are few farmers raising dogs for meat and dairy because they are hella expensive for their market return. It's easier and cheaper to just to hire a couple thugs to snatch one off the street...heaven help these thugs if they are caught, the Chinese people will wrap a rotting dog carcass around their necks, bind their hands, and flog them through the streets for it.

[@tripasgordo4592]

ola me gusta su granja pero no ablo ingles y desearia informacion estoy en el negocio y quiero crecer

[@publius8945]

Instead of criticizing the company, compare them to other farms where conditions are much crueler. We should ask ourselves how we could make things better than just ripping on the farmers who make livelihoods off of these animals. It would be much more effective if we would think proactively instead of just commenting.

[@LUKKA2020]

The girl is such a cutie!!

[@benedictcumberbatch4275]

She looks attractive🙂

[@golapsarania1737]

I love you Madem 🌹🌹👌💘🇮🇳

[@mollflanders9314]

Funny how mad you can get when you gotta live cheek-to-jowl on top of eachother. I think I'd be poking out some eyes and biting off some tails, too, if I had to live in a gulag. Btw, prisons ain't known for their kumbaya, either. Incidentally, pigs have a biological drive to shuffle with their snouts. Just like ppl have a biological drive to talk and play Candy Crush and go to malls and whatever. So how do your pigs handle a biological need being so brutally thwarted? There's no hay in your concentration camp for them to root through. Smh. Maybe that's why they're "aggressive", my dear.

[@barbarahammer9037]

wow wow how many group of pigs to a pen ??? okay show thank you.

[@edr.2642]

15,500?wow or did she mean 1,500???

[@splinterbyrd]

Yeah right......

[@MiturBinEsderty]

I want to get with this sow

[@deepakkashrwani9606]

Machine is good

[@pauldevloo3042]

I just think its flat out too expensive to farm hogs this way, anyone can invest in a big barn, the problem is "anyone" has the right to do so, forcing each other into a cycle of non profitable farming-#1 solution-get out or increase herd size

[@tonyclack5901]

You don't look unintelligent, yet you follow the same rhetoric you have been taught, without questioning the ethics and cruel ways you produce pork. The first clue that something is not right, is the sows have no tails. As a golden rule, if you need to tail dock then your pig rearing practice is wrong. Pigs allowed to exhibit their natural behavior of rooting and running around do not tail bite. But in a stressful situation that your method of rearing creates, tail bitting would be prevalent. I rear pigs organically and have had no tail bitting ever. Ask yourself this question. How many entries do you have in your on farm drug book. I have none. Go and see an organic pig farm and then ask yourself, are we doing the right thing in our system.

[@jermainerace4156]

Do most unintelligent people have a certain look about them?

[@hodsgod]

Much better in uk, outside in fields!

[@tatorkator9901]

Steve Marks outside they are expsoed to worms

[@Darkrider8893]

Sorry but that doesn't make it better

[@skydawson3147]

They’re not aggressive animals. You pack them in a pin with a bunch of other pigs and give them literally no mental stimulation. Im glad they aren’t in those hell hole crates but don’t act like this is soooo much better. It’s not.

[@trvtam]

BS. You obviously have never seen sows attack each other, and the damage inflicted by aggressive sows!

[@melvingonito3666]

beautiful girl:)

[@AakashKumar-vu3re]

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[@Amehrkel]

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[@annafaith3132]

Are you joking??? They don't have room to move at all! And they don't have access to the outdoors either.

[@Undeadmuffih]

10 years ago they had even less room

[@monicarothbeck7393]

Anna, All their videos are the same. They always show the nice part. They never show what goes on behind closed doors. I just hope they watch the workers too. They are so cramped together and never get to see daylight. How unfair is that, but they don't care as long as they bring them to have them slaughtered and make their profit. They need to get rid of those HOT BOX TRAILERS while they are sent off to be slaughtered, hung, throats slit, bleeding everywhere while fighting for their lives. Those trailers get entirely to hot but they don't care as long as they see profit. I ran into an x Farmer awhile back and he said he couldn't do it anymore because of the way they get slaughtered and the pain that goes on with them. So they gave them to a Sanctuary and now the animals are living a beautiful, happy,roaming free life, never to be confined again in gestation crates. Every farmer I met I knew ahead of time. But this was different he was kind hearted.

[@annafaith3132]

+Monica Rothbeck I know I'm well aware. It's terrible. I want to open an animal rescue and sanctuary when I get out of school so I've done research and seen videos on all kinds of animal abuse. Pigs love to graze, these animals will never go outside. They love to be scratched behind their ears and on their stomachs, and they will never recieve that kind of love. Its sickening how selfish and cruel people can be. I'm ashamed to be of the same species and that is very sad in itself.

[@annafaith3132]

+Monica Rothbeck also, notice how their tails are docked?? What is the point of that? That is one way they can communicate with eachother and they take that away

[@patrickevans801]

you need to do some more research to find out why their tails are docked. have you ever even been to a farm ?

[@methnicity]

this is definitely not true..

[@hodsgod]

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[@agforthefuture]

The fact that all you see from this video is imprisonment means that you clearly MISSED THE POINT!

[@BigMetalMikeK]

O college boy. Yep pork management, that will sure tell you JUST what it is like on the farm. Other then that, do you have any clue why pigs arn't kept outside like cattle etc? Most people talk about how bad it is in a hog barn. Lets keep them outside, temp changes pigs are very temp sensitive. Rooting, a hog can destory grassland so they have to be rung. Yea living inside is so much worse then dealing with the heat, the cold, and havining 6 metal rings in your face.

[@monicarothbeck7393]

BigMetalMikeK - ~ The best place for them is at a Sanctuary.

[@tomo4977]

You want what, 9 million pigs all in sanctuaries? Then what?

[@KM-kw2nq]

I'm glad they're not in gestation crates but don't kid yourself - these pigs are miserable.

[@MrEst1953]

And you chop the tails off bady pigs !!!

[@someirrelevantthings6198]

u r gorgeous

[@MrEst1953]

Don't eat factory meat , pork stinks

[@dustinfisher29]

Girl, this is not an upgrade in pig housing! Go and check FREERANGE. The US should start promoting small skale farmers again. More people would have jobs and when every Farmer keeps only a few pigs in more space things would be far better for everyone. People have jobs and better quality food, pigs have a far better life and soil and groundwater don't get polluted by huge amounts of dung

[@monicarothbeck7393]

dustinfisher29- Dustin~ They don't care one bit, as long as it's not them and the cash flow keeps coming in. So many piglets and pigs are going to die a horrific death and this goes on day after day after day. One person said it so true, it's like she was picking apples. She had no feelings whatsoever that these living beings were about to be sent to the slaughterhouse to be slaughtered. I would never be able to live around that enviroment. I would be out of there in a heartbeat. Pigs are very friendly and loving animals. Just to haul them off in a trailer and have them slaughtered is so mind boggling to me. They have a look of terror in their eyes as soon as they enter the slaughter house that would break your heart.

[@jacindamurphy8536]

Go vegan 👍🏾

[@Falcon15x]

Jacinda Murphy Why

[@longtail4711]

No.

[@edr.2642]

no way

[@annv0443]

They are living a miserable life

[@bluepeter3470]

How can you live with your self. You cruel person. Go spend some time on a outside unit. My hope is Government legislation concerning the use of antibiotics put you out of business. Or you adapt a more animal friendly unit.

[@jmac5009]

So your idea of being animal friendly is not treating a pig that has an infection or is sick? Weird take.