The Ultimate Guide to Raising Pigs on a Homestead

[@HarrryClaudeLaBar]

After raising hogs now for over 60 years, (in my opinion) you did an excellent job on this video. Thank you.

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Oh wow Harry, THANK YOU!!!!!! That is so amazing to hear! 😁😁😁

[@jennablorezone8Band9A]

Very helpful! I’m contemplating how much space they need and how often to rotate or just have one bigger space for them to roam. I love how they poop in one area.

[@aprilfletcher2478]

appreciate you sharing the good and the bad, it's hard when things happen to our animals that we truly care about their welfare and want the best life we can give them. We are into our first year with ipps and love them. Such an exceptional breed

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Oh yay April that is so great to hear!!!!!! Thank you for watching and commenting, it means a lot! The good news is we've now castrated another two piglets and we've learned a lot. And both of them are doing great afterward! So hopefully losing that other pig was a learning experience for our future pig farming endeavors!! Thanks again. 😀

[@rosejustice1227]

We have 80 acres. To make whole use of our property we gave them all the wet land. They absolutely love it in there. We have a bunch of acorn trees. They absolutely love the acorns

[@TheJoshuaFrey]

Dude, this video was super helpful! Thanks for taking the time to make it!

[@KC-jq9kw]

We raise registered Red Wattle hogs in Ohio. They are on pasture with Red Brand goat and sheep fence stretched tight. No hot wire. They grow almost as fast as confinement hogs, they graze like crazy, they are the most docile that I have ever been around. Even my 600 pound boar is like a pet dog, they all just love attention and just supper friendly. Hogs can eat even black walnut husks and not get sick. The only animal that can. Their meat I think is the best of any hog breed. Going registered you can sell breeding stock, feeder pigs, or feed out the piglets. I feel you should, I castrate and notch ears at 3 to 10 days.

[@BetterTogetherLife]

We’ve had red wattles, they were fantastic pork!!!!!

[@2fluent]

Thanks for the real talk. It helps. Keep up the content

[@BetterTogetherLife]

You betcha, thanks for watching!

[@josephbXIX]

As an now experienced chick killer, i understand the emotion of not doing great with baby livestock....

[@LetsCookingforPigs]

Your farm is a work of art

[@horsewoman74]

Thanks for this video. So cute and my son really wants them when we someday get our farm. Great video

[@Allanfreedom2004]

I've got a baby as a pet . The best friend I've ever had. But it's been lost for 4 days . I'm devastated . I live in a forest . Please pray she finds her way back home . 😢😢😢😢

[@marysidle5132]

This was so informative!! Thank you! Always learning from others experiences. Keep the info coming! GOD bless

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Oh thank you sooooo much Mary for the comment and your kind words. It helps us out more than you know!!

[@LibertyOperation]

Yesssss. Missed your regular videos. Pigs are probably next on our homestead, so THANK YOU for this.

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Wow, thank you soooo much!!! I am trying. In fact we are about to hire our first ever editor.... hopefully this will help us get more videos out FASTER!!! If you can, please do share these videos in your other social apps and Facebook groups. It's always a HUGE help!

[@JohnThomas-gj2zg]

You and your family are doing so good I see and happy to see that y'all are doing it right way on living off the land the way a lot of us really need to do .....

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Thank you John!!!

[@OldPecanHomestead]

We are new. We raise kunekune's, our pig's free range, though we would love to paddock them off with hotwire, it's very annoying when they chase us down with feed. HA! Your absolutely right about shelters. We have had several throw together shelters. Lol. On the castration, we recently castrated an overgrown calf, not our first time, but the second testicle went south, he was bleeding so bad, we threw a band to stop the bleeding a forced him to eat a bunch of vitamin K1, which is a coagulant. We gave him antibiotics and watched him as well. We later realized that you are supposed to give them a tetanus antitoxin to prevent tetanus, which is what I am guessing happened to your pig. We all go through losses, some are definitely harder than others. We have to learn and push through!

[@manoelmonteiro9963]

Uau top demais parabéns, gosto dos seus vídeos de seu trabalho, gosto de ver isso parabéns Deus te abençoe sempre sua vida e sua família, também seus animais 🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@maryellencook9528]

So sorry to learn about Ollie's pig.😢 Ollie is so much like my grandson, Wesley, with a tender heart. I hope that he is feeling better by now.

[@romanheritagefarms]

Love our porta-huts . They are great in the winter. We just fill them with lots of hay/straw.

[@BetterTogetherLife]

You know it bro!!! You get ALLLLLL the credit! Sorry I should have mentioned that in the video. This filming day was a weird one for me! haha.

[@duaneshouse7516]

❤❤❤you guys are spot on ! 😊😊😊😊

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Thank you!!!

[@hanginlaundry360]

Thanks for doing the right thing by Lightning. You did your best 🙏❤️

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Thank you, that was a hard day for sure.

[@SpinDizzy-fr8bc]

Good tips. Thnx.

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Awesome you know it!

[@JohnThomas-gj2zg]

I share all of yall's videos so more and more people can see how y'all do things compared to how other people do things on there home sted and I think y'all are making it just how y'all want it......

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Wow, thank you John!!!!!!!!! We REALLY do appreciate you sharing the videos. It is SUCH a huge help!!!!

[@ValerieFerguson-k5q]

Hi! I’m in central Texas and new to raising pigs. We are raising IPP (Idaho Pasture Pigs). I’ve been searching for the local seller of the Port-A-Huts you mentioned, but have not been able to find them. Would you mind dropping a link? Thanks so much!

[@Revelation22-13]

John 17:22-23 King James Version 22 And the glory which thou gavest me I have given them; that they may be one, even as we are one: 23 I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one; and that the world may know that thou hast sent me, and hast loved them, as thou hast loved me. Gods blessings over you .!!

[@MyTing775]

Greetings from uk. Great video. How many pigs would you recommend per acre of forest land ? Thanks

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Oh wow that’s a tough one, and the answer is super annoying. “It depends!” Forage, type of pig, age of pig, acorns or nuts falling, thickness of forest, etc.

[@MyTing775]

@@BetterTogetherLife yeah I get that and time of year I suppose.they will be supplementary fed with a fava bean mix so I think I will be looking at 6-10 Berkshire and hope they don't do too much damage.

[@BetterTogetherLife]

With that many pigs you will be able to see the damage they can do really fast! Haha.

[@Crayola170]

Snatch reference = easy new sub

[@philmolineaux7757]

A wagon wheel config on pasture is effective and requires a half acre

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Not sure I understand.

[@Horsegirl4099]

This is a pasture rotation method, right?

[@karlmckinnell2635]

Raising BACON 🥓

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Haha, so right Karl!!!!

[@HitchcockJohn]

I can’t help noticing the chickens wandering around the pen. It’s very cute, but now I’m curious: do chickens and pigs normally get along? They looked pretty curious about the pigs but I’m not sure if that goes both ways.

[@derKuchenPhips]

I'm working with different animals and at our place the pigs, chickens and goats share the same area without an issue.

[@reddirtfarm7704]

Shout out to all the Pallet people...

[@TRUMPmyOSHI]

I didn’t know you can castrate them yourself. I would think you’d have a vet on hand to handle this type of thing, pregnancy, and such?

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Nope Mr President, you can do this all yourself!

[@TRUMPmyOSHI]

@@BetterTogetherLife I see. 🤔

[@Riflehunter-308]

This is a city slicker that moved into the country lol

[@BetterTogetherLife]

OF COURSE I am!!! I have never said anything otherwise. I have ZERO ideas on what I am doing. Just making it up as I go for the last 6 years. What are your top tips on living the country life? I’d love to learn!

[@charliebecker2216]

Way to say good bad and ugly. It’s all part show. Keep going .

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Hi Charlie, not sure I fully understand your comment. But absolutely, we always keep at it! In fact we need to castrate 4 boys next week! :)

[@KentuckyBackyardMechanics]

I thought coffee grounds were a natural dewormer

[@BetterTogetherLife]

I haven’t heard that. We use herbs and pumpkins.

[@vincentmiceli2554]

There is no county coop where you are? Tractor Supply is not a friend of the farmer. Not a friend of freedom either but let’s keep this simple. Ts is not your friend

[@bentley8377]

🎶 'promo sm'

[@horsewoman74]

❤

[@loraypruitt5922]

😊😅

[@DunRovinRanch-1969]

Castrating. You’re going to lose a few while you’re learning.

[@BetterTogetherLife]

Yikes. I’m afraid that’s true.

[@dallon507]

You castrated it to death? Jesus man..

[@BetterTogetherLife]

We found out after this that the piglet caught tetanus.