Bringing The Pigs To Hog Heaven

[@jmacklintoc9617]

Wow, y'all are feeding America's families. I wonder how many of those hams you raised were the center pieces for Easter Dinner today.

[@codymoffatt1281]

A junior college transfer. Hilarious 😂

[@thislldofarm]

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed it

[@jamesbarry4324]

Thanks, guys!!!!!

[@thislldofarm]

Thanks for the support James!!!

[@birybenjamin3522]

I love the working relationship btn Dad and son; its not common:

[@johncook3817]

Great video!! You ar definitely the one and only pork chop whisperer in history!!!

[@thislldofarm]

Haha thanks John!

[@swgmindfullcreations3760]

Oh Tork...lol...butter em down so their succulent...you crack me up. Great video.

[@thislldofarm]

Thanks for watching! Glad you enjoyed! We run through a lot of butter...

[@andrewvillanueva3722]

Thank you for doing a awesome raising those pigs!!! Those pigs all look very healthy!!!

[@mikehamilton4357]

Nice video thank you

[@thislldofarm]

Thanks for the support Mike!

[@stuartkcalvin]

Thanks guys, keep the VLOGs coming :)

[@torktalks5573]

Thanks for watching!

[@ToyotaPete]

👍@This'll Do Farm, please keep your sales in-house. Thanks to you all for the hard work you do

[@Lymaiharvest]

Perfect advice!

[@firstgenerationfarmer9991]

I wish my square baler would cooperate with me like the pigs do with you guys!! 😆 You guys are great, makes my day better when your videos and podcasts come out!! Don’t mess with the This will do farm fam!! Uncle Trent!

[@thislldofarm]

Thanks for the support on everything we do! Glad you enjoy it! Don't want to see Trent's fist lol!

[@azamyahmad]

Hello Sir absolutely loved watching your new uploading you guys doing an excellent great job thank you so much for sharing stay safe Merci

[@DanO-yq9jr]

6 pounds of food per day per hog...I learned something today.

[@narlee2014]

I was up at Kendalville where the kayak drop is and two semis full of hogs went over the bridge and those hogs were squealing non stop lol. You could hear them coming and heard them going down the road making all that racket lol.

[@pinhookfishingclub]

Haha yeah I was fishing over in Nashua and a rig was going over the bridge full of squealing hogs lol. I’d like to take a tour of a hog operation when I’m back in Iowa for the summer next year. This is a great channel!

[@chickencatcher99]

@@pinhookfishingclub great sound with a truck load of pigs squealing. My friend lives near a pig slaughterhouse. The squealing gets better when they're being unloaded lol

[@miguelamaya6246]

Y'ALL are doing awesome work, thank you for sharing your video with us...

[@brentorebaugh9401]

"Communist wrench" is hilarious. Best word usage to describe metrics. Thanks Tork, I'll probably be using that now

[@haleyspell3730]

Great job guys giving the swine industry a good view !!!. Patience goes a long way when sorting pigs. We raise showpigs in south GA and you are 100% right about heat and humidity. We have to be extremely careful and work pigs really early or really late during the summers.

[@michelpicton8357]

Awesome content

[@thislldofarm]

Appreciate it Michel!

[@Braam_Bence]

Can you do the cost on raising pigs please sir

[@Buzz_Kill71]

These two are as pink as the pigs 😂😂

[@dennisflory2004]

Fire up the grill!

[@angiekrupke8048]

Wow tork you missed your calling as a dancer for chippendales

[@torktalks5573]

lol! I’m blushing ☺️

[@thislldofarm]

He would of probably made more money doing that then he does raising pigs... lol

[@CalvesFanatic]

Nice video :D I’d love to visit a piggery in person someday. I don’t think it’ll happen but if I ever get the chance to I’ll totally go

[@Braam_Bence]

And how long do it take from start to finish please sir

[@IncognitoGuy9]

You guys either have top notch editing or you've figured out how to move pigs in the calmest way possible. I've heard guys shouting for hours on end and Sawyer especially is very quiet and consistent. Great job moving bacon seeds again!!✌️

[@thislldofarm]

It's not always sunshine and rainbows.. we have our bad days just like everyone else. Sometimes they don't want to move. I think what helps us a lot is having the ability to pre-sort they seem to be more calm when it comes time to load and move way better! Thanks for the continued support!

[@IncognitoGuy9]

@@thislldofarm thanks for putting out good content about a side of the industry that is heavily frowned upon, keep up the good work. Looking forward to the next one!

[@Delano-e4l]

How long does it takes from them to reach market weight

[@DHAMMER-23]

What’s a good pig breed etc. To raise your self and butcher?

[@jennifersvitko5997]

My vegetarian neighbors asked me once why I ate ONLY the pork from this one farm. I told them, I know how the pigs are raised, how they live a happy pig life: out in the sun, rooting, and munching what they want, wallowing the day away. Then, they have one really bad day. My vegetarian neighbors finally got "it". There is commodity meat, then there is meat raised by people who see their animals as deserving a good life, until that one bad day.

[@richardtozer3959]

How much would it cost for 20 pigs raised and sold at market? And then re invest the profit. And so on and so on.

[@kenlynch6332]

👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@thislldofarm]

Thanks for watching Ken!

[@danl9334]

thanks for another great video, how do crops in your area look?

[@torktalks5573]

Great! Caught some rain last night. Cooler weather for a few days to come. A little more water and we’ll be in good shape. Thanks for your support!

[@thislldofarm]

Thanks for watching Dan! We'll do a crop update in an upcoming video!

[@HogW1ld385]

I’m always envious of how easy your fat hogs move for you compared to my loads

[@thislldofarm]

Pre sorting helps a lot! They aren't as stressed and move way better! Thanks for watching!

[@dougpeebles2383]

What's the optimum shipping weight the packers want the pigs at? Here in Ontario back when I was raising pigs (farrow to finish in early 80s) it was in around the 220 to 230 weight range. If they were heavier than that we would be docked on the index (bases we were paid on).

[@torktalks5573]

I’d say 280-310 today. Different packers have different windows but that’s where the bulk of our pigs go at. Thanks for watching!

[@ShermanT.Potter]

Back in the 90's my parents would get docked if they were over 260. The company I sell to likes them at 280-320. In the summer, they'll lower the light dock down to either 260 or 240 depending on demand, but I'd be an idiot to sell them that light with the premium over market price they pay, unless its a slow grower.

[@paulwollman]

Absolutely pigs move and load better pre sorted ,ot out of a auto sort system. Tork, I've been meaning to ask you guys about those sorting panels you use. Are those home made or you buy those? The plastic ones we use never last.

[@torktalks5573]

They’re aluminum. Purchased from Hog Slat.

[@paulwollman]

@@torktalks5573 I’m planning on getting our shop to manufacture me some

[@ShermanT.Potter]

I raise hogs as well. I'm about an hour away from you guys, if you were closer and biosecurity wasn't an issue I'd love to help you sort! Confinement sorting would be so much easier than open barn lots. One barn lot I have is about 26 ft. wide and 120ish ft. long, and I have to push them by myself to get them into the corral area when there isn't any help, up to 125hd in that pen. Then sorting with overlapping corral gates to form a chute you can choke off quick, good times!

[@cynthianauman1358]

Our finishing barn had a chill and h2o misters when u walk in it smelled like bacon and ham on the live cloven hoof creepy 🐖 🐷 🐽 🐗 🕊 🕊

[@dynamix247]

Thanks for all your videos. I have watched every one. I want to ask about sorting. How do you know the ones that are ready for market? Do you weigh them or you determine by sight??

[@torktalks5573]

We do it by sight. There is a marketing crew that marks the pigs sometimes and sometimes we do it ourselves. It’s like everything, if you do it enough, you get pretty decent at it.

[@dynamix247]

@@torktalks5573 wow.... thanks

[@willcamp6319]

What packing plant do you all use for y'alls hogs

[@torktalks5573]

Triumph, JBS and Smithfield.

[@Gods33Acres]

@@torktalks5573 Where the closest Smithfield and Triumph plants?

[@Gods33Acres]

@@torktalks5573 JBS in Marshalltown?

[@torktalks5573]

@@Gods33Acres St. Joe and Monmouth.

[@torktalks5573]

@@Gods33Acres Ottumwa

[@blxxmusic791]

How many pig are there

[@torktalks5573]

2,400 in that barn when it’s full. We raise about 20,000 pigs a year between all 4 of our barns.

[@cherylmiller5438]

U guys play hog hockey

[@justyna3719]

I really like your video. Thanks for sharing :) The device that you use for chasing away the fatteners is electric tamer (dont know if I translated correctly)?

[@thislldofarm]

Thanks for watching them! Appreciate the support. They are called a number of things buzzers, hot shots, electric prod. Hope this helps

[@justyna3719]

Thanks, sometimes it's a challenge to find good industry translations :) I was wondering about differences in approach to certain matters. If I remember correctly you work with Smithfield (so do I) and we are forbidden to use buzzers. Its not forbidden general in my country (Poland) but only in the company.

[@lorisabor6251]

You need to sell me one of those pigs

[@thislldofarm]

I think I might be able to do something like that in the near future! Be on the lookout for something big in future videos!

[@shadimurwi7170]

Dont eat pork or sell it

[@didymus3348]

How crowded are they allowed to get?