Getting Started with Pastured Pigs - Growing Your Herd With Artificial Insemination or AI

[@JerryGDawg56]

Chuck, you really do a great job presenting your videos!

[@SheratonParkFarms]

I appreciate that! Trying to share practical and usable information as much as possible. I do get mental block and have trouble coming up with ideas from time to time. Thanks for watching!

[@ThompsonJosh98]

Awesome videos, you need way more viewers! Just found your channel today and really enjoy it

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks! Appreciate y’all watching

[@arrowridge2770]

Great video we are preparing to farrow our two gilts we have been running feeders for the last 18 months and or so in forest. Ready for that next step.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Awesome! Good luck with farrowing. Keep us posted on how it goes! Appreciate ya'll watching.

[@stewartjazz]

Thanks for the excellent, practical information.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Glad it was helpful! Appreciate you watching!

[@olivierkit11]

Thanks for every knowledge you always share with us .

[@minnickfamilyfarm]

Realize these AI videos are older but very informative and these will come in handy. Thank you!

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Great! Glad they are helpful. Thanks for watching

[@cveenema7653]

I just found your channel and enjoy learning. I live in stokes county. I actually went to school with the Shipleys. Small world!

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Very cool! Have some friends in Stokes County. Up in the Francisco area. Appreciate y'all watching.

[@BigJack1]

Enjoyed the class. Sure hope to be to that level of farming one day.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

You'll get there. Just one day at a time and keep pressing forward. Thanks for watching.

[@terrykunst3883]

Great video, thank you for the step by step. AI sure makes sense.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Glad it was helpful!

[@willowrushhomestead5078]

Do you put the lubrication on the end and all along the applicator?

[@SheratonParkFarms]

No. Just on the tip

[@virnafarm9059]

I know that a year ago you struggled with the gilt you AI I am wondering if you feel she was too young or just too small of birth canal? We have a pig that is a little younger than we would like that might be pregnant to a larger boar and are wondering if it's going to bring us a lot of trouble or she should be ok.

[@toddcaskey9984]

Great video , do you know that they have IPP , Idaho Pasture Pigs ?

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Shipley's does not. They have Yorkshire, Duroc, Berkshire, and Hampshire. They have an "Exotic" and an "Other". NOt sure what those two are.

[@toddcaskey9984]

Sheraton Park Farms I e mailed them . Do u know who might have the IPP ? Very informative video , your boar looks great

[@SheratonParkFarms]

I sure don't. Check some of the pastured pig groups on Facebook. That is a pretty good resource.

[@collindoherty6707]

Thanks for the video, how do you store the semen or do you just order a day ahead of her heat cycle and keep it in the cooler? Thanks

[@kellychristopher3975]

Great video and page! Do you inseminate each gilt/sow only once? Ive read to do it a few times...12 to 24 hours after first dose. Is this necessary? Thanks!

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Yes. You need to do it multiple times. We try to give each gilt or sow 3 doses over about 24 hours.

[@SunTideStudios]

Fantastic! Thank you! I’m preparing to AI my 2 Tamworth gilts in the next few weeks. Excited and nervous all in one!Wish me luck!

[@Bromeo4u2002]

What is your A.I. Success rate? If u do A.I. to 10 different pigs, how many of those pigs have piglets

[@SheratonParkFarms]

I'm at well over 90%. Have had only one that didn't take and I think its because I used old semen (greater than 7 days from collection).

[@timskutnik4397]

Great video thanks for sharing. Do you use one bottle of semen per sow or can you use one bottle on multiple sows or gilts?

[@SheratonParkFarms]

It is packaged in single dose units so one bottle per sow. I’ll typically dose a sow 2 times. Once after they have been in heat for a few hours and then again about 8 hours later. Appreciate y’all watching

[@peterweikel7123]

The boar cost an $200+ a month. It's the same as a sow and the sow produces revenue and a boar does not