Hog Sense (1953)

[@sevenmile]

4:00 - Almost 100 yrs ago my grandpa built A Frame farrowing huts on old car frames as skids, he would tow them out into corn in the fall (across what is now a 4 lane hwy! ) There were still a few of them on the farm when I was a kid in the 60's and early 70's.

[@richw3010]

At 1:43 he says the lot should be large enough for the pigs to get plenty of exercise. Now they cram 1000's of them into a building where they can barely move!

[@robertpayne2717]

Ground ear corn is a good maintenance feed for sows and gilts. We used automatic float valves for our hogs it kept the troughs filled and fresh

[@robertpayne2717]

What alot of people don't know is that where you feed and water the hogs will go as far away as possible from their area in the pen to do their business yes they know about sanitation

[@andresmccullough9532]

I love it farming life 100 % 👍

[@brianarbenz7206]

The pigs are saying, "Sooo-ie? That's our cue. Let's run."

[@armymobilityofficer9099]

Much of what is being done in this video are "new" developments of homesteaders,

[@tjlovesrachel]

The epa would shit their pants now if anyone pours oil in the field like that

[@ianhotson6057]

I was thinking the same thing LOL

[@tonyritter4919]

So much we've learned to do better, and better ways we've forgotten at the same time. I knew some guys that would've really been cussing this in the early 90s

[@robertpayne2717]

When I was young we sold our feederpigs in Pocahontas in Arkansas western part of NORTHEAST ARK. IN THE LATE 60'S EARLY 70'S AREA OF SOUTH CENTRAL MISSOURI AND NORTH CENTRAL ARKANSAS WAS THE FEEDER PIG GROWING CAPITAL OF THE UNITED STATES.

[@lindadanielson7849]

That was nice

[@luismatute8024]

It looks like this was the zenith of agricultural efficiency (good quality combined with large scale production). The standards shown in this video would now be considered "premium/pastured raised" pork. How times have changed. Now we have large scale production with low quality standards. Definitely, it shows that the quality of food has decreased at least measured from a nutrition/flavor perspective.

[@cipherthedemonlord8057]

Now I want some bacon.

[@blackwalnutmintyfukkenchew5928]

Put used gear oil or motor oil on your dogs if they got mange. Thank me later

[@proud2bpagan]

yup! my dad taught me that

[@Shaker626]

Conventional or synthetic?

[@mikefarmer9165]

My dad and I used motor oil sadly the dog would either die or run away before the cure would be a success so I don't believe in this method also it's very messy

[@lisaharvey4196]

We always did that when I was a kid!

[@Spicy-y9z]

I did that with my dog several treatments still didn't work.