Pastured Pig Farrowing - Results REVEALED!

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Pasture Pig Workshop. www.sheratonparkfarms.com/farm-events/2021/5/16/pastured-pig-workshop-may-16-2021

[@randalb5947]

Signed up, thanks.

[@yaboi3702]

I love the casual feel of this Channel

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thank you. Appreciate y’all watching

[@bobcat9314]

What cutie community..hahaha..its pretty cool to see all the energetic pigglets

[@raincoast9010]

It rained cats and dogs at my place the other day, it looks like it rained PIGLETS at your place ! ha ha ha I hear your pain about shoes, they are built to fall apart in no time.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

😂 yeah. We have piglets everywhere. Thanks for watching

[@lrkfam]

@@SheratonParkFarms I suggest Red Wings or Polo Boots

[@donaldfear7639]

That black Boar hamlet has amazing conformation!! I would use him on all your sows and get rid of the others

[@SheratonParkFarms]

He is a good looking guy. Excited to put him to work. Thanks

[@scottsmith7080]

Red wing brand Worx series hold up well. I have the same problem as you - for the last few years every pair of work boots that I’ve “worn” out was because the sole came unglued. I sometimes try to “shoe goo” them back on with mixed results. For just daily chores I prefer low cut slip on boots - easier to slip on and off if you get a sand spur or sawdust in them, go in for tea, etc. I also prefer less aggressive tread for working around animals because manure always gets stuck in the deep treads and tracks into the barn, workshop, porch, etc. love the channel. And thanks for the tip on the vet in Pittsboro. Scott, Carthage, NC

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks Scott. I’ve never tried any Red Wing but will give them a look. Thanks so much for watching!

[@RockyCreekHomestead]

Very helpful information. We are going to breed our pigs soon so this information is very insightful and provided several things to consider. Appreciate the honesty and transparency. Keep up the great work.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks. Appreciate y’all watching

[@DrtERotinBasstrd]

Danner makes a great work shoe. I frame houses for a living and the amish turned me onto them. They are expensive, but light and very comfortable.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks for the suggestion. I’ve always admired Danner boots

[@edgeoftheforesthomestead602]

Love the silvopasture outcome...pigs are awesome creatures.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks

[@KinfolkFarmofGeorgia]

Had a subscriber of both our channels turn me on to your channel because we are starting to raise pigs full time. So glad he did. Awesome content. Can't wait to learn more from you guys

[@coyroberts8356]

Thanks 😊

[@johnwood738]

Up state NY my farrowing will start on the 20th of this month. Nice job on the video! Don’t know if you saw the one comment on the one video but I live about thirty to forty minutes east of the Isaac Frink farm where the Duroc breed got its start.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Oh cool. Good luck on the farrowing. I need to look that farm up. Thanks

[@scottneedham9765]

Iv been wearing my timberland anti fatigue boots now for 4 years I’m a painter in new construction and renovation I think I’ll get at least another year out of them maybe 2 but got them at Elliots here in Knoxville TN

[@buddybell2337]

Carolina lineman boots are well made and comfortable. Been wearing them for 8 years and only on my second pair

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Nice. I’ll give them a look.

[@chrislangdell117]

The best pair of Work boots you can buy would be Viberg. You will pay alot for them. You will get 5 to 8 years out of a pair of boots. When they have reached the end of their life. You send them back to Viberg and they will clean them up and rebuild them for a fee of course. So one pair of boots with one repair could last you 15 to 20 years if you take care of them. Clean them and condition them 3 or 4 times a year and all should be good. Just like any other tool they need to be maintained to last.

[@caseman8214]

Ariat work boots are the best. Haven't hard a lick of issues with them

[@IdaBrown]

Justin Roper's have all sorts of working farm boots. They don't fail.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

I’ve owned a few pair of Justin over the years. May have to try some on. Thanks!

[@CecilliaDB]

Great to see! This is exactly we are trying to accomplish by having pigs. Silvopasture! Those piglets are d so dang cute.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks. Appreciate y’all watching

[@howlinhairyontheprairie8261]

I like carolina boots as far as lace up boots, the logger type. For mud I really like muck boots, most comfortable rubber boots I've ever owned.

[@7StandsFarm]

Good looking piglets can’t wait to see the rest of them farrow

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks! Hoping for a truckload.

[@cnnrstanley]

Keen boots have always been good for me. I think most of their boots are urine and ammonia rated. Truly waterproof, comfortable. They have a Wellington boot option, but I like the phillidelphias

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Saundra had a pair she loves. Never thought about them as a work boot. Thanks for the suggestion.

[@ourwayfarm]

Carolina (they have a USA made line) loggers or Chippewa (USA made) loggers. They are both excellent boots & all my husband & son wear. Carolinas are significantly less expensive but still good. Joe is a mechanic & boots are his only shoe besides slippers. He gets about 1-1.5yrs out of them.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks. I’ve seen those but never tried a pair on. I’ll give them a look!

[@yeagerxp]

Awesome squealers 👍👍👍. Thanks for sharing

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks

[@delaineward11]

Justin ropers make a good boot ! You can get them at TSC!

[@randalb5947]

I bet some 8x8's laid across that creek with some decking board attached across would make a decent bridge. Too bad lumber is so darn expensive right now.

[@braunzie2]

Try Redwing shoes. They are steel toe work shoes that I have worn well.

[@budhames5254]

We need more likes so we can get a bridge! Lol. Thanks for teaching us all so much

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Yes please!

[@markee063]

I remember when Schmidts stopped being made in the US.

[@tomaswilson2792]

Two years! That's a good haul! Beat I've gotten In the past decade is a year. Just about done with a set of georgia's that have been pretty good for the $$. Beyond that you're honestly not worth spending your money until you step up to custom boots like nicks etc. Dancers for example have gone downhill in a big way the past few years. Honestly wondered why you thought so highly of hamlet until this video. Now with the close up, he really is built like a mack truck. Not the biggest overall but the structure looks great.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks. He is much better looking in person. Love the way he is shaped and muscled.

[@jae878]

Get you a load of large gravel or crushed concrete to create a path through the creek instead of a bridge.

[@Maybe_Crazy05]

I use muck boots brand and love them. Those pigs are getting big and so cute, crossing my fingers I’m higher up on the list hahaha

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks. I have a couple of pairs of Muck and love them.

[@jonesfamilyfarm9230]

Gooood to see the new additions 🐷 I’m so happy to hear from you guys I was wondering how it all turned out! Congratulations on the baby lambs 🐑 again, oh I have some work boots I wear around my homestead they haven’t lasted 6 months. I wear a child size shoe so they weren’t steel toed, just hiking boots. My 2 gilts are AGH x 1/4 Berkshire I’d love spotted piglets what can I breed them with?

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Some Old spots for sure. Any breed should give you some color as long as it’s not a solid black pig. Duroc, Hereford, Tamworth all would be good choices.

[@coyroberts8356]

That’s some fine pork y’all got!!

[@Twangg1]

A bridge need not be all that expensive... at 6:36 there are 3 trees in the background that would serve as perfect stringers for a bridge, and totally adequate in length to span the stream. Use stone or concrete for abutments at either end and lay the stringers across the span... two would be totally sufficient for your uses... and use 2X6 or larger for a bridge deck grade your approaches at either end and you're in business...

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks. I’ve thought about that. I need to just try out and see how it works. A lot less expensive.

[@Twangg1]

@@SheratonParkFarms I have done a hundred of them like that... for many, many years, it's all we used to truck logs across creeks here in WA... of course, our stringers were a bit more massive than those, but... White oak in your country would probably be the longest lasting... lay your stringers across the stream then used 4X4's or 4X6's with a 4 to 6 inch gap in between running perpendicular to the stringers... then just a couple of 2X12's width on them running parallel with the stringers as running boards for your equipment

[@nancycaffee6192]

Are you going to cull bad mama? Or are you going to try again to see if she has figured it out? Do you ever have crow problems as they can kill newborn pigs? Love your videos. On your creek at the crossing could you put in a gravel base to give you more solid area to cross?

[@RockyMtnGobblers]

You have all the information I don't but it seems like you would have a higher survival rate if you had individual shelters for each mother and her litter, that way the piglets couldn't leave the shelter right away and would be safer. The piglets also have the guards so they can get away from their mother, that would certainly eliminate weather deaths.

[@lindahopkins4091]

What kind of pigs were brown with black spots?

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Duroc/Berkshire cross

[@familyfarmlivestock4949]

How much of an age difference is workable between the litters before you have to separate litters? Asked another way, what are first and last farrowing dates and are all piglets getting along and well fed?

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Typically you want to have all the sows in a group to farrow within a 3 week period. (That should have covered everyone in a heat cycle of 21 days for impregnation)

[@nickohnmacht611]

Ok. I've been following you guys for six months now. Love the channel. Love your farm. Love the content. Love the info. You guys are seriously a great inspiration for this little Iowa farmer. Here's my complex question. My sows are simailar to yours. Size, Duroc and Berkshire crosses. They are some older sows who have been farrowing in small pens and crates and this so I'm curious. I tried this (rotational grazing, low maintenance herding practices) with some older cows back in the day and had some considerable death loss so I'm wondering your thoughts if a guy might be money and headaches ahead pigging these sows out and raising his own gilts to bread and they learn to be mothers on their own? Or is there still a benefit to watching their high maintenance mothers fail and loose their place in the heard? Your thoughts.

[@nickohnmacht611]

And those failures I speak of include laying on piglets, in some cases eating piglets, eating a lot of food in general (7+ lbs. A day.) Just very aggressive towards each other. These girls seem to feed 1st and care for piglets second. My first sow had 3 piglets two days ago and now we're down to one. But she hasn't missed one meal. And I've gone to all the effort of sorting her off like the previous owner said they are used too in an effort to improve the situation but after seeing the difference between a "pasture" cow and an everyday "commercial" cow im seeing a lot of similarities in these sows and it was my opinion before that you could raise the right heifers with the right grass fed genetics to convert on grass easier than try and convert a "commercial" cow who's main objective in life was live to eat corn and hay. It's my feeling that these heritage breeds of hogs have the genetics but maybe through human imteraction they've lost their sense of knowing how to be a "pasture" hog. These are just my thoughts and questions as a man who has been raising hogs on pasture for 6 months so I'm open to the idea that im complely wrong and crazy too. Which is fine. I love it! Thanks

[@minnickfamilyfarm]

Love piglets as always! Is there any way you could do a video on predator pressure. We are looking to start raising sheep and pigs in the next year or two to breed. We have coyotes and your location I’m sure there is something of that nature that could snack on little piglets or big sleeping sows. How do you prevent this with only a single wire fence?

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Sure. We can talk about that in a video. Mother pigs are very protective of their young and we have never had an issue in spite of the fact there are plenty of coyotes around here. We have had issues with our sheep so we now have a livestock guardian dog that lives with them.

[@coyroberts8356]

Mink oil?

[@ChrisLascari]

I use double H boots, get them resolved a few times and get 6+ years out of them. You are tight though, nothing is made to last or be repaired anymore.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Exactly. We live in such a disposable culture now a days. Thanks for watching

[@lrkfam]

what did you do with the still borns & dead piglets?? food? fertilizer? chicken feed? My family always bought a piglet from the farm for holiday meals. Half a piglet fed 5 people consistently every year

[@SheratonParkFarms]

We compost them then the following year they continue to contribute to our farm through the garden.

[@lrkfam]

@@SheratonParkFarms ty very much for responding. I’m learning. Is there a reason you compost versus other options??

[@devenlamar3900]

I do that a lot with my boots. Get some shoe goo. Put it in cracks duct tape closed overnight.like new.

[@johnnydavis3866]

My Uncle and my Granddad raised pigs on pasture but I got farrowing Barns it saves pigs.

[@carlaazzouz449]

Try Ariat boots.

[@exoticfarms]

Red wings or Georgia boots are the best!!!

[@GrowWhereYouArePlanted]

The pile of piglets is so cute. I think the mamas are raising the babies communally. I don’t think any of them know who biologically belongs to whom.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

I think you are right.

[@rogerdaniel3005]

Carhart makes a good boot for farm and apx $80.00 cost.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks

[@DrtERotinBasstrd]

nasty video of a carhart boot being cut in half. wouldn't suggest em

[@Iceoskar]

Love the vids, keep em coming.... and fuckin hell those piglets are cute.

[@SheratonParkFarms]

🤣🤣. Sure are! Thanks for watching

[@melodyk3946]

Ariat boots!

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Seem to be a popular suggestion. Thanks

[@sheilacoggins4019]

Have you giving Lepto vaccine

[@rayward9265]

Nick's custom. Can be resoled.

[@budhames5254]

Whoever shares a video gets their name in a bucket for every share. Then draw out names for the winners of the piglets and they get to buy one! Win win for all!

[@SheratonParkFarms]

😂

[@dylankucish8756]

Redwings , best boots and made in America

[@huntshowstock780]

Caterpillar boots are good so are Schmitt boots

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks I’ll check those out.

[@jonathanst.thomas31]

For more information on how to raise pigs and other farm animals go to the people of the U.S. Department of Agriculture at www.usda.gov

[@boovavjb]

the only fair way is first come first serve. up to you but that is the order of business

[@coyroberts8356]

Justin lease up boots

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks for the suggestion.

[@CoastalGardening]

😎👍

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks

[@EriktionEBW]

This video is sponsored by: Rocky Boots!

[@SheratonParkFarms]

🤣🤣🤣. Don’t think they’d like the results based on the fact that their boots don’t last. Thanks for watching

[@donaldfear7639]

MUCK BOOTS

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Have a couple of pair I wear in the wet and mud. Love them.

[@Gatorgolfusa]

🐊🇺🇸🦅👍😁😊🤗❤

[@SheratonParkFarms]

Thanks

[@carlaazzouz449]

Arias Boots

[@SheratonParkFarms]

I’ve had a couple pats of them. Really like the brand. May go get a new pair of them.

[@carlaazzouz449]

Ariat Boots