Raising Mute Swans | Farm Raised With P. Allen Smith

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Join Allen as he discusses the benefits that come along with raising mute swans, including what you'll need to do to make sure they grow up healthy.
Have a question for Allen? He'll be checking in regularly, so be sure to leave your comments and questions below.
A farm wouldn't be a farm without animals. From sheep to chickens to donkeys, there are a lot of helping paws, claws and hooves at P. Allen Smith's Garden Home Retreat. In 2009, inspired by a childhood spent on the farm raising and showing livestock and poultry, Allen Smith founded the Heritage Poultry Conservancy, an organization dedicated to the preservation and support of all threatened breeds of domestic poultry. P. Allen Smith is an award-winning designer and lifestyle expert and host of two public television programs, P. Allen Smith's Garden Home, P. Allen Smith's Garden to Table and the syndicated 30-minute show P. Allen Smith Gardens.
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[@PattyMattson]

Very cool info P Allen. Thanks for sharing with us all.

[@aridkatz]

Wishing you lots of luck!!!!!!!

[@PAllenSmith]

I got them from a friend in northwest Arkansas and I love them! Let us know if you get them and how they're doing.

[@joesheppard9623]

P. Allen Smith did Fred and Ethel get any cygnets

[@joesheppard9623]

P. Allen Smith do swans get on with geese

[@joesheppard9623]

P. Allen Smith can you please tell any cygnets hatc

[@SecretLifeOfSwansByXavier]

Joe Sheppard it depends every swan is different.

[@joesheppard8673]

Hi alan did the swans get any cgnets this year

[@101aqha]

I was told that they can only mate in water if you want the egg's to be fertilization. Is this correct?

[@Xristinelli]

good luck for baby swans

[@atomaontu7110]

so cute, so nice..... i wish....! if i have this type swans, than i fell so well, so good, & so happy.....! bt nice & tnx for this video....

[@MrStraightlover]

ooh the culling of mute swan in Michigan, I've once heard of,.... Thousands of mute swan get killed... That's completely absurd. While here I dream everyday of having my own mute swan in my backyard... Can someone just send a couple of cygnets to me, instead of they're get killed?:)

[@joesheppard9623]

MrStraightlover

[@joesheppard9623]

MrStraightlover DO SWANS GET On With gesse

[@idkanymore8490]

MrStraightlover they get killed because there are so many of them and they kill so many native birds and are a invasive species

[@canesvenatici9588]

Yo swans are delicious they should cook em. It's even only reserved to the queen in England ain't nobody ain't no royal can get a taste there.

[@TheJdeere4020]

Mute swans are non native here. They kill native waterfowl and deplete Bay grasses

[@breadandcircus1]

Do you raise swans to sell them as a poultry???

[@thelostronin]

Not usually for eating, most swans are apparently sold as decorations for large estates

[@dcmoorcroft]

Muteswantruth- He lets them out. If you really watched his videos you would see that he takes care of his animals!

[@GeoStreber]

Calling swans in defense mode "mean" is a bit of an understatement. They can be full assholes.

[@CeeBee781]

I once got chased by a large swan as a kid. Very scary experience. Ever since, I just don't like swans lol.

[@TheRavenSinger]

They are pinioned, which means the last digit ("knuckle") in the birds' wing is cut off (usually at a young age). Pinioned birds, because they lack primary flight feathers on one wing, cannot fly properly - this keeps them from flying too far from the farm.

[@SecretLifeOfSwansByXavier]

TheRavenSinger If you take good care of them and feed them they won't fly away

[@Sockboss1]

@@SecretLifeOfSwansByXavier exactly idk why people clip their wings, if i have to keep them as prisoners i dont want them.

[@seanedwardfitz]

It's good that Bradshaw from WWE took up Swan raising after his wrestling career.

[@joesheppard8673]

Hi did the eggs hatch

[@RingshadowCat]

Fun fact: There is now a statewide cull of mute swans in Michigan, USA. They want to kill, oh, fifteen thousand of the things over the course of several years. In fact, if you want a license to hunt one, it's free. IOW if you want to eat one, come to Michigan I guess?

[@Mango-pj9vx]

India wants to introduce these birds in the hundreds please send them to India

[@AshokRamam]

I would like to start a Mute swan farming in India any help from your side to have mute swans at my farm. ?

[@SecretLifeOfSwansByXavier]

Ashok Ramam You need a big pond for mute swans.

[@Deeznuts-ku8wg]

Swan nerd here So instead of writing a long paragraph just ask me whatever you were gonna ask him

[@ManojKumar-te6cq]

Hello,

[@ness8802]

😡😠🤬😈

[@ness8802]

Swans aren't meant for FARMS FFS .

[@gabrielsherry8250]

Swans won’t make fertilized eggs unless you provide a swimming pond or lake.

[@boogiekang619]

@@gabrielsherry8250 and he does

[@joesheppard8673]

Did eggs hatch

[@maxcine99]

What was wrong with that swans wings?

[@SecretLifeOfSwansByXavier]

maxcine99 It's clipped

[@boogiekang619]

Nothing wrong with that

[@101aqha]

He has been pionioned, he is now unable to fly.

[@eddystephens245]

Need clean water bucket everyday to keep beautiful healthy

[@dowdybuzzin925]

I thought u couldn't get pet swans :P Them nest boxs are class, would chickens use them? luv the vids :)

[@SecretLifeOfSwansByXavier]

Dowdy Buzzin mute swans are domestic swans that have been release to the wild

[@Deeznuts-ku8wg]

So im assuming u mean their [by their i mean mute swans] illegal Well yes in the uk. Black swans aren't though

[@vikramshaha6744]

Sir I want eggs

[@rohitmenon3955]

Hi, do you have mute swans for sale? Im looking for a pairand its extreamly difficult to find. Thanks !!

[@ness8802]

😡😠

[@boogiekang619]

​@@ness8802shut up

[@davyjones4586]

upsetting they are protected in the uk :(

[@ImSoNotSleepy]

Why upsetting? That's a good thing. They're best left in the wild.

[@donaldlawrance840]

Lmfaoo wtf

[@boogiekang619]

​@@ImSoNotSleepythese birds make great poultry 😂

[@darcyblack8222]

Nah didnt do it for me - rather see swans in the wild where they come from

[@boogiekang619]

@@darcyblack8222 people has had swans for generations

[@XCritonX]

So, are the swans for eating?

[@SecretLifeOfSwansByXavier]

XCritonX no for beauty

[@Deeznuts-ku8wg]

In this case no. But in some cultures yes they do eat them

[@ZenithalPoint]

Any animal on this planet is for eating, tabooing of eating specific animal is purely cutural choice. As for Swan I believe you can eat Swan in pretty much anywhere in globe, except UK, the place where swan is most highly protected.

[@boogiekang619]

No

[@ThatGuyCanDoThat]

could or you will? cause Im pretty sure my friend hunted and killed a swan before and he didnt really give a fuck.

[@rydag11]

Why would you want to?

[@SecretLifeOfSwansByXavier]

rydag11 Mute swans are like guards they chase away geese and+ there pretty why wouldn't you want a pretty animal on you pond that's yours.

[@ThatGuyCanDoThat]

So you cant kill swans?

[@SecretLifeOfSwansByXavier]

ThatGuyCanDoThat Yep

[@soblake3326]

I want to kill mute swan because is deadly

[@andrewgahan843]

swans

[@alanlock007]

That's sad, isn't it?

[@SecretLifeOfSwansByXavier]

Alan Lockwood Um not really

[@boogiekang619]

No

[@boogiekang619]

@@alanlock007 your brain sure is

[@Travel_lite]

It's not clear if these beautiful swans are being bred for meat. Totally unacceptable if that's the case.

[@THEE.apples]

why?

[@arkhamasylum8972]

Why? Half of the animals on this planet eat other animals and we are one of them. If it's cruel than nature is cruel by default.

[@malelasers3363]

@Arkham Asylum I want everyone to know that I really appreciate all the hard work. You know, watching you guys is like a night in, watching my favorite movie. What was the name of that movie again? Oh, yes. Attack of the stupid bungling idiots who can't find an even bigger idiot running around dressed like a bat! Now get to it!

[@boogiekang619]

You peta activist need to grow up

[@boogiekang619]

@@Travel_lite you obviously know extremely nothing about swans I see jealousy here

[@vikramshaha6744]

Can u call me

[@boogiekang619]

I'm looking to raise swans myself

[@101aqha]

I will be having swan chicks for sale shortly, i need to have them d.n.a sexed first.

[@boogiekang619]

​@@101aqha what breed