This BARROW may be packing some EXTRA equipment!

In this video, we provide an update on our new pigs and discuss our plans with our two boars, Merida, and new pasture space. We also discuss a potential issue we noticed with one of the barrows. He might still be packin'.
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[@deanbarr5740]

Looks like perfect pasture for the hogs. When i was a kid 50 years ago my dad pastured hogs much the same way as your doing. Raised some good pork too. We had a couple of milk cows and always an excess of milk supply so what was left over the hogs would get. Brings back good memories thanks Troy.

[@jerrysmith1199]

Just a little FYI- Was watching "Homestead Rescue" and they had to move and load a large hog, they built a 4 sided box , open on the top and bottom. The box was just big enough for the hog to fit into and with handles on the front and rear, they just walked the hog to the desired location. Looked easy.

[@jodysappington7008]

enjoyed the video..thank you

[@roberto.peterson9917]

My family take old hot water tanks cut in half long ways then notch timber to hold and prevent tipping allows several pigs to eat ar same time

[@jbbrown7907]

I'll be watching to see how you keep in the boars with sows in heat so close. Have the sow with them may help.

[@RedToolHouse]

Makes two of us...

[@robertmalis4493]

In my experience having a bore the electric hot wire wasn’t enough to keep the bar from getting to the sows I had to build a very substantial fence and a hot wire to keep the boar away from the sows

[@baldybaldwin2825]

Your borrow could have a hernia, check it out carefully before you cut again. Have lost borrows with hernias in the past. Nice operation.

[@ajfvajf5]

Maybe worth renting a tracked bobcat, for a few days, with a HD brush hog attachment to clear multiple paths for your hot wires. And a blade to smooth out the rises and fill in the low spots?

[@selador11]

For instance. You could completely wall it in with straw bales for insulation.Cover that with plastic to retain the insulation value as long as possible. Probably impractical. But it gives a start for the ideas. Personally, I think I'd just be buying sheet foam insulation a bit at a time, as can be afforded, and be adding it in layers to the outside of the building.

[@joemc111]

Keep fighting the fight, Troy next time when you hear all those birds take a moment so we can hear the wildlife.

[@selador11]

And maybe there are ways to make the cooler/cooling part of it more efficient?

[@bullpuppy689]

Troy what are you seeing growing in the heavy impacted areas ,? Meaning the seed bank.

[@RedToolHouse]

If left alone, I am seeing switch grass take off. When I reseed a pasture mix, it helps keep the switch grass controlled.

[@howardbooth7006]

When you think about putting pigs on land that you had shot clays over be careful. All the boxes of clays I ever unloaded at the gun club carried a warning that they were poison to livestock, pigs were specifically mentioned. These were the "normal" asphalt-based clays, not the biodegradable type.

[@selador11]

Maybe you should do an extensive video about the walkin? See if maybe some of your watchers might have some ideas about how to make it more economic?

[@RedToolHouse]

Did one a couple years ago. Just search walkin on my channel.

[@seamonsdoug5141]

Be careful it’s not a scrotal hernia. If there is a scab there I bet he’s been castrated. Especially where it’s lower than normal. I guess just be careful and be prepared to sew it back up if guts start falling out

[@bullpuppy689]

Ok. Ill go buy a plastic drum now..lol

[@shannonstephens4245]

Troy I have a sow that was showing milk day before yesterday and still no babies yet! no show but swelling and nesting! Do you think it could be a problem? Thanks!!

[@RedToolHouse]

No, I would not worry yet. If she is nesting and swollen it will be very soon. Check up on her regularly but will most likely be at night.

[@louishagemann9644]

👍

[@j.l.freeman792]

guess what the deer was saying!!!

[@noahbailey4767]

you must have coal seam with all that water

[@RedToolHouse]

Its WV. Everyone has at least one!

[@jamesmanley9521]

I all ways understood clay was toxic to hogs,

[@sixoaksfarm1556]

That's likely a cut where he was castrated. We castrate low on the "bag" and the still shot looks like where the scar would be.

[@RedToolHouse]

Definitely more than just a scar. He has a mass under the skin that can be moved like a testicle. I will know more this weekend when I can inspect him better.

[@AaricHale]

I would watch him because it could be a rupture and get worse and die . I had that happen once .

[@markwilkins9944]

Do you deworm your hogs?

[@RedToolHouse]

yes

[@DavidMiller-jc4pl]

Are clays not poison to hogs?

[@RedToolHouse]

I have heard that lately but have had pigs on a pasture with busted clays for years. Haven't seen any issues.

[@morgansword]

I would rather be thought dumb than open my mouth n remove the doubt so if I may a question or what my brain feeds on. Here in alaska we have musket just about anywhere glaciers used to be. Now our mountains even have spots of it on open area. Go down to its bottom which is likely thirty feet or more is rock or gravel seems and it is good material just like that rock I seen in the video. Do you have layers of ground like that there? No one knows how deep the mud goes in any area if not mistaken or if even reachable at any one spot without fancy expensive equipment that the government can afford. So.... are there real gravel pits in Virginia? Is it good road making stuff or just that shale that when it meets water, it is a blue clay that would make Hoover dam?