Calves and Pigs Under Smoggy Skies

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1. Hi everyone, good news…two days after I made this video, Brownie came into heat and Billy mounted her just fine. As a first-time boar, he needs to get the hang of things, so it may take another heat cycle for her to be bred. The second thing I wanted to mention is that I am sorry to have dragged out our torturous decision-making process regarding whether to keep raising pigs. There were so many factors involved we had to slowly sort through and think about over the past months. And I am sorry to those who were excited to see our feeder pig operation get up and running. I guess the silver lining in it all was that it forced us reexamine how our farm infrastructure works as a whole, and by the end of the summer we should have a much easier setup for handling the cattle, with both barns gone through and tidied up for the future. Finally, like I said in the video, we are not ending raising pigs, just scaling back for now, so pigs will still be a part of the channel. Have a great day!

2. We have piled ours for 4- years and it turned into the nicest black dirt and mulch you ever seen, and we never covered it,,we piled it in the corner of a small corn field that was a lot of times to wet to plant or work,so we designated it for compost piles and every fall or winter depending on the weather we would haul it out on our cornfield or hay fields and enrich the soil,,It done wonders for all our fields and our 1-acre garden!🙂👍

3. Pigs give you alot of YouTube content. Seems like a small percentage of that income should be figured into the cost evaluation imo

4. Hey Pete you were wondering out loud about registered pigs that always havec e offspring that are consistent time and again. Those are durocs. And their are reliable breeders.

5. Hi from Canada. Yes this year the smoke from our wild fires was unprecedented. Hard to breathe in it and very dangerous to breath in it. On bad days since farmers can't stay indoors we sugest wearing a mask. All the best!

6. What about lambs ? Sell some lamb chops?

7. We apply a shot of E-cel to each calf as we get white muscle disease frequently here in Northern Ontario.

8. Well, you didn't want to boar us!

9. very nice farmer. Aren't pigs like dogs?

10. That barn is a great place to sleep on a rainy night, next to a fire!!

11. Hi mr.Pete . How about having some goats and sheep’s on the farm ?

12. Love the Star Wars like theme! Pigs are unreal with what the market has done. Great lean meat. Time to change them Pete. Here to help ❤

13. Well said.. it's a lifestyle..no paid labour.. it's pay the bills and little money leftover for improvement..that's farming..

14. Hi Pete, new subscriber here,an old city boy from Vancouver . I just discovered your channel a few days ago and have since watched about 6 of your vids and I subscribed after the second one. You convey a sense of honour and wholesomeness that is sadly lacking in our society today. Your videos are interesting educational and entertaining . I look forward to enjoying your stories far into the future.

15. Pete while u are sitting there the birds are coming down an getting straw an going up in the tree coming back down an back

16. Your pigs are more interesting!

17. It's Father's Day, and I miss my father and I lived on a farm. Your show has been lots of fun. Thank you.

18. I'm 63…when I was a kid we had pork chops on the grill almost every Saturday in summer and a pork loin roast about once a week. We had bacon every other day for breakfast. There was pork sausage for the three sheets of pizza my mom made (we had six kids). Not sure why but today people just don't eat pork. Probably got a bad rap during the 80's and 90's fat-free kick. The chops you get today are so dry and tasteless. It's too bad because it can be very tasty meat.

19. Hey I have a question about your breeding bulls, do you keep them in the barn when your not breeding them or do you have a pasture for them? I have 24 cows and growing and a bull. He has his own pasture when not with the ladies. So I was just wondering if you let them go to pasture when they aren’t working or do you keep them penned up?

20. Even as a pork eater, I can almost guarantee I eat more of the chicken and beef than I do pigs… Not sure why. We have pork in the freezer.

21. It's a lot of work to not make a profit!! You do what's right for your family! Happy Father's Day!! 👍😊🌻

22. This horrible red smoke has been a yearly part of our lives here in the northwestern part of the US since I moved back to Spokane, Washington ten years ago. It got so thick and nasty at least once that it went off the top of the scale at 500+ particulates whatever (really, really, really bad for everyone!). About the only thing we could do was seal off the house and run box fans with high rated furnace filters. It's about 90 percent affective at clearing the air of the smoke, just hot if it's up in the high 90s and hundreds outside. That's when you sponge down with water and also use lots of ice cubes to survive the heat!
    I keep hoping that it will get better and with government help, maybe it will. If there's very little on the forest floor to burn, it's not as much of a problem. It doesn't mean reducing the forest floor to dirt, but managing the thickness of the underbrush especially in the steepest mountainous areas.😰❤👍

23. Hey buddy I enjoy what ever you do, I always watch your old show's too

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