Modern Hog Production Part 1 A Family Affair.mp4

See how a modern hog farm is run from a family farmer's perspective.

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Education

Tags:

• modern hog farm
• family farm
• CAFO
• factory farm
• animal welfare
• pork production
• animal abuse

[paulpellicci]

...what happens with the poop? is it washed down the slots and into a tank?

[aaron7816]

@paulpellicci Great question. The poop goes down the slats and it stays in a concrete pit below the building. Then, we use it as a natural fertilizer in our fields. You can watch Manure Management to see this process in action. Thank you for the question.

[daveseavy1]

Family farms do all they can to raise livestock humanely and keep the animals safe and healthy. I know several pork producers and they are as concerned about their livestock as they are their children. We want affordable food, so we have to deal with the realities of today's production.

[aaron7816]

@daveseavy1 Thank you for the post. We do our very best to keep the pigs safe and healthy.

[rainingblood001]

Nice! Very clean environment for livestock protected from predators and from weather extremes. Keep up the good work of feeding the world!

[aaron7816]

@rainingblood001 Thank you!

[aaron7816]

@be74st It was about both family & pigs. We didn't show castration, tail cutting or sows b/c we have finisher barns. We don't have sows or piglets. Also, the castration is necessary or the meat is no good to eat b/c testosterone ruins meat. Also, tail cutting keeps them from biting tails which causes infection & possibly death. Sows are kept in sow crates but they don't spend their entire lives there; only when piglets are nursing to keep the momma from rolling on piglets crushing them. Then

[aaron7816]

@be74st they are put back in general population. No anesthesia is used b/c 1) animals pain censor is way different then humans so you can't put human thoughts, feelings, etc. into the equation 2) it is no different then circumcision on human boys and is done while they are piglets for the same reason it is done to babies. We make a product that is healthy, safe, and I am proud to be a pork producing family.

[oscarortega2000]

@paulpellicci yes my dad works there

[TheFerosso]

hahaha

[kimieann1975]

Where's the pasture for the pigs to root around in. Please check out Polyface as an example of farming. You don't have to do this big Ag. style of farming to make money. Thank God there is a huge rise in people going back to real farming pasture based letting the land take care of the animals. Sorry but this is not farming this is a factory and thats all. Very sad indeed.

[be74st]

@aaron7816..where they just can lay or stand.They never can take contact to they'r piglets.If you ever saw how it would be if you would let them..it breaks your heart..thats a family too..I know you say that it needs to make it because it's too expensive in the way we make it.Think that we get about 8$ each pound when we sell them alive or 45$ if sell the meat.It makes no sense trying to make money producing cheap meat.Make premium quality and feel better.I'm sure that you can sell it also in US