Podchef's Pastured Pork--Part Two

A Film about how the hogs are getting on in their woodland pasture.

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Pets & Animals

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• hogs
• pigs
• pork
• meat
• livestock
• cooking
• food
• farming
• gastrocast
• podchef
• animals
• grassfed
• freerange

[hacknsack2]

If your method of pork production catches on then millions of people will starve.......what a horribly inefficient way to raise pork!

[Podchef]

Firstly, how much pork do you eat? My family of 7 only uses two hogs per year--plenty of meat for normal people.

Secondly, millions of people are going to starve anyway. . .Intensive, industrial food has seen its day. It is going to collapse. Don't you read the headlines? MRSE found in factory-farm pig workers. Pig Brains inhaled by slaughterhouse workers make them ill. Fat to meat promoters sicken countless people. Manure lagoons spill over & kill fish.

My "inefficient" way is age-old & proven

[ziggymainer]

What type of fencing do you and what is your rotation plan? We have been raising Durocs and we want to adopt your methods. Would love to learn more.

[Podchef]

I use an electric sheep net fence from Premier1. They work well. At the time I made this film I was using two nets together. Now, I find one is enough and I don't have to move them any more often. If anything I have to move them a bit less. Then I just set up the second net and usher the porkers into it. I move them around ever 2-3 weeks. It takes almost 2 acres to grow pigs for a season my way. The land has to be fallowed from pigs for 2, better 3, years. Watch my other pig videos for more info

[DrewDawg50]

how many pigs do you need to have some steady income?

[Podchef]

It all depends on what you need to earn. Two sows and a boar will keep you in piglets to sell as weaners or raise as butcher hogs. Raised like I do they can make you around $4.00 or more per pound, hanging weight. Weaners are selling around $75-120 each. I presell all my meat so I am sure of the need and market. I raise the pigs as a holon to my garden & dairy enterprise, so they cost less to keep. The profit goes to pay taxes. Manure & my meat are free.

[Farmallbarn]

@hacknsack2 Wow way to be ignorant. This operation is natural as pig would be in the wild. How efficient is none of your business. Factory farms will always exist. Please learn the facts before you give people shit.

-Thanks

Great video by the way.

[pootsnicker]

great vid.

[andyrockevo]

Ηι ..I wanna ask you ..How many times a day do you feed a pig ???

i wanna buy from a friend a little one and i wanna grow ιτ !!!!

Τhanks

[weldermatt07]

@nogerdsurg looks like i clicked on the wrong name to reply, prob normal for me, relax,

[nogerdsurg]

@weldermatt07 WHAT IS YOUR PROBLEM. I NEVER SAID PIGS SHOULD BE RAISED ON A CONCRETE FLOOR, I'M TOTALLY AGAINST FACTORY FARMING. READ THE COMMENT BEFORE YOU LIE ON THEM AND MAKE AN IGNORANT LYING REMARK.

[weldermatt07]

@nogerdsurg swine flu does not come from hogs in the natural habitat, this is a natural way of raising them, not on a concrete floor where they can move becasue of the other pigs, and crap and urine and dead hogs everywhere like those big factories, you know nothing of the natural way.

[bofts]

@Podchef Well said

[Farmallbarn]

@hacknsack2 Wow way to be ignorant. This is the natural way pigs live. This may not be a large scale operation or extremely efficient but it is perfectly fine. There will always be factory farms so pork production this way will never take over factory farms. Please learn the facts before you give people shit.

-Thanks

[yachtnick05]

Thanks for the great vids, keep up the good work. Cheers

[nogerdsurg]

God bless you sir, your method is excellent. I wish more farmers would do this. It's terrible the way pigs are suffering now. I'm sure you are doing well with your method. I saw where a free range farmer has 3,000 pigs, and makes 10mil a yr. Factory farming with their inhumane farrowing and gestational crates are for pure greed, and they have the nerve to try to justify their evil actions which have been disastrous for the eco system, and humanity. We now have MRSA and Swine Flu because of them.