Homemade Pig Feed and Expanded Goat Area

This year we are mixing up our own homemade pig feed. It is made of cracked corn, soybean meal, and mineral salt. By mixing our own hog feed we should save money. Also we are going to look at the billy goats and their expanded area. We added another section of electric netting and it added lots of extra space for the goats.

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[CountryViewAcres]

I know the mineral amount seemed low to me, but that is what it calculated out to. The pigs will be raised on dirt, an will get additional mineral as they root up the ground.

[SnoopRockinJayDawg]

Man you need 35-45 minute videos. They are that good.

[kimmahu]

I loved seeing the pigs with the cats and dogs.

[steveclement]

If you have a cement mixer, you can use it to mix feed and other dry material.

[robertpayne]

If you plan on feeding wet feed get a sheetrock mud mixer from your local lumber yard and use a drill to mix in a 5 gallon bucket 🪣 wet feed helps with digestion too

[batpherlangkharkrang]

Evan, thank you for sharing your video homestead chicken farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👕🐔🐓🐥🐕🐖🌱🐐🎥👍👍👍

[kathyguenther]

Happy fathers day I am so proud of you two for all you do. I love seeing the animals and how they socialize together. Have a great rest of the summer. Hugs from Minnesota

[geo]

Great video Evan I really like seeing the pigs and goats . You can fee the pigs ome garden waste also and they will get minerals from that also

[sharonanspach]

you can always add water to regular pig feed to turn it into slop

[kingkong]

Everything is looking good and you have got things moving in the right direction, a working farm.

[stevemartinez]

Sometimes we need a "lazy day", especially with everything that is going on in the world today.

[csnanny]

I am glad you have slowed down and are getting some rest.The pigs look like they are getting fat and are having a great time with the chickens. Matter of fact they are so cute. Take care, and God bless.

[lotus....]

Boy goats = Bucks lol. Good info on the poultry netting vs goat/sheep netting. We have been trying to decide which to get.

[sharonwalker]

I enjoyed the video and I just wanted to drop you a note and let you know that I mix my goat feed for my weaning babies fresh every year. And I bought a cement mixer from Harbor freight and that is what I use to mix my feed. It is dedicated for that and will never be used for anything else. Offhand I can’t remember the size but it cost me about $120.

[TheUserid]

A good source of feed for both the pigs and yourself is turning trees you cut down into mushroom logs. You will get a few years of mushroom harvest depending on the size of the logs used then to dispose of the logs toss in with the pigs and watch them rip the logs open to hunt down the fungi strands. Different tree types need different fungi types so it is a local research process of finding the tree types and matching them to fungi inoculation types.

Think of it as a treat for the pigs like how the goats love when you throw them limbs you cut off the trees as they eat the leaves then start stripping the bark off them.

[marcerivest]

My recipe for hog grower was 3 bushel of oats, 2 bushels of corn and one 88 lbs of feed supplement which is mostly soy meal and celineum fiber. I would run it all thru my hammer mill combination mixer. It made nice long pig.

[ardenehanson]

I found an old cement mixer. We do our compost mixing with it. You might think of one for mixing your feed.

[SchnelleKat]

Looks great, making me want to do some Pigs now! Thankfully I have my Uncle to get Advice from He's raised them for many yrs.

[grassmanfive]

I've noticed that all y'all that have goats graze them on grass but they are much more efficient grazing on brush.

[billbray]

Evan you should look into making or purchasing a compost tumbler to mix up your feed.