Kingbird Farm - Pastured Pigs (3 of 4) - Piglet Ear Notching
This is one clip in a series of videos demonstrating how Kingbird Farm, a certified organic diversified small farm in Berkshire, NY raises pigs from farrowing to finishing. This clip is from the Video Mentor series, produced by the Cornell Small Farms Program (http://nebeginningfarmers.org), filmed and edited by Peter Carroll of Ithaca, NY. This project was supported by the Beginning Farmer and Rancher Development Program (BFRDP) of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture, USDA, Grant # 2009-49400-05878.
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Absolutely wonderful conditions! Your set up fantastic! I may try this breed as I need a hardy animal who can take the cold of N. Wisconsin.
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you are just plain mean and abusive to those babies... you just pull on the testicules and cut the skin -- boy I wonder how your hubby would like someone to just cut him and start pulling and lets cut your ear... see how you like it
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all your videos are great! you are very knowledgeable
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The most clean work I have seen on pigs.
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In one of the videos, they have ducks & turkeys, as well as chickens. Are Glouster Old Spots as good at foraging on pasture as Tamworths? Definately, geese are an 'underappreciated' livestock. They are grazers, and get almost all their food from pasture during the grazing season. Great parents, the eggs are delicious, and the meat a wonderful traditional food. Hope you can start farming, on however small a scale, soon!
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A biologist ,who raised pigs, told me years ago that it is not the iodine that can sting, but the alcohol it is disolved in. (Now real iodine is not easy to find, it's usually 'Betadine' which does not sting.) He disolved idodine in water for use on his livestock (and family). He said it was more difficult to do, but worth it, in his estimation. W/livestock on pasture, iodine helps dry the navel, eliminating a 'pathogen highway' . This may not be as much of an issue on straw.
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I want a farm like Kingbird farm! Only I would go with Gloucester Old Spots and poultry (turkeys, ducks, geese). Someday...
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watch?v=oNIM0oEd4OY
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Part 4 to this series is right here /watch?v=oNIM0oEd4OY&list=PLDAB49B460CD1FDB4&index=6
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3:09 That pig is wagging its tail. Does it mean the same as with dogs?
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karma is an incredible person. her work breeding sows is very important to the finger lake region, upstate ny.
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they probably just fall on the ground. if the pigs feel like it they may eat it otherwise it's probably just thrown out when they clean the pen.
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where's part 4??
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