STOP Wasting Your Money! Feed Your Animals For FREE!
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For Many of us Homesteading is all about self-sufficiency. Raising your own Food that is better quality then the grocery store. But it's also about reducing your costs, learning valuable skills and getting back to simplicity. Thats what this video is about. Chickens, Pigs, and Cows, We love them all!
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VERY SMART IDEA, I SHOULD HAVE KNOWN YOU WERE ANOTHER KENTUCKIAN LOL.I RARELY RUN ACROSS SOMEONE THAT'S IN MY STATE. I'M IN N.W.KENTUCKY. TAKE CARE.SUB'D U
What I mainly got from this was....when starting a homestead don't get pigs. 😂 hungry little fellas.
@@flatout5815they are among the best composters along with chickens. You learn nothing goes to waste on a farm.
The wild caught? Really is farm raised fish out in the Sea. Not actual wild caught. Corn fed. Go ahead, go catch a real Cod fish, Talapia, Haddock, then go get that wild caught labeled one. Then taste the difference.
@@aaron-dd5zr really is no comparison in taste between nature caught and farm raised. Florida fishing girl here and love fresh caught fish.
Our chickens rushed the fence line when my husband butchered rabbits. It sounds gross but those chickens loved meat. Anything left over from butchering they would eat.
Hi Cynthia where are you from?
Well they are dinosaurs
before man started feeding chickens just grains they were meat eaters also....
@@madeinussr7551they are chickens and God made them
My grandparents always fed scraps to their pigs and chickens. They fed them other things as well but scraps didn't just get tossed. My grandparents didn't believe in wasting anything and it paid off very well for them. The only thing they ever went into debt for was their farm when they got married. They had that paid off in full in 3 years. After that, they lived debt free the rest of their lives. They ended up with 500 acres, 3 houses, besides their main house. My grandfather built those 3 extra houses for rental income and he made certain they weren't near his house or each other, lol. They had 3 large barns and he had 2 shops. One for building things, another for mechanical things. The waste not/want not lifestyle served them very, very well.
Yep. That's impossible now.
@@camojoe83 why do you say that? My wife and I are doing this exact same thing right now. No one forces anyone to buy into the idea that they have to be a part of a consumer society that lives on debt. It's pretty simple actually, when you pass up immediate pleasure for long-term gain, you get to have awesome things in the long term. But, of course, if you are an entitlement baby like most of our culture these days, then of course it doesn't make sense. You have to learn how to make logic-based decisions instead of emotional based decisions, and stop being a victim to your own emotional urges.
@@artisanshomerepair5790 great response
@@artisanshomerepair5790 Great Reply.
@@camojoe83 I don't think it's impossible. Always live under your means and work harder than you have to. Don't aquire debt but if you have debt now, pay it down.
Tip: avoid feeding your pigs right by the fence line. It's always the muddiest area already from them walking along it looking for you, but they can also get so side-tracked by the food that they wind up on the wrong side of the fence, especially if the fence isn't working for whatever reason. We shoot a scoop of feed into the pen onto a clean, dry spot to get the pigs distracted, then we climb in and spread the food around throughout the pen, concentrating on areas that we want them to work. We have six pigs right now: a huge boar, two sows, and three youngsters. Spreading the food around into twenty or so different spots also ensures that the littler ones get a chance to properly fill their bellies without being bullied our out-competed ;) We get spent grains from a brewery. It's not exactly free, though, as it costs about $40 gas to go get those 4 garbage cans full.
If you move the pigs to a different section in the spring you will find that they have planted and fertilized their own garden. ..$0.
Yep, rotational grazing is in my plans for keeping pigs and goats, in the future!
Soak the whole corn in water for 48 hours and feed it. When I was a kid, after dad fed the growing ration and the pigs would slow down, dad would put out another 5 gallon bucket of soaked corn. The little pigs would GORGE themselves. They would actually SIT DOWN TO EAT. He had the biggest pigs for their age at the sale barn. He actually had a couple of buyers who would pay a premium for "John's pigs". Dad told that story all my life. I was about 6 so I barely remember it.
Fermented grains really are a good way to make the most of it. Soaking corn is the easiest way to process it if you don't have machinery. Unfortunately for me that usually means I've got to bring a 5-gallon bucket at a time in the house during the coldest parts of winter or it'll freeze. I've noticed pigs and cattle like soaked corn better usually, and they do grow better and theres far less left over in their poop when it's soaked.
@@EthanPDobbinsaren't modern corns highly hybridised and deformed from their original state though?
@@keylanoslokj1806 sure, but so is broccoli, kale, banana, wheat, and chicken. Domestication and selective breeding aren't bad. Hybrid just means it's been bred for better nutrition, flavor, texture, growth characteristics, ect. The "original" corn were basically just flint and sweet corns. These were open pollinated together until dent corn specifically reids #2 yellow dent was developed in the 1850s which is the foundation for most of the world's corn seed.
Came here to say the same. You can also sprout the grain (takes about a week or so). The shucks can go to the cows.
You're right, soaking grain makes it more digestible, so that you take the most calories out of it and it's a good way to hydrate the animal efficiently at the same time. Sprouting it is even better.
My grandfather was a pig farmer in Kansas in the 1930’s. He would say, you can buy the pigs, grow the feed and break even, no profit. You can breed and raise the pigs and buy the feed and break even, no profit. You can buy the pigs and buy the feed and lose your shirt. But, if you breed and raise the pigs and grow the feed you will profit.
The pigs eat the bread first because of the structure. They dont need to chew. Also pigs are very smart and instinctively eat the food that will perish first. Our hamster always ate the lettuce and raspberrys first and stored the carrot etc. Very smart.
Nice! I do dumpsterdive normally once a week and give the scraps to my chickens :) They love it :) Greetings from Germany!
As a child growing up, my grandparents had a farm. I remember the slop pail that had food scraps and excess milk thrown into it, and this was given to the pigs. Memories, love them. 😊
Cant wait till we have milk to give them! Hopefully in March!
I remember this as well on the farm at my grand parents in her kitchen by the stove was a bucket that all the scraps went into. We had to save out scraps at home to take to them everyday as well all my uncles as well we all saved anything the pigs could eat to take to feed them. Cause we all had a part in the farm and all the animals. When we slaughtered our pigs in the fall we all divided the meat between our families. I miss those days, wish I could turn back time to those days again. It seemed me never worried about things the way we do today. Because people today are so dependent upon the grocery stores they would not be able to survive if they went away. I do still raise a garden every year and put up food and I buy pasture raised and grass fed meat from a local farmer here. It cost a few dollars more than it would at the grocery store but worth the money.
@@ThePasturedHomesteadare there any European pigs that graze alot, so that they don't depend completely on your feed?
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My friend raises Tamworth pigs, which she says are great at foraging for food. However, keep in mind that since they are more active and using up more energy looking for things to eat, rather than being kept in confinement, they will conversely take a longer time to reach butchering size. And every breed has there pros and cons.
It’s so refreshing seeing a young man such as your self working so hard and accomplishing so much on your homestead for you and your family! I’m trying to install these same work ethics and practices to my 2 young sons. Keep up the good work and thanks for another great video. God Bless
Thank you, and I think that’s wonderful. We hope to do the same with our future children
Your 2 young sons would be better off with 21st century skills. Working hard just to work hard or just to get someone else rich won’t serve them after 30. And hopefully they’ll live past 90.
Let your grains soak in water for a day or so. We fed our or pigs rice bran but by allowing it soak in water and ferment, makes it smell like stale beer or bread They will tear it up.
Try to cultivate Sugar Beets.Your production will be more then 25tones/acr.Very juice and sweet you will mix it with corn and soya powder ,will come out like sweet soup.Pigs will love it!
Using a food bank is a super great way to do it. Works for everyone. No actual waste.
Food bank, day old bread store, apple cider presses, anyplace where food is processed and waste is free.
Another great place is a brewery, they usually have a LOT of waste barley, especially if it's a bigger brewery.
I am almost there and getting on my way to living off grid. I can't wait to get there and leave this BS , corrupt world behind. This is great motivation and I am sincerely happy for you!!!
Wish you good luck with that buddy ☺️ I am always thinking about that, too. But nowhere close to being able to buy myself a property off-grid yet
@@deathsalomon795start small with what you have
Don't forget about Ruby Ridge.
Good luck brother. Right behind ya... Hopefully less than a year away.
Luke 21,36 KJV
You can also get waste grain from any one making alcoholic drings. Food bank is a great idea. For bedding try finding a local lumber mill and get the sawdust or tree trimmers have shavings that works very well. The sawdust or shavings can turn to mulch within 1 yr if stacked up outside and let it turn to mulch. Also if you grow kale, fodder beet or potatoes both pigs and cattle love them and they have natural protein. You can just let the cattle or pigs onto the fields and they can harvest. There are other grain or grass type that you can sow the seed and then when ready you can let them on the fields and rotate them off and get regrowth.
Be careful with wood chips cedar not good for chickens
Esp if it is lumber that has been chemically treated.
Really great video. I would suggest you try to experiment with fodder beets (sugar beets) instead of corn, it takes much less to process it for animal feed at the end and digests easier. My fodder beets are usually 15-20lbs each and with mature chickens or pigs, you can just throw them in with no processing at all. You also get the beet greens. I store my beets a week, so each week I harvest enough for that week, but actually feed the beets I harvested last week. This allows them to sweeten up, which the animals love.
My Great Grandfather talked about the days of using fodder beets for his cattle, I would have loved to have learned more. He mentioned that they stored them in the barn and had to cut them up into pieces for them. Your method fills in a gap for me and helps be consider better methods for my resources- thank you!
@@TrickleCreekFarm I don't have cattle, but for pigs and chickens you can just hit them on something solid and the split open, which is enough. And yeah, they can store over winter and get sweeter the longer they store.
Wow Thank You So Much for sharing! I am going to see if I can supplement my cattle and chickens
Sugar beets are very low in Protein .
Idea for stripping corn from cob. Get an old bundt pan and a hole saw. Cut the top center flat edge out and sharpen edge. Just push the cob through the center hole. Wear gloves while doing.
for pig feed it's best just to get a feed mill and mill entire cobs. you're going to be working with several tons of feed raising 10 pigs. a big feedlot raised pig like a duroc could take 1 ton of feed by processing day.
You are the first and only person I've seen use the food bank that way. We had orchards near our house so we'd sneak in and get the old fruit off the ground for our compost pile. Worms sure love pears! Happy Monday to you
I remember visiting an orchard that had the sheep in with the trees to eat the fallen fruit :)
I'm an Iraq Marine veteran, my wife and I are trying desperately to get out to Colorado and start homesteading, but I am currently embroiled in a legal dispute with the VA concerning my last 12 years of "care" and my current disability rating of 50% (for two physical disabilities, two mental health diagnosis, and two autoimmune diseases from burn pits). I really appreciate your videos because for us the struggle will consistently be affordability and sustainability. Your content is incredibly informative and inspiring, please keep sharing your tidbits and teachable moments, I've actually got a page in my Notes app thats just a list of dos and donts ive learned here and a couple other YTers. Keep up the good work! Good luck and God bless! ❤
Be careful in CO. The regulations & laws are growing worse. We left 18 months ago to come back home to Tx due to increased costs there & the fash.isty gov.
@@susancnw59 what regulations laws and costs if you dont mind my asking? I'm pretty ignorant in the way of state regulations lol.
@@Mike-vn3ltcan't collect rainwater.
I lived in Colorado for 25 years it has turned into a tyrannical gestapo Ville😮 move there and you will find out....Luke 21,36 KJV
@@TheRainHarvester False. "Most homeowners in Colorado are now allowed to use rain barrels to collect rainwater. A maximum of two rain barrels with a combined storage of 110 gallons or less are allowed at each household."
I've been watching your videos recently, I have to tell you....."you are such a hard worker and it clearly shows how much passion and love you have for the things in your life." Good man.
You absolutely had me at "trust our animals." I only raise chickens and meat rabbits so far (the goal is to get cows and pigs and sheep, too), but animals are 100% instinctual. Sure they like their treats just like humans do, but they know what not to eat and they know what is good for them, and things like cookies and chocolate just aren't found naturally in nature (though I do have one hen that LOVES chocolate chips lol). I love that you're helping out your local food bank, as well, this way. I just started getting boxes of scraps from the only local grocery store in my small town. It really helps the stores out a LOT because otherwise it's wasted money, and when I was in my early 20s working at Walmart, every day twice a day there were boxes and boxes of produce that just went down the garbage chute. SO wasteful, which no store wants. Some stores may charge a very small fee for a huge box, but only like $2-5, and you get enough to feed small animals for at least a day or two. It absolutely beats $20+ for a bag of feed that is mostly dead GMO soy and corn and little else. People tend to forget that livestock animals were original wild species, and they would eat literally any fresh produce they could find, including grass. Wild tomatoes, wild corn, wild berries, you name it. God designed most of our livestock animals as natural wild garbage disposals, so to speak. They know what berries to stay away from, they know what they're able to peck into and what is too hard to eat. Some animals, like chickens, have that gag reflex so if they do happen to eat something too big or it's giving them a bad feeling, they regurgitate. And what some animals can't eat, others can. Animals (and insects) are quite literally designed to keep the planet clean of debris that would prevent new plants from growing. Another wonderful option is getting a bag of organic seeds, like a 6-way blend with lentils and sunflower seeds and wheat and oat and millet and flax (or making your own blend; can be more expensive though), and letting them sprout either in the bags or on the coop grounds. That method is more expensive up front, but it definitely pays off over time, especially if you don't have room to let your animals free range.
You need a platform to feed the pig on so they don’t trample the food or dig holes.
Pigs dont mind trampled food, and will root around for missed pieces. They naturally eat roots, worms & insects/larva they find underground. It doesn't apply to every situation but they can also be used to cultivate ground for new gardens or clear shrubs from woodland so the holes aren't always bad either…
Feeding pigs is so much better than all of that food going to the trash.
agreed!
Excellent idea! We feed scraps to our chickens, pigs, and rabbits. We own a restaurant, so we have access to lots of food scraps. Feed prices, like many other prices, have gone up. It’s important to be resourceful and not waste. Whatever scraps that we give to our chickens that they don’t eat, becomes compost. Thank you for sharing!
That’s wonderful! Great resource for scraps!
It's great to see this stuff not go to waste but that packaging is SO difficult to manage. Also, it's a shame that government regulations consider this "garbage feeding".
or like in other countries the black soldier fly larvae is 47% protein. And feed live larvae to chickens, but the adults dead flies and larvae ready to go to pupae stage are ground/dried into meal for all other animal feed.
Check out regenerative grazing methods like Joel Salatin, Gabe Brown, Greg Judy, Ray Archuleta, Will Harris, Allen Williams, Jim Gerrish, Steve Kenyon,...to minimize need of hay for your ruminants.
@user-kv2pt4lu9y Also check out Glenn Elzinga of Alderspring Ranch. Him, his wife and 7 daughters do a fantastic job raising their cattle in the mountains of Idaho every summer. I could write several paragraphs regarding my admiration for this family and every fabulous thing they do for planet Earth. I also greatly admire Will Harris of White Oak Pastures in Bluffton, Georgia. Another man who grazes his animals as he regenerates his land for them. Ck him out also.😊
@@margaretcameron1275 love Will's interviews! Check out the cartoon in 100,000 Beating Hearts. Will check out Glenn, thanks!
@user-kv2pt4lu9y I love his interviews too. I love his accent, the timber of his voice, no bs and tells it like it is in occasional salty language. Love his bone broth and ground beef too.
Penelope was swiping her bread through the grain, making a veggie sandwich!😍 Also we used to shell/shuck our own corn in the evening while watching TV. There would be 6 buckets and everyone had a stack of corn ears. Memories!😂❤🎉 Since Muslims don't eat pork, I can't raise pigs but I have chickens and they are so spoiled because they get scraps, access to the compost pile occasionally, feed, and free range. I'm trying to grow corn to feed them but the neighbor's cows got to the corn first.😢 Now I have barbed wire up.😅
Right on 🤜⚡️🤛 Our local grocery store has a guy that comes and picks up scraps. BUT--- Out back there's more scraps from other departments thrown out-- Appreciate you getting this info out there-- the benefits go all around-- I'm consistently blown away by the level of waste just here on a local level.
When I was growing up, we were feeding our pigs in our farm with the food you mentioned, but we were mixing it in big buckets with warm water until it turns mess we never threw the food on the ground. We had pig feeders.
If you have enough pasture with the right amount of cattle on it, you can get away without buying any hay in the winter. Even with snow. If you raise your cattle to eat like that, they won't expect hay in the winter.
That’s our goal for the coming years. We are rehabilitating our pastures in prep.
Ask smaller grocery stores for old produce. Anyone who has large oak trees for acorns for pigs.
Another great free source is food processing facilities. We have a local sweet potato processing center that ships out to canning companies. I know of at least one huge cow farmer that gets their scraps by dump truck loads, the culls and such. I would certainly check them out and get on their lists. A benefit to all and saves landfills filling up.
When I ran a restaurant. We used to give our scraps to a pig farmer. So check restaurants also.
My chickens go through the veggies b4 they touch any feed. They got the feed available to them and scraps is a healthy treat
Hello Danielle where are you from?
Yes feed those scraps, as a kid , we had pigs and used, primarily, a load of outdated Lays products, cheesies, potato chips, corn chips etc and at the processors he said they were the best meat, less fat pigs he’s butchered in a long time. ❤ you feed your pigs like you’re doing 🎉 happy new year🎉🎉
Hello teresa where are you from?
I soaked whole kernel corn in water so it didn't run thru my hogs then liked it more . Always fed my cows some grain everyday. I can see by your set up, my income was much more limited.
Grandpa away mixed the grain with water in the bucket and made what they called slop, food scraps was also in the slop bucket, the pigs love it. He would pour it out in a homemade V shape trough made of wood. Grandma would just throw whole ears of corn over in their pen and they would grind it up themselves.
That’s how my dad did it, the slop and the v shaped trough .
Yes that work for the animals that you have.. I have goats my self and when I first started I have the same idea about saving money on food..but quickly realized that I was missing on nutrients and minerals and started buying food for them.. I then bought a few goats from a man who has a big land, owned a business and have a great big house.. I bought his goats because they wore the cheapest around.. I told them home and one by one started to die.. only that ones I bought from him and the others where ok.. then I remember that one of his employees told me that the man feed his goats with biscuits.. my conclusion is that their goats have a hard time adapting from eating biscuits to my goats feed and so they die.. Unfortunately I have not hable to go cheap on my feed instead decided to add better feed and have got better results.. I do understand your mentality but it will only work with some animals and not all. Thanks for your video.
I was literally just thinking about this, the other day. We have now grown out flock to 40 chicken. I’m going to have to start supplementing their food.
If you shell corn by hand, you can do it within a large empty wading pool or round trough. You can help catch the stray kernels that fly off away from the bucket. That's money on the ground, and a temptation for vermin. 💟
Smart and wise to ask for free unused food from the stores to feed the chickens and pigs 🙏
I don't live in USA I live in eastern EU. There is no such thing as food waste here. Also it is illegal to distribute food past due date here. EU is quite strict when it comes to food.
That’s so dumb. What a damn waste. You can thank the large corporate food producers for that. I eat expired food all the time, almost daily. I’ve never been sick.
The gov't spent a lot of time back in the first world wars making tables of how long under what conditions were things good for. You never see those tables. Most items have a very long life.
How would you have no food waste and no expired food? That’s absolutely amazing that only the exact amount of food that is going to be sold is ever produced. Unless people are going hungry.
When I was a child, we had to seperate all the food scraps in seperate trash cans in the school cafeteria. Food scraps went to the pig farmers.
We have chickens, ducks, and a horse. During the summer the chickens pick the bugs off the horse manure (we free range everything, cept the horse) and they are happy. The chickens and ducks produce WAY too many eggs for us to use, and storing them just makes em pile up. We don't sell em either. So, besides eating them, we scramble a good portion of em, adding garlic and red pepper etc etc, and feed em back to the chickens. They are cannibals, after all. 😊
Those corn tops can also be chopped up and packed into barrels to ferment into silage.
I'm a middle school teacher and I've taken the leftovers of the cafeteria for years to feed my chickens, ducks, rabbits and goats, but this year they decided it violated some regulations and they just throw them away... while everybody discuss on how to reduce food waste... hopefully I still get my neighbors' and family's and I give them eggs and a chicken once in a while., but it's not enough and I need to buy grains and pellets...
What a blessing that you got that phone call.
We planted a bunch of fruit trees too so going to supplement with that also.
Composting is good for chickens, if you haven't seen that around yet. Not only the scraps and weeds you toss in but bugs and microbes make good snacks and incentivize them to scratch it up, doing half the work for you on top of adding their own brand of nitrogen to the pile. Sadly not all your ideas will work here in Western Colorado but I am definitely going to look into the food bank thing, it'll be good compost material if nothing else.
local restaurants for food scraps. They most likely willing to separate food garbage from can/paper garbage.
My grandparents had a dairy farm with a huge corn crib… I always found it very relaxing hand shelling corn…
There was a pig farmer down the street from me where I used to live that would pick up the scraps from the prison. He'd bring me a barrel for mine. It was kinda disgusting, but it was free food and quite helpful.
That used to be the way you would feed a pig on a big farm. Meat scraps too, the only protein source was meat and bread and whatever else was in it. . They'd send a truck around once a week to restaurants and stores and even pickup scraps from people's houses then they would mix with water and cook everything up in a big like thousand gallon kettle into swill to make it safer for them to eat and make it more homogenous. They would fill the troughs full and that was the pig feed ration for the day. If you wanted to feed grain you would feed whole corn or if you were extra fancy you might soak it or mix it in the swill or run it through a cob chopper. Not many people had a corn cracker and some did not even have a sheller.
5:18 I was born in Cuba where they often raise pigs for meat at home. We feed all scraps to pigs, absolute BEST tasting meat. They are always 100% fine, happy and healthy.
Another farm channel on YT got really inventive and was lucky to get some used brewer's grains for their pigs . They also have apples trees , so any ground apples became pig food as well .
You can call an organic farm in your area and ask if you can have their veggie scraps from cleaning their veggies for markets. And for wood chips if you need that you could call your local tree company and sometimes they give it away
Yes in my country in Portugal we just feed our pigs with food scraps now I’m leaving here in USA Arizona I have a urban homestead I have goats,chickens, rabbits and quails I don’t have pigs we are only in one acre lot but I love the idea of feeding the chickens with food scraps animal feed became very pricey happy farming
This was great information for all homesteaders and animal owners. Thank you.
So I'm not sure if you feed poultry carcasses to the pig but I have found that using poultry carcasses for bone broth then once the bones can be crumbled by pinching I'll give them to the chickens and their eggs shells will get real thick for a few weeks. If you did this once a week I don't think you would ever need to supplement calcium.
Hello from PEI Canada. Bravo!!!!! Your videos are very informative, plus the quality and editing are excellent.
a note for corn fed to pigs, ferment it first digests a lot better and they like it better
Three Rivers Homestead picks up fruit from a smoothie place every day.
Good idea!
Hello Allison where are you from?
My dad used to go to restaurants and collect food scraps that they would usually just throw away. and feed that to our pigs.
look at planting bamboo , as a winter green fodder , to cut as required to feed to the cattle
Only just found you and have binged watched you up to date! I love your style of presentation. It’s straight forward and to the point! It’s pretty obvious that your animals have a great life, they are well cared for and are happy! As the saying goes “happy animals make happy meat “ I’ve been entertained by every thing I’ve watched you are knowledgeable and don’t mind passing that knowledge on to others, many are not so generous. I look forward to seeing what this new year brings to you and your family❤️
Those pigs are doing a great job, this winter in that back 10 acres! I can’t wait to see the before and after
Hi Gina where are you from?
If you don't want to feed your chickens, you barely have to. Given space outside, they'll feed themselves. I let mine run on 2 acres (that a human family also inhabits, so it's not all theirs). They have feed available any time, but 14 adult chickens are still eating out of the 3lb chick feeder I started with. I usually fill it up every 5th day. Also, they haven't even begun to tear anything up (dirtbaths notwithstanding)
I wish I could add pics here and show you what I do. I grow my pigs and chickens vegetables, as well as get the leftovers from the strawberry farm, as well as all of the food scraps from a nearby factory which has a recycling program, so they don’t put their lunch scraps in landfill. Their meal scraps for 600 people get eaten by my livestock. Probably too much bread there. But because they have such a large amount of vegetables and rotational graze, the bread doesn’t seem to hurt. I also buy wheat and corn by the ton and sunflower in 50kg bags, and run it through my home mill and mix that in with the scraps, so that they’re getting that bit extra satisfaction/consistency.
My kitchen scraps get divvied up. Some for garden compost, some for the Guineas and Chickens. The four legged kid gets left overs.
Talk to your local restaurants. I have a restaurant and have a person that comes around 3 times a week to pick up our food waste. You’d be surprised how much we toss out.
I just found your channel with this video popping into my YT feed. Love what you're doing here, so had to sub!
I love this! Thank you!
My husband and I just found your channel. We just binge watched for an hour almost 2 hour’s 😂 congratulations on your engagement and you’ve gained followers on our farm!
Thank you so much!!
Thanks for sharing! Keep rollin them videos out!
We also check with the fair and farmer's market vendors. Especially the guys that make carmel corn. They have a ton of leftovers after fairs and other events. We get 10-15 bags of popped and sugared carmel corn every week during the summer to fall season and lots of veggies every week during farmers market season. Sometimes eggs too.
Great video and i enjoy the food scrap concept you have,nice to have a local food bank to contribute to you.
It's brilliant! You are very smart! Thank you for info!
I love the idea of being self sufficient in feeding your animals. If you buy all your feed then you are dependant on the system that you are supposed to be trying to be less dependant on. What happens if something in that system goes wrong? Like during Covid when there was transportation issues. In my opinion, it’s way better to try and find sustainable ways to feed your animals that doesnt depend on the system.
I know when we use to shuck- pop corn we would rub two ears together, might work for that corn also.
Brilliant. Keep the info coming. Thanks
Great video. Good info. Thanks this should help out many homesteaders and small farmers.
In the 80's when I was a kid we had pigs. Every week we would go to our local bakery and pick up barrels of bread crumbs and "day old bread" to feed our pigs. We'd make what we called " sloop" which was a mix of the bread, other grains and water. They loved it. We also would pick fresh green grass (when available) for them.
Your corn cobs are full of protein and the hogs and cows will eat them if they are ground up that's why alot of people grind ear corn for their livestock
Yes! We have chickens only and this video helped so much! Thank you for sharing!
Zach thanks for sharing the updates on the type of things that you and Ashlyn are doing on your homestead and I do hope that you are able to inspire others who may be considering talking this Homestead journey. Good luck with all that you are doing 👍🏾
I hope so too!
@@ThePasturedHomestead you are inspiring others. My neighbor's son and his fiancé watch all of your videos. They're planning on buying a property soon to start a homestead. He is who sent me a link to one of your videos and I've been watching you since then. I'm no homesteader but I'm thinking of buying a few chickens in late spring. I like the idea of having my own farm fresh eggs. I do a lot of baking. Fresh eggs would be great for that plus I just think I'd enjoy having a few chickens. I know my dogs would love it. They've visited chickens before and loved them. They don't try to kill them or hurt them in anyway.
@@helenahandbasket3016Yes! Cheers to chickenz!
this was great! thanks
Buy a bunt cake pan, push your ear of corn straight through the center of it bingo the ear is clean as can be .Fast ans easy. Love the bigs.
Great video n information and the chat comments God bless your homestead 🙏 🐖 🐔 🇺🇸 Just subscribed
Check with local bakeries and supermarkets for old bread and veggies. We also were lucky enough to have a Wonder Bread bakery/distributor about a 1/2 hour from our place that we would get expired bread from. Also check with any local colleges/schools that feed their students as they may be willing to give you their scraps.
FYI Free food grade lidded plastic buckets from most grocery store bakeries. Some still have frosting in them, so they have to be washed..but FREE! SAMS sells 5 gallon sets for $1 and they wash them!
good use of food bank waste! because my husband and i were the only ones who knew how (and had the equipment) to can or dry food? we often got a big load of "leftover but wont be good by the next food bank day" vegetables . so... thats also a thought if you have good preservation techniques. pigs will eat anything. back in my childhood Philadelphia collected food garbage seperately *to feed to farm pigs* and only stopped because of disease.
David The Good was/is getting chicken bone scraps from a local restaurant for adding to biochar and some was used for composting.
This showed up, I watched, then you said Kentucky. Aww-born in KY, lived other places & came back. Love it. Such an interesting video. Glad it popped up in the recommended. Loved seeing the corn rolling off the cob-that took me back to my youth! Thanks. Take care.
In the early 50s my Daddy fed hogs scraps too, and when he didnt have corn he would take about a 5 lb bag of corn meal, put half of it in a bucket of water and let it sit overnight, and give it to our hogs. He said it was corn and cheap. He would add a heaping 2 cups to our scrap bucket add in water sometimes if we didnt have enough scraps.
I collect from my local foodbank and aim to get enough to cover at least 50% of their feed. Each pig will go through a full bag of grain a week. That adds up. Especially once you have to start feeding grain to a batch of 12 piglets. Thank God for the foodbank and I thank the workers profusely every time I pick up free pig feed. 💕
This is really good information. Thank you for sharing,
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When I raised pigs, I would get a lot of food scraps from the local school cafeterias.
Think about growing buckwheat It's very high in protein 😊