I CRACKED UP at the celebration when they finally got in the trailer. It was justified but just made me laugh in glee!! 👍🏼

Great entertainment! I have been there done that. The frustration, the failure, the escapes, the sneakiness, the power, the rejoicing are all real!

Works good if you can put the trailer there a couple days before hand and feed them in there and let them go in and out of the trailer to get them used to it. Then the day you need to load them, feed them and they will go in without all that stress.

@largefamilyruralliving7434

3 жыл бұрын

That's what we did, worked great.

Hi..... Thank you for showing your video 🏡🎥👍👍👍

You could check out H and H feed, they are non gmo, corn and soy free and about $19/50# bag delivered. The catch is you need to order a pallet at a time, 2000lb but with pigs they eat so much that has never been a problem. And the 2000lb is total feed, you could mix with chicken feed too which is what we do. Also feeding on the trailer for about 3 days before you need to take them to market makes it so so easy. That is if you can borrow the trailer that long.

I am crying! I am so proud of Ollie! YOU GUYS...watch this on days when you are questioning. He has blossomed and is shining...they all are. You are giving them the most incredible childhood and it’s the biggest honor to be a part of this dream! It’s also very delicious.

@BetterTogetherLife

3 жыл бұрын

hahaha!!!!! Y'all are TOTALLY a part of this dream!!!!!!!! So glad you are enjoying it!!! :)

Oh gosh, so glad you all got them in.

25 years on a farm/ranch and never seen it done that way. I laughed sooo hard. It was great. From the ramp to the pig coming out 😂😂😂

@BetterTogetherLife

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣 Well, I aim to entertain!!! Lol! I only make mistakes once and then I learn! 😂😂

you guys are so amazing! I love watching your family work together and do life together.

@BetterTogetherLife

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Hope you got a great laugh my friend!!

Guys you could have just opened one door the pigs will follow each other when they hear the food call, no pig wants to be left out when its food. (but you learn as you go) next time you are behind the pigs have 2 people and 2 boards to direct the pigs in the direction you want them to go one person is not enough when there is 3 pigs. but congrats on your victory.

Too funny. One of my favorite episodes. So encouraging seeing the value of every family member realized. You cannot buy that type of joy. Debra

@BetterTogetherLife

3 жыл бұрын

hahaha, it really was a lot of fun!

As someone who wants to do this, it’s great to see this video. Thank you.

Great video. We are first time homesteaders this year in North Carolina. And in November our pigs are going to the processor. So it was great watching this video and that’s good advice. And that meat looked awesomely delicious.

@JohnDoe-xl1qs

3 жыл бұрын

I grew up on a Hog farm and one of the shocker Prods made it easier... 0

I'm so thankful for your documentation of your life into homesteading and shed to house living. It's helping me to prepare mentally as well as adding to my education. We don't know when yet, but we will be homesteaders in the future. Thank you for sharing your UPS and DOWNS.

🐖 Great team work always looks better with family 🐖🏁💓

We had this same battle/achievement last weekend!!! Great team work guys xxx

Love how you guys had fun and she was like - this is great - on another family - the wife was so scared of her pigs but she did it too. Love watching this - thank you!

Way to go. I was happy when they finally got in the trailer.

LMAO @ 14:35, I haven't been through this same scenario, but I feel as a parent going through this thing called life I can relate... And my wife and I will be living through this hopefully sooner than later! Eating that pork chop looked like success and victory!

@BetterTogetherLife

3 жыл бұрын

Oh Joseph you are soooooooo right!!!! You will get there, never give up! It is the most rewarding life!!!!

@josephhall2858

3 жыл бұрын

@@BetterTogetherLife we close on our property in 2 weeks and then having a house built. Can't wait to be able to have animals and struggle! 😂

That looks amazing, yall did great!! Just saw the last part of your video.

trial and error and then bam! it all comes together!! great job and great teamwork!!

You are not alone. I raised pigs once and only once to butcher weight. Never again not even for a million dollars. No nope no. Thanks for sharing.

Now that’s great movie make dude! Great video, great story telling, great music. I cheered with you guys as y’all slammed the trailer door. Loved it!

Love it. Cant wait to raise pig for or family. Love your channel!!!!!

Thank you for letting us see the real side of things....😊

Oh my Lod this was hilarious! Thanks for making my day!

I would really love to see a lot of content from y'all,your very enjoyable!

EVERY homestead NEEDS to have an animal whisperer!

Oh you guys! That was an awesome video, we don’t like handling pigs for this very reason, they don’t do what you think they are going to do. Your perseverance paid off, what a wonderful meal and a sense of accomplishment. We just processed two lambs and filled our freezer with grass fed meat. The homestead life is hard but rewarding, good job! ~ Katie

Best pig loading video ever!

I needed this laugh. You guys are great!

goodjob guys !

Beautiful Family, lol that celebration at the end of the pig saga though!

Congratulations you’ll never go back to store bought! So worth all the hard work

This was great entertainment! Great job Ollie...mom and dad too!! Yummy bacon!!!❤ Greetings from Wisconsin. Karen

Oh my goodness! We can so relate. We just lived this experience ourselves today. First pig to processor, complete with multiple escapes. Haha! Loved your family celebration!

@BetterTogetherLife

3 жыл бұрын

And you survived and succeeded! Way to go!!

I could have saved you guys a lot of trouble and told you how to do it in 1 try lol. Farming with pigs for 3 years in Iowa has taught me how they behave in every way, they are very smart and very picky.

@BetterTogetherLife

3 жыл бұрын

Super cool!

You guys, I wish we were neighbors. I almost cried for joy when you finally got the pigs in 😂

You guys are too funny that was hilarious 😂watching that I know it was frustrating ,when you were going through it 😩but thank you so much for that laugh🎈 you guys rock💕🎈

KZread needs create a Roflmbo button!!!! Cause Pig rodeo 2020 is absolutely hilarious!

@BetterTogetherLife

3 жыл бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣. For real!

Good morning ! I was hoping that Kelly could do a update on the house. What she wished she could change now after living in the shed to house for 2 years. Besides more outlets. Where she would put more can lights.,storage, ect......I'm working on my shed to house w/ur exact floor plan. It's the best plan that I can find! Could you tell me the measurements of ur bathroom vanity? and the bathroom measurements? Love ur channel, you guys are Awesome!!

@BetterTogetherLife

3 жыл бұрын

GREAT IDEA!!!!! We can try and film something like this in the next couple of weeks. :)

Haha! I love that you're like, I don't really know what I'm doing, Imma figure it out right now! Way to be truthful!

@BetterTogetherLife

3 жыл бұрын

It really needs to be in a tshirt, right?! 🤣

Maybe you should write kids books !!! Real family life homesteading!!!

Pig watch 2020🤣thanks for these videos on pigs!

Man alive I feel exhausted and yall are the ones that did all the hard work. Great job working together. I was excited for yall when you got those pigs in. I understand if I'm am not mistaken yall are in south central Texas??

Way to go, Ollie! He won't be little for long. And wow, yum! I can't wait to see if ya'll do this again. LOL! I took some screen shots of the parts that made me bust out laughing. They were blurry. There was panic. :D

@BetterTogetherLife

3 жыл бұрын

He did SOOOOOOOOOOOO GOOD right?!??? And yes, it was super hilarious! Lol

I laughed til I cried

Those pork chops at the end looked absolutely fantastic. I just wanted to reach through the screen and grab a nibble or twelve... ngl!! I'll be interested in your bookkeeping results: I strongly suspect that if you compare your final figures to a fancy meat market in say, Austin or Houston or DFW (matching quality with quality), you'll find you did quite well. And knowing *exactly* what those pigs ate their whole lifetime is h-u-g-e. And PS: Now Ollie can add "animal whisperer" to his ever-expanding resumé. «grin»

~Hilarious..You Should Be Comedians! Priceless...We Laughed So Hard~Great Job and Thanks For This :)

Can you post the pig expense report spreadsheet here?

We raised pigs for 20 years we have done our share of chasing pigs. One year 5 pigs escaped and walked 4 properties away. I found myself counting up the cost and how much we money we had in to them, to prepare myself if we couldn't find them. ( there is a corridor behind our house that goes into the national forest) when we found them they just trotted home as happy as could be. Luckily the back end of the properties were all finced. But the propertie they were on was 80 acres they could have wondered over if they had wanted to not counting the corridor to the national forest. So ya I am feeling ya. Lol

@BetterTogetherLife

3 жыл бұрын

Oh wow that would be stressful!

Red wattle/ Hampshire x, I bet they were delicious 😋...

Do you have before and after pictures of how the pigs cleaned/cleared up each paddock?

@BetterTogetherLife

3 жыл бұрын

Some. They cleared and tilled the ground, but not as much of the brush as I had hoped.

How about training them to walk into the trailer from the beginning, like once a week walk them into it and give them The Good Treat and then when its market time there's no resistance.

@BetterTogetherLife

3 жыл бұрын

We burrowed the trailer. But yup! When it comes time for us to own a livestock trailer we will train them way before processing day.

The Pig Hunters!!

Chase boards would have worked great. I manage a hog barn and watching this video makes me shake my head. Rookies.....

@BetterTogetherLife

3 жыл бұрын

That’s the point

Hi guys I know it’s the wrong animal but I just wanted to say that a great chook are whyndotte’s or susix great nature even the rosters. But tell Kelly if she ever comes across a bad roster again they won’t attack if your facing them only when you turn your back. And if you get a nasty one pick it up they are (territorial) so pick it up and put it somewhere else in the pen to confuse it. Also if you show your scared that doesn’t help but a roster will get used to the people who go in the pen and won’t bother them so make sure you go in a few times a week and he will be fine but if you can’t they will usually only challenge you a few times then they will leave you alone I hope this helps. I found all this out by working on a commercial breeder farm. Anyway hope it helps and goodluck

Open the door at the other end, and then they can see a way through !

@BetterTogetherLife

3 жыл бұрын

There isn’t a door at the other end

You mentioned feeding your pigs scraps. What would be healthy scraps to feed pigs from our family table. Please shed some light on this for my wife and i because we are looking to also start pigs in the future.

@BetterTogetherLife

3 жыл бұрын

Anything! They will eat anything! Well, maybe not citrus and uncooked potatoes. But also they will eat what they want and leave the rest.

@w-o-l-f6674

3 жыл бұрын

@@BetterTogetherLife so like most other things in homesteading, its a lot of trial and error. I was mainly inquiring to make sure i didnt feed them things that were not very good for them, because if its not good for them then its probably not gonna be good for us in the long term of things. Thank you for your insight.

Try grilling some with lemon pepper as a rub. Don’t over cook them. You’ll never fry them again. Sometimes you have to work for your reward. Good job!

How much did the pigs weigh?

You all too funny, I would had done the same or cryed.

Fun watching beginners. Try doing that with a 1000 lb. reluctant horse

I know you have probably mentioned this. What do you do for internet. We are about to move to Texas in the country.

@BetterTogetherLife

3 жыл бұрын

Hahaha, it’s not great. Hopefully 5G will be better..... and not fry our insides or rob us all of the last bit of privacy we have in our lives. Internet is a sore subject for us lately!! 🤪🤪🤣🤣🤣

@cyberlantern11

3 жыл бұрын

@@BetterTogetherLife sorry for touching a sore spot. Lol love the videos

oh the VICTORY!!!!!HAHA

those are the biggest chops that I have ever seen in my life.

@BetterTogetherLife

3 жыл бұрын

They were sooooooo big and yummy!!!!

Make a project out of a little thing. My problem was cows wouldn't step up. Disconnected horse trailer and jacked up as high as it would go. walked in.

What are you all eating out of at the end? Bowls or plates? Are they metal or glazed a silver color? Curious!

@BetterTogetherLife

3 жыл бұрын

Stainless steel plates. Super easy for the country life with kiddos. Unbreakable!!!

@cynthialeblanc2084

3 жыл бұрын

Better Together Life Where did you find them? That is a great idea!!!

@BetterTogetherLife

3 жыл бұрын

They come in a pack of six on amazon. I’m pretty sure they were called “camping dish.”🤣

@cynthialeblanc2084

3 жыл бұрын

Better Together Life Thanks! They really caught my eye.

ps This Is Better than Lucy and Ethyl!

I have a small question about your children: when they get older and taller where will they be sleeping. The loft will be to small for all 4 children, and the girls will need their space away from the boys. Will you get another shed to home for the kids to sleep in ?? Check out KZread channel mylittlehomestead they built separate bedrooms for each of the children and each bedroom has a small living space separate from the mail house and the parents (Independance from the parents) For your kids 2 bedrooms and a study area for them to do their schooling or playroom instead of the main house.

@BetterTogetherLife

3 жыл бұрын

Yup! That is the plan. Either we will give the kids an opportunity to build THEIR OWN HOUSE as a teenager..... which would be so incredible and the greatest homeschool and character building experience! Or.... how knows! We are ok with the fact that we don't know what is going to happen. We might build a traditional house here or we might upgrade to a larger piece of land. All we know is that we are LOVING this life right now!!! Thanks for the question Harold and for watching. It means a lot! :)

Piggy back ride

Are you guys still making videos??

@BetterTogetherLife

3 жыл бұрын

Of course we are! May I ask why you ask? We don’t post as often as some other channels, we always have a hope to post more. Just doesn’t happen as much as we’d like.

@fadedglory1045

3 жыл бұрын

@@BetterTogetherLife love what you have done! Great inspirational videos .. my daughter is facing taking the jab or be fired from her sole source of income for herself and young daughter. She is researching how to do this on my property. I see the last video was 9 months ago and with all that has been happening I was hoping it wasn’t effecting you all negatively.. glad to hear you are still at it! 💕glad all is well!

@BetterTogetherLife

3 жыл бұрын

Gotcha. I’m not sure what you tube was listing, but if you ever want to see the most recent, just click on “videos” at the top of our channel. If you liked this one, you’ll really enjoy the others you find. So glad you’re here!

@fadedglory1045

3 жыл бұрын

@@BetterTogetherLife thank you. We love your content. 👍 subbed and sharing.

@BetterTogetherLife

3 жыл бұрын

Oh wow, THANK YOU!!!!!!!!

Ok, now I am so very hungry for a good fatty pork chop!

😂😂

France first ! ♥

Lol...Oh my gosh...poor things yall worked soo hard trying to get those pigs in. arent ya glad its all over?well, until next time.

That was comical, where is the lmao button? The trailer is low enough that you didn't need a ramp.

@BetterTogetherLife

3 жыл бұрын

Why didn’t you tell me that before I made the ramp?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 And yes, we eventually figured that out.

My manly wife would have butcher all 3 by now 😂, she’s just that good , I’m more of the humane person bam to the head .. ok I did my part 😅