hey everyone in this week's episode of digging deeper i'm showing you part two of fqt farm
talking about the animal program it's quite impressive what is being done here the farm here
has 500 layers you can see them they're poking my feet right now and they're in eggmobiles that are
moved so that they're on fresh grass cows i think we can see them in the back cows are on pasture
also and they're moved inside in the winter in a really nice barn and then we have pigs
pigs in the forest that are having an amazing time great great life for them and they're also
moved inside some of them in the winter and the goal of having the animals here on this farm
was to offer a complete diet to our customers and clients and the people that are surrounding
the farm but also to have a holistic program where it's just complete and if there's two things that
i've learned of all these these six years being here at the farm about animal husbandry is that
a it's really different from market gardening and frankly i'm not sure that it's possible to do both
have a really productive and kick-ass market garden and having all the animals on the farm
and and or do it well to do both well so that's the first thing and then the second
thing is i have such i've grown such a tremendous respect for the people that do animal husbandry
maybe chicken pigs or cow or whatever i just i've learned to appreciate the amount of hard
work that goes into it but also the care and the care is really the key here because
it's not just about systems it's not just about you know or the chickens are enagmobiles or the
cows always outside or all of this it's about the care that we give to these animals and i
think that's the future of farming is caring you know food grown with care by people who care and
in this video we'll be showing you the animals and um danny's gonna tour you danny's the the animal
guy here at the farm and again kudos to him and his team it's really important and check it out
my name is danny i'm the manager of the animals here at the fermcats of attack in this barn the
youngest ones are at the other end and as they get older they get moved up to each pen and then this
pen here at the end is our finishing pen we weigh this pen every two to three weeks and we pick the
ones that we want to send these guys here get a special mix for their age which involves more
more protein the younger they are the more protein they need to grow and when they get finished
they get more they need more energy so they get more corn silage that's what makes the meat marble
any mothers that are that are pregnant in the summer time are out on pastures
also we started raising angus and cemental along with the waigu and belted galloway and one other
thing we're doing now too is we're we're crossing a cemental with an angus because the cemental is
a little leanier meat and the angus is a little fattier so the two together should be a good cross
well i was born and raised on a dairy farm i've been here for seven years
i managed two other dairy farms before i came here besides being born and raised on one
we're heading to the outside pig pasture
these are the smallest ones we got they've been here for a month they're a tamworth cross with
a dur rock and a berkshire that's why you get the red if you see the red pig that's a ten word
i like the tamworth because they can on hot days with the with the red skin instead of the white
skin it's a lot it's a lot easier for them to take the heat we move them around next week they'll
have to be moved because they've been in here long enough this was all weeds and grass and now it's
getting chewed up so it's time to move them on the grass comes back very well as you can see over
here we want to walk over here the next section there's been no pigs there for a month as you can
see this was all this was like this a month ago this section here now it's all growing up what
we'll do is probably next week this group will go into that section there and we got time too
what we'll do is uh the last rotation in the fall will go around and spread by hand some grasses
for next year for them to eat pick at we feed them apples too local apple guy who the apples aren't
don't pass inspection he gives them not gives them but we buy them from him to feed to the pigs also
they're pretty uh i don't know to me they're pretty smart animal pigs so
we've got another group over there too that are bigger ones outside
i don't know if they're going to come out but like i say they're pretty nervous
they're away they got maybe uh an acre and a half here to run around in i'll go ahead a little more
see we got it all fenced off into sections
there's a fence here and there's another section in another section we didn't use all
the sections this year because we didn't have many pigs but now we're going up
so i'm going to have about 400 pigs gone to market this year
well that's about it for animals and for beef and pigs on my side it's a lot of work i got
five people working with us there so it's uh i got a good team so everything works out well we all
get to get along together so that's a good thing that's the tour and i'll take care of it for today
so as you've seen fqt farm film catheter is a pretty unique place
having you know the market garden that we've seen in part one
and now looking at the work that danny does here with the animals with the pigs with the cows
and with the chicken with his team and we haven't even talked about what chloe does with all the
admin and all the systems that we have to get this farm up and running it's a pretty special
place and you know part of the mission when we started it was to share what could be and uh
i think in this channel we'll be doing more of that so i hope you liked this week's episode
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