hello welcome to Kate's Ag hi and welcome to Denmark my name Marianne Hestbjerg is
and I live here on the farm together with my husband and we have an organic pig production
that is amazing thank you and it's nice to have you here we don't have many visitors from the
states thank you it's a pleasure yeah and could you tell me a little bit about your operation
yes we have these organic pigs and we have 1 500 South I guess we among the biggest organic Pig
producers in the world and we have 30 employees to take care of the pigs and our pigs are outdoor
on free range picks and they're very happy pigs I hope they uh you know we say if you are if you
die and you get reborn as a pig then you should wish to come to us I definitely would [Music]
and how many generations is your farm Factory duration so the story goes back to 1634 it's
a long story now we are organic pictures and it means a lot to us to make a good
life for the pigs you want to make a life where the pigs can use their instance and
do what's nice to do when you are big I want to show you something if you turn
around you can actually see that the sound sounds like drinking milk yes
and you know when they are walking around like these they can decide what they want to do and
lay down if they feel like it it's not like if you're indoor it's a totally different system
the sow have this area you see the small fence and each cell have a heart and this where you
feed them you know they can't go together no but the small pigs they can run wherever they want so
we say they go in kindergarten together with the others so they just run over under the fence and
this is the sea system every day we open this one put feed our brand is the bubble tree this
looks much nicer but this takes so many years for these to grow so that's the reason we have public
research because they grow very fast and after four or five years the South can go in there oh
on this round we have 1 500 South we have the south on eight different farms and it's organic
and we have 30 employees to take care of the South and then the South this type of house we have here
I'm very good at taking care of the piglets so she is doing a very good job taking care of the
piglets and we take care of everything around her by the feeding and everything and the indoor picks
a they're the people who works there spend a lot of time taking care of the piglets to make them
survive and take care of them but we don't do that she is the mother she's the one who knows exactly
how to take care of the piglets and this topic knows we that we have is very good at this it
could be most easier if you have a big tractor with a computer and that could feed this house
but we do it by hand if we feed them by hand I've trust in us this is a modern scarecrow it makes
a lot of noise it's there's a small computer inside of it so we call it the scary man on
our farm we have a lot of visitors we have a lot of guided tools with school kids and also other
farmers and people who is educating to become a farmers and other companies and also a lot of
people coming from abroad because we have this special system he's a little tired today though
I'm not sure he will stand up and it's solar panel operated yes it is oh you cannot it's inside here
if you look in there yeah oh that's a good idea yeah because you know we want to keep the birds
away so they don't eat the feet she used to live in the forest and we want to make a pig production
that's where the pigs are living almost as if they were living that is amazing yeah because we
want to make a life for the pigs so they can use their instincts and they love to be in the forest
so if we have a look in here you can see the pigs are running around in Denmark we take very good
care of the drinking water so we want to make sure that it's not running down into the water
I want to show you something in here it's because when it's hot you know the South the pigs they
cannot sweat so we have this water system so when it's more than 15 degrees the water comes out of
this pipe and then there's a little mud hole and the pigs loves this because they love to lay down
in the mud and the skin gets very dirty so the water cools down there the pigs the mud makes
sunscreen and the pigs just love it now you can see these guys down here you can actually
see the South she's a little dirty now I'll tell her to lie down please lie down please lie down I
know it's not working because they don't speak English but they enjoy being here in the shed
and they also feel safe in here it's a very nice environment you have for your pigs yeah you know
as I told you it takes a lot of time to take care of the pigs this way in our systems it's much much
more fast we win the pigs they're 10 weeks old they're very strong and the stomach is strong so
they don't need medication it's a very nice way to do it look at her you can really see the mud
something special about these pigs is that they have 16 tits and they are very good Mothers and
they produce a lot of Milk hi Mia Casey good day she was guest for USA I tell her to say hello to
you they love the mud they really enjoy to lay down in the mud and get the all dirty eats how
have this small chip in the air and we registrate everything about the sow we are registered if
she's a good mother we registered how many piglets she have and how many piglets you win and so we
can always compare the Farms to each other so if something is going really well on this Farm we
can we know it because we have everything in our system and then use it on the other Farms every
day we try to improve to do it just a little better and that's the best way to do it yeah
how many years production would you say each Pig will have around four years now I'd say
look they're saying hello to each other you know something special about the organic pigs is that
we are not allowed to cut off the the tail all our pigs have long tails that means that you have to
give them a really good life or else is that now they got scared of something you never know what
we'll scare them all our picks have long tails and that means that you can see if the pigs are happy
and when they have long tapes you really have to reassure that they have a good life or else they
start biting each other's tail so the tail shows up so much care and thought into the pig's life
and how the pig feels yes adorable this is one of my best friends you can actually see that she
had marks on the skin does she have a name no but she's number 58. we don't give the names we have
one thousand five hundred thousand but we know exactly how she's doing because in the year she
have this more chip so we registered everything on the computer little piglet ran away yeah this is
the tickets they give the feet in these trials here and there it sounds good in the small ones
how often do your pigs get fed per day a sow gets fed one times a day and then
we checked that she's feeling okay we checked that she's walking on all legs
and she's eating all the feet so we hand feed them and that's a good way to look if
she's doing fine I think around three or four times a week the feel of this
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I think what's so amazing is that you do a lot with biodiversity and are really working towards
maintaining a sustainable Farm which is just remarkable yeah it means a lot that we take care
of the pigs we take care of our employees but we also take care care of the nature around us
show that we want to be sustainable calm so one example is that when you look at the big fields
there used to be a lot of a lot of trees they used to be
small lakes and water holes and now we want to bring it back
that is very very neat I don't think
it's possibility take care of the environment around us we all have to take responsibility that
we don't buy so much much stuff so to drive a little less that we everyone make effort
so that you can do something about the climate changes and take care of
our planet yes I couldn't agree more and that was very well said and you want to be humane
and kind and treat them like a living creature exactly you know they are very intelligent these
pigs and they want to have fun they want to play and so we should make a living for them where so
it's possible for them to yeah and I can imagine they're very thankful for you for doing that
oh hi yes look at them they run around they are happy
what time hello
the thing that's important to us is that we take a social response so all the time we have
the young people or people who have had stress or something that some people who have difficulties
going to school or to work or something and they come and work on our time it means
it's nice to see that if you give people a chance to grow and then they
become really good at taking care of the pigs I think that when things do something special to
people if they are feeling a little sad or have had some difficulties in their lives yes animals
are very much like that and it's so kind of you to do that for people and also the young man I
just waved at is in an agriculture program and is an intern here which is very cool that you give
young people the opportunity to get a start in the industry that they are very passionate about
tell a story about the farming then no young people would ever dream of going to work on a
farm but we have many visitors and that means that a lot of people want to work at an on our farm
because we tell the story yes we have a certain responsibility to tell about how we we farm and
how we are producing the meat and the feed and everything
now we are standing in front of a traditional Danish Farmhouse that have they have done a lot
of things to the house to make it more modern but then we found an old photo
and we could see all the the house used to have chimneys the house used to have Red Roof so we put
everything back into how it used to be so now it's almost like looking as when it was built
and of course we kept all the brakes and all the old things in the house that's great well thank
you very much this is such a wonderful story thank you you're welcome um what does it stand
for the name of the farm hespia yeah so this is he was called yens the man who built this hello
the man who had the farm at this time and then the next Generation would call battle and then
the ends again so this is JH and it's very old you can see this part was built around
1834 and each part is built in a certain year and you can see that in the stone that's really neat
yeah where would the original Farmhouse have been built 15 Generations ago yes uh if you
look down there it used to be down there and so they moved it up here your pigs are
so adorable she's been taking a shower you guys you look really handsome both of you
two pretty girls that's what happens when you get really close to a pig and that was so much
fun too I wouldn't have it any other way thank you so much for watching today's video I hope
you learned a little bit more about organic Pig production in Denmark and about Agri Forest which
is just amazing if you'd like to learn a little bit more about this incredible operation you
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you write it underneath yes thank you so much for watching make sure to like And subscribe okay bye