The video documents a day on a small farm where several people feed a group of growing pigs using a mixture of cow skim milk, grain, and kitchen garden scraps. The hosts repeatedly comment on the pigs' enthusiastic consumption of skim milk, their playful and sometimes problematic behaviors such as jumping fences, getting heads stuck in buckets, and chewing on feed. They note the pigs' rapid growth—some reaching around 160 pounds—and explain that the skim milk, a waste product from the cows, provides high-energy nutrition that fattens the hogs efficiently. The feed regimen has recently been supplemented with grain as the pigs get larger. The participants discuss the integrated farm operation where cow waste is repurposed to raise market-ready hogs, with plans to butcher the animals within a week. Throughout, the dialogue is informal, humorous, and observational, highlighting both the practical aspects of farm management and the personal enjoyment of interacting with the animals.
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Drinking your milk. That's really good.
That one bacon and that one sausage.
Uh, this one's bacon because she's red. Look at that. You can smell. You can smell. Hey, he's a little better after I let her smell me.
Let's connect. Look, not one jump.
They don't care. It's grain mill. They're beside themselves. Sausage, you have a fat tub. You're a fat tub. You don't care if I pet you anymore either, do you? Are you scooting away a little bit? Aren't you adorable? I'm growing fast. Aren't you growing fast, man? There's something satisfying about petting a pig. Have you ever pet a pig? They're like bricks on sticks, so stout and firm. Here we go. Oh, they got a lot left over, Jonah. That's another gauge we fed them too much yesterday. Fat little things. Look, they're exploring, eating some grains. Watch this. Now they've died and gone to heaven.
Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa!
No, no, no, no, no! Gosh, no!
I'm coming! Gosh, really?
You make me spill this, it's over. Oh, that's a bunch of banana peels.
It is, but there's also other good stuff in there from the broth. There's my chicken. Oh yeah, I gotcha.
Come down here. There you go. It's okay, it's okay. Just thinks you're gonna feed her. That's good, it's good. It's good to connect with her a little bit.
My hands are so cold, I don't want to let—
Come on, piggy!
They obviously like the skim. They have scraps over there, but they know the skim comes next. Maybe I need to feed the skim first. They're nipping at me. They ain't going anywhere as long as they got skim. Oh, they're out of it right there. Don't come after me. Oh, I do have a bucket, but it's over here, guys. Right there. Gosh, they're crazy for that skim milk. Good morning.
There you go.
So, bought me a moment there. Come on, pig, pig, pig, pig! Nothing beats that skim. They hold out for the skim. I mean, there's cooked chicken right there from a broth. And they're going for the skin. We're gonna just feed them their skin first since that's what they look for. Ah, can't even pour it all out without them knocking it over. Pick, pick, pick, pick, pick, pick! Oh, they're mad at me. I didn't get it all poured out. That was easy. We got them eating some scraps. We have more. Let's try to measure them. I'm not even I know how to do this. Thank you guys for stirring that up for us.
Allow me some time.
This skim milk with some grain and a lot of our food scraps. That is a significant portion of their food. Actually, skim milk, food scraps, and a little bit of grain is their only portion right now. And only recently have we started to supplement with grain because, well, they're getting bigger— 160-ish, 70 pounds. I'm just getting skim over their head. They won't move out of the way. Every time I pour it, they move into it. I like your face mask. I'm pretty sure if she was choking choking, she would, she would already be dead.
So what I'm thinking is it's stuck, like she can't— she won't ever be able to get it out, and she won't be able to eat. That means she'll just get skinnier.
Come on. Come on, spit it out. Went down the wrong pipe, honey. She's peeing. Oh, maybe she's gonna eat. Maybe she's cleared it.
Really?
Hope that doesn't make it worse, honey. Chew it. Looks like you're actually chewing it. Okay, she's fine, Jonah. Thank goodness. That's scary. You got to slow down, honey. Rumor is she jumps over the fence.
Oh, there it comes.
She jumps it. Who said a pig doesn't jump? You clearly— you jumped right over that fence. You jumped right over that fence. Well, thankfully she only does it when we come with a bucket. Look, Lily, they're just pigging out skim milk and, uh, scraps, food scraps. We got their skim bucket in. They're eager and ready to go. Tell us when you've turned it off, Josiah. All right, big, big, big, big, big, big, big. So easy. Here, got you some in a pan. Sausage is back on the skim. You're just opportunist, aren't you?
Pig got its head stuck in the bucket again. Have a look.
You guys have drinking so much. 4 gallons of skim. You're probably drinking 3 of it. Bury that face in skim. Bury that. Oh my gosh, slow down. Hey, you guys, you guys see what's happening? We're feeding the pigs from the cows. That's our waste. That's our skim milk. It fattens pigs like no other.
See, they're huge.
And the pigs are feeding the cows. They're stirring up grass seed for the— Do you get it? Do you see what's happening? You don't need two operations. This is just one operation. It's all working together. And I'm finishing these hogs off. They're going to butcher next week.
I didn't feed any grain.
This is food scraps. This is scraps from our garden, and this is skim milk, 100%.
She's like, I have a distraction to eat skim milk.
