Hey folks, an update on my pig till exercise. Penelope did a good job of removing the top layer of sod and trampling it, fertilizing the ground with her waste, and respecting the electric fence. So far I had her moved in two different plots. I noticed that she did not touch a certain area of tall grass in one of the plots. Not sure why. What I found that it was that after a week, the ground compacted badly. Within a week tho it was fine. In the compacted area I planted squash in hills with goat waste hay bedding, very good stuff, for muck I and the squash are growing incredibly well.  

Hey everybody, I read a lot of the posts and information in this thread and in other places. I have a Mangalitsa sow, about a year and a half. She is a very nice hog, and respects electric fence. I have a garden area about 50’ x 150’ that I am starting a BTE and no till market garden. i decided to rotate her through each section of which there are about six roughly the same size. They are about 15 x 15‘ square, and her shelter is three pallets and a plywood top. I buried a plastic tote, and I built an automatic feeder out of plywood. she loves it! She is tilling the top layer of sod. I plan on rotating her to another spot in a couple weeks. She doesn’t seem to be interested in eating the grass though, and I’m not sure if that’s because of her breed. I suspect a Kunekune would do better?

Very nice! About to build my mobile coop today. It’s going to be pretty small posting about five chickens, and carried by two people. I got the idea from the self-sufficient homestead book. By John Seymour. I’ll post photos later. It is also for egg layers, but since I have only a few chickens desired at this point I don’t need to be big.

Neat thought. We finally have started our Homestead on 2 acres. Hatching our first collection of eggs as we speak. Hopefully will have above 50% through my DIY incubator. I got the eggs from another young fella who sells eggs from his flock about 30 or 40 chickens. He has been working on developing a breed of chicken by crossing a brown Egger with a green Egger to produce a dark green egg. His results have been very interesting, and I got one of those eggs from him. That’s all I got though. Have an actually done it myself.