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livestock weigh scales

A cattle farmer occasionally needs to weigh his animals, but weigh scales for cattle are expensive to purchase for the small operator ($1,000 to $1,500 or more). This is an accurate electronic scale you can make yourself for about $500.

Tough inexpensive pastured pig waterer

Pigs are tough on equipment. This simple water system doesn't tip in a pasture situation, stays clean and prevents the pigs from disturbing the hose connection.

Pig Tractor/mobile Breeder sow pen

I came up with this SOW Tractor after giving some thought to the issue of having sows highly mobile, highly contained and safe healthy and happy. It also solves a problem I've seen in pasture management. If you'll notice alot of hay farmers get further and further from the feild edge every Cutting to avoid damaging their cutters. Running a pig tractor around your feild edges and pasture fringes allows you to make use of otherwise fallow ground harvest soft mass, legumes, and grasses improve sow health and cut down on actual feed inputs. This improves efficiency and effectiveness making it more cost effective to keep breeder sows herd and a boar. It also improves the ground was well.

Pastured Pig Hut from re-purposed materials

I wanted an easily moved mobile hut for my pastured Piggies. It needed to shed water, block wind, take the abuse but be light enough to handle. I came up with this repurpose idea. In our area of the country there's lots of decommissioned feed bins that end up being scrapped....I noticed this and felt I could repurpose a couple and get years of use from them while serving my Piggies well, and other critters possibly too.

Movable pig feeders

A simple grain/slop feeder that withstands a fair amount of jostling and rooting in the pig pen, and can easily be moved when rotating pasture. Made from a plastic drum, three t-stakes, and simple hardware. Would work well for sheep or goats, etc., too.

Simple Pig Shelter

A simple hog-hut for 3 to 4 pigs. Strong and sturdy, will last for at least a year without major damage!

Mineral feeder

This is a makeshift salt/mineral feeder that is small, cheap, easy to pull around and simple to make.Great for sheep or small flocks of all kinds that require supplements. I used a $5 rubber door mat for the top flap, and an old rubber tub for the base. Inside the tub is a board that was cut to the contours of the container and screwed in place with washers. I then put the whole devise onto some short pieces of scrap as 'skids' and tied it to a short rope for dragging around the pasture to follow the herd.

Roostmobile

A mobile roost for poultry production. Keep those Turklers happy. An easy, inexpensive way for poultry to enjoy free-range activities during the day and access to supplementary feed and water while having the safety of a predator-free roost at night.