new vid: earth berm pig shelter cuts pig feed costs

Marina from Dell Artimus Farm shows off her earth berm pig shelter.

The shelter is based on the earth berm shelters by Sepp Holzer.

Her two guinea hogs are truly free range. Which accounts for how she
can get by on feeding them so little. Which is another interesting
thing: all of the pig feed is fermented or milk from their cow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UBVcwZfd-k

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Gene Logsdon a farmer and author tells about how they did it in the upper midwest, great lakes. They built a similar sized shelter, but covered it with haystacks, think Monet haystacks. Built properly it will shed water and insulate well. Then when spring rolls around you can take the hay and use it for bedding and feed.

 

I'm amazed they went to all that trouble just for one winter.