Chewing the Fat with Jeff Fisher - Jeffy's Corner: What Happened To The Pregnant Pig?

Episode Date: March 25, 2017

Jeffy has been wondering what happened to the pregnant pig mentioned in the 40 Acres and a Fool podcasts, and after an exhaustive search, host Cam Edwards joins to talk about it and life on the farm.Follow Jeffy on Twitter: @JeffyMRALike Jeffy on Facebook: www.facebook.com/JeffFisherRadioFollow Jeffy on Instagram: @jeffymra Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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We're down a couple of hands. And then the next week, this week we get the promo of wanting our cows to be happy with son on their butt before we eat them. Okay. Why weren't we updated on the pig? Why were we updated on the chicken? So I immediately went on a mission to find Cam Edwards. we brought him in from the fields.

Hopefully the tractor's turned off while he talks to us. Cam, welcome to the broadcast. How are you? Hey, buddy. How are you, man? I am fantastic. I appreciate you coming on. I appreciate you coming down off the tractor for a little bit for us.

Absolutely. Actually, I'm taking a break from tilling the gardens, so this is fantastic. Thank you for giving me the opportunity to stop working for a few minutes. You're welcome. No problem. I know farming is a 24-hour day job. So, first of all, Your podcast, 40 acres and a mule.

Or a fool. I know what it is. I know. I just can't stop saying mule. Now, do you have more than 40 acres or is it actually just 40 acres? It's actually like 39.7, so I round up. Yeah. Wow.

We're right at 40 acres. Do you round down for your taxes? No, I'm just teasing. So why weren't we updated on the pig, Pam? I'm really disappointed. What's going on? How many piglets did we have? How big is the pig?

Did we have to get some new chickens? What's going on? All right. So to give you an update on the pig, and there is an update in the current podcast. There is. We were just so excited because it was our 100th episode of 40 acres and a fool that. We were kind of excited about that.

Well, congratulations. Congratulations. We appreciate you. Congratulations. And we appreciate you being on the Blaze Radio Network. Thank you. Well, we love being on the Blaze Radio Network. So thank you for the opportunity.

But not that I have to thank you, Jeffrey. But, you know, you know what I said. Oh, no. Oh, no. So, yes, the pregnant pig is pregnant no more. All right. I thought we had eight little piglets, but we discounted. We actually have nine vacancy.

Wow. Nice. Yeah. Born on the coldest night of the year so far. All of them made it. All of them survived. They're healthy. They're happy.

They're running around. We've, on our Instagram page at Corny Goat Farm and at Cam Edwards, we've got some videos of the pigs. We're trying to put up every day now. So everybody is doing well as far as the pigs are concerned. I'm sorry. At corny goat. Goat. Goat.

Is your Instagram? Mm-hmm. That's the, that's the Instagram for Miss E, my better half, yeah. Okay. At corny goat farm. So, and Mama Pig is okay? Mama pig is great. And we were, you know, so we've got three female adults.

One of them was pregnant. And we kind of wondered, you know, we're going to have to move the mom and the babies once they were born. How are the other pigs going to react? It's crazy. I've never seen anything like this. They're all so protective of these little piglets. They haven't tried to eat them, which is good.

They haven't tried to squish them, which is good. Sometimes those things happen. Yeah, I mean, that might happen by mistake. These are apparently are like Hillary Clinton. Clinton fans because it takes a village to raise these pictures, apparently. I'm sure they believe that. Yeah. So now has mama cut back on eating so you don't have to worry about chickens, or are they okay?

Well, I think what was getting the chickens was a fox. And so we did some rearranging to our coop. We locked down our chicken yard. We like to let our chickens kind of just roam in the yard and eat naturally. when we do that, the predators get to eat naturally too. So there's always this balance of, you know, do you keep your chickens kind of in their yard where they're fenced in? And then you've got to give them grains. You've got to give them the food.

Or do you let them wander around and then you lose your chickens? So right now we are erring on the side of caution. Our chickens have these. We build these like they're called, we call them chicken tunnels. But they're basically just fencing that we've kind of folded over into like a hoop. And we run them through the yard so the chickens can run around, get some. grass and still be protected from the foxes or the hawks and whatever else wants to eat them. So you're just keeping the prisoners, I mean chickens, just they're able to still be in prison

but see the light of day. That's nice of you, Cam. Exactly. They're on lockdown, but they're not in solitary confinement. They get access to the prison yard. Which leads me to do you think just because so now is that the same as letting them run a lot? still run without being in prison, or is it just almost the same? It's almost the same. It's not as good as the real thing. One of the plans we have, though, this summer is to actually expand out our chicken yard area and give them probably 500 or 600 square feet to run around, and that would be play.

That's pretty good. Yeah. That's pretty good size. We're always working. We're always thinking about what we can do to add on and make things better for the, make life better for the creatures that we have here. So do you honestly believe, and I know what your answer I think is going to be, but I mean, do you honestly believe that if my cow smiled one day because the sun was on his butt,

that that steak is going to taste better than the one that didn't get the sun on his butt? I do. I do think it's going to taste better. First of all, if you read the news stories about the lab-raised meat, the people who've eaten it say, oh, it almost tastes just like chicken. I'm not talking about the lab-raised meat, though. You're just saying a... You know, the lab... The test tube meat and the test tube food is a little bit different than just, you know,

we're raising, like, let's use Tyson. You know, I used an example earlier about the Tyson Farms. When you drive through Arkansas and you see the Tyson Chicken Farms, and they've got those chickens, you know, beak to butt, stuffed in there, you know, side by side, beak to butt, top to bottom. And, you know, because we're, you know, we're eating more and more chicken than ever here in the U.S. Now, I, I'm personally, I'm okay with that. You know, do I want the chickens, you know, killed and beaten and tortured?

No. But, you know, that chicken in that box, I don't see where that is going to, you know, I don't know. I guess I'm having a hard time believing that, and I was raised on chickens running around on a farm. I mean, I've killed them. I've watched them die. I've taken care of them. I've plucked them. I've done everything that you do to chickens.

And I'd much rather prefer go to the grocery store and pick it up. Look, there's something to be said for the ease and convenience, right, of just going and get in the boneless chicken breast straight from the grocery store shelves. but I didn't grow up having that experience. I grew up in the suburbs, sort of my wife. We didn't have any type of experience like this. And when we started raising our own chickens and our own pigs and our own goats, and, you know, look, I'll be honest, I don't get 100% of my meat from the farm. We still supplement with restaurants.

What? The grocery store. I know. What? I know. I know. But we try to get as much as we can from our, own space. And, you know, I'll tell you this. With the chickens, I don't know that I necessarily

taste the difference. With our pigs, I definitely taste the difference. The bacon that we are able to make here on the farm, it's 500 times better than any bacon I've had. Wow. Wow, that's fascinating. And so what all animals do you have that are you growing to, that you're growing on your farm? So right now we've got five dairy goats. We've got... Goats are mean, man. Five chickens left. Goats are mean.

Goats are mean. Why are you mess with goats? Our goats are great. They're fantastic. They're all girls, though. So that helps. We don't have any bucks that... Bucks are kind of annoying.

But we've got five great girls. We've got various breeds of chicken. All egg layers right now. We don't have any broilers that we're raising for meat at the moment. Right. And then now we've got 12 hogs of very inside. Oh, there you go. So how many

How many eggs are you getting from your chickens? Like here in Texas there are some places at least where you could have some chickens in your backyard. That's becoming few and far between now with the HOAs, but it used to be everywhere. And, you know, it takes quite a few chickens to create some eggs that, you know, like we're used to being able to open the fridge and have 18 eggs sitting there.

Yeah. Yeah, so you're going to average, I think, a little bit less than an egg a day. You know, I think, like, in the span of a given week, maybe our hens will lay five eggs a piece. So we've got – but it's amazing. Like, you know, if you don't eat eggs every day, it's amazing how quickly they add up. Okay, that makes sense. Sitting on our counter right now, and I asked me to see this morning. I was like, so we got to do some of this, right?

So, you know, we cracked open six eggs, had some breakfast, and we're good to go. I like to have, I would rather have too much and give eggs away or sell eggs than not have enough. So I feel like we're kind of understaffed with our hens right now. We've only got four hens. And I like to be around 12. So you get, you know, close to a dozen eggs a day. You know, look, that's way too much for a family. Yeah, no kidding.

You can always feed them back to the chickens eggs. You can always scramble the eggs and feed them scrambled eggs. Oh, now that's, and you're talking about, you don't want animals that are tortured? And you're feeding them back themselves, we're done. We're done. I'm not giving them, like, stir-fried. Don't, look, I don't care what kind of excuses you come up with. That's torture.

If it makes you sleep better at night, telling yourself that it's okay, you go ahead. Hey, Cam, thank you very much. You thought the podcast was like this wholesome thing. Now you know the darker side. Camp, thank you very much. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. I appreciate it.

Go back to Tilling now. Get back to work. I appreciate it. is going to be a volatile economic year. We may see politicians throughout the world attempting to control central bank policies. Several renowned financial analysts have warned that political interference

in central bank policies may mean our economic misses of inflation and growth targets. Gold is an international currency that can't be issued or controlled by governments. If you don't have the only hard currency that has outlasted every politician and every failed idea of governments

for centuries, you need to speak to Goldline right now and learn how easy it is to add gold to your portfolio or IRA. Now is the time to diversify your financial portfolio by adding gold. Call 1-800-913-gold. Buying real gold is easy and fast at Goldline. And you're going to be happy that you finally made the call. 1-800-913-4653.

Goldline also offers price protection against short-term market fluctuations on qualifying purchases. So buy with confidence. Read Goldline's important risk information and find out of buying gold is right for you. Call Goldline, 1-800-913-4650. 53.