Meet the Hutterites - a small religious colony in rural Montana who holds desperately to their sacred traditions while fighting the modern temptations of the outside world. King Colony is made up of 59 people and they are almost all related. This family lives together, works together, and worships God together days a year, for their entire lives.
Verification code check your email for the verification code. Try to whitelist our email address noreply sharetv. Resend verification email. Top Contributors. American Colony: Meet the Hutterites. Characters: 3 of 4 Full List. Toby has been the beef cow manager of King Colony for six years, responsible for herding more than heads of cattle, checking the cows for pregnancy, and delivering the baby calves in frigid winter temperatures.
Wesley decides that giving a presentation at the local university would be a good start to spread awareness to open-minded young adults. Meanwhile, Claudia and Lori contemplate their futures and their desire to attend college. After a tour of the local university, Claudia and Lori take home applications but vow to keep it a secret because the ramifications for going away to college would be severe-they would have to leave the colony and make a lot of people very angry.
When the calving barn goes up in flames, the colony is up in arms trying to figure out who started it. Wesley is afraid it has something to do with the crazy barn party he and his cousins had the night before. All Claudia can think about is going to college. When she receives a letter from a local university her entire life is turned upside down and she now has to face the possibility of leaving her family and the only way of life she has ever known.
American Colony: Meet the Hutterites. Buy season. Can't play on this device. Check system requirements. Available on HoloLens. Mobile device. Xbox Description Meet the Hutterites—a small religious colony in rural Montana who holds desperately to their sacred traditions while fighting the modern temptations of the outside world.
Episodes 1. Harvest Party Scandal. The Shunning. Rockin' Road Trip. Battle of the Sexes. Shoot to Kill. The colony uses a closed herd rotational breeding program. Quite frequently Oak Lane Colony is called upon to help another colony that is facing management or financial challenges. Oak Lane grows the crops needed to feed the hogs 1, acres of corn and 1, acres of soybeans , a dairy herd and 70, turkeys annually.
All feed is milled on-site. The colony uses both a lagoon and an A. Smith Slurrystore for manure. A manure pit additive called Shac is used to lower ammonia and odor. The manure is knifed into the colony's crop land. Starting Out The Oak Lane Colony site was purchased from a local farmer, complete with a sow, farrow-to-finish operation in The colony was officially established in , branching off from nearby Rockport Colony.
When a Hutterite colony reaches a set maximum population size, land is purchased and a new colony is formed. A crated gestation building was the first addition, built in , with hot water under the floor as an added feature.
The building is currently being expanded using colony construction workers to accommodate the growing sow herd. Additional gestation stalls are being added, along with pen space for 45 gilts. In , new farrowing and nursery facilities were added. And, in , a confinement finisher was built. The farrowing unit features 10 rooms with 10 crates each. There are heat mats in each farrowing crate for pigs. Sows are washed and disinfected before entering farrowing crates.
A sophisticated computer system automatically lowers the temperatures of the rooms as the pigs age. The temperature gradually lowers from 90 degrees to 70 degrees F during a day period. The control room also houses alarms that can be run automatically or manually in case of power and ventilation system failure.
There is both a main and secondary alarm system. A boiler room houses three boilers used to heat the operation. A stand-by generator is available for emergencies. Breeding Stock Screening The colony produces all their own gilts. Replacement animals and breeding stock are selected using ultrasound scanning information and a computer indexing program.
A Pig-Log machine is used to take ninth and last rib backfat readings while the pig is on the scale. Percent lean, loineye depth, age to lb. The information is sent on to Babcock, where gilts are indexed and ranked. Marketing Pigs are marketed between lb. An enclosed load-out area attached to the finishing unit, large enough to accommodate a semi truck, was designed and built by colony members. This area is 90 ft.
Neither pigs nor laborers are exposed to the elements while loading. The 49 South Dakota Hutterite colonies that produce hogs formed a marketing group called Prairie Land Pork to handle marketing arrangements. Two consultants are paid a fee per hundred-weight to make sure the hogs are matched with the best packer program.
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