I have lived all sorts of neighborhoods during my life, both in the country and in the city. One thing is true for all of them....screaming kids, both boys and girls. In fact sometimes kids just scream because they like to hear the noise come out of their little bodies. It's a universal truth. lol
Our previous next door neighbors children played outside all the time. One of the little girls used to squeal soooo loud continuously, it didn't matter what they were doing. I would always comment that the little squealer was out again.
Thanks for the cow update! The cows also remind me of growing up. We had both dairy and beef cows. I spent a lot time playing in the pasture with the milk cows. The paddock had a lot of very large rocks in it and those were fabulous for imaginary play. I would often lay on this one particular large rock and watch the clouds. We had a Jersey named "Pet" and she would always come over to check on me if she saw me laying down. Once a mom, always a mom! She would nudge me and "huff" a little. As if to say "Are you alright?" If I sat upright on the rock she never came round, only when I was laying down. Looking back, those were definitely some of the best times in my life.
I got used to not having daily content from you, now I’m pleasantly surprised every time a new video pops up! It’s such a surprise! I’m so glad that you are feeling better Jess.❤
I'm more inspired than ever. I recently went through (going through still) digestive sickness and doing a complete health reset. The food system is broken in more ways than one!
I once had a friend who lived on a hill above an elementary school. Every time I'd visit I would wake up to the joyous sounds of happy kids outside. No better way to know that things are ok, than the noise and chaos of children at play.
❤the updates on the animals but missed seeing a "close up" on Halle! You may be a helicopter Mom but I am a helicopter viewer to this first born cow on your farm🐮 You have no idea how much your farm feeds this So Cal suburban's soul. Thanks Jess!! Stay strong & healthy😉
I am unable to homestead with animals as our properly is far too small, so I thoroughly enjoy watching these videos just as much as your garden and devotional vlogs. Thank you for sharing so sweetly, openly. and honestly
This farm talk is so exciting to me brings me deep into my childhood; I’m now legitimately a city boy, but I was born and raised in the country. My grandparents were farmers and we like my parents we raised on a farm and hundreds of acres of land. Sometimes, I miss it greatly, the air, sky, sound’s everything is different and better in the countryside.
I may be biased, but I do love that you named your sweet devin cow Jenny. Lol! 🥰 we have dorpers here, not sure what the ram is but a momma just had her babies and they came out looking like tiny Holsteins!!! I couldn't believe it they are the most adorable babies ever! I bless all you awesome humans! 💚
Love the little "steered hehe" 😆 Glad you are feeling a bit better. Lovely to see your animals. I love cows, I wish I had one. Not sure it would fit in my back garden
Lamb is delicious and the perfect protein source for smaller homesteads as they will eat more than just grass/hay and are easy to handle and butcher on farm - I’m excited to see how you go with expanding your flock. Here in Australia most farmers will run a flock of sheep on the stubble in the paddocks after harvest is done then send them to market, which makes it an affordable red meat option and therefore commonly eaten.
Yay! I absolutely love the updates that include the cows!! 🐄 Delmer is so darn CUTE!!! Omg’sh, I’d be a terrible farmer, because I’d be out there loving on him no matter what, and I’d never get rid of any..haha But he reminded me of Hallelujah when she was little! She was just the most beautiful calf I’ve ever seen, like out of a storybook perfect. I’m sure she still is. All of your heifers are really pretty, and I love how sweet they are too.:) That’s so cute about Miah and his favorite cows!! ❤God Bless!! 🙏🏼👍🐮
Jess, today as I was looking thru gardening books at our library in Ft Wayne, IN I saw your book! I have it, but it seems like such a small world at times!
Absolutely love your lifestyle it is one I have always dreamed of, it just never got that far before becoming disabled so now we just do as much as we can possibly do. We do a few raised beds and hoping to get a green stalk as soon as possible. Love the country life and growing as much food as possible.
Glorious morning Jess! Bless Mia for who he is. Your cows are lovely. I'm 6 months along with baby boy #3 right now and I feel about as big as your heifer looks right now 🙃😄🐄
I owned a jersey bull, which I halter broke, but I never stepped once into the same area as he was in. He was wonderful through the fencing, but I watched him try to turn over a 40 horsepower tractor, almost succeeding. The saying is that once they get you down, they won't let up and they grind you into the ground. That's exactly what he tried to do to that tractor.
Hello Jess and Noah and Family. Your cows are so beautiful. I'm glad you starting to feel better Jess. All the calves are adorable. I just love all your animals. God Bless you and Jess and family from Wendy Bertie a viewer in Toronto Ontario Canada
It is interesting to listen to the thought processes of keeping Delmar intact versus becoming a steer whether it be on your own farm or on someone else’s farm. Thank you for sharing that with us.
Im just blown away by the progress at the farm. I remember waiting so anxiously for you guys to make the move from Arkansas and here you are. Halleluja is ONE! You not only have your first cow but MULTIPLE! The greenhouse is about to be filled with seedlings! Its such a joy to watch your dreams unfold and helps me to keep faith that mine will too.
In licensed raw dairies WA it is required to put milk in an ice water bath in the fridge for chilling. It chills faster than the freezer and there is no risk of it freezing. Just a thought.
I just know I would be a horrible cow farmer. I would be out there lovin on them 24/7. I was surprised to find out cows tend to be mean unless handled alot. I live 2 miles from the Wisconsin border so dairy is plentiful. The butter & cheese is marvelous. Love your farm.
Hey, I'm glad you are feeling better! I no way felt the pain that you did. However, when I deleted wheat, dairy, sugar, and gluten, all the inflammation in my joints went away. If I go out have pizza and a beer the next day my knees are so swollen with inflammation so it's just that quick. Best of luck.
I just realized something Jess, I have a dog named Fern and someone gave me a beautiful German Shepard name Freya. So now I have a Fern and Freya on my "yard" homestead.
Myeah, I'll never keep a Jersey bull on purpose. I bred my little lady to a Belted Galloway bull that is the sweetest little snugglemuffins in the world ❤️ the combination of their two personalities is going to be so good.
On Fern, I raise purebred Angus. One thing I leaned after the fact, the last trimester calves put on bone and hair. Soo easy on the grain. And hopefully they are bred to a low bird weight bull and everything should be fine. I sleep in the barn during calving and kidding just watching all.my girls. Take care 🙂
Dorper and st Croix mix is good mix and katadin or Barbados black belly are all good cross breeds. Just make sure their on pasture and no grain, you'll have more issues if their being feed alot of grain.
I think Delmar wants to be a friendly cow. Good to get him a home where he can live a full life spreading his good nature. Maybe work the deal so you can use him to breed a couple of your heifers after he moves? He still looks like a fawn to me. So adorable and curious
Cats get fat from being fed kibble or wet food with non-meat fillers (rice, corn, etc). All fat cats I’ve had lost weight and became ideal weight when the food changed to all-meat wet food, and my 2 female fixed kitties I have now have eaten all-meat wet food their whole lives and are a perfect/slim weight, not fat. Check the food ingredients, cats are carnivores and shouldn’t really eat carbs, so if there’s anything other than meat and vitamins as ingredients in there then that’s probably what’s making them fat.
I loved that cow update, thanks Jess. Were waiting on a calf here on our Homestead too, we don't know who the bull is either so that is making for a bit of excitement. I'm hoping to get footage of her calving for our RUclips channel 😁
You just brought to mind a great child good memory of mine.. I was raised in a family where all my aunt's and uncles were farmers. not my parents though, my dad wanted a buisness degree and we did not live on a farm of our own.... Well as far as I was concerned.... I was ment to be on a farm... Well when 4-H. Season arrived.. I could not wait for the two months of going to my aunt and uncles house full time. In return for letting me go through the 4-H process and going through all the hauling animals to the fairs and state fairs with my rabbits and cows, well I would do chores just like their other FOUR kids. It was a blast. Well we would be doing chores really eirly in the mornings, and one of my older cousins. Well he Did NOT like to get up. Not a morning person at all you could say.... Well we would find him in the barn ... Sleeping. Lol. Your sweet girls remind me fondly of my time raising my girls.
At the age delmer is he was probably just taking most of Freyas milk instead of her holding it back. At about 3 months old in a pasture/grass system that’s when I expect the calf to really become a nursing pro 😂 when left to their own devices
I thought it was really funny that you had a goat named Miriam (loved the photo shoot, btw), so I had to send the video to my sister, Miriam. Then I found out you had a cow named Fern, which is my mother's name. So I thought I should suggest you should name someone Ramona, my other sister, and as soon as I had the thought, I see you have a sheep named Ramona! Hello from Arkansas. I grew up in Nashville, Arkansas. My brother was minister of music at the Immanuel Baptist Church in El Dorado several years (like 30) ago. My great grandfather who came to Arkansas was from Newberry, SC. I love your channel!
Our midi jersey came from a farm that raises and uses their own jersey bulls. She has bred over forty years for calm, gentle bulls. That said she will generally only keep a bull for 18 months to three years before they start to get aggressive and go to freezer camp. Just so you know it's possible.
I have lived all sorts of neighborhoods during my life, both in the country and in the city. One thing is true for all of them....screaming kids, both boys and girls. In fact sometimes kids just scream because they like to hear the noise come out of their little bodies. It's a universal truth. lol
Our previous next door neighbors children played outside all the time. One of the little girls used to squeal soooo loud continuously, it didn't matter what they were doing. I would always comment that the little squealer was out again.
HAHAHA, so true ❤️
Thanks for the cow update! The cows also remind me of growing up. We had both dairy and beef cows. I spent a lot time playing in the pasture with the milk cows. The paddock had a lot of very large rocks in it and those were fabulous for imaginary play. I would often lay on this one particular large rock and watch the clouds. We had a Jersey named "Pet" and she would always come over to check on me if she saw me laying down. Once a mom, always a mom! She would nudge me and "huff" a little. As if to say "Are you alright?" If I sat upright on the rock she never came round, only when I was laying down. Looking back, those were definitely some of the best times in my life.
I got used to not having daily content from you, now I’m pleasantly surprised every time a new video pops up! It’s such a surprise! I’m so glad that you are feeling better Jess.❤
Love when you go out to the barn and are around your animals. Being housebound, it means the world to me. Thanks for doing that today.
Hello sweet people of Roots and Refuge. Thank you for the daily content! 😁 🎥
Im happy she's getting better
I'm more inspired than ever. I recently went through (going through still) digestive sickness and doing a complete health reset. The food system is broken in more ways than one!
@@sonshenshomestead7668 i hope you be well too.
Delmer is absolutely ADORABLE!!! 💕🐮
Thank you for the great tour. Have a blessed day. God is so GREAT 👍❤️
I once had a friend who lived on a hill above an elementary school. Every time I'd visit I would wake up to the joyous sounds of happy kids outside. No better way to know that things are ok, than the noise and chaos of children at play.
He is SO CUTE! I love hearing the sniffing noises in the background, that was so funny😂. We love dogish cows❤
❤the updates on the animals but missed seeing a "close up" on Halle! You may be a helicopter Mom but I am a helicopter viewer to this first born cow on your farm🐮 You have no idea how much your farm feeds this So Cal suburban's soul. Thanks Jess!! Stay strong & healthy😉
Delmer is just precious 💙 such a personality 💙
I love how you think about the future owner and not just how cute he is
Hey Jess. Good morning. So thankful that you're able to gently get back to all of the things you love to do.
Hi Jess, thanks for everything and bringing us your journeys. I can't believe hallelujah is already 1yr old.........
Thank you for the update on the cows, I love seeing them,
I am unable to homestead with animals as our properly is far too small, so I thoroughly enjoy watching these videos just as much as your garden and devotional vlogs. Thank you for sharing so sweetly, openly. and honestly
Beautiful cows and kitties! And yes it’s very normal for fixed female cats to get chubby :)
This farm talk is so exciting to me brings me deep into my childhood; I’m now legitimately a city boy, but I was born and raised in the country. My grandparents were farmers and we like my parents we raised on a farm and hundreds of acres of land. Sometimes, I miss it greatly, the air, sky, sound’s everything is different and better in the countryside.
Good morning! Glad your are on the mend!!
Please make a video about succession planting!
I have to say that I’m so glad you are looking and feeling better ❤
I may be biased, but I do love that you named your sweet devin cow Jenny. Lol! 🥰 we have dorpers here, not sure what the ram is but a momma just had her babies and they came out looking like tiny Holsteins!!! I couldn't believe it they are the most adorable babies ever! I bless all you awesome humans! 💚
Love this video cause I miss when we had our cows! Lunch, Elvis, Einstein, and Bitsy girl
Glad you’re looking much better ❤️
Yay! The daily dose of Jess 🥰 Thank you for sharing everything with us!
Aw Delmar 😍
Delmar is a doll has the prettiest face on him.
Hi Jess, thanks for sharing the animals with us. Love how you love your animals and your life.
Love the little "steered hehe" 😆
Glad you are feeling a bit better. Lovely to see your animals. I love cows, I wish I had one. Not sure it would fit in my back garden
Thanks Jess I always feel blessed after your vids no matter the topic.
Lamb is delicious and the perfect protein source for smaller homesteads as they will eat more than just grass/hay and are easy to handle and butcher on farm - I’m excited to see how you go with expanding your flock.
Here in Australia most farmers will run a flock of sheep on the stubble in the paddocks after harvest is done then send them to market, which makes it an affordable red meat option and therefore commonly eaten.
Love these animal videos
Yay! I absolutely love the updates that include the cows!! 🐄 Delmer is so darn CUTE!!! Omg’sh, I’d be a terrible farmer, because I’d be out there loving on him no matter what, and I’d never get rid of any..haha But he reminded me of Hallelujah when she was little! She was just the most beautiful calf I’ve ever seen, like out of a storybook perfect. I’m sure she still is. All of your heifers are really pretty, and I love how sweet they are too.:) That’s so cute about Miah and his favorite cows!! ❤God Bless!! 🙏🏼👍🐮
Good morning 🌞
Jess, today as I was looking thru gardening books at our library in Ft Wayne, IN I saw your book! I have it, but it seems like such a small world at times!
❤ I Absolutely Love the Video! I watched it twice. May God Bless You and your family.
Absolutely love your lifestyle it is one I have always dreamed of, it just never got that far before becoming disabled so now we just do as much as we can possibly do. We do a few raised beds and hoping to get a green stalk as soon as possible. Love the country life and growing as much food as possible.
Correct on all counts in regards to the Bull calf. Good choice
I feel like we haven’t seen the animals for a long time and voila, now we do. Love seeing them in the pasture. Thank you Jess 🙏🇨🇦
Thank you.
Do I sense a certain someone finding their way back to shooting daily content? 🤗 So excited to see you in my notifications each morning, Jess!
Glorious morning Jess! Bless Mia for who he is. Your cows are lovely. I'm 6 months along with baby boy #3 right now and I feel about as big as your heifer looks right now 🙃😄🐄
Loved the update. Delmer’s face markings are beautiful.
I owned a jersey bull, which I halter broke, but I never stepped once into the same area as he was in. He was wonderful through the fencing, but I watched him try to turn over a 40 horsepower tractor, almost succeeding. The saying is that once they get you down, they won't let up and they grind you into the ground. That's exactly what he tried to do to that tractor.
Nice updates! What's happening with Jeremiah's horses?
Well Delmer is the cutest ever! 😍
My god. That little Delmer!!!! Wouldn't mind you taping the animals while you speak so i can see those cute faces.
Hello Jess and Noah and Family. Your cows are so beautiful. I'm glad you starting to feel better Jess. All the calves are adorable. I just love all your animals. God Bless you and Jess and family from Wendy Bertie a viewer in Toronto Ontario Canada
I so do enjoy watching you interact with your animals.
Loved the feeling of being on the farm and catching up with the animals ❤️ A true joyous experience, thanks for the update 😊
Perfect plan for Delmer!!!
I love your channel so much! You’re
Such an inspiration! 🖤 Your videos have helped me so much with gardening! I’ve learned so much.
Hi, I've never seen anyone in the comments with my last name.
Mine is McCafferty😊
It is interesting to listen to the thought processes of keeping Delmar intact versus becoming a steer whether it be on your own farm or on someone else’s farm. Thank you for sharing that with us.
How wonderful to cozy down for the evening... see Jess has a video (hopefully feeling much better!) and get Delmar kisses!💚 He is too cute.
Im just blown away by the progress at the farm. I remember waiting so anxiously for you guys to make the move from Arkansas and here you are. Halleluja is ONE! You not only have your first cow but MULTIPLE! The greenhouse is about to be filled with seedlings! Its such a joy to watch your dreams unfold and helps me to keep faith that mine will too.
In licensed raw dairies WA it is required to put milk in an ice water bath in the fridge for chilling. It chills faster than the freezer and there is no risk of it freezing. Just a thought.
The Fern clip made me wonder if the cows still gravitate to Miah..? 😊
Great vlog with the wonderful animals; thanks for sharing! Blessings to you all 🤗💜🇨🇦
Thank you for another Cow Video, I love and enjoy them.
We love our Dorper sheep. We have two ewes and will breed them in the fall of 23. Not sure if we will buy a ram or borrow one.
I just know I would be a horrible cow farmer. I would be out there lovin on them 24/7. I was surprised to find out cows tend to be mean unless handled alot. I live 2 miles from the Wisconsin border so dairy is plentiful. The butter & cheese is marvelous. Love your farm.
Hey, I'm glad you are feeling better! I no way felt the pain that you did. However, when I deleted wheat, dairy, sugar, and gluten, all the inflammation in my joints went away. If I go out have pizza and a beer the next day my knees are so swollen with inflammation so it's just that quick. Best of luck.
I just realized something Jess, I have a dog named Fern and someone gave me a beautiful German Shepard name Freya. So now I have a Fern and Freya on my "yard" homestead.
Myeah, I'll never keep a Jersey bull on purpose. I bred my little lady to a Belted Galloway bull that is the sweetest little snugglemuffins in the world ❤️ the combination of their two personalities is going to be so good.
I like how you greeted Helen. I’m my head I heard, “HAY girl.”
Enjoyed the video
Bless you Jess !
Delmer is absolutely gorgeous! I'm glad he's going to be allowed to live up to his potential.
I really enjoyed the video today. I love all of your animals and look forward to updates about them.
On Fern, I raise purebred Angus. One thing I leaned after the fact, the last trimester calves put on bone and hair. Soo easy on the grain. And hopefully they are bred to a low bird weight bull and everything should be fine. I sleep in the barn during calving and kidding just watching all.my girls. Take care 🙂
Great approach, all things considered--very realistic and best wishes for you and your family.
I’m so happy with the update!!!! I really was looking forward to the sheep update ♥️. I bless you
Fern and I are due at the same time. :)
Dorper and st Croix mix is good mix and katadin or Barbados black belly are all good cross breeds. Just make sure their on pasture and no grain, you'll have more issues if their being feed alot of grain.
I just got another dairy goat. I think having your own milk is awesome!! ❤
Such beautiful animals. I’m amazed that you keep all their names right. You’re a smart girl!
Your cows are just so sweet
Love 💘 the farm/animal sounds😊
I think Delmar wants to be a friendly cow. Good to get him a home where he can live a full life spreading his good nature. Maybe work the deal so you can use him to breed a couple of your heifers after he moves? He still looks like a fawn to me. So adorable and curious
My husband and I are looking long term at getting cows. Can you go over what yall do to maintain/keep the cows?
Cats get fat from being fed kibble or wet food with non-meat fillers (rice, corn, etc). All fat cats I’ve had lost weight and became ideal weight when the food changed to all-meat wet food, and my 2 female fixed kitties I have now have eaten all-meat wet food their whole lives and are a perfect/slim weight, not fat. Check the food ingredients, cats are carnivores and shouldn’t really eat carbs, so if there’s anything other than meat and vitamins as ingredients in there then that’s probably what’s making them fat.
Delmer will have the best life EVER!! Real ladies man😜
Hi Jess here's a ?great question if you had a bigger freeze dryer would it be possible to dry grass for winter for all your grass🐄🐑🐂 nibblers 🤔😁
I loved that cow update, thanks Jess. Were waiting on a calf here on our Homestead too, we don't know who the bull is either so that is making for a bit of excitement. I'm hoping to get footage of her calving for our RUclips channel 😁
Thank you for the cow update have been missing them
Delmer looks like a well behaved calf.
Awww Delmer is so 😍
You just brought to mind a great child good memory of mine..
I was raised in a family where all my aunt's and uncles were farmers. not my parents though, my dad wanted a buisness degree and we did not live on a farm of our own.... Well as far as I was concerned.... I was ment to be on a farm... Well when 4-H. Season arrived.. I could not wait for the two months of going to my aunt and uncles house full time. In return for letting me go through the 4-H process and going through all the hauling animals to the fairs and state fairs with my rabbits and cows, well I would do chores just like their other FOUR kids. It was a blast. Well we would be doing chores really eirly in the mornings, and one of my older cousins. Well he Did NOT like to get up. Not a morning person at all you could say.... Well we would find him in the barn ... Sleeping. Lol.
Your sweet girls remind me fondly of my time raising my girls.
Hi Jess! Chip and Cherry are a calico cats and calicos are very often less social creatures than many other cats. They are beautiful though ❤️.
At the age delmer is he was probably just taking most of Freyas milk instead of her holding it back. At about 3 months old in a pasture/grass system that’s when I expect the calf to really become a nursing pro 😂 when left to their own devices
Love all the cows and sheep but I will say I do miss the kidding videos!
What a nice surprise to see a video from you today 🥰🙏
Love your channel. Thanks for the content❤
I'm not too far from you (Cross, SC) and I'll have Katahdin babies this May/June
Yes, Jersey bills are NUTS.
I thought it was really funny that you had a goat named Miriam (loved the photo shoot, btw), so I had to send the video to my sister, Miriam. Then I found out you had a cow named Fern, which is my mother's name. So I thought I should suggest you should name someone Ramona, my other sister, and as soon as I had the thought, I see you have a sheep named Ramona! Hello from Arkansas. I grew up in Nashville, Arkansas. My brother was minister of music at the Immanuel Baptist Church in El Dorado several years (like 30) ago. My great grandfather who came to Arkansas was from Newberry, SC. I love your channel!
Our midi jersey came from a farm that raises and uses their own jersey bulls. She has bred over forty years for calm, gentle bulls. That said she will generally only keep a bull for 18 months to three years before they start to get aggressive and go to freezer camp. Just so you know it's possible.
You better be careful! That big smile of your my hurt your face😂
Your farm is so beautiful!
I think that's a great choice for Delmar.