We CHANGED our minds.
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- Опубликовано: 10 сен 2024
- Today we let the baby ducks out to free range, check on how tame the pigs are getting, and talk about a decision we've made that has changed.
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A million thanks for your honesty. Other "homesteaders" who have been "homesteading" for 2 weeks think they have the processed nailed and they don't. I've been farming/ranching for decades and it's still a learning process and I'm 75.
My mother passed away on May 23..I now have her cockatiel...he had be very depressed till he heard the ducks and the chickens etc and he perked right up! Now we play a bunch of older videos to help him adjust...All our animals are to far from the house for him to hear very well...now he’s eating and whistling ...Living Tradition Homestead even helps birds! ...Lol!
I am sorry for your loss Bonnie. 🙏🏼
@@Naneve1970 ...Thank you so much.
How sweet so glad u were intuned to his grief......
@@lcostantino7931 ... I'm happy to say he's still going strong... when we are going out of the house for long stretches ,we still put on his barnyard friends so he doesn't feel lonely.
If I’m having a bad day, your positive attitudes cheer me right up!
My favorite component of your videos is your honest discussion. So many people would never admit that the cost of a project is a factor in decision making. Gloss over details of expense and work and challenge and just present the finished project as "the best" when really the only part that matters is that it works!
The fastest way to calm pigs is to use a stick, rub their side then move slowly to their belly. Rubbing their belly till they lay on their side. You then won them over. It's fun to watch them relax an layover. Even grandkids can do this. It's real fun.
I want to come live on your homestead and just help with everything... you two are living a dream! Lots of work but so fulfilling. ♥️
Your ducks are so funny...seems like each one has an opinion and they all have to talk about it! I so enjoy seeing and listening to them!
I really respect your frank honesty in your videos. Some things work & others don’t. Life is just that way. It is great to see you two trouble shoot & problem solve collaboratively and creatively!
Have you ever considered trading...someone helps you with your fencing in exchange for some food supply.
When we lived on the farm, harvesting was too big a project for just the farmers. So they got family, friends and neighbors and made a whole party out of harvesting, canning, etc. Seems like we partied for at least a week. Cookouts. Work the fields in the day and party at night... Meaning food and music and snapping peas and husking corn and water melons and strawberries and jams and sharing from each other's farms....it was a lot of fun.
Love the idea of this!!
Thank you all for sharing and always being so open! We love your channel and the positive attitude you always have! Greetings from another Missouri homestead!! ❤️
Lol ducks are such creatures of habit! Mine always take a few weeks to adjust to any change I make. 😄
My friends struggled with electric fencing until they got it good and grounded and kept the ground rod wet with a dripping water hose in the dryest part of the year.
Another great vlog. We just love watching how you manage your farm. So inspirational . Thank you again. I just can't say it enough.
I like the longer videos but miss seeing you homestead everyday. Thanks for letting us tag along.
~~~ All I can say is I just love what you have done with your land to make it a lovely HOMESTEAD . It has been a true JOY to ask people I know that trust me to come view your channel . On my lap-top your picture and sound comes in great 5 by 5 here in the northern mountains of lovely Georgia . My name is Dave and I moved here 7 years ago from the Great Lakes , and I really miss the deep snow up north..........GOD'S JOY my friends....
Hey guys, welcome to the same weather patterns that us North Carolinians have been experiencing lately, up until today actually. Minus the hail, thank God that it wasn't any larger there. We had a 2 month drought until the last week of May and through til yesterday. But it was just like yours happened with us day and night. We've been blessed for having it to help our gardens. Tyfs and God bless.
Love pigs ,there smart too and your right excellent foragers.
Stay safe and God Bless
Good morning! Love those ducks & goats. Good luck with your new project. God bless
As always I am enjoying your videos. I have raised both cows and goats and both can break right through regular electric fencing. We have used barbless twisted wire and have used high tension wire. Both are much stronger than the thin electric wire. Our goats would still run through the electric. Goats are smart enough to realize it only hurts for a second and then we can go eat the garden. God Bless
my uncle always says that goats are born for 2 reasons... to die or escape. good luck!
I found a mullberry tree hiding in the corner of my yard today. I'm so excited about trying to beat the birds to a harvest next time. God bless!
I live in Northwest Arkansas and we say, " If ya don't like the weather here wait a minute ! " Love your videos !!!
FYI you can use your front end loader on your tractor to put the t post in the ground. That is what we do, much faster when you are doing a number of posts.
The ducks and pigs are the highlight of every video for me.
You guys are having the weather today that we had yesterday down here in the AR.Ozarks. STEAM AND ALL! But we had NO HAIL! I thank the Lord for that. I'm so happy you guys weathered the weather :) I love that the ducklings are getting out of their pen and exploring! SO CUTE!
Thank you for treating your animals humanely Most of all space to move about.
I am so enjoying your videos. It makes me miss our farm. My Dad passed away September 26, 2018. None of us kids wanted the house. When I went after the stuff I wanted, it was so hard to say Goodbye to the farm. I am catching up with all your videos.
Love the music. Goes great with the green scenery which, by the way, is just beautiful!
I love you guys. I learn so much watching your video as I begin to set up my place in so. MO.
WTG Guys the property looks awesome . Looking forward to watching y'all achieve your american dream !!! Really is good seeing good things happen to GOD fearing people ....Congrats !
Keeping the grass and such off the fence will be the biggest issue. Regular walks along the fence line to weed eat will take care of it. We used 4 strands of horse wire in a very hilly wooded area in Virginia, and it worked well for my does and kids. Bucks were housed separately and I used cattle panels. Bucks ignore most anything if there are does around, cattle panels were the only thing I found to keep them in securely. Good luck with everything.
You guys are such an inspiration to me. I am in an electric wheelchair with MS and had to give up gardening. But I miss it so much. I decided this year I am going to try container gardening. The far end of my enclosed deck gets sun all day long. I am going to plant an herb garden and cherry tomatoes and sweet peppers. I have the plants already and today I will use the elevated large boxes to plant. Thank you so much. I love your videos! Patricia Huff, Kernersville NC God Bless!
Good for you:)!
Y’all doing a great job on the Homestead love the Homestead community like V W farm said I Have Found My People. 👍
Keeping it real. Thank you!! Great idea on training. Sharing your successes, failures and solutions is a great way to show what works for you. God bless ❤👍
My friend had a cow named Houdini.. well she was Rosa but the name changed, she could open the paddock gate, dug her self out under the barbwire and yeah it was a constant hunt for said the cow. So she ended up at a out door museum as a petting cow and she calmed down.
Hanna. You made me laugh. Ad a kid I had a shetland pony (star). We ended up calling Steve mcqueen. The great escape. Thanks for reminding me. 🐐
Good morning! Thanks for sharing with us. Fencing....ugh....we have cattle and an occasional fencing repair, but I can’t imagine the expense of goat fencing. Hahaha. I’ve been wanting goats, but keep putting it off due to fencing, so I am excited to see how well this works for y’all! Crazy weather! So glad that your garden wasn’t damaged with the hail. Ducklings are too cute, hopefully they integrate soon and all get along. Take care. God bless ❤️
Here in Michigan I'm in like a small sliver in the middle of the state that is not getting flooded! First year with greenhouse and veggie stand! Hoping my luck holds! I've got everything into this!
James Foster- James, I'm in between Saginaw, Midland and Bay City and we aren't flooded. I wasn't aware MI. was flooded. Usually Midland floods before anywhere else around here and I don't think they're flooded.
@@vgil1278 I freaked out when I opened my news online to see photos of the roads collapsing in Marquette which is really close to my cousins in the UP. I called but no answer which didn't help me stop the panic. I called my other cousin and he said its fine. He talked to them on walkie talkie so they were staying home. Out of trouble.
@@kristinatidwell6563 Collapsing from abandoned mines? I can't remember talking about this.
@@vgil1278 Floods. My cousins said they were staying home!
So interesting! We have goats we want to move into our field to clear brush and weeds so will be watching your videos so we can then try it on our goats. Thank you so much!
The music you all play is amazing. I really like it.
Use the bucket on your tractor to push your T posts in the ground. Works like a charm
My uncle, for 50 years, used 1 strand of electrified barbed wire for his cattle. Just an occasional escapee...and that was from a fallen limb. Good luck with your expansion. I love your place...fancy is way overrated. I would love to have a kitchen with a gas stove...a 1950s. Tappan would be great, and room for a cookstove. All that iron radiates lots of heat.
THAT IS HOW IT US HERE NEAR BUFFALO NEW YORK, RAIN THUNDER THEN LITTLE CKEAR, BUT I THINK IT IS GOING TOO THUNDER AND RAIN ALL DAY. STILL THE GROUND IS COLD HERE. HAVE A GOOD DAY I EVENNG
I tried ten strands of electric for my goats and they still went through it! Only thing that kept them in was welded wire field fence. Good luck!
My goats broke the welded wire. I bought the 2x4 twisted wire in smaller area and field fence on the larger pasture. Electric netting didn't work for me either.
We do "knotted wire" field fence for our goats. No welds to break. The buck pen is sheep and goat fence and that's better but it'd be prohibitively expensive to do our whole pasture with it.
Isnt it interesting that someone can watch a video and come away with a nifty idea that you don't even realize you are showing....like using the cinder boxes to step into and out of the pig pen. That is such a good idea, I had never thought of that.
I really appreciate you guys. Good stuff.
Sounds like us here in SWFL
Love you guys. Wish I had my homestead. Some setbacks for me but I am not nor cannot give it up.
I grew up in New Madrid MO. that weather is typical...four seasons
I've had goats for over twenty years here in Mo. and I tried using 6 strands of electric fence, but had the worst attacks from dogs with it. The dogs (stray or neighbors) went into the fields and got shocked then stayed in there killing and biting until I found and killed them. Since I went to goat field fence and buying Anatolian guardian dogs that live with the herd, we've had no more attacks. The electric is hard to maintain ensuring it's grounded right, etc. If you still decide on electric, I have boxes of clips, tension pulleys and a wire jenny for spooling out the wire that I'd sell. Good luck with your project.
We did two strands spaced between standing five strand barbed wire and the goats always just used their horns to short the wires. Once they figure that out, you may as well get rid of them until you get woven wire. Buy once cry once.
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Enjoyed the visit; thank you for sharing your work, farm, ANIMALS, and lives! God bless each of your tribe! : )
Kevin
This is great 6g , your pigs!!!
They do love to root, ive raised 3 each year for many years, i love your area for them
Happy Pigs!!😎😍
You guys make me want to buy a homestead!!
We had over 100 goats and used the electric fence to corral them which worked perfectly.
I think it would be great to watch a video on how y'all prepare a meal with quail.
I just don't understand negative thumbs down. Rest assured you've got a solid following who enjoy what you're doing. It's fun to watch your bi-polar (that's what I call it here in California) weather.
Wow those flowers look amazing! Y'all have one of the biggest green thumbs on RUclips😍
Beautiful place.
I've never had good luck with electric "hot wire" with goats. The ones that wanted through would just suck it up and run through...under. I have discovered that the deeper you put the ground rod in the ground the stronger the currant.
Very enjoyable video. Thank you, God bless.
Good Morning Kevin and Sara ,
A little chat about the milk cow if I may . First , you have a small family so you do not really need huge amounts of milk. Especially not if you milk once or twice each day .
At this point I will refer you to the Swedish Homestead. Simeon has Scottish Highland beef cattle . They produce a premium beef perhaps a grade above the Black Angus beef cattle. Beef cows you say ? But we want a milk cow . Well , Highland cattle can be milked as well . Mostly , people only think of them as beef cattle and so they do not milk them.
Highland cattle do in fact produce a very high quality milk that may be superior to that of Jersey cows . However , Highland cows do not produce quite as much milk as regular dairy cows. Still , you will have to drink quite a lot of milk to use up each day's milk production. Simeon milks one cow ( Bella ) and has enough milk for a family of five plus enough milk for making butter and cheese. The Highland cattle milk has a high level of cream which is great for making butter and cheese.
The Highland cattle are very hardy with a double fur coat. They will not require a barn for winter. A lean-to type of shelter to protect from the winter wind will be sufficient. Now , for the land area required for cattle . My son was just here visiting me for a couple of days . It was his son ( my grandson ) that was just recently drafted by the Boston Red Sox , to play baseball . I'm looking forward to some home runs from Dean Miller Jr. .Anyway , my son tells me that by conventional thinking , a dairy cow needs fives acres of pasture. However , both Simeon and Joe Salatin utilize much smaller areas than that . Joe goes by what he calls cow days. Or the amount of area that a cow will eat down in one day . Then the cow (s) are moved to a new area ( or paddock ). Rotating each day or two to new paddocks until eventually the cow has returned to the original paddock which has regrown. Highland cattle will also eat a rougher feed than the picky dairy cows. The Highland cattle are also browsers , similar to goats . After a few days the cattle are followed by chickens which will eat insects from the cow patties and by scratching spread the cow manure as well . Basically , animals doing work for you. Over time you will find the quality of your pastures improving also .
After about two years the calves can be slaughtered for beef. Thus the Highland cattle provide you with both dairy and meat . A Highland cow will live for approximately 20 years . Check out Swedish Homestead for more information.
Or move their food and water outside where they can see it. Once they come out close the door. Once they start investigating then you can open it back up
Love you guys! YOU'RE welcome, and, such a BEAUTIFUL family. Thank you for sharing all the hard work you do.
I think the latin name is "Goativia Destructivus". They are also mind readers. Good luck.
Kevin, you may want to try and let go of the post driver at the end of the downward motion. This may help with your back and previous hernia operation. I do it that way and my body doesn’t feel the vibration when the driver hits the post. Hope this helps.
Hello from northeast TN! We raised goats for many years with 3 strands of electric fencing. They learned quickly and we didn't have any trouble keeping them in. We also trained our chickens to stay in the same fence. The goats and chickens make good companions.
I absolutely love how honest & genuine you guys are! Also, I really thought it was awesome you touching base on factory farming with the pigs. Factory farming is just absolutely awful. I tell everyone, if your gonna eat meat, raise it yourself or support a small local farmer. Great video.
The pigs are coming along great! I think you have a much better plan with the goats. It will be so cool to see them and the pigs in the woods together.
I so love watching your channel and learning about the way you do things around your homestead.
Blessings to you!
My daughter and I just decided to change our fencing plans, also largely due to the expense of fencing. We were going for a homemade split rail fence using our own trees, but our chainsaw died, and we really can't afford a new one. Now we're going for just enough trees and repurposed wood for posts, and 4 or 5 wires, not all hot, maybe just top and bottom or every-other one. I hope that will work. I don't want to have to electrify the whole thing, but maybe we should. We're learning as we go. Thanks for sharing your own adventure. God bless.
I'm really enjoying the longer format videos!! So much info and we all get to spend more time with you guys. Cheers!
I spent almost 9 hours watching you/s the other day. THANKS FOR EVERYTHING YOU DO AND SHARE WITH US! God's Blessings ALWAYS ~
This is one of your Sweetest vlogs ever!🙋🐥🐥💖😊My honey is 72 and in a fight for his life. He kept hearing me saying"Awww! So Cute!! " over and over. He watched this on our Tv and laughed, Don't even think about it. My Tomatoes are Fantastic! Love from Pikeville, Tennessee!🙋🐥💖😊🙋👌
Those ducks are so funny.
Down here in Central Florida we experienced the same weird weather about a week ago. Very hard downpours with hail that lasted about 5 minutes then clear blue sky. It repeated all day over and over again for two days and was very different from our normal rain showers. Very strange.
Your videos are just a joy joy to watch. I love the farm scene. Wish I was still in the country. Miss the open yard, animals and freshness to the country living. Thanks for your great videos. Blessings.
Your flowers are beautiful. Yes watch those goats, as cute as they are, they sure do eat things that you don,t want them to eat.
We have a 5 strand barbed wire fence for our cows. If you can find anyone with an excess of cedar trees that they want to thin out you may be able to get post for free. With our goat tracks we had cedar post and 4 in square fencing. If you have an auger it makes putting the post in really easy. The fencing wire my husband rigged a pull on our hay fork for the tractor. Our neighbor down the hill has a one strand electric tape that keeps the cows out of their yard (except the bull). If you know anyone with a dairy you may be able to get a bottle bull calf for really cheap.
I call the big confinement swine operations pig prisons! We raised ours outside in a 40 acre hog lot and butchered 5 or 6 each fall. By far the best pork meat I’ve ever eaten!
When you run farm fence you put post a rod or 16/6 ft . Here in Michigan you have to have farm fence on your out side lines to run livestock .
It's just fun watching you two learn and grow as homesteaders...plus y'all are just friendly people! Keep up the good work n work it is !
I did ground on bottom then hot then ground then hot when I do 5 wires it is hot ground hot ground hot this way if it is dry they will still get shocked
Hi Kevin, If you put the red ribbon on the Pigs Electric wire so they can see it so they nowhere it is before they get zapped with it. Remember a happy Pig means Happy BACON for the Boss. Well hope all thing are coming good, with that rain & sunshine your garden will grow and be greener, that means more work for you & Kevin. Take it easy when you can (bedtime) & have a nice cuppa TEA LOL "O" Coffee where you are. LOL Night :-) :-) :-)
It’s so helpful to see how you do things! Thank you.
We had a rainbow with the sprinkles after that deluge.
May 1st 2021 still love watching your videos
In your area there are farm auctions. A small tractor at a farm estate sale and an auger would make fence posts easy. These sales often have very inexpensive items.
Big thumbs up on your fencing plan, I have raised goats for 40+ years.
We have Highlands and the equine e-rope works well for them though they’re wooly. Since the free range cattle came to public lands around us a few days ago, we’ve had to go to two strands. They *really* want to join those other cows.
I love ALL of your videos, it is my "Go To" instead of watching tv!! God Bless!!
I continually change my mind. I find arguing with myself makes for better outcomes.
I really enjoy your channel, thank you for sharing!
I’m sitting here thinking I don’t understand how the animals know or remember where the fence is or that it’s shocking and then Kevin busts out the red barrier tape 🤦🏼♀️ of course! I’m constantly learning from you guys! Great video and God bless 💕
So much fun and entertaining, and I learned so much about things that I would love to do if I had the ability. The goats learning about the fencing were cute as as were the ducks learning that they can wander out and about glad your garden was safe. Healing. I know it will take a lot of time. I love following you guys so much every time God's blessings and love on you and your family have a safe week.
Sarah, can you come up with a healthy coconut coffee creamer or some other good flavor? The creamers at the store are not healthy. You could share it in a video. Thanks. 😀😀😀
Love the everyday happenings and the changing of minds...nothing is fixed and yes, money is an issue. We have our pig pen built and hot wire is working...hoping we may go get our pigs today!
had too much rain but we will praying for it come August
No truer words ever spoken.
You two are adorable❤❤❤
That weather is just a typical summer's day here in England 🤣
No matter how long you've been homesteading you can always improve on something because of new ideas. It's also fun to see what never changes. Best regards!
The weather in miami is the same, makes planning for anything a bit challenging.
Hi Kevin, I've been watching you, Sarah and the girls on this channel for awhile. I enjoy your videos and candid portrayal of homestead life. I especially enjoy the videos on quail. Your hard work and persistance are really starting to pay off. I don't want to be too prying, but I'm an RN by trade and have noticed some impairment in the 4th and 5th digits on your hands. Have you had a previous cervical spinal cord injury?
Around here, keeping the coyotes out, is as big an issue as keeping the goats in. Six strands of electric works well for both but keeping the weeds out of that fence is another story.
Four strands of barbed wire with just one strand of electric (on extended insulators at row two) works nicely. The extended insulators make managing the weeds with a bush hog much easier.
Very good thoughts on the training pin!
Great video, my husband has that same shirt.