The best part of these videos is when they make each other laugh so often because they all understand the difficulties of the Homestead Life and have learned the funny aspects of everything they do.. Another great video
Or gets hit by vehicles, New Hampshire has a 'Slow Down For Moose' public warning going-on ! Years ago tags for Moose was about 15-times more, now it's limited with population advancing !
I raise cornish cross. My chickens ALWAYS get fully feathered. I have a tin shed coop with a hardware cloth wood framed doors. This coop is fenced with hardware cloth for a run. I keep their feed and water in the coop. I feed as much as they want during the day and don't fill feeders at night. My birds go out to sun. They eat the grass clean around the coop. I herd them in using a stick or a broom over their heads (they think it is prey) and they get shut in for the night just like my laying flock. If your meat birds do not have feathers DON'T FOOL yourselves. They are STRESSED and unhappy. Also I make it easy for myself as I am a 66yr old female homesteader. I layer pine shavings to get rid of smell and keep coop clean. I only have one large clean up after they are butchered. Also....I TAKE THE HEAD right off. I don't make it suffer like so many homesteaders are teaching the wrong way. They still bleed out and it is HUMANE. Hope this helps someone. One more thing...my birds are ready to harvest in 7 weeks!!!! To raise them in those God aweful confined chicken tractors is horrible. Ever notice they don't show you what it is like for those birds when they are 8 weeks old???? PACKED and no room to stretch wings. That is factory farming at a smaller scale. Unhealthy meat to eat too because it is filled with adrenaline. Adrenaline is toxic to humans to consume.
All the best Meg and Ben on your newborn! Glad to hear you’re now ready and waiting for new baby. Very exciting time. So great watching your podcast guys, and enjoy your camaraderie and hearing your life on homesteads. Love your Highlands Al. Very happy Jason you got your fencing and gates all done for a good peace of mind. Happy Days! ☀️👏😁🥰🤗🙏🏻
I love watching you guys hey Al be sure and pray you don't hit any critters on the the road. Those moose are hugh. Loved your putting in the water line Jason. So proud for you. Ben you and Meg did a great garden tour. Keep up the good work. God bless the new baby's arrival.
I went into chicken coop one day and found that a nest box was totally black. Backed up and went to garage to get a pruner that has extensions, and went back in to remove snake. Turned out he was harmless, except for the eggs he was eating, don't remember the name of the snake. But he had eaten six eggs, and I know that because after pulling him out of the coop with said pruners, I had chopped him almost in half. Oops, sorry snake, don't scare me like that next time.
Love your podcast guys. I’m from Al’s neck of the woods, but now live in Los Angeles. Never farmed, but I do love your individual videos and this weekly “summary” of what you’ve been up to.
Wolf spiders and their babies bite and there is no pain to know that they have bitten you. You begin to feel unwell and to develop an itch over the next two days. Then, it gets worse with pain, especially bone pain at night, for about three months. I had about 200+ bites down one leg when a female with babies got caught in my clothes after a bathroom trip on a train between San Diego and Oakland. I was given a steroid cream for the bites to keep them from festering and tearing down the tissues and an opiod for the pain...
Oh California winters😂 Born and raised in Central Valley, it rained and had wind but we swam around Christmas. Moved to OR as an adult and WE have winter!! Love to hear about your lives. You three do a great job.
I count the minutes on Fridays until I see the podcast has been posted. You guys are just so lovable in your own ways. Safe delivery for Meg and healthy baby, blessings to Jason and Al and all 3 families.
@Al , similar to what I tell people when they ask if I worry about earthquakes... I always remind them there is no earthquake season like for tornadoes, blizzards, hurricanes, etc. lol.
I have to share a wolf spider story with you guys. My two younger brothers came out to my place in the country to help me get some clean-up done in my yard. We were all raised in the city, but I had become acclimated to the insect population, and they to me. Mike and David were loading things into my garden cart to take to the dumpster when they discovered a wolf spider about 1.5 inches in diameter. A medium-sized one in my experience here in Texas. Mike the elder shouts, "Hey, Z we got a huge spider in your cart. What should we do with it?" I walk back to see the huge spider and see a juvenile. I picked up a stick and shooed it out of the cart saying, "Crisis averted, city boys!" 🤣🤣🤣 Check out the video: "Moose Drunk on Fermented Apples and Stuck in the Tree!" 🤣🤣🤣 Ben, it is quite simple. Deer are naturally suicidal.
I'm from Sweden and here it's not uncommon with car accidents with moose. Right now there's a live feed on TV from an area not far from where I live. A lot of moose migrate during spring and for several years we've been able to watch this on TV - they call it slow tv. 😂 This year more countries are able to watch too.
Kudos to all of you I love this talk sharing the journey. What an opportunity for not only the three of you gaining support but the knowledge shared with others. Very much enjoyed and this time sending good vibes to Meg & Baby. Have a good week
It’s killer Heat .(Texas) I get out early and then around 7ish pm to 🥵 🌱🌱 but you gotta keep checking out for them bugs. I’ve been seeing people telling me bugs are out already doing damage to their plants.
Jason, you can still push the intestine that's protruding through the hole of the hernia and tape it closed now. This is what they do for the human that can't fet the surgery done for a while. Use something that keeps the intestine from pushing out again and tape it shut. My son had a hernia when he was maybe 10 and we used a fifty cent piece which was big enough to keep it from pushing out again. The longer you can keep that pig growing the more benefit it will be to you. It's not painful unless the intestine gets caught in the hole and becomes strangulated like you described.
Been i think you don't have water snakes because the black snakes are territorial and keep away the poisonous ones. We are east of Knoxville-a snakes and no BBB copperheads!
Ben you should ask Jason to grow you some sheep since he has so much healthy grass 😊. I would cool see the two families together. Jason grows and Ben does the harvesting of the animal. + It helps Jason land 😊
Hey guys you could try pushing the hernia back in and place a golf ball on it and then tape it up real tight holding the ball tight in the hole. Maybe use some duct tape. Good luck Jason.
Al, your doors probably bowed because you finished and sealed the outer side but not the inner side. So the inner side is drying out faster than the outer side and causing the wood to contract on the inner side of the wood leaving it bowed outward.
Wow, number 46! Yup, I remember wolf spiders that made a tapping noise across my papers when I was doing homework. They were pretty big. Those snakes are weird looking Ben. I'm glad you don't have to deal with those huge bugs anymore. I'm glad you got the black snakes Jason. So great that the highland cows are so gentle Al. Nice that you can breed them with your Azalea Jersey cow. Nice, you plan on another female cow for breeding too. Too bad about the animal doors on your barn. Cool, 2 metal pig huts. Good idea to have the inspections after the baby! Pigs do have personalities. Congratulations for helping put the fire out Jason! Yay, you got your 7 acres all fenced in! It must be great to know your meat birds are better protected for the butchering classes. Yup, those Cornish Cross meat birds are the best! I tried the Murray MacMurray Big Red Broiler and they just didn't grow as fast. The rooster I had out of that batch was beautiful. He didn't last. Another rooster got him. Our male pig that had a hernia couldn't be castrated but he grew out just fine. He was delicious! We didn't have the gene so we couldn't taste the boar's taint. The farmer gave him to us with the two gilts we bought. Then we had 3 pigs to raise and we grew them out 5 months. Humid misery in North Carolina right now! Yes, animals are delicious. Home grown is the best! Thanks for doing these podcasts guys!
I watch on RUclips instead of listening elsewhere because I love watching all your expressions. I think like Jason, I move through the world like Ben and I act like Al (but wish I could build like him.) All 3 of these men (& their wives) have similar skills but express differently. ❤ Jason & Ben encouraged me to try to build things, etc. I learned I could. They all speak to me differently on similar subjects. That helps me engage. I watch and learn from all of your families, jumping in at whatever level I am at. I remember G looking nervous cooking in front of camera years ago, to looking so confident. M, like me, has a recipe, but also cooks by feel, and L, love what u serve your family and would love a couple shots included of a meal here and there more often, even if u don’t want to talk about it. ❤ Thanks! ~another southern CA transplant
…and also, these women don’t just cook. They work their space, their land, care for their animals (and of course, the children!😂) Didn’t mean to imply that it was “just cooking.” However, I enjoy watching that part of their lives because I didn’t have that example growing up but now I’m able to do ask the things because they gave me a peek . ❤
I LIVE ON THE IOWA/ILLINOIS BORDER. I DONT DRIVE AT NIGHT IF I CANT HELP IT. THE DEER ARE NUTS HERE. ESPECIALLY WHEN THE CORN FIELDS ARE HARVESTED. IVE PERSONALLY NEVER HIT A DEER, ITS ALWAYS BEEN A BIG FEAR OF MINE.
We have a quarter sized black and orange spider in NM. Very aggressive, when I had brain surgery one of two in my bedroom left into my pjs and bit me throughout the night. I finally got it out and went back to bed to recover. Nasty wooly spider. My sister hit a full grown bear once, totaled her car.
Talking about weird bugs! When we moved here to Alabama from the city in Conn I'll tell ya when I seen the biggest roach ever, well here they call them palmetto bugs.Nah them are huge roaches! Then the stink bug, oh and the stick bug. Lawdy I was like what!! Lol
I believe Cornish cross are white on purpose. White feathers show up a lot less if they're accidentally left behind. Commercial Growers don't want to have to deal with dark feathers left on the birds.
al, found this on google while you guys chatted. In the broiler industry, males and females are transferred from the pullet farm to the production farm between 18 and 23 weeks of age. Broiler breeders reproduce by natural mating, which allows a number of males to mix with an entire flock of hens. The goal of the chicken industry is to produce chicken meat at the least possible cost, and AI does not do that. For example, nearly all turkey raised today has to be artificially inseminated because the broad breasted white males are too front-heavy to “reach” to procreate. Artificial insemination (AI) is not routinely used in commercial chicken production systems in the United States because natural mating results in adequate fertility levels. However, AI is routinely used in special breeding work for research purposes. For example, modern Cornish X chickens are often artificially inseminated because of their huge breasts.
They do have dark colored broilers! Hoovers and I think Meyers, have what they call Royal Grey Broilers. We tested last year and posted on our page Rangers, Corns, and Greys. The Corns still grow the fastest, but I lost a couple to broken legs and the lack of mobility remains an issue. Especially if you want them on grass actually foraging. The Greys perform somewhere in the middle of Rangers and Corns. We switched entirely to Grey, and decided to just push them to the 10 week range as we prefer and bigger finished bird so one can feed all 5 of us. It’s much more enjoyable to have a full feathered finished bird that can actually move lol, and honestly just about everything we grow I try to be different than the regular.
Al, saw that on your channel. I found if you screw aluminum angle on the backside it helps. I have the same problem with constant temperature and humidity change. Northeast Washington.
🇦🇺I’ve lived in PNG where we had guria’s (earthquakes). In Darwin we had Cyclones, crocodiles, sharks and poisonous snakes. In Adelaide, South Australia we had snakes and great white sharks. Now I live in Queensland and we have sharks and rip tides and poisonous snakes. There’s always something. I would be using a bull bar with spotlights if your travelling in the country. We would always travel at night and have a noise maker that you can press, it makes sounds like explosions, automatic weapons etc play it over a loud speaker to keep kangaroos, camels and water buffalo off the road.
My uncle worked for highway maintenance and he was driving down the lake Superior north shore when a moose fell off the cliff, landed with his front legs on the driver's side of his hood and his back legs off the passenger side. It pushed in the windshield but didn't come into the cab. The moose got off the truck hood and proceeded to kick in the driver's side door and then walk away. There was some traffic on the highway so there were a few witnesses but years before cell phone so no pictures other than of the truck. Uncle was fine except for a few scratches from brushing glass off his clothes.
He was fine, I'm 74 now and this happened when I was a senior in high school. Now days he would have had a cell phone and the guy that saw the moose falling off the cliff would have posted a video. Back then the radio he had in the truck was out of range to even call for assistance. He gave the shop number to the guy that stopped and he called it in.
I had a moose try to stomp one of my dogs this winter. 😳. They are big, beautiful animals but they can be very aggressive especially if they have their young with them and they are fast! They can plow through 4 feet of snow like it isnt even there. I often have moose on my acreage but i give them plenty of space. Not many things i wouldnt send my boys 🐕 🐕 after but that moose was not backing down and my dog was way to close.
Good morning from Delaware. Really enjoy your videos both as a group and individually. Hope to see the channel continue to grow. Viewers can learn so much as you guys play off each other.
We must of got the worlds best deal on metal pig hut. My husband noticed on his way to work a place that never had pigs but for several years had the metal hut sitting there. He stopped and asked about it the guys said ya he bought it cheap at an auction and had never used it. He said give him 25 dollars and haul it off. The only cheap thing about the 3 years we breed pigs was that hut.Jason the jurassic park story was so FUNNY!
💕💗💕🙏🙏🙏 great podcast Ben, Jason, and Al. Success with your workshop, Jason and congratulations on finishing your fencing. Prayers for an easy delivery for MEG and healthy Baby, Ben. Al, sorry you had to redo three of your doors, Hope they don’t bow again. Have a blessed weekend.💕💕💕
. Good Luck Ben and Meg on the safe arrival of baby. Thanks guy`s for the podcast, always interesting.
The best part of these videos is when they make each other laugh so often because they all understand the difficulties of the Homestead Life and have learned the funny aspects of everything they do.. Another great video
Thank you really enjoy watching and listening ❤😊
Jason U look 10 yrs younger since the gates and fence .. All good for you all ❤
I love ALL Homestead Shop Talk Podcast videos!
We appreciate you guys, always fun to listen in on your conversations!
Good luck with the birth of your baby, Meg and Ben.
Sunday was a false alarm, no Thursday video. Who else thinks baby may be here?
Me I think the sprout is out 😅
I look forward to the 3 of you writing books.
BLESSED MOTHERS DAY.
GOD BLESS YOU. SE MICHIGAN 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏 🙏
THANK YOU
A full grown moose has limited predators and just wander around looking for food all day 🙂
To see a big bull run through the thick woods with his big set of antlers is something else !
Or gets hit by vehicles, New Hampshire has a 'Slow Down For Moose' public warning going-on !
Years ago tags for Moose was about 15-times more, now it's limited with population advancing !
I raise cornish cross. My chickens ALWAYS get fully feathered. I have a tin shed coop with a hardware cloth wood framed doors. This coop is fenced with hardware cloth for a run. I keep their feed and water in the coop. I feed as much as they want during the day and don't fill feeders at night. My birds go out to sun. They eat the grass clean around the coop. I herd them in using a stick or a broom over their heads (they think it is prey) and they get shut in for the night just like my laying flock. If your meat birds do not have feathers DON'T FOOL yourselves. They are STRESSED and unhappy. Also I make it easy for myself as I am a 66yr old female homesteader. I layer pine shavings to get rid of smell and keep coop clean. I only have one large clean up after they are butchered. Also....I TAKE THE HEAD right off. I don't make it suffer like so many homesteaders are teaching the wrong way. They still bleed out and it is HUMANE. Hope this helps someone. One more thing...my birds are ready to harvest in 7 weeks!!!! To raise them in those God aweful confined chicken tractors is horrible. Ever notice they don't show you what it is like for those birds when they are 8 weeks old???? PACKED and no room to stretch wings. That is factory farming at a smaller scale. Unhealthy meat to eat too because it is filled with adrenaline. Adrenaline is toxic to humans to consume.
All the best Meg and Ben on your newborn! Glad to hear you’re now ready and waiting for new baby. Very exciting time. So great watching your podcast guys, and enjoy your camaraderie and hearing your life on homesteads. Love your Highlands Al. Very happy Jason you got your fencing and gates all done for a good peace of mind. Happy Days! ☀️👏😁🥰🤗🙏🏻
I love watching you guys hey Al be sure and pray you don't hit any critters on the the road. Those moose are hugh. Loved your putting in the water line Jason. So proud for you.
Ben you and Meg did a great garden tour. Keep up the good work. God bless the new baby's arrival.
Can't wait for good, healthy baby news!!!
As always a relaxing enjoyable podcast. Ben and Meg I am praying for a safe and healthy delivery. Can not Wait to hear!
I went into chicken coop one day and found that a nest box was totally black. Backed up and went to garage to get a pruner that has extensions, and went back in to remove snake. Turned out he was harmless, except for the eggs he was eating, don't remember the name of the snake. But he had eaten six eggs, and I know that because after pulling him out of the coop with said pruners, I had chopped him almost in half. Oops, sorry snake, don't scare me like that next time.
Love your podcast guys. I’m from Al’s neck of the woods, but now live in Los Angeles. Never farmed, but I do love your individual videos and this weekly “summary” of what you’ve been up to.
I'm with you, Al. I also live in a place with real winter, but no tornados, earthquakes or hurricanes. We do have wildfires though.
Wolf spiders and their babies bite and there is no pain to know that they have bitten you. You begin to feel unwell and to develop an itch over the next two days. Then, it gets worse with pain, especially bone pain at night, for about three months. I had about 200+ bites down one leg when a female with babies got caught in my clothes after a bathroom trip on a train between San Diego and Oakland. I was given a steroid cream for the bites to keep them from festering and tearing down the tissues and an opiod for the pain...
Oh California winters😂 Born and raised in Central Valley, it rained and had wind but we swam around Christmas. Moved to OR as an adult and WE have winter!! Love to hear about your lives. You three do a great job.
I count the minutes on Fridays until I see the podcast has been posted. You guys are just so lovable in your own ways. Safe delivery for Meg and healthy baby, blessings to Jason and Al and all 3 families.
Great podcast enjoying the comradely. Sharing experiences between friends and educational input for other homesteaders and newcomers.
Nachos must have jalepenos🌶️
Its weird that I didn't get a notification from RUclips even though I have the notifications on 🤔
Al has bears too.
If the herina doesn't get bigger it may be fine the problem is if it gets big enough to pinch the intestine off so nothing can pass through it.
Happy Mother's Day to your better half wonderful women.
@Al , similar to what I tell people when they ask if I worry about earthquakes... I always remind them there is no earthquake season like for tornadoes, blizzards, hurricanes, etc. lol.
I'm excited for next week's "announcements". 😊
I always look forward to next weeks podcast.
I have to share a wolf spider story with you guys. My two younger brothers came out to my place in the country to help me get some clean-up done in my yard. We were all raised in the city, but I had become acclimated to the insect population, and they to me. Mike and David were loading things into my garden cart to take to the dumpster when they discovered a wolf spider about 1.5 inches in diameter. A medium-sized one in my experience here in Texas. Mike the elder shouts, "Hey, Z we got a huge spider in your cart. What should we do with it?" I walk back to see the huge spider and see a juvenile. I picked up a stick and shooed it out of the cart saying, "Crisis averted, city boys!" 🤣🤣🤣
Check out the video: "Moose Drunk on Fermented Apples and Stuck in the Tree!" 🤣🤣🤣
Ben, it is quite simple. Deer are naturally suicidal.
Hi guy ..,I’m all late .. I have had a busy week..yes I’m super busy in my gardens ..🌱🌱🌱
I'm from Sweden and here it's not uncommon with car accidents with moose.
Right now there's a live feed on TV from an area not far from where I live. A lot of moose migrate during spring and for several years we've been able to watch this on TV - they call it slow tv. 😂 This year more countries are able to watch too.
Great chat guys! Can’t wait for the baby news and all the new animal updates! Peace and blessings! 🤗
Glad to hear that the fencing is complete. Kinda expected the dogs to attack with 1gate left
2.1 inch yesterday. Back yard has a 24 inch drain pipe, was over the top flood my neighbors.
Kudos to all of you I love this talk sharing the journey. What an opportunity for not only the three of you gaining support but the knowledge shared with others.
Very much enjoyed and this time sending good vibes to Meg & Baby.
Have a good week
Meat chicken, only about 3 major breeders world wide..you get what works for their balance sheet
i could never live in a warm climate i have lived in Canada all my life hugsssssss
It’s killer Heat .(Texas)
I get out early and then around 7ish pm to 🥵
🌱🌱 but you gotta keep checking out for them bugs. I’ve been seeing people telling me bugs are out already doing damage to their plants.
I love to listen to this as I get ready to fall asleep. You guys and families are amazing! Keep up the good work and love the pods. Be blessed❤
Every time I see a video of a gator in someone's yard or the giant snakes down south I'm grateful for Michigan winters. Blizzards >>> lizards.
I'm in SE MI.
Love the U.P.
and Northern
Jason, you can still push the intestine that's protruding through the hole of the hernia and tape it closed now. This is what they do for the human that can't fet the surgery done for a while. Use something that keeps the intestine from pushing out again and tape it shut. My son had a hernia when he was maybe 10 and we used a fifty cent piece which was big enough to keep it from pushing out again. The longer you can keep that pig growing the more benefit it will be to you. It's not painful unless the intestine gets caught in the hole and becomes strangulated like you described.
Soooooo @ Al when are you having a meat chicken class in New England ????
I was in Vermont in 1995/6 when there was a small tornado near Brattleboro. We have also had a few small tornadoes in South Africa.
Meg seems like a sweetheart!
Been i think you don't have water snakes because the black snakes are territorial and keep away the poisonous ones. We are east of Knoxville-a snakes and no BBB copperheads!
They have butterfly stitches. Maybe they would work.
Thanks for the video!
Can’t wait until next week 😅😊👍
Good Morning y'all
Ben you should ask Jason to grow you some sheep since he has so much healthy grass 😊. I would cool see the two families together. Jason grows and Ben does the harvesting of the animal. + It helps Jason land 😊
Hello guys. So glad to be here with ya. Much love and tks for pod cast.
There's like 16 different breeds, crossbred in a specific order to get a Cornish cross.
Yup great fun. Waiting for BABY
Enjoyed another one
Good morning from Middle Tennessee. Look forward to your shoptalk every Friday morning.
Hey guys you could try pushing the hernia back in and place a golf ball on it and then tape it up real tight holding the ball tight in the hole. Maybe use some duct tape. Good luck Jason.
I love how you all practice striving for progress over perfection. You set great examples of dealing with adversities.
Thanks another good one.
Enjoyed the podcast 😊
I GOOGLED CAMEL SPIDERS. THATS A BIG NOPE FOR ME
Really!!!! I’ve had a hernia and I’m 84 now . Doc said if I have a problem get to the E R right away.
Good sunny morning from Michigan. Wait for the garden to dry so I can plant potatoes.
Build in the cooler weather of the fall Ben.
Again . . nice one guys. . .
Commercial ag worked hard to get white easier to butcher can't see the pin feathers.
Al, your doors probably bowed because you finished and sealed the outer side but not the inner side. So the inner side is drying out faster than the outer side and causing the wood to contract on the inner side of the wood leaving it bowed outward.
Wow, number 46! Yup, I remember wolf spiders that made a tapping noise across my papers when I was doing homework. They were pretty big. Those snakes are weird looking Ben. I'm glad you don't have to deal with those huge bugs anymore. I'm glad you got the black snakes Jason. So great that the highland cows are so gentle Al. Nice that you can breed them with your Azalea Jersey cow. Nice, you plan on another female cow for breeding too. Too bad about the animal doors on your barn. Cool, 2 metal pig huts. Good idea to have the inspections after the baby! Pigs do have personalities. Congratulations for helping put the fire out Jason! Yay, you got your 7 acres all fenced in! It must be great to know your meat birds are better protected for the butchering classes. Yup, those Cornish Cross meat birds are the best! I tried the Murray MacMurray Big Red Broiler and they just didn't grow as fast. The rooster I had out of that batch was beautiful. He didn't last. Another rooster got him. Our male pig that had a hernia couldn't be castrated but he grew out just fine. He was delicious! We didn't have the gene so we couldn't taste the boar's taint. The farmer gave him to us with the two gilts we bought. Then we had 3 pigs to raise and we grew them out 5 months. Humid misery in North Carolina right now! Yes, animals are delicious. Home grown is the best! Thanks for doing these podcasts guys!
I went in to labour by doing digging in a sunken garden. Lol
Take it to the vet and get it fixed 🐷
Enjoyed listening to you three chatting.💕💕🌻🌻
I watch on RUclips instead of listening elsewhere because I love watching all your expressions. I think like Jason, I move through the world like Ben and I act like Al (but wish I could build like him.) All 3 of these men (& their wives) have similar skills but express differently. ❤ Jason & Ben encouraged me to try to build things, etc. I learned I could. They all speak to me differently on similar subjects. That helps me engage. I watch and learn from all of your families, jumping in at whatever level I am at. I remember G looking nervous cooking in front of camera years ago, to looking so confident. M, like me, has a recipe, but also cooks by feel, and L, love what u serve your family and would love a couple shots included of a meal here and there more often, even if u don’t want to talk about it. ❤ Thanks! ~another southern CA transplant
…and also, these women don’t just cook. They work their space, their land, care for their animals (and of course, the children!😂) Didn’t mean to imply that it was “just cooking.” However, I enjoy watching that part of their lives because I didn’t have that example growing up but now I’m able to do ask the things because they gave me a peek . ❤
I LIVE ON THE IOWA/ILLINOIS BORDER. I DONT DRIVE AT NIGHT IF I CANT HELP IT. THE DEER ARE NUTS HERE. ESPECIALLY WHEN THE CORN FIELDS ARE HARVESTED. IVE PERSONALLY NEVER HIT A DEER, ITS ALWAYS BEEN A BIG FEAR OF MINE.
Al and Jasons secret is told by watching their eyes !
Glad to see you're all expanding! 👍🫡
We have a quarter sized black and orange spider in NM. Very aggressive, when I had brain surgery one of two in my bedroom left into my pjs and bit me throughout the night. I finally got it out and went back to bed to recover. Nasty wooly spider.
My sister hit a full grown bear once, totaled her car.
Talking about weird bugs! When we moved here to Alabama from the city in Conn I'll tell ya when I seen the biggest roach ever, well here they call them palmetto bugs.Nah them are huge roaches! Then the stink bug, oh and the stick bug. Lawdy I was like what!! Lol
I've seen a transport truck hit a moose and totaled the truck, but the moose walked away. It's like hitting a wall. Not many survive.
I believe Cornish cross are white on purpose. White feathers show up a lot less if they're accidentally left behind. Commercial Growers don't want to have to deal with dark feathers left on the birds.
They're all " CLONES" from one super chicken !!
al, found this on google while you guys chatted. In the broiler industry, males and females are transferred from the pullet farm to the production farm between 18 and 23 weeks of age. Broiler breeders reproduce by natural mating, which allows a number of males to mix with an entire flock of hens.
The goal of the chicken industry is to produce chicken meat at the least possible cost, and AI does not do that. For example, nearly all turkey raised today has to be artificially inseminated because the broad breasted white males are too front-heavy to “reach” to procreate.
Artificial insemination (AI) is not routinely used in commercial chicken production systems in the United States because natural mating results in adequate fertility levels. However, AI is routinely used in special breeding work for research purposes. For example, modern Cornish X chickens are often artificially inseminated because of their huge breasts.
Volunteer fire truck, & notary. Lol
That's a Volunteer Mini fire truck & part-time notary !
They do have dark colored broilers! Hoovers and I think Meyers, have what they call Royal Grey Broilers. We tested last year and posted on our page Rangers, Corns, and Greys. The Corns still grow the fastest, but I lost a couple to broken legs and the lack of mobility remains an issue. Especially if you want them on grass actually foraging. The Greys perform somewhere in the middle of Rangers and Corns. We switched entirely to Grey, and decided to just push them to the 10 week range as we prefer and bigger finished bird so one can feed all 5 of us. It’s much more enjoyable to have a full feathered finished bird that can actually move lol, and honestly just about everything we grow I try to be different than the regular.
Al, saw that on your channel. I found if you screw aluminum angle on the backside it helps. I have the same problem with constant temperature and humidity change. Northeast Washington.
🇦🇺I’ve lived in PNG where we had guria’s (earthquakes). In Darwin we had Cyclones, crocodiles, sharks and poisonous snakes. In Adelaide, South Australia we had snakes and great white sharks. Now I live in Queensland and we have sharks and rip tides and poisonous snakes. There’s always something.
I would be using a bull bar with spotlights if your travelling in the country. We would always travel at night and have a noise maker that you can press, it makes sounds like explosions, automatic weapons etc play it over a loud speaker to keep kangaroos, camels and water buffalo off the road.
My uncle worked for highway maintenance and he was driving down the lake Superior north shore when a moose fell off the cliff, landed with his front legs on the driver's side of his hood and his back legs off the passenger side. It pushed in the windshield but didn't come into the cab. The moose got off the truck hood and proceeded to kick in the driver's side door and then walk away. There was some traffic on the highway so there were a few witnesses but years before cell phone so no pictures other than of the truck. Uncle was fine except for a few scratches from brushing glass off his clothes.
Wow, you can't make up this stuff, good to hear Uncle was ok.
He was fine, I'm 74 now and this happened when I was a senior in high school. Now days he would have had a cell phone and the guy that saw the moose falling off the cliff would have posted a video. Back then the radio he had in the truck was out of range to even call for assistance. He gave the shop number to the guy that stopped and he called it in.
@@terithibault6717 this story will never get old, who would ever think a moose would fall off a cliff and land on a vehicle `and Uncle walked away
Thanks!
Love watching you guys here and on your channels❤
Jurassic Park PTSD. :)
Hurricanes are biggest fear here.
Great job guys as always!
Black Snakes are wonderful and should never be harmed. They are extremely territorial and I watch one eat a copperhead WHOLE....it was incredible
I had a moose try to stomp one of my dogs this winter. 😳. They are big, beautiful animals but they can be very aggressive especially if they have their young with them and they are fast! They can plow through 4 feet of snow like it isnt even there. I often have moose on my acreage but i give them plenty of space. Not many things i wouldnt send my boys 🐕 🐕 after but that moose was not backing down and my dog was way to close.
Good morning from Delaware. Really enjoy your videos both as a group and individually. Hope to see the channel continue to grow. Viewers can learn so much as you guys play off each other.
Y’all are really cool! Keep it up.
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Good morning from Barbados.. was waiting for you so glad im seeing you before late afternoon❤
Good morning from Virginia.
Good Friday Morning! Best podcast going!
Thanks for listening
We must of got the worlds best deal on metal pig hut. My husband noticed on his way to work a place that never had pigs but for several years had the metal hut sitting there. He stopped and asked about it the guys said ya he bought it cheap at an auction and had never used it. He said give him 25 dollars and haul it off. The only cheap thing about the 3 years we breed pigs was that hut.Jason the jurassic park story was so FUNNY!
💕💗💕🙏🙏🙏 great podcast Ben, Jason, and Al. Success with your workshop, Jason and congratulations on finishing your fencing. Prayers for an easy delivery for MEG and healthy
Baby, Ben. Al, sorry you had to redo three of your doors, Hope they don’t bow again.
Have a blessed weekend.💕💕💕
Are you all ever planning to visit each other’s homesteads?
Well here in Australia we have all the nasties. Most venomous in the world. Big spiders called huntsman size od dinner plates.
Always a few good laughs, cheers.