I bet Olivia could help build a she shed! I’d love to see you build a window greenhouse using old windows of all shapes and sizes. With your and Ginas skills and creativity I bet you would make the most amazing and beautiful window greenhouse!
one thing i like about this channel is you get right to it, you don't have some 45 second music intro with some kind of fancy video montage spiel thingy, you get right to it!!!..lol if you ever did that i fast forward thru that stuff!
You may want to cover the floor boards with an old piece of heavy linoleum so it's easy to clean. We used an old chair mat for under an office chair and it's perfect!
I tried Ginas method of putting oil and salt on the jacket potatoes and really liked it. I’m 57 years old and all my life it’s been scrubbed, pricked and baked. I enjoyed ginas method very much 👍🏻
The device you mentioned to allow smaller birds/animals to enter or exit an area, has been called a creeper gate. I learned that from Daniel at Arms Family Homestead.
I have never commented on a youtube video before but had to on yours! It was a real pleasure watching you build! Always nice watching someone with good wood working knowledge and a great personality to go with it! I liked your idea of a creep feeder for your chicks. Never thought about it for birds before. I've got 22 chicks coming in April and that will be a good addition to my coop. Thanks for some good ideas. Happy trails on all your adventures on your place! And God bless you and your family! Oh...and your daughter is a doll!
Always a pleasure watching you build something new. The ornamental cherry trees on my street are already blooming; which tells me Spring is coming. Dinner looked great! God Bless you all.
Al, you have more patience than I do. I would have tacked the chicken wire on with as few staples as needed and used the wood strips to hold it in place. Great work. That coop could survive a hurricane!
Looking good! only thing i would do is to try to get all the small gaps where a snake could push through. They can get through some small spaces. Not sure if you have a lot of problems with them there but I have seen a few other RUclipsrs who have.
The place is coming along, looking great! I love the work you do, nice and neat, and the meals look delicious!!! You're great parents with a great daughter and you're raising her how I was raised and how I raised my children!!! It is super awesome to see you all participate in roll playing as well as your teaching her real life situations and self sufficiency, BUT even more awesome is seeing the 3 of you pray before every meal. That is something that I wasn't taught about every meal and so I wasn't in the ritual of doing so to teach to my kids, though we talked about GOD, The Bible and prayed most nights, we generally missed meal times, it is something I wish I had done, and I am really glad to see you doing so!!! Praise the LORD!!! My daughter and I love asparagus slightly sautéed in olive oil with garlic salt(California Blend with parsley mixed in) and Mrs. Dash or similar and just before reaching the cooked level desired squeezing about 1 to 2 tablespoons of lemon juice just enough to warm the juice then out of the skillet. Add the juice, salt and blended seasonings to your flavor preferences. We love it this way, it cuts a bit of the strength of the flavor of the asparagus just a touch, and just adds more layers to the flavor of the dish as well. We like it cooked so that some or the fresh crispness is still left. I prefer most of my veggies to still retain some of that garden freshness to them, cooked but still some of the fresh rawness as well. That way I also know I haven't harmed all of the nutrients by over cooking also! Or at least that's the way it seems to me and the way I like to think it makes them...LMBO!!! Much love and many blessings, love and grace of our LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, unto you and yours, today, tomorrow and forever!!!
I use to help my father in law build chicken houses for a living. I would use tin snips to cut my chicken wire. It went by quick. Good job, love what you're doing.
It's 22* here in The Texas Hll Country this morning! I just got my fist organic box of meat from a meat market here yesterday and it is locally sourced and all he meat was grass feed! I'm so happy I found a local meat market source for organic meat😀
Justin Rhodes is right when he says Al is the homestead builder extraordinaire!!! I love all of your builds and hope you don't run out of things to make.
LOL! Whenever you say "Nice", it reminds me of Onslo, Hyacinth Bucket's brother-in-law in the britcom, Keeping Up Appearances. LMAO! He had a way of say, "Oh, Nice" that was hilarious - and you remind me of him when you say that. Thanks! I need the laugh, lol... Wanted to add that the gap at the top of the coop - can snakes get up and through that? They might like them a small chick or two or three - and they could steal the eggs from the other flock...
Stoney Ridge Farmer The Ultimate Chicken Tractor! Moving our chickens on to pasture today! Come along on the farm today as I give you some tips and tricks on raising your own flock. Link To Feeders and more. Al, see video below in the reply.
I do like the way you pay attention to details. Like putting a cover board over the chicken wire to add a little class to a chicken coup. I think a lot of people would just let the wire exposed (like me for example) LOL
The asparagus looks great. Thick ones like you had today can be used almost to the end if you peel the tough outer skin like you do with the carrots. Start about where you would normally break them and peel off the outer skin to almost the end.it is as good as the softer tips. I do understand you guys don’t waste the scraps by giving to the animals so it’s not like you are wasting any but asparagus is so good I like to maximize them. My wife and I like your channel and don’t miss any of them. All the best!
I would get sheep too. I have never eaten that I know of but why not. Loves and hugs from the little old lady in New Mexico USA. May God bless you and your family
YES!!! I love lamb chops. Sandi Brock from Canada raises sheep. She's another awesome person to watch farming and get great ideas from (especially during lambing season). Warning! She's addictive as Lumnah Acres is.
Yum, lamb chops. You should try them with garlic & rosemary 4 cloves garlic, 3 tbs olive oil, 1 tbs packed fresh rosemary, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp black pepper process into a sauce and brush it on the chops before grilling on high heat - just delicious...
Join us in the Dallas area Sunday, the temp near 80. Also warm Monday then heavy storms Monday night. Soooooo glad we are getting out of the 40's. Our normal high for this time of year is mid 60's and we have been a little below that much of February.
Good morning Al. It’s 04:30 and I’m up before the family gets up as usual. My Service Dog has to sleep with me at night, she wakes me up when I have bad dreams anyway enough of that Sir. Let’s do this. Love your channel so much. God bless you and the family
We raised a few lambs. They were so cute when they were babies that I thought we could never part with them. When they grew up they really changed, though. It’s like “nobody was home.” So when it came to processing them we didn’t feel so bad about giving them up. One of the lambs we raised was a rejected triplet. Our daughter named her Lullaby. One day when she was a few weeks old I was bottle feeding her while sitting on the floor. She got distracted by one of my children, so I reached out to her and caught her tail. I had forgotten that the farmer who bred her had put a rubber band around her tail - and it fell right off in my hand! The kids shrieked with laughter but were afraid I had hurt her. We all soon discovered that our little black sheep was just fine! She soon lost her sweet personality, though, and became a farm animal destined for the freezer. She ate only the flowers and leaves from the alfalfa we fed her. That turned out to be the best lamb we have ever eaten! The luxury feed was worth it!
Raising the chicks in view of the hens is what I always did. I used chicken. Fencing and when the chicks were older, maybe half grown, left them run with the hens. They didn't fight when they were joined together. Mine were true free range. The gardens were fenced but the hens ran totally free. They always came in at night and all was well.
Adding lambs to your homestead would be great. I helped my mom and dad with a 200+ sheep farm. Raised right, it is some delicious meat and can help with your grazing needs and their droppings are awesome fertilizer. Blessings to your family.
I've been keeping sheep for 6 yrs and absolutely love them! Lamb meat is so good too. You're breeding stock will become pets if you aren't careful lol Halter train them for ease of handling and should you need to move them. Just halter them as youngsters if you have young stock or place halter on mature animals and handle daily. Good luck! :)
That is an awesome coop design! I do love lamb, I think it would be a great addition to the homestead, just watch their worm load. They graze, which means they get down to where the worm eggs are. Goats browse the tops of grass, so they don't get as many worms. Blessings to all.
Good mauhnin Lumnah Acres! Wow, haven’t had a frappe in years! Lol! Beautiful day on the homestead! Dinner looks great Gina and Al! Love a winter bbq. Yes go for the lambs. Take care Lumnahs!
Lamb is my favorite meat, you have the space for it! I find they don’t have the personality like goats so I have no problem with them being cute but food.
I would think a couple lambs on the farm would be great Maybe keep them for a couple years and Olivia and Gina could fleece them to make yarn for some scarfs and hats!
Just wanted to say thank you for showing the grubblies. I couldn’t find them local so I bought a combo cricket/mealworm container. Her 9 eggs were giving 6-8 a day. After cricket/mealworms, they are now giving 12-13 eggs daily. They look like bigger eggs to me too.
This video made me feel hopeful! AL ---- I've narrowed down a country church.. hopefully it stays available long enough for me to be able to acquire it! Fingers crossed.
That is such a nice coop Al. You always make everything so nice. Olivia is going to miss her "store" though. I think you need to build her a playhouse. lol Love all the eggs and the colors of the eggs. Supper looked yummy, I've never eaten any lamb before and I know nothing about raising them. Only steers, and my late husband did those, with help from me sometimes. I wish you luck with any animals you get. I know they will be well cared for and good food for the table.
Gooooooood Morning Al , Gina & Olivia , I had 43 degrees F yesterday which was nice but also raining a little. Not so nice. Then last night the temp dropped and I had snow ! I only got aout 1/2 " to an inch. Not so bad. But , with my uphill driveway , even 1/4" is a problem. This morning I have a low of 21 degrees F , Brrrrr It's interesting to see how different people are from different areas. I have a Chinese girlfriend. Her daughter is here for visit. They are from southern China , near Hong Kong. They are both here inside of the house at 74 degrees F with jackets on. While Olivia is out and about with just a long sleeved shirt on playing in the snow . Gina , I have always prepared asparagus the same way that you are. Snapping off the ends of the stalk. It always seemed wasteful considering the cost of fresh of asparagus. My Chinese girlfriend , Ling , peels the lower half of the asparagus stalk with a vegetable peeler and thus we are able to eat the whole stalk. It works well and considering the cost of asparagus it is worthwhile to do . Especially since asparagus is my favorite vegetable and I'm paying that expensive price. This way I get even more asparagus.
I've noticed dirty eggs and poopy nesting boxes in NYC. 2 months ago you made that thingy that was supposed to block the chickens, from getting into the nesting boxes to roost. What did I miss?
Don't know why but always enjoy watching the "procession" of goats going to their feeder every morning. Really great when "stick man" arrives to late to harass them. Amazing how much more energetic the animals are with the increase of temperature. Very cold yesterday, you had to wait for them to decide the food was worth coming outside, but, not to day.
Hate to tell you the the opening s in your new coop will not keep out Squirrels or Raccoons or any of the other kritters that will eat Chickens or there eggs. but other wise it looks great!
Looking good Al, the only thing I would change is the wall, I would raise it a little bit for cleaning, or maybe put some kind of latch mechanism on it to remove for cleaning, great job, cant wait to see the chicks in it!!!!
Beautiful brooder. If you have rats in your area I would be concerned about that gap near the roof. Thanks again for your family oriented programming !
Yes..!!!! Something nice and roomy so her Imagination and Creativity can Flourish..!!! As well as, have somewhere for her to have fun with friends, cousins and campouts😁 She has an Awesome Imagination and will find her Passion in that space.. Olivia Rocks😍
I like how you think , great idea , Just always remember to make things adaptable . Too many engineers have no common sense , and I can see you are thinking about the future and what may need to be altered for other uses etc .
Poison Ivy Everything I have read points to overgrazing and inbreeding as the root cause of parasites and disease in sheep. If they are allowed to graze an area down to the roots rather than being rotationally grazed they consume their own feces as well as larva which reside at ground level. In my part of the country sheep typically need only be de-wormed once a year and grazed on native grass (rather than hay or grain)to be healthy and free from parasites. The reason it is expensive in the US has more to do with the popularity and availability of beef than the difficulty in raising sheep.
FYI Gina the fat asparagus are the first out if the crown . The thin ones are the tail end of crown. Just a snipite I learned. It's all in preference I think. The ladies are at work again making eggs! It's pouring rain, any chance of snow is gone😞. Hi to Livy and Gina and you too Al lol! JO JO IN VT 💕☃ 😊
Great job on finishing up the inside of the coop (except for the little door). How about some easy to clean flooring. It is nice to have a sneak preview of Spring with a few warm days. Sheep would be a mighty fine addition to the homestead. Justin Rhodes seems to be having better luck this year with his sheep although you may have to have a more cold hardy breed if there is such a thing. Have a Blessed day.
JudithB the creeper idea is great for bigger critters, but I know my chicks wouldnt survive long here in Arkansas. Cats, rats and snakes would get them in no time. I actually had to hang a cage from the ceiling to keep the snakes out of my guineas keets.
Looks like that things coming along. You're going to have to end up building a playhouse for Olivia. Did you get the CWC license plate? My tracking number didn't tell me whether it was delivered or not. Jimmy
Two possible concerns about the gap up by the roof. First is weasels. They are small and kill the chicken by biting the neck. 2nd. The plastic roof if the raccoons can get a paw in there. I have had them rip my coop roof apart several times with their paws. Then they kept coming back until i got them in a live trap. I really like that coop. I prefer steers over lamb but its a choice😉
Are raccoons strong enough to tear through the plastic roofing you used on that coop? The gap you left between it and the blocking is large enough for them to get their hands and teeth into. And raccoons love them some free chicken dinners!
Depends on time and motivation. My parents left on vacation and apparently a raccoon was trapped in their garage/ work shop. Returned to find a 3x3 ft. hole chewed through the strand board wall. Why such a large hole? You see the outside siding is metal roofing panels. That rascal just kept removing wood until he found a seam he could push and squeeze through. Hey, it was life or death for him. No hard feelings. LOL.
We live in a suburban area in Indianapolis, IN and two years ago had a raccoon climb up a downspout to get on our roof then chewed and clawed its way through the shingles, tar paper and wood to get into our attic. The roofers added a metal ridge plate under the shingles this time so it couldn’t get through it again. Thus far so good. 😭 😀
I worry that the creeper gate is too low if you use deep litter. If the bedding gets too deep, baby chicks can walk right through that chicken wire divider.
The "tiny, tiny critter" you might need to worry about getting between the blocking and roof panels is a stoat. The lambs are cute but then so are the baby pigs ;)
Or a rat snake. At least staple the smaller weave chicken wire like half inch or quarter inch. Ought to be stiff enough to "stand up" when stapled on 3 sides, then hand formed to fill the corrugated spaces.
Lambs/Sheep are very cute, but they look kind of tricky to raise as well after watching Justin and Rebekah with them. So many minerals to get right or they have the runs and they are so timid. However, I’m sure Tanner would have a blast with “hearding” them. What about a cute highland cow?
Justin Rhodes had no clue what he was doing. He didn't recognize worms in his sheep and they all suffered and died because of it. It just takes research to learn how to raise them and then you need to actually raise them and not just for your RUclips channel.
There you go, maybe you can make Olivia a Coffee House (instead of a play house) On lamb I tend to put ginger and allspice, and in summer, slice a fig each and let them carmelize over the top when once the chop are almost done. lamb goes well with sweet, sorta like pork can be tasty with sweet,
Olivia maybe needs her own the playhouse or cookwagon to play and pretend in! I love it when she does that. I'm thinking about ordering from that meat company I've ordered from Butcher box before.
After putting up the chicken wire, what if you need to get into the other side to get a chicken for some reason? Do you have a door to get into that other side ? I haven't watched a whole month!! I need to go back and get caught up !! You build everything so perfectly !!
I'm excited for Olivia's for chicks to arrive. If you get sheep, where would you put them and would you need another mini barn like the boys have now? Just curious...
2-3 lambs Would be awesome don't have to fall in love with them to put them on the plate LOL Can't wait to you get some more pigs, I like watching them grow! Keep up the good work Thanks. Z
Lambs are amazing to have around.. Yes they are cute but oh my word do they taste so nice with a bit of mint sauce. or have a look at 'CAWL' (pronounced like cowl ) traditional soup/stew over here in Wales made from lamb our staple meat as it thrives on the steep grass hill sides that we have in abundance
I'm concerned about the chicken wire window protection in the new coop. Why not add 1/2" hardware cloth, right over the chicken wire, for added protection from raccoons that are very adept at bending chicken wire to gain access to your birds. I believe that mink and weasels can crawl through chicken wire too. Just a thought!
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Done! I can't wait for those lamb chops.
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I bet Olivia could help build a she shed! I’d love to see you build a window greenhouse using old windows of all shapes and sizes. With your and Ginas skills and creativity I bet you would make the most amazing and beautiful window greenhouse!
one thing i like about this channel is you get right to it, you don't have some 45 second music intro with some kind of fancy video montage spiel thingy, you get right to it!!!..lol if you ever did that i fast forward thru that stuff!
You may want to cover the floor boards with an old piece of heavy linoleum so it's easy to clean. We used an old chair mat for under an office chair and it's perfect!
Invest in a set of tongs for your grill. Piercing the meat with a fork is lost juices that can make food dry.
That’s so cute the way the girls followed each other down the path.
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I tried Ginas method of putting oil and salt on the jacket potatoes and really liked it. I’m 57 years old and all my life it’s been scrubbed, pricked and baked. I enjoyed ginas method very much 👍🏻
The device you mentioned to allow smaller birds/animals to enter or exit an area, has been called a creeper gate. I learned that from Daniel at Arms Family Homestead.
Yes same
Kevin at Hidden Heights ALSO!
My grandmother had this type of gate in her city coop
I have never commented on a youtube video before but had to on yours! It was a real pleasure watching you build! Always nice watching someone with good wood working knowledge and a great personality to go with it! I liked your idea of a creep feeder for your chicks. Never thought about it for birds before. I've got 22 chicks coming in April and that will be a good addition to my coop. Thanks for some good ideas. Happy trails on all your adventures on your place! And God bless you and your family! Oh...and your daughter is a doll!
Always a pleasure watching you build something new. The ornamental cherry trees on my street are already blooming; which tells me Spring is coming. Dinner looked great! God Bless you all.
Al, you have more patience than I do. I would have tacked the chicken wire on with as few staples as needed and used the wood strips to hold it in place. Great work. That coop could survive a hurricane!
The beauty of your design rests in the fact that you can still put different feed in the brooder area for growing chicks that the hens can't get.
You could make a living just building barns! That is a Taj Mahal chicken coop!😂. Love watching you building skills and farm activities.❤️
Looking good! only thing i would do is to try to get all the small gaps where a snake could push through. They can get through some small spaces. Not sure if you have a lot of problems with them there but I have seen a few other RUclipsrs who have.
The place is coming along, looking great! I love the work you do, nice and neat, and the meals look delicious!!! You're great parents with a great daughter and you're raising her how I was raised and how I raised my children!!! It is super awesome to see you all participate in roll playing as well as your teaching her real life situations and self sufficiency, BUT even more awesome is seeing the 3 of you pray before every meal. That is something that I wasn't taught about every meal and so I wasn't in the ritual of doing so to teach to my kids, though we talked about GOD, The Bible and prayed most nights, we generally missed meal times, it is something I wish I had done, and I am really glad to see you doing so!!! Praise the LORD!!!
My daughter and I love asparagus slightly sautéed in olive oil with garlic salt(California Blend with parsley mixed in) and Mrs. Dash or similar and just before reaching the cooked level desired squeezing about 1 to 2 tablespoons of lemon juice just enough to warm the juice then out of the skillet. Add the juice, salt and blended seasonings to your flavor preferences. We love it this way, it cuts a bit of the strength of the flavor of the asparagus just a touch, and just adds more layers to the flavor of the dish as well.
We like it cooked so that some or the fresh crispness is still left. I prefer most of my veggies to still retain some of that garden freshness to them, cooked but still some of the fresh rawness as well. That way I also know I haven't harmed all of the nutrients by over cooking also! Or at least that's the way it seems to me and the way I like to think it makes them...LMBO!!!
Much love and many blessings, love and grace of our LORD GOD ALMIGHTY, unto you and yours, today, tomorrow and forever!!!
I use to help my father in law build chicken houses for a living. I would use tin snips to cut my chicken wire. It went by quick. Good job, love what you're doing.
It's 22* here in The Texas Hll Country this morning! I just got my fist organic box of meat from a meat market here yesterday and it is locally sourced and all he meat was grass feed! I'm so happy I found a local meat market source for organic meat😀
Justin Rhodes is right when he says Al is the homestead builder extraordinaire!!! I love all of your builds and hope you don't run out of things to make.
Got that right: he is! His previous job gave him a lot of experience he's putting to good use in his projects.
Øyvind Ascanius, what job was that?
@@geo.miller7808 Worked in construction before going full time on homestead in Aug 2018.
@@geo.miller7808 As I understood it, it was cabinet making.
LOL! Whenever you say "Nice", it reminds me of Onslo, Hyacinth Bucket's brother-in-law in the britcom, Keeping Up Appearances. LMAO! He had a way of say, "Oh, Nice" that was hilarious - and you remind me of him when you say that. Thanks! I need the laugh, lol...
Wanted to add that the gap at the top of the coop - can snakes get up and through that? They might like them a small chick or two or three - and they could steal the eggs from the other flock...
Loved that show!
Stoney Ridge Farmer
The Ultimate Chicken Tractor! Moving our chickens on to pasture today! Come along on the farm today as I give you some tips and tricks on raising your own flock. Link To Feeders and more. Al, see video below in the reply.
ruclips.net/video/2dwyaX--GS4/видео.html
I do like the way you pay attention to details. Like putting a cover board over the chicken wire to add a little class to a chicken coup. I think a lot of people would just let the wire exposed (like me for example) LOL
The asparagus looks great. Thick ones like you had today can be used almost to the end if you peel the tough outer skin like you do with the carrots. Start about where you would normally break them and peel off the outer skin to almost the end.it is as good as the softer tips. I do understand you guys don’t waste the scraps by giving to the animals so it’s not like you are wasting any but asparagus is so good I like to maximize them. My wife and I like your channel and don’t miss any of them. All the best!
That is a fancy chicken house. Glad you are getting some warmer weather. The hens are laying better now. 💖🐔🐐
I would get sheep too. I have never eaten that I know of but why not.
Loves and hugs from the little old lady in New Mexico USA. May God bless you and your family
Lambs and a Steer
Be nice to see them in the pasture
And a guardian dog
Next project, a playhouse for Olivia. 😁
YES!!! I love lamb chops. Sandi Brock from Canada raises sheep. She's another awesome person to watch farming and get great ideas from (especially during lambing season). Warning! She's addictive as Lumnah Acres is.
Thanks for the test subject, Al. I'm getting ready to do the same except my build will be Brooder, Coop and Rabbit Hutch attached. Love your work.
Those lamb chops looked great. Celery salt with garlic powder is good on them too. Thanks for another great video.
Yum, lamb chops. You should try them with garlic & rosemary
4 cloves garlic, 3 tbs olive oil, 1 tbs packed fresh rosemary, 1 tsp salt, 1 tsp black pepper
process into a sauce and brush it on the chops before grilling on high heat - just delicious...
Join us in the Dallas area Sunday, the temp near 80. Also warm Monday then heavy storms Monday night. Soooooo glad we are getting out of the 40's. Our normal high for this time of year is mid 60's and we have been a little below that much of February.
Good morning Al. It’s 04:30 and I’m up before the family gets up as usual. My Service Dog has to sleep with me at night, she wakes me up when I have bad dreams anyway enough of that Sir. Let’s do this. Love your channel so much. God bless you and the family
My husband was a Pathfinder! Stay blessed 🙏🤜💞 thank you for your service...✌
It looks fantastic. You’ve done a great job. God bless your family.
We raised a few lambs. They were so cute when they were babies that I thought we could never part with them. When they grew up they really changed, though. It’s like “nobody was home.” So when it came to processing them we didn’t feel so bad about giving them up.
One of the lambs we raised was a rejected triplet. Our daughter named her Lullaby. One day when she was a few weeks old I was bottle feeding her while sitting on the floor. She got distracted by one of my children, so I reached out to her and caught her tail. I had forgotten that the farmer who bred her had put a rubber band around her tail - and it fell right off in my hand! The kids shrieked with laughter but were afraid I had hurt her.
We all soon discovered that our little black sheep was just fine! She soon lost her sweet personality, though, and became a farm animal destined for the freezer.
She ate only the flowers and leaves from the alfalfa we fed her. That turned out to be the best lamb we have ever eaten! The luxury feed was worth it!
Raising the chicks in view of the hens is what I always did. I used chicken. Fencing and when the chicks were older, maybe half grown, left them run with the hens. They didn't fight when they were joined together. Mine were true free range. The gardens were fenced but the hens ran totally free. They always came in at night and all was well.
Adding lambs to your homestead would be great. I helped my mom and dad with a 200+ sheep farm. Raised right, it is some delicious meat and can help with your grazing needs and their droppings are awesome fertilizer. Blessings to your family.
I've been keeping sheep for 6 yrs and absolutely love them! Lamb meat is so good too. You're breeding stock will become pets if you aren't careful lol Halter train them for ease of handling and should you need to move them. Just halter them as youngsters if you have young stock or place halter on mature animals and handle daily. Good luck! :)
Y'all have built some really neat, very useful things like his winter!
That is an awesome coop design! I do love lamb, I think it would be a great addition to the homestead, just watch their worm load. They graze, which means they get down to where the worm eggs are. Goats browse the tops of grass, so they don't get as many worms. Blessings to all.
Good mauhnin Lumnah Acres! Wow, haven’t had a frappe in years! Lol! Beautiful day on the homestead! Dinner looks great Gina and Al! Love a winter bbq. Yes go for the lambs. Take care Lumnahs!
Lamb is my favorite meat, you have the space for it! I find they don’t have the personality like goats so I have no problem with them being cute but food.
not true.. have you ever heard of Mary had a little lamb ?
Gina you should buy the thinner asparagus it is very tender and you only have to cut off very little on the bottom so you don’t have so much waste
I would think a couple lambs on the farm would be great Maybe keep them for a couple years and Olivia and Gina could fleece them to make yarn for some scarfs and hats!
Just wanted to say thank you for showing the grubblies. I couldn’t find them local so I bought a combo cricket/mealworm container. Her 9 eggs were giving 6-8 a day. After cricket/mealworms, they are now giving 12-13 eggs daily. They look like bigger eggs to me too.
Best clip of Tanner “Stick Man” arriving to late to harass the goats just awesome !!!!!!
This video made me feel hopeful!
AL ---- I've narrowed down a country church.. hopefully it stays available long enough for me to be able to acquire it! Fingers crossed.
That is such a nice coop Al. You always make everything so nice. Olivia is going to miss her "store" though. I think you need to build her a playhouse. lol Love all the eggs and the colors of the eggs. Supper looked yummy, I've never eaten any lamb before and I know nothing about raising them. Only steers, and my late husband did those, with help from me sometimes. I wish you luck with any animals you get. I know they will be well cared for and good food for the table.
So sweet watching Daddy and his little girl playing make believe in the chicken coop:-) They grow up to fast🌻
You are such a great builder with a great mind for design.
Gooooooood Morning Al , Gina & Olivia ,
I had 43 degrees F yesterday which was nice but also raining a little. Not so nice. Then last night the temp dropped and I had snow ! I only got aout 1/2 " to an inch. Not so bad. But , with my uphill driveway , even 1/4" is a problem. This morning I have a low of 21 degrees F , Brrrrr It's interesting to see how different people are from different areas. I have a Chinese girlfriend. Her daughter is here for visit. They are from southern China , near Hong Kong. They are both here inside of the house at 74 degrees F with jackets on. While Olivia is out and about with just a long sleeved shirt on playing in the snow .
Gina , I have always prepared asparagus the same way that you are. Snapping off the ends of the stalk. It always seemed wasteful considering the cost of fresh of asparagus. My Chinese girlfriend , Ling , peels the lower half of the asparagus stalk with a vegetable peeler and thus we are able to eat the whole stalk. It works well and considering the cost of asparagus it is worthwhile to do . Especially since asparagus is my favorite vegetable and I'm paying that expensive price.
This way I get even more asparagus.
I've noticed dirty eggs and poopy nesting boxes in NYC. 2 months ago you made that thingy that was supposed to block the chickens, from getting into the nesting boxes to roost. What did I miss?
Love your finishing touch up sandwiching chicken wire it looks finished nice an neat.
Bom dia gosto muito do seu canal adoro seus projetos , parabéns pelo trabalho em família.
Don't know why but always enjoy watching the "procession" of goats going to their feeder every morning. Really great when "stick man" arrives to late to harass them. Amazing how much more energetic the animals are with the increase of temperature. Very cold yesterday, you had to wait for them to decide the food was worth coming outside, but, not to day.
Hate to tell you the the opening s in your new coop will not keep out Squirrels or Raccoons or any of the other kritters that will eat Chickens or there eggs. but other wise it looks great!
Looking good Al, the only thing I would change is the wall, I would raise it a little bit for cleaning, or maybe put some kind of latch mechanism on it to remove for cleaning, great job, cant wait to see the chicks in it!!!!
wow your coop is looking so so so good !! very cute goat feeding in the beginning too !
Try metal drill bits. With the smaller ones they break less and are sharper when they are made for metal
I use a pair of sheers used to clip bushes and you can cut the chicken way faster or use an electric grinder to zip through it too.
Looks delish, Gina. Nice coop Al. Hi to Livy.
Beautiful brooder. If you have rats in your area I would be concerned about that gap near the roof. Thanks again for your family oriented programming !
A vote to add sheep. Or, maybe a few mini-jerseys. Get some ruminants out on the pasture. Its' made a big difference on our pasture.
You Are Amazing! ,Love everything you make for your farm.your wife is Amazing also, love the cooking part of the Video.
Olivia wants a play house Al. I would love to watch you build it🙂.
Yes..!!!! Something nice and roomy so her Imagination and Creativity can Flourish..!!! As well as, have somewhere for her to have fun with friends, cousins and campouts😁 She has an Awesome Imagination and will find her Passion in that space.. Olivia Rocks😍
Ms Meca Mecca exactly 💖💖
@@cashk100 great mines think alike. I was just thinking that too.
Al: perhaps Olivia can help you build it using tools in a manner suitable for her. A “Father/daughter” project that she also can help design.
Maybe with her own flock of silkies and a mini-New Yolk City. That will add subscribers for sure...
I like how you think , great idea , Just always remember to make things adaptable . Too many engineers have no common sense , and I can see you are thinking about the future and what may need to be altered for other uses etc .
I too am wanting to raise sheep. Lamb is delicious but expensive to buy! My wife also says they are too cute.
Poison Ivy Everything I have read points to overgrazing and inbreeding as the root cause of parasites and disease in sheep. If they are allowed to graze an area down to the roots rather than being rotationally grazed they consume their own feces as well as larva which reside at ground level. In my part of the country sheep typically need only be de-wormed once a year and grazed on native grass (rather than hay or grain)to be healthy and free from parasites. The reason it is expensive in the US has more to do with the popularity and availability of beef than the difficulty in raising sheep.
You should totally add lambs to your homestead
Try some mint jalepeno jelly on those chops!!! mmmmmm good.
FYI Gina the fat asparagus are the first out if the crown . The thin ones are the tail end of crown.
Just a snipite I learned.
It's all in preference I think.
The ladies are at work again making eggs!
It's pouring rain, any chance of snow is gone😞.
Hi to Livy and Gina and you too Al lol!
JO JO IN VT 💕☃ 😊
If you like lamb meat I would say that would be a great addition to your homestead! Cant wait to see the coup in action.
Nice coop....! That stuff they use on coops I have seen....it’s square holes ....might be easier to put up...
Great job on finishing up the inside of the coop (except for the little door). How about some easy to clean flooring. It is nice to have a sneak preview of Spring with a few warm days. Sheep would be a mighty fine addition to the homestead. Justin Rhodes seems to be having better luck this year with his sheep although you may have to have a more cold hardy breed if there is such a thing. Have a Blessed day.
JudithB the creeper idea is great for bigger critters, but I know my chicks wouldnt survive long here in Arkansas. Cats, rats and snakes would get them in no time. I actually had to hang a cage from the ceiling to keep the snakes out of my guineas keets.
7:20 That was an interesting little wood behavior on your table saw.
Go for it! Then you'll have sheep's milk as well.......homemade cheeses from both sheep and goats on the horixon?...ooh...sounds awesome!
Looks like that things coming along. You're going to have to end up building a playhouse for Olivia. Did you get the CWC license plate? My tracking number didn't tell me whether it was delivered or not.
Jimmy
As always , love these build's. Nice job Al
Al, have you noticed any difference in the eggs since you've been feeding the chickens Grubblies?
Two possible concerns about the gap up by the roof.
First is weasels. They are small and kill the chicken by biting the neck.
2nd. The plastic roof if the raccoons can get a paw in there. I have had them rip my coop roof apart several times with their paws. Then they kept coming back until i got them in a live trap.
I really like that coop.
I prefer steers over lamb but its a choice😉
Are raccoons strong enough to tear through the plastic roofing you used on that coop? The gap you left between it and the blocking is large enough for them to get their hands and teeth into. And raccoons love them some free chicken dinners!
Depends on time and motivation. My parents left on vacation and apparently a raccoon was trapped in their garage/ work shop. Returned to find a 3x3 ft. hole chewed through the strand board wall. Why such a large hole? You see the outside siding is metal roofing panels. That rascal just kept removing wood until he found a seam he could push and squeeze through. Hey, it was life or death for him. No hard feelings. LOL.
We live in a suburban area in Indianapolis, IN and two years ago had a raccoon climb up a downspout to get on our roof then chewed and clawed its way through the shingles, tar paper and wood to get into our attic. The roofers added a metal ridge plate under the shingles this time so it couldn’t get through it again. Thus far so good. 😭 😀
@@pattyhuxley9509 Dang! That is amazing. Talk about dedication to cause. LOL.
matismf raccoons can chew their way through a lot of things. Very destructive.
I was wondering if they ever have snakes... seems the could easily get up and through that opening...
You should visit Sandi Brock, she has an indoor sheep farm and she's a great you tuber!! I love lamb chops as well!
Looking great that chickencoop wall Al! Well done! 👍😁
I was surprised to see maple syrup white, but then again it’s the first time I’ve seen it being tapped. Loving the videos guys you have a great day
Jonny M - Sap has to be boiled down , it takes 40 gallons of Sap to make 1 gallon of Syrup.
Tony Grimes thank you 🙏 you learn something new every day
Sheep are the best! We love our little guys
Nice and Figaro prooved Brooder! Well made. Keep on and stay well.
I worry that the creeper gate is too low if you use deep litter. If the bedding gets too deep, baby chicks can walk right through that chicken wire divider.
The "tiny, tiny critter" you might need to worry about getting between the blocking and roof panels is a stoat.
The lambs are cute but then so are the baby pigs ;)
Or a rat snake. At least staple the smaller weave chicken wire like half inch or quarter inch. Ought to be stiff enough to "stand up" when stapled on 3 sides, then hand formed to fill the corrugated spaces.
@@ajfvajf5 No rat snakes in NH. But yes, 1/2" hardware cloth will keep out the smaller predators and is stronger than 1/4"
Lambs/Sheep are very cute, but they look kind of tricky to raise as well after watching Justin and Rebekah with them. So many minerals to get right or they have the runs and they are so timid. However, I’m sure Tanner would have a blast with “hearding” them. What about a cute highland cow?
Check out Sandi Brock on her Sheepishly Me channel, from Ontario Canada, for a good sheep fix.
Justin Rhodes had no clue what he was doing. He didn't recognize worms in his sheep and they all suffered and died because of it. It just takes research to learn how to raise them and then you need to actually raise them and not just for your RUclips channel.
I watch her channel, she is amazing.
Frances Bruno I love her channel
The single, female homesteader that is not very nice
That's amazing!! Quite innovative Al, congrats!!! Keep being so creative and full of love for your animals. 💙💙💙
There you go, maybe you can make Olivia a Coffee House (instead of a play house)
On lamb I tend to put ginger and allspice, and in summer, slice a fig each and let them carmelize over the top when once the chop are almost done. lamb goes well with sweet, sorta like pork can be tasty with sweet,
Olivia maybe needs her own the playhouse or cookwagon to play and pretend in! I love it when she does that. I'm thinking about ordering from that meat company I've ordered from Butcher box before.
After putting up the chicken wire, what if you need to get into the other side to get a chicken for some reason? Do you have a door to get into that other side ? I haven't watched a whole month!! I need to go back and get caught up !! You build everything so perfectly !!
Yes I think it's a great idea to have sheep on the homestead I wish I could have some here but I'm in a small suburb in a small town
I'm excited for Olivia's for chicks to arrive. If you get sheep, where would you put them and would you need another mini barn like the boys have now? Just curious...
2-3 lambs Would be awesome don't have to fall in love with them to put them on the plate LOL Can't wait to you get some more pigs, I like watching them grow! Keep up the good work Thanks. Z
Gina I have a question for you. What type of liner do you use on the tray you cooked the carrots on?
Looks like silicone-It has SILPAT written on it.
Time4kolene ... check the links under the video. It is an Amazon thing.
A " baked " is hard to beat !
Have you tried cheesy potatoes just kind of muffin little squares and then melt you some cheese with milk and add to it honey it is awesome
Lambs are amazing to have around.. Yes they are cute but oh my word do they taste so nice with a bit of mint sauce. or have a look at 'CAWL' (pronounced like cowl ) traditional soup/stew over here in Wales made from lamb our staple meat as it thrives on the steep grass hill sides that we have in abundance
I'm concerned about the chicken wire window protection in the new coop. Why not add 1/2" hardware cloth, right over the chicken wire, for added protection from raccoons that are very adept at bending chicken wire to gain access to your birds. I believe that mink and weasels can crawl through chicken wire too. Just a thought!