Y'all are so great at raising your children having them busy around the homestead is absolutely beautiful! God's blessings going out to your family! I love the way y'all treat your beautiful animals! Straight out of the Bible!🏄🏼♂️💜🐱♥️🌹😇🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
I'm rolling! I have my "farm truck" that has tail gate peculiarities. Its so fun to take it for feed or supplies, and let the burly men struggle with it whike I put my purse in the cab, and then go back and like the "Fonz", just pop it open. BTW, I am an old Grammy with skills that are not always apparent. You probably should take the string off the hay bale. If they eat it, it stays in tbier first stomach, filling it forever and they can starve to death.
Hi..... Mike Dickson and Lacie and nice to see you all, thank you for showing your video homestead chicken Duck Goose farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👕🐔🐓🐥🐕🐈🐐🐝🌱🌺🌹🌷🍀🏡🎥👍👍👍
Fyi mike we have one in one of the stalls that we use for hay during the winter the goats waste more hay then they eat. Keep an eye as they eat the hay down that your remove the bailing string the goats might try to eat that as well
JOSIAH got a summer haircut, I bet that is a lot cooler. He jumps right in to help. You have amazing respectful children. Way to go Lacy, you saved the day with your driving skills. That would have been heavy to carry. Save your backs! Work smarter than harder. That was a lot of hard work, but it looks awesome. Keep up the great work.
Yep, you got to keep them out and off hay they'll do their business on it. What a helper you got there in each of the kids never once have I seen them whine or try to beg off.
Great video & great build- your son is a very hard worker & loves being with his Dad by the looks. Barbara is correct remove that string now. Stacy is amazing on that skid steer thing WOW - Go Girl. Cheers Denise- Australia
PLEASE REMOVE THOSE GREEN HAY BAILING STRINGS...I ALWAYS LOVE SEEING LACY ON MACHINES THAT MOST CAN NOT DRIVE. YOU GO LACY...SO PROUD OF YOU AND MIKE AS WELL AS YA KIDS FOR ALL THE HARD WORK YOU DO. BEEN FOLLOWING NOW FOR A WHILE AND SEEING ALL YA HAVE DONE IS SO IMPRESSIVE. TKS MIKE FOR SPEAKING WHAT MANY OF US BELIEVE IN WHAT THE WORD OF GOD SAYS. MUCH LOVE TO YA FROM LENOIR NC.
This is a really nice coat shelter you have built I’m glad that they finish cleaning out from under those trees for you so they could move to a new pasture with new feeding dishes.
Maybe Josiah can be your wood worker he seems to like it a lot lol I just love watching the animals how they act and what they do when they eat and stuff so awesome they really loved those cucumbers lol Take care and god bless
Y'all are becoming such good goat parents. Go farm girl on that tractor! We have a small goat rotation system that might work for you. Come on over, we are hour fifteen from that mill. Blessings
Lumnah Acres has goats (smaller breed) and you might be interested in the way Al built his hay feeder , with the bars on a slant. That could be very effective for your goats as they are much larger and it would prevent them from entering onto the feeder itself. Nice job on the construction!
My goats especially LOVE kale and collards. Yep, I had a truck like that for 8 yrs, whatever works. Also, you might put a board along the sides 1/2 way up to keep them from climbing in?
Lumna Acres has smaller goats.. but he put a wire mesh around the hay to avoid the goats pulling out a bunch and wasting the hay.. because they wouldn't eat they hay on the ground.
Hello mile, pray that all is well with you and family and animal and produce. I a so happy and love the way you love on your animals.I also love your children look up to there dad🤗🤗💕👍🏾🙏🏾
Nice work guys and Lacie.... big machinery is one of those things I would love to know how to work more than just a tractor... you work them with a breeze 💚🌱💚
I totally agree with your way of thinking about your animals. I can't wait to see you all again this weekend at the Homesteading Life Conference. Safe travels and God Bless! Carmen
Perhaps you could get another portable fence to add to the area to send your goats into the woods to clean the ground. You could then change the fence to get the different areas.
The Bible has a lot of instructions that people are not using now. I'm glad you are teaching your kids to follow those instructions. That's the single best thing you can do to make your farm and family prosper. I would put a cattle panel or piece of one down the sides so they can only fit their head in and not waste so much hay. Keep up the good work and God bless you all
Don't for get to take the binder twin off the bails. You don't want them trying to eat it. The new feeder for the goats looks great. you might have to add more bars to keep them from jumping up in it.
Great job Mike and Josiah! If you want to save hay, I put boards or plywood (I’m sure cost is high!) horizontal across the vertical slats so that only the bottom 10 inches or so are exposed for the goats to pull the hay out.They won’t waste near as much since they will not be able to pull from the “top” of the bale. I hope this makes sense it worked for us for 25 years.
Nice part of that feeder is that you could feed browse to them - lay tree and shrub branches in there for them too. I understand from other goat videos that they don't do well long-term on just grass pasture, they need weeds and brushy stuff like you're clearing from your woods.
Obviously it works. Yes the spacing of the uprights needs to be wider than the head but narrower than the shoulders [not easy to achieve] My father was a carpenter and working with the animals was not his favorite thing but building our infrastructure was. The solution for the hay feeder was called a key hole. wide enough for the head at the top but narrow as the neck at the bottom. One change I would have used is to screw the boards under the rails instead of on top and save the extra wood above the bottom boards. I think a third screw in each end would be strong enough and cheaper at todays prices than the extra screws.
Lol we have to do pretty much the same to open the tailgate on our truck! It now has a little over 3 hundred thousand miles on it! Still runs like a charm!
Greetings Friends...It's nice to have a build video every now and then it's also good to be creative and then enjoy your art forms...maybe when the price of timber drops joesiah can build the goats some platforms to jump up and play on...have a great week guys you are keeping us winter peeps motivated until we get some sun...😊
If u have a sawmill close by, many times they will have “farm lumber”. It’s 5\4 wood that’s been rejected for whatever reason. Last year I bought 2 bundles 800 tom1000 board foot each for $60 a bundle. It’s perfect for projects like that. I built my 10x18 foot chicken house with just over a bundle, the metal roof and screws far exceeded with lumber
I love how all your hard work in the lean season as you started out, making do, has led to a season where you can work from scratch to set up what you feel is best for yourself farm. Was smiling to Kay self as your saw bit into that first 2x4.
Good lord! You have a funny way of looking at things IMO. I'm an animal rights activist and all we believe in is treating animals with respect and humanity because they are our food and companions. Not too interested in dominating them. No need to insult half the population. I have also raised gardens for most of my 65 years, as have my parents and grandparents before me, and have never "sacrificed" a fruit or veggie before partaking and have always been blessed with all I need. You have gotten more and more preachy as time goes by and it's not my thing but I truly do wish you and your family the very best and have grown to love y'all over the years. (P.S. Mike, you say "I" an awful lot instead of we. Last I checked this wasn't a one man operation)
Variety of jobs to do is good for your boys as they say. They are learning more things that are important for the overall caring for the property and animals
That feeder looks great, when the hay gets low tho they might be able to get up on it. Maybe some kind of bars across those uprights? maybe drill holes and run rebar thru? You can even make it removable.
When you get watermelon if you look about an inch up from the stem of the watermelon you will see a curly q type little Vine. When that little curly q turns brown a watermelon will be ripe. Tried-and-true by my father who gardened for more for more than 70 years years.
Our truck tail gate is opened with a screwdriver and the driver door can only be opened from the outside so you need to roll the window down to open it
To help me with construction costs I use pallets where I can. Most times I am breaking down the pallets and using the wood to build with. Did you get a break in the price for those bottom bales? Some places sell bottom bales a little cheaper. You can just add more stiles to the feeder. The goats will still be able to reach most of the hay. If there was a "hump" down the middle the hay would slide to the edges.
I raise Nigerian Dwarf goats and I have found that if I give them more hay than they will eat in a day they will pull it out and eat just the stuff they like best and waste the rest. They waste so much more than they eat if they have a bunch to pick through. I have 15 goats in one pen and they will only eat one bale every other day. I do supplement with alfalfa and feed when I am milking them, But I can put a bale of alfalfa in there if I need to be away for more than a day or two. They will waste 3/4 or more of that hay if you give them that much at once. I recommend a smaller feeder that will just hold one bale of hay for your small herd of goats. One bale will probably last them a week if they have garden stuff to eat too. Make sure you take the strings off and remove them from the pen. They can be dangerous to curious goats. One thing I would change with my hay feeder would be not using the goat panel sides (4x5 goat panel). I would rather have wood slats as you have done. Here is why, my goats rub the hair off of their faces trying to get to the hay. The holes (4x4) are too small. I would rather they be able to stick their heads into the hay feeder so they can pick and choose what bites of hay they want. If they can get their heads in and eat they are inclined to leave their heads in there and drop hay inside the feeder instead of pulling their heads out and just dropping it all over the ground as they chew it.
Mike a lot of goat farms have a v across the whole feeder, just FYI 💖💖💖💖 maybe make it a bit lower too, mike take the strings off too cos goats will eat those n get sick
Look at them enjoy those cucumbers, love it. Good job with the bay stand,...yay!
Y'all are so great at raising your children having them busy around the homestead is absolutely beautiful! God's blessings going out to your family! I love the way y'all treat your beautiful animals! Straight out of the Bible!🏄🏼♂️💜🐱♥️🌹😇🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻🙏🏻
Your goats look so much healthier than when you first got them. Their coat is very shiny.
The goats are cute
I LOVE THE WAY YALL WORK TOGETHER AS A FAMILY 🤗👏👏👏👏 BE BLESSED
I'm rolling! I have my "farm truck" that has tail gate peculiarities. Its so fun to take it for feed or supplies, and let the burly men struggle with it whike I put my purse in the cab, and then go back and like the "Fonz", just pop it open. BTW, I am an old Grammy with skills that are not always apparent. You probably should take the string off the hay bale. If they eat it, it stays in tbier first stomach, filling it forever and they can starve to death.
Hi..... Mike Dickson and Lacie and nice to see you all, thank you for showing your video homestead chicken Duck Goose farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👕🐔🐓🐥🐕🐈🐐🐝🌱🌺🌹🌷🍀🏡🎥👍👍👍
Don’t forget to remove the cord around the bales. You don’t want that in the goats gut.🙏
Lacey is a real trooper. What a woman.
Your goats have all gained the weight they needed and look perfectly healthy! Well done!
Fyi mike we have one in one of the stalls that we use for hay during the winter the goats waste more hay then they eat. Keep an eye as they eat the hay down that your remove the bailing string the goats might try to eat that as well
Hind site...put pavers under the feet of the feeder to help delay rot
Betting you will have to add. 4x4. Or smaller fencing to keep the goats from wasting hay.
Watching the goats eat cucumbers highlight of my day!! Great job on the feeder also.
JOSIAH got a summer haircut, I bet that is a lot cooler. He jumps right in to help. You have amazing respectful children. Way to go Lacy, you saved the day with your driving skills. That would have been heavy to carry. Save your backs! Work smarter than harder. That was a lot of hard work, but it looks awesome. Keep up the great work.
Yep, you got to keep them out and off hay they'll do their business on it.
What a helper you got there in each of the kids never once have I seen them whine or try to beg off.
Some cattle panels added to the sides would keep bodies out of there as well as keep hay in.
I loves watching Josiah on the lawn tractor! Takes me back 50+yrs when I used to drive my dads JD all over & I could mow the yard (we had 2 acre yard)
Like Josiah summer hair cut. He was good helper too. Good job Mike. Giant baby crib works well. 🥰
Love Lacy's heavy equip skills...she is good
Love hearing selah's sweet voice ❤ another great video and God bless y'all
Great video & great build- your son is a very hard worker & loves being with his Dad by the looks. Barbara is correct remove that string now. Stacy is amazing on that skid steer thing WOW - Go Girl. Cheers Denise- Australia
You are good sweet man and the same for your family ❤️❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏🙏❤️❤️❤️❤️
PLEASE REMOVE THOSE GREEN HAY BAILING STRINGS...I ALWAYS LOVE SEEING LACY ON MACHINES THAT MOST CAN NOT DRIVE. YOU GO LACY...SO PROUD OF YOU AND MIKE AS WELL AS YA KIDS FOR ALL THE HARD WORK YOU DO. BEEN FOLLOWING NOW FOR A WHILE AND SEEING ALL YA HAVE DONE IS SO IMPRESSIVE. TKS MIKE FOR SPEAKING WHAT MANY OF US BELIEVE IN WHAT THE WORD OF GOD SAYS. MUCH LOVE TO YA FROM LENOIR NC.
Your goats are so happy with the new hay feeder. 😺💖
This is a really nice coat shelter you have built I’m glad that they finish cleaning out from under those trees for you so they could move to a new pasture with new feeding dishes.
Maybe Josiah can be your wood worker he seems to like it a lot lol I just love watching the animals how they act and what they do when they eat and stuff so awesome they really loved those cucumbers lol Take care and god bless
The goats are looking so great and they enjoying the cucumbers .
Really nice to see Josiah working with you.
I'm worried about the twine holding the bales together. Seems like a Hazzard. Awesome build 👏👌😎
Oooo, you've got lumber. You must have gone to the jewelry store 🤣.
Love how you spend time with your boy to do something together he likes. What a great dad and what a blessing to have those experiences
Y'all are becoming such good goat parents. Go farm girl on that tractor! We have a small goat rotation system that might work for you. Come on over, we are hour fifteen from that mill. Blessings
Lumnah Acres has goats (smaller breed) and you might be interested in the way Al built his hay feeder , with the bars on a slant. That could be very effective for your goats as they are much larger and it would prevent them from entering onto the feeder itself. Nice job on the construction!
Have a good evening 🌻🌻🌻
You said that so well. We’re not supposed to worship our animals. Very well put.
Who said they are the true givers of life.
I was going to comment to say the same thing!
You should check cause I'm pretty sure "pressure treated" wood is no longer toxic...I think they use copper and salt?
You did a great job ! Josiah was a huge help. And that tractor lady was pretty good as well. Blessings !!!
My goats especially LOVE kale and collards. Yep, I had a truck like that for 8 yrs, whatever works. Also, you might put a board along the sides 1/2 way up to keep them from climbing in?
God Bless your farm and family and animals.💕❤️🙏🏾
Great work! And go, Lacie! 💪
Thanks 😊
Lumna Acres has smaller goats.. but he put a wire mesh around the hay to avoid the goats pulling out a bunch and wasting the hay.. because they wouldn't eat they hay on the ground.
goats with horns quickly destroy welded wire, in DAYS... was an expensive lesson.
I really like your goat feeder. & such an awesome project to include your children in on. I love this channel.
Hello mile, pray that all is well with you and family and animal and produce. I a so happy and love the way you love on your animals.I also love your children look up to there dad🤗🤗💕👍🏾🙏🏾
Was that a GOAT SNEEZE? It was CUTE 😁
Your farm is so peaceful😊❤️
Nice work guys and Lacie.... big machinery is one of those things I would love to know how to work more than just a tractor... you work them with a breeze 💚🌱💚
I totally agree with your way of thinking about your animals.
I can't wait to see you all again this weekend at the Homesteading Life Conference. Safe travels and God Bless! Carmen
You guys are an amazing team....God bless you and keep you healthy...thanks for the vlogs.
Hey Mike 42 more days to practice that shofar...prayin for ya!
Perhaps you could get another portable fence to add to the area to send your goats into the woods to clean the ground. You could then change the fence to get the different areas.
The Bible has a lot of instructions that people are not using now. I'm glad you are teaching your kids to follow those instructions. That's the single best thing you can do to make your farm and family prosper.
I would put a cattle panel or piece of one down the sides so they can only fit their head in and not waste so much hay. Keep up the good work and God bless you all
Thank you for sharing! Great job Lacy on the machine! Blessings to you and your family!
Don't for get to take the binder twin off the bails. You don't want them trying to eat it. The new feeder for the goats looks great. you might have to add more bars to keep them from jumping up in it.
You left the twine on them bales!
Great job Mike and Josiah! If you want to save hay, I put boards or plywood (I’m sure cost is high!) horizontal across the vertical slats so that only the bottom 10 inches or so are exposed for the goats to pull the hay out.They won’t waste near as much since they will not be able to pull from the “top” of the bale. I hope this makes sense it worked for us for 25 years.
Nice part of that feeder is that you could feed browse to them - lay tree and shrub branches in there for them too. I understand from other goat videos that they don't do well long-term on just grass pasture, they need weeds and brushy stuff like you're clearing from your woods.
Look at Lacy busting out that skid steer like a pro..lol
U should watch red poppy ranch, he is always building something 💖💖💖💖💖💖
Hey Fit Farmer i love your video and how you carry your self. Your need to put 4x4 fence panels on it or the goats will waste the hay.
how about rebar in between the 2x2 up and down drill holes and slid them in.
That hay feeder is awesome
Obviously it works. Yes the spacing of the uprights needs to be wider than the head but narrower than the shoulders [not easy to achieve] My father was a carpenter and working with the animals was not his favorite thing but building our infrastructure was. The solution for the hay feeder was called a key hole. wide enough for the head at the top but narrow as the neck at the bottom. One change I would have used is to screw the boards under the rails instead of on top and save the extra wood above the bottom boards. I think a third screw in each end would be strong enough and cheaper at todays prices than the extra screws.
Lol we have to do pretty much the same to open the tailgate on our truck! It now has a little over 3 hundred thousand miles on it! Still runs like a charm!
Please take the strings off the hay. That’s a disaster wait to happen. Luv ya ll
Greetings Friends...It's nice to have a build video every now and then it's also good to be creative and then enjoy your art forms...maybe when the price of timber drops joesiah can build the goats some platforms to jump up and play on...have a great week guys you are keeping us winter peeps motivated until we get some sun...😊
qoats dont graze trees bushes weeds. Could loan or rent them out to clear other peoples wood lines? Income
If u have a sawmill close by, many times they will have “farm lumber”. It’s 5\4 wood that’s been rejected for whatever reason. Last year I bought 2 bundles 800 tom1000 board foot each for $60 a bundle. It’s perfect for projects like that. I built my 10x18 foot chicken house with just over a bundle, the metal roof and screws far exceeded with lumber
I love how all your hard work in the lean season as you started out, making do, has led to a season where you can work from scratch to set up what you feel is best for yourself farm. Was smiling to Kay self as your saw bit into that first 2x4.
Love it been having some great big you’ll be blessed and favored love you bye
They are so cute.
Random trivia - a groat is a buckwheat kernel, think kasha (really good with butter).
Mike, you and Josiah did a really nice job with the feed stall!
Good lord! You have a funny way of looking at things IMO. I'm an animal rights activist and all we believe in is treating animals with respect and humanity because they are our food and companions. Not too interested in dominating them. No need to insult half the population. I have also raised gardens for most of my 65 years, as have my parents and grandparents before me, and have never "sacrificed" a fruit or veggie before partaking and have always been blessed with all I need. You have gotten more and more preachy as time goes by and it's not my thing but I truly do wish you and your family the very best and have grown to love y'all over the years. (P.S. Mike, you say "I" an awful lot instead of we. Last I checked this wasn't a one man operation)
You need to make sure you remove those strings around that hay those goat will eat it and it will get tangled up in there intestants
Great job on the feeder.👍🏻
You two make a good couple, you work well together. Lacey is a SUPER woman. Git it, git it.
Mike's rich you see all that wood. Lol God bless
Your goats are so cute!! Great goat feeder!!
The goats will love the cornstalks.
Variety of jobs to do is good for your boys as they say. They are learning more things that are important for the overall caring for the property and animals
It would be nice to see you build a slotted floor goat pen underneath that shelter
That feeder looks great, when the hay gets low tho they might be able to get up on it. Maybe some kind of bars across those uprights? maybe drill holes and run rebar thru? You can even make it removable.
When you get watermelon if you look about an inch up from the stem of the watermelon you will see a curly q type little Vine. When that little curly q turns brown a watermelon will be ripe. Tried-and-true by my father who gardened for more for more than 70 years years.
Run a horizontal bar around halfway up on all 4 sides
Driving my truck for 17 yrs. Got a lots of "combinations" that make it work..
Your home is loooooooking good from Ontario Canada
When able think about putting wheels on one end to help you move it easely.
Great job on feeder
good job Mike !!!!
Blessings and prosperity to all that you put your hands to in Jesus name!
Nice job on the hay feeder!
Charlotte from Ky.🙂
That goat needs papa's touch.
Our truck tail gate is opened with a screwdriver and the driver door can only be opened from the outside so you need to roll the window down to open it
To help me with construction costs I use pallets where I can. Most times I am breaking down the pallets and using the wood to build with.
Did you get a break in the price for those bottom bales? Some places sell bottom bales a little cheaper.
You can just add more stiles to the feeder. The goats will still be able to reach most of the hay. If there was a "hump" down the middle the hay would slide to the edges.
I raise Nigerian Dwarf goats and I have found that if I give them more hay than they will eat in a day they will pull it out and eat just the stuff they like best and waste the rest. They waste so much more than they eat if they have a bunch to pick through. I have 15 goats in one pen and they will only eat one bale every other day. I do supplement with alfalfa and feed when I am milking them, But I can put a bale of alfalfa in there if I need to be away for more than a day or two. They will waste 3/4 or more of that hay if you give them that much at once. I recommend a smaller feeder that will just hold one bale of hay for your small herd of goats. One bale will probably last them a week if they have garden stuff to eat too. Make sure you take the strings off and remove them from the pen. They can be dangerous to curious goats. One thing I would change with my hay feeder would be not using the goat panel sides (4x5 goat panel). I would rather have wood slats as you have done. Here is why, my goats rub the hair off of their faces trying to get to the hay. The holes (4x4) are too small. I would rather they be able to stick their heads into the hay feeder so they can pick and choose what bites of hay they want. If they can get their heads in and eat they are inclined to leave their heads in there and drop hay inside the feeder instead of pulling their heads out and just dropping it all over the ground as they chew it.
Great video👍 Love you guys!!!❤❤
Put a long piece of wood in the middle so they can't jump in...so u end up with three pieces of wood length wise...top, middle and bottom.
If there is a junkyard nearby you can probably get a mechanism to fix your tailgate for less than $30.
I never would have guessed the goats would eat cucumbers
I just came across your channel, I'm bendge watch lol 😆 love the channel
Mike a lot of goat farms have a v across the whole feeder, just FYI 💖💖💖💖 maybe make it a bit lower too, mike take the strings off too cos goats will eat those n get sick