(soft guitar music) - Morning. We're finishing up breakfast around here. I thought it would be fun
to do a farm chore video. Lots of you have wanted to see our homesteading and farming routines. And that's what you're getting. I'm gonna do morning farm chores, I'm gonna do probably a midday check in and then our evening chores. And you'll just see what it's like on our farm of seven goats. We have two great pyrenees. We have 50 some, chickens. We also have 30 meat birds, and a dome. And then we have 50 brand new birds. Those are the jumbo Cornish
cross in a outdoor cage. I'll show it all to you. But I'm trying to tell you
before I get you out there, we have a variety of ducks and some peas. So let's go do them farm chores. So when it is farm chore time, whoever's available, we just all jumped out. Different folks are
doing different things. Some mornings, I can't get
out and help with any of it. But I can't help in the morning, I can help at night, just like this morning. Naomi's doing other stuff. Gabriel might be coming out,
but Liam's with me, right? - [Gabriel] Yeah.
- Oh my goodness. We've got to show you. Liam got so inspired yesterday to make us a scarecrow for the corn patch. Go on in there, Liam. So you can do... just wait. Okay. We're getting to farm
chores. We get distracted. Look at the scarecrow.
And what's his name? - [Liam] Leo. - Leo. Liam used my old hat. I gave him that Jazzy, he got a hold of it and tarted eating. You used one of your dad's
old welding masks, right? And you put some duct tape and you shoved hay up in the mask. - Yeah. I've received...
(dogs barking) - [Jamerrill] He's got
old Star Wars shirt, some old work gloves, an old pair of size eight boy pants, got the egg catcher. - Size 10. - [Jamerrill] Yeah. Size
10. Excuse me. ......... So here's how the garden's doing too. Travis is gonna get me
some more straw today. Lots of you have asked about when we're harvesting the potatoes. A lot of them have bloomed. I see some blooms way down yonder. So now it's just the process of waiting for everything to die back. Everything will just look dead and... like we haven't done nothing. (laughs) But then, it'll be a time to harvest. So Liam, I love that scarecrow. Thank you for doing that. So whenever we go out in the morning, step one that we do, is we gather up every water bucket, every waterer from everywhere. It's like, we're waking
'em up for the morning. Now at night, whenever we tuck them in. When we do our nighttime farm chores, we do waters to set them up for the night. So that's the big thing to focus on first thing. So, you boys go round. Daniel can even do this too, right Daniel? You gotta put the kitty
down though sweetie. Get every water bucket from everywhere and put them over by
our little duck pools. While they do that, I'm going to take a scrap
bowl down to the chickens. This is our wild variety scrap bowl. This morning, someone got ambitious with
some jelly sandwiches. Odds and ends. There's a lot of eggs. Eggshells under this cause I made about three dozen. Scrambled eggs for bread. So the Turkey jokers,
they are out right now, they're actually... they are gonna be processed. We are butchering them
here later this week. This is baby goat. And once mama goat's done... pee in here. Come on mama goat finish up we can't show that on YouTube. Okay. Momma goat. So they have a goat yard, but in the morning we let them out. And then Jazzy is down there in the grass already out. And Amelia is getting the waterers out for the baby meat birds and for the rabbits. And there's a little
good morning farm kitty. I think that one's Panther. And here's the ducks out already. Those are, believe you
say it, rohan ducks. Yes, Turkeys. They see I have a scrap bowl. And then mama goat and baby goat. They just free range and eat all kinds of extra things. That's what Jazzy is doing too. We are gonna dump this and refill it for the day. This is like duck water. Now these babies were led out of their little
free range and coop already. This is a variety of
baby pekin duck females. We have two males 'cause they sent us to thinking something would happen to one, but both made it, on delivery. Now we have three mystery geese and then the little black ones are black asian pullets and then we have three Guinea hens. These are some other pullets and they are just... we've put one of the feeders out. So kids are already
jumping in doing chores. But this is the chicken tractor that these little ones
are sleeping in at night for the time being. And they just got their waters replaced. They get confused. Actually yesterday was the first day I did a tour on Instagram. Was the first day I let them out of this so, they'll find their way around here in a minute. But this is the, the chicken tractor I found
on Facebook marketplace for $130. I was using that for rabbits. And then I started to
get a lot of messages about how rabbits dig out. So rabbit tractors, aren't a good idea. I don't know. I'm a little
confused on it right. Because I do know some folks who have their rabbits out on fresh grass. All that to say our female rabbit started to make her nest. She is back in a rabbit hutch by herself. She is making a nest to have babies. Here are our meat birds and our meat bird dome. We just got a tarp over
that and got lots of shade and I'll show you here shortly. I move them every couple of days. I just moved them yesterday up to fresh grass. But to show you how I do you it, I will move them over here, here shortly here shortly. So here is, we've got about a 30 foot or so chicken run. This is the third one. I've had Travis and boys do for me. We've had one at farmhouse or forest house and now the forever house. But it's made out of dog kennel. And then Travis is a expert pipe bender. And actually think he had Zion. He showed Zion how to bend
the pipe for this one. They bend pipe and then run net in along the top. We also do another layer of mesh netting around here. So these birds have been
in the coop all night. I'm going to... I dumped their scraps in there. "Run here," let them eat. And then they will be going out for the rest of the day to free ranging. And then here is, I
really liked this water. It's big enough for 75 or so birds. And I don't have 75 birds
here believe it or not. Anyway, but we dump all
the water every morning. So that's on the list. I just dumped this in the run, again. I don't know the history
of these various scraps. This is a scrapple
since yesterday morning. Maybe those sandwiches fell. I don't know. I'm like, why is there
perfectly good peanut butter and jelly sandwiches out here? Mama don't know all the answers, but anyway, it goes, this will be morning
scraps for the chickens. And now these eggs, are what I used to make breakfast yesterday. And there were also some
leftover scrambled eggs for this morning. I always feed my chickens back their egg shells, cracked how they are. I've never had chickens,
become egg eaters. Some folks break 'em down and bake 'em and crush 'em up real fine. You can certainly do that. I haven't done it. And I've never had an issue. So you don't have to do it
my way. I'm just saying. For when some folks say Jim are all you're
supposed to crush them up and bake them first. I don't. And my chickens eat them. It gives them calcium
back to make more eggs and I've never had issue with it. So as I say, your mileage may vary. She will. Yeah. She'll be the first to have the scraps. So anyway, you can hear 'em in here. Gabriel brought a lone chicken. Thank you, Gabriel. They're ready. You guys ready? (chicken clucking) We have a few young pullets. Boy, that's a pretty chicken right there. Few young pullets that... maybe four or five that
have been staying out. We're we're still training
them to this new yard. So with that actually I forgot what I was doing here. We've been leaving them
in these last few days while they train. And what that means is
they're learning that this run is now part of their home. Gabriel's working on catching that pole. Good job, Gabriel. They're learning that. So normally what I would do and what I have done in the past and what I will be doing
with these chickens, is in the morning, I might throw 'em any scraps. If I have a scrap bowl gathered up. Then, I'll leave the doors open and they can free range. We have seven acres. They usually stay within an acre or so. They do not run off. I've had that question a lot. People wanna know if the chickens run off but, they don't. None of my chickens ever have. They get homebound to the farm and where their water is, where their food is. Again, they get to know and love their run and their coop. So they don't go far. And they're a family they stay together. And there's a Mohawk or naked neck rooster. So, any who... what I normally do is feed them scraps, let them out free range for the day and then, when they
come back in the evening in the summertime, I might give them a little
bit of their chicken feed, but they're able to forage on the land and free range. Don't heavily do chicken
feed in the summer, especially to birds
that are able to get out and eat their own bugs and such. Now in the winter, it's different. I supplement with more feed. Almost got her Gabriel, you're working on it. Woo. A little more than chicken chasing. But for these birds, this
is what I wanna tell you that'll be different with
this farm tour video. I actually want to leave
them in this yard area for a few days. Yesterday was day one. Today will be day two. Tomorrow will be day three. So probably on day four, I will open the cages and let them free range again. I'm going to give them
their chicken feed today. I always have it on hand because I'm training them to this yard. So I use food to train all my animals, whether they're goats or sheep or chickens or dogs or cats or rabbits. And that's how my farmer
mom has always done it. The food teaches them really quick. Again Where home is. chicken breed wise, these beautiful white and black ones, those are Brahmas. This one, that's lighter white, she's a pullet Brahma. She should be laying here soon. Then these medium-sized Brown they're pullets too. They're not laying yet. They are Isa Browns, I've never had those before. So that's something new for this year. This beautiful one is an Easter egger breed. This girl here's my other Easter egger. These black and white ones, I've had these many times. These are barred rocks. They're super hardy. If you're just starting with chickens, barred rocks are a great breed. That's Mohawk down there. Oh, showing us who's boss. Yeah. Mohawk. They're talking to each other. So Mohawk, his neck is like that, that's his breed. He's a naked neck rooster. He is fighting for a sausage with an Isa brown. He's an excellent rooster. And this smaller bird walking out there again, she's not full grown yet. She is a gray Leghorn. That is my chicken right there. That's Victoria. She's a Bantam. She's not gonna get much bigger. In here we have some gray leghorns. That little guy there, he is a Bantam. We're pretty sure it's a rooster. These two little guys with that beautiful pattern on them. Those are bantams. So we got 10 bantams from tractor supply and then these in here are a variety of little pullets. And so I raised them
separately, until a point and then I introduced them together. There's one of our lone chickens. And then another one
is walking down there. So yeah, like I said, we've got four or five that we need to get caught and trained during this
new chicken run time. And then, like I say, here, two more days, all of these will be out all day, every day, free ranging. This one here is a white leghorn and that's it. So these guys are done. I've been collecting these of
course from tractor supply. These fun little signs. I'm gonna put all over my cage and Liam hung up. I've got little flags. So I'm just gonna, jam it all up. Got some chimes in there. Someone asked me on
Instagram, why have chimes? Just from forest living, I got used to putting bells and chimes and noise making things on the cages from predators. So if you can get some
jingling things on there, some folks say that helps. There's my rooster decoration. And then there's another
little rooster sign. So, okay girls. And what I do for their water since it's so heavy, as I carry fresh buckets
of water down here, somehow that just works better for me. And this will be gone. I mean, within an hour. Also what happens is, momma
goat follows me around. Baby goat follows me around. Jazzy will probably come
find me at some moment. You're like where mama is that's the food. You're enjoying your
leaves there mama goat? And momma goat, she's full grown. She's not getting any bigger. She's not even up to my knee. She's Nigerian dwarf. And then baby goat. Hey girlfriend. Hi. I know. It's that time. So at night momma goat and baby goat and Jazzy sleep in the big goat yard with the dogs. Here's the other side of our dome. This is zip tie dome. Not sponsored. Don't know the people. I was just Googling. And we have a variety
of age birds in here. Four big ones. They're gonna be butchered here this week with the turkeys. And you see, they are raised for me. They feel like big blobs of jello. They're so huge. They can hardly walk. And if you don't butcher them, they start having heart attacks and dying. It's a miracle to raise
them to this point. I've got... look, see, they know, I know. And then the other ones. That I've got, some medium-sized ones they've still got a few weeks left and a whole lot of little ones that have until middle of August. Oh, that's, what's good
too about this breads. A jumbo Cornish cross. They will be at least five pounds a piece whenever I butcher them. These are raised for meat. They don't lay eggs. They don't re-reproduce. So they're not sustainable in that way. I wouldn't be able to have them at home or breed them at home. I'd have to... However they do their
breeding at the hatchery. Hey girlfriend, you're looking
good and healthy though. Yes. Babies. And they don't feather out completely at this age. There's nothing wrong with them. These are three or so weeks old. It takes them a bit to get all their feathers
like this beautiful bird here. I was explaining something to him. Sorry. My camera battery died for a minute and you missed a few farm happenings. So Amelia she's working on
feeding water in a boy bunny. So for the tractor up on the hill that the baby ducks geese and the few little chicks
are living in right now. You don't need to fill that
feeder in the morning now because starting yesterday, we're letting them out during the day, we're gonna feed them at night. And with their cage door open, all the other birds
instead of free ranging and getting bugs, the
good old fashioned way. They'll just come and eat
those baby bird's food. You got all that. So only it's one less job. Only feed them at night. Now Gabriel is going. He is got some feed working on catching those birds. Turkeys are gonna follow him. Oh yeah, there are a few up there and there goes the turkeys. But believe me, with all this green grass and sunshine and bugs and plants, they will feed themselves. Gabriel's trying to pull them in. He threw some feed down and now he's... there's a white leghorn. He's working on catching. So once the chickens are
trained to their new yard, it won't be a matter of catching them. For 97% of our chickens. There is no catching. Again. The only few we're trying to catch are like five rouge pullets who at night they've been sleeping in a tree, kinda just doing their own thing. We have to train them to the coop in the yard. So that's why that's happening. Good job, Amelia. So yeah, kids doing chores behind me. So total, we have three. I think you say it Rowan. It's like a R-U-R-O-U-E-N. I believe. We have three of those. They're about nine weeks old now. That's our Gabriel's
calling those chickens. They get big quick. They're a dual purpose bird. People raise them for eggs and for meat. They get to be about nine or 10 pounds. Because they're so big they're flightless. Then we had a family member give us five of the babies. So they were already bonded as a family, which is nice on a farm. They're just gonna live their best life. And anyway, they saw the goats they're gonna come up this way. We lost one of the babies that had just gone to be with Jesus one morning. Hey baby goat. She's like, come on, mama where's the rest. So that's what we have in ducks right now. Then, here come, these are, white pekin ducklings. And so, those probably all the females together. And then the two Drake's, the males are over with the three geese they'll just wander around the front here. Here's the turkey jokers eating up the feed that Gabriel was using to... again, try to get theirs. We call her lone chicken, got to get those last five up. So over here, there's two Guinea hens in there and two black asian breed birds. I've read good things about that breed. And I got all that tractor supply had. I need to order more at some point or there'll be a breed that
I work on hatching on my own. They are another good dual purpose bird for eggs and for meat. Now these turkeys, these jokers are at least 20 pounds each. They are, very heavy. I'll put my camera down
and pick one up for you and you can see how big they are. - Big old Turkey. And you think he's had a good life? We've raised him. I got him for a dollar and 75 cents. He was half off at tractor supply. So I got six of them. I think next year we'll do at least 12. So what'd you think, buddy? Okay. But yeah, he's gotta be 20 pounds. Gotta be. Okay. Go back to what you're doing. So again, mystery breed geese. You all can let me know
what you think they are. They very well could end up being used for meat. Some people have told me different breeds, to just get really mean and difficult, but I'm just trying to raise a variety of poultry for different reasons for my family. So we got one little Guinea hen in there. And if I can show you the male pick and ducks have
a pink Stripe on their face, they head down that way. Then down here, Amelia's feeling up water. Good job, Mili. You can fill up the bigger one. Excellent. So this is just a sandbox that a friend gave us. I've talked to several homesteaders. The biggest question that I get is what about a pond for the ducks? And so ducks don't have to have a pond, but they do need water
to dunk their heads in when they eat. You can see these little ducks are already coming over and these geese. So, we will look out here
and at any given time, we'll have... they even... that's why I set up little containers to whenever they were younger. One of them would sit in there. And even now that they're bigger. So we'll look out here and we might have one in here and one of each of these. They have plenty of water available. That's my job, is to have
water available for them. And then this, I just set out actually yesterday and thought we would try it. It might be too high off the ground ducks I've heard so far. We've only raised in one as a kid. So I'm learning, but they don't like walk up a ramp. So the kids were just
putting them in there or making steps for them. They can get in and out of
these low things though. Another good idea I've heard a bunch is folks wanna know if we're
gonna dig like a little pond and I'm sure we will. That sounds right up. Travis has alley, but that may not be a project.
we get done this summer. But again, lots of homesteaders
raise lots of birds using little pools. So right there, the ducks with the pink stripes, those are the males with the pekins and they actually... baby ducks don't get in water to start, or you have to tell them off. It's a process. So these are just now
starting to get in water too. That's why I added in
the second bigger pool. Here's some of our feed trash cans. Liam is getting goat grain and sheep grain. We've switched to an all stock feed. That's good for the sheep and the goats. We've got
sheep and goats down there and other pens. Will go down and see that in a minute. Liam already got their water. I'm gonna go check on all the meat bird food. Amelia also... Amelia and Gabriel got the smaller meat birds. I haven't shown you them, yet. They got them their water and I don't see their feeders up here. So actually I'm gonna turn around. Someone probably brought them down and hadn't gotten to that yet. So these are the next
load of 50 Cornish cross. That'll be meat birds. I'm going to... we have this large outdoor enclosure for 'em, but I'm moving 'em up here today and they have water, but I will be refilling their food. I'll give you the history of this cage. You can see it's a pretty good size, especially for lots of baby birds that you still want to get out on grass as soon as possible. I think I got this for $75 this spring. I have raised a variety of pullets. I mean, a lot of those birds you saw... This has just been such
a good versatile cage. When they're small, they can get through these bars. Sorry, lots of airplanes
going overhead this morning. (airplane engine roaring) We use this mesh and zip ties and that just helps provide a layer to keep them in and also, once in a while, if one does get out, it's another example of that bonding to home base. They work hard to get back in. There's lots of shade here, but I want him to have a
little bit of sunshine. This is all fresh now for them to pick and you can see different
ones are in there picking. And then this is what it
looks like, where they were. I moved them here, I believe two days ago. And it gets messy really quick. So now this area will recover and have extra fertilizer. And so every day or every other day, I'll just move them up in this shade and then I scootch 'em over and I'll move them back down. And here in another two weeks, they'll be big enough to go in the dome and that'll work perfect because I'll have more of those bigger
birds in there, processed. As kids are done with different jobs. They will ask me, okay, is there anything left to do? So I told Gabriel to go ahead and give mama, baby and Jazzy some grain. Jazzy is gonna get most of a grain, whenever I have her on the milking stand, then she'll be at free
range with mama and baby. We still give the goats that we let free range around the property. Some grain in the morning, grain at night, but really they need hay and they need roughage. So we don't have to
grain them all the time. They'll get more grain in the winter and more hay in the winter. Now our baby goats are the dogs. See Naomi dumping something
and for some reason, there, they're barking at her
pouring that out. It's okay. Then the other goats
that we have currently are being trained to their new yards. We have the boy goats and one. Then we have Carmen who's a younger girl lamancha goat and two sheep in another.
We'll see that in a minute, but I'm gonna finish up with these little baby meat birds. With these waterers you have to watch. If they're not leveled,
they'll keep pouring out. So I'm watching this one for a minute. Sometimes they will just empty themselves. And I do have my birds
going up the Hill here. And something that I read about the jumbo Cornish cross. I think I came in under the radar and did it right, but that you need to feed the jumbo Cornish cross the special meat bird food. It's heavy protein. Helps with their big weight gain. You need to start that from as soon as possible early on. Some people I have read, like in some Facebook group forums, if they didn't start them on
the special meat bird food, then whenever they got to butchering time, they might've had three
or four pound birds. So anyway, I think eyeballing. My great big ones that are about to be processed. Think there over five pounds. Think we're good, but we'll
see, butchering day will tell. And then I try to space out. There are different waterers at different parts. So these guys have three
different waters here and there feet are down there. Lots of different ways to do this also because it's summer now and you know, heavy heat. I have these guys out on grass as early as possible. I have my brooding coop that I'll show you here in a minute. This is my... just a shed that came with the house. And I'm so glad it did. We used this as our first chicken coop when we first moved here. I've used this as a brooding house. I realized raising different poultry, that, it's just nice to
have a building outside. If you're doing large numbers of birds, I was able to do small loads of my pullets just in our feeding room in the basement. But especially with the meat birds, 'cause they get so stinky so quick, I've been able to raise all of those outside in the brooding house. I have their warming
plates set up in there. It's a mess right now because I just got those birds out. So I'm not showing it yet, but maybe I'll show you next
time when I get the next load of meat birds and
have it ready for them. Right now it's just resting with nothing in it. I raised these birds the first two weeks in there. There's another load of meat birds coming end of August from McMurray hatchery. I'll raise them in there. And then after that, I will probably use this as one of my hay storage buildings for this winter. These birds were all from well patchery. It was a great delivery. It did not lose one. I had a hard delivery with
my first set this year. And those four meat birds that I'm getting ready to process are all that made it out of 50. Many of those were dead
or died the first day. So anyway, well patchery
did well with these. And McMurray is who I have
my other load come in from. So a large number of... I think I've got maybe 25 or so of the smaller meat birds
that you saw in the dome. I got those at tractor supply. So tractor supply has
done me well this year. I think I hadn't any
birds last time I went, 'cause I always checked. But yeah, they've kept it up and I've appreciated that. 'Cause it's been hard with
some of the deliveries by mail. Although cackle hatchery is
who I got the pekin ducks, the Guinea hens and the geese from those came
a couple of weeks ago too. So cackle and coming up soon McMurray are the hatcheries I've had
good experiences with this year. Also in the past... My dog has seen me. In the past, my pet chicken.com is who like my barred rock girls and my Easter eggers. A lot of those hands I've
had for over a year now. Gabriel's doing cat water. You just hand-fed the baby sheep. - Yeah, they love the cone. - Yes. They love it all. So I'm just going to show you all our little goat and sheep set up. Then I'm gonna milk Jazzy. Kids have already watered
dogs and done that too. So again, big family effort. Mom's gonna milk a goat. This is glacier one of our great parentees. Hot girl in the shade. They like to dig holes. Oh, and there's... there's Aveline running through. . Case in point. Jammer, why don't you
show your big white dogs on the internet cause they're doing this. They're laying in mud holes,
having a good old time. They even do this in
residential communities anywhere you have a great parentees. Whether they live inside
an air conditioners, most of the day. Whatever, they will dig as soon as they get access. So we consider that, part of the good life for our dogs. They have lots of digging opportunities and they don't dig around the fence. They like to dig around trees and shade, make themselves a whole. Thursday, I'm gonna spend
the first half of the day processing the turkeys and those four jumbo jello meat birds. And then in the afternoon, we're gonna heavy wash and work through the, wild mane of these dogs. 'Cause it'll be a dirty hot even sweatier day. It seems like a good day to bay them. You'll have to look over on Instagram. I've been doing these
like little farm tours, some mornings and I show the animals getting out like what I've done today. But I've got more over
there in my stories. And then here we've been working on
different trees that are down, splitting them for firewood. We have a lot more wood than this and we've given away a bunch of wood to friends who also heat in the winter. This is a wood splitter. And then our oldest son comes and he runs the chainsaw bunch. So I'll show you a little setup over here. Baby goat, you're being nosy. So then here we have a smaller yard and it's been eaten down pretty well. And that barrel, it just got water in it. So that's the whole science
behind why it's upside down. We've been keeping the lamancha doe. We also rotate them out but we also... I like to have a place for 'em at night. So we have the lamancha doe in here. And then we have two little sheep. Here's one. This is Rosie. Hey, miss Rosie. She's a katahdin sheep. And some folks raised. Sheep for meat and milk. This breed of Katahdin sheep are raised heavily for
meat purposes by farmers. That's what I'm raising them for. So we have Willy. Willy the talking sheep. He is going to be our Ram. And then we have also
two unrelated dos here. We have Rosie and Luna. They're gonna be the mamas. And then we have Shaun the sheep. Shaun is bended Ram. These are all lambs, but future hope would be that wooly would breed Rosie and Luna and then we would start
building our own sheep herd. And then at some point we will
have sheep to have processed, to have leg of lamb and lamb chops, all kinds of sheep
related meat products that we raised home grown on
the farm ourselves too. So here's Ms. Carmen. Now she's also a, Lamancha like Jazzy. Super sweet. She's actually Jazz's daughter. And then I went back later
and got it. She's young. And then here is miss... come here Rosie come here, girlfriend. You're like I was eating something. You're irritating me woman. And these are hair sheep. So they don't need sheared. They get thick coats in the winter they shed out. So that's another reason
why they're low maintenance. And then right here on the
other side of the fence, hey man, that's the calf hutch I
have in there for right now for these little boy babies
call him st. Michael's. He's also midnight and that's one of our little chickens. They find their way in there. Midnight's tinkling. Then we have... over here, we got precious. Hey, precious, your scratching. Their yard goes up yonder even though a lot of
these boys are lamancha. We've got five in here and two are banded and it goes way up along there. And they've been working
on eating this down. We've left them in here the last week or so. Hi there. Hi, stinky. Left them in here while they
get used to it and such, we will start rotating them though and giving them either
time out on big lines or timeout free ranging. Coming up soon I want Travis to build me a sheep and goat tractor. So more exciting things to come. There's the girls eating on their side of the fence. You being nosy and midnight here. He is going to be great big. He will be bigger than Jazzy. Last thing I know that needs to be done before I milked Jazzy is the meat birds in that
dome still need their food. I was gonna get the food for the meat birds that I
have out in what we call the garden cage. But someone had already gotten that. And folks have asked if I have a list. We got talking hand here,
you know, do I have a list, Do I have assigned chores? Again the way that my brain works I am a list-maker, especially when it comes to business and tasks that need done. And I'd love to dump my
day out on the whiteboard as far as family life and such. So how that would look on
our whiteboard for today is it says, do animals in the morning and do animals in the evening. And we are getting into
routines and habits with the animals. We've had 'em for several months now. We did have animals before. We've had many flocks
of chickens and such. And everyone's used to doing farm chore animals with grandmother. So we just know everything needs done. So we do it all. We all share the work and bust through and do it. So I'm gonna do the big meat bird in the dome food now. And for our meat birds, this is the food that I've been getting
from tractor supply, it's called NatureWise Meat bird 22%. Crumble and see upside
down there in the picture. Those are some pictures of
the jumbo Cornish cross. 'Cause those are pretty
much been the standard for a bit here. And I keep it in the can when it's open here and I'll fill up their feeder. I'll get a cup full of the laying and crumble. Again, just to love those chickens up in their yard. I'm not gonna move their dome today. It really depends on
how many birds you have, how often you move it. This dome is supposed to
be for 50 or more birds. Anyway, I like to move the dome same with the garden cage every two or so days. I did just move this yesterday. I don't wanna move it today 'cause I've been doing farm chores and filming and charting. And like I said, mama's hot So, one more day, I'll move this tomorrow. You'll see in another
video when I do that, but let's go give this crumble now to the other
chickens in the run. You're one of the lone chickens I know, but look what I got. Can you do it? Now there's also oyster shell calcium and grit that you can
mix up in their food. I don't always do that. Again, I'm not normally giving them food this time of day Anyway, they are out feeding themselves and they will find in
nature what they need. But I do a couple of times a week when
we feed them in the evening, mixing a little grit or Easter show calcium. And you can also leave that out as like free standing things
that the chickens need. Okay. Friends, It's evening in chore time, except it's not the same day that I filmed the morning chores. You see what happened is a few days ago, filmed morning chores. And yeah. I can see it's getting evening. We'll it's eight 45 now. I filmed morning chores and I went in to get my
milk and stuff for Jazzy. And we just got like pouring down rain. And I did not even think to
take my camera to the barn. That was it, I was done. Then that evening I had to work. Kids did the chores. I didn't even do 'em. So we went to the lake all day today. Still in my lake stuff. Some kids are showered and in pajamas, we're just all levels of doneness now. And dogs are barking at me. Turkeys have put
themselves to bed tonight. It's actually it's the turkeys last night because tomorrow is butchering day. We've had a good life turkeys. So come with me to do evening chores. So I'll show ya. You need coolers packed with ice, whenever you are butchering and processing poultry. Now I know this. So I sent Travis. We're at the lake today, on his list. He got me. I wanted two, this size, this is 150 court. You know, I lack my courts. But 150 court cooler, biggest one they had.
They only had one of it. And then this one is a 70 court. We've got things we need
coolers for, anyway. So these are for butchering day tomorrow. Yes there's a circus tent behind me. Totally appropriate. So first thing we do in the evening, just like in the morning, I go around, gather up all the water buckets. Send those to our little watering station. Then we
fill them all up at one time and start dispersing them. I turned my camera on
and they all jumped out. We had several ducks in
that little pool here and then up here, I'll show you those little babies that
have been in this tractor. See it's nighttime now,
they're comfortable. They go all around the yard together. Whole bunch of them are
in the front yard there. Okay guys, Babies are like, you took our waters. What is with you woman? They'll be back. And then for our meat birds. Since the four biggest ones who will be processed tomorrow, we'll pull their food tonight. But here's the turkeys in the woods here all stretched out and
chilling for the night. Look at this dude on the stump. I tell you, they are just big. Hey buddies. Yes. We were saying next
year, maybe we'll do 12. It's a miracle we bought six. We raised six. Hey buddy, you've lived your best life. You sure have. You didn't grow up in a small
little cage or anything. You've been able to sleep on trees. I should have had grain in my pocket. You girls know you're like this... oh Carmen. Oh yes girl. Yes. Well, it's not what you want. It's just me coming for your
water buckets this evening. Liam is gonna get the boy buckets. There you go. That's my little evening
egg collection in my shirt. Yes girls, evening scraps. They're like, where is dinner? Kids might've got more eggs this morning. So that's how it goes. Some days kids do the morning and I do the evening or sometimes we all do the morning. We all do the evening. So, a bunch of teamwork. Oh yeah. Dinner's coming. Got six eggs here. They probably had six or
eight eggs earlier today too. And now this one. Seeing you on the wrong side. Aren't ya? Once Liam comes down with food, we'll have no problem getting her in 'cause she's one of our old girls. She's not really old. She's a year, but we've
had her six or fours tests. Precious. Probably not
getting caught on camera. But the ducks and the
geese are running into... think, Oh no, they're running around it. I thought they were running
in their tractor there. Now if I go walking towards
them this time of night. Yeah. They're trying to
figure out how to get in it. Go on it, your water's not in there. So they're complaining they're like, wait a minute. This isn't justice. How can we get in there? It's coming. You fussing at me. I hear your concerns. But you have been out
for at least 12 hours. You've had bugs and sunshine and farm yard adventures. And your water's coming, even though you've had
access to water all day. You wanted in your coop
before we shut the door. I hear this flipping out
free ranging all day. So I will grab their feeder for tonight. Now I bet they're all going
to follow me with this. Yeah, there they are. Okay. It's that time? So again, the animals that
free range during the day, get fed at night. Animals like the chickens that are being trained to that yard, they get fed in the morning and at night. Generally put on the
egg basket. Thank you. - I'm kinda gonna get yolk in my shirt. - [Jamerrill] Okay. I
know it's gonna start to. It's gonna be hard to see here. But...(mouth clucking) Super exciting. Come on babies. (chicken clucking) I've got another feeder down there to fill for him too, but let's look at them, I'll get in there. Come on. You figure it out. Come around. I walked to 'em. No, go this way. I promise it's good. And now my goat's coming. Yes girl. Well let me help you. You're so nice and soft. Hey Jazzy girl. Excuse me. Get on in. There you go. Now we got one lone goose. Come on buddy. So nice and soft too. Evening chores tend to take a
little shorter period of time than morning chores. 'cause in the mornings
I just find myself doing more projects. More hands-on stuff. Getting stuff set up for the day, letting animals out, taking animals around at night, giving them fresh water, feeding them for the evening, talking to everybody in, making sure everybody is
where they need to be. So right now the rest of the water buckets need to be carried, but we're almost done. So friends, there's a peak
at doing morning chores and evening chores on our little sudden homestead with us. Again, I didn't show
myself milking the goat 'cause that first morning I got caught in rain. And then tonight Naomi's taken her turn doing cheeseburger macaroni
in the instant pot. Do you want a video for the large family table community? All about that, we are having that for dinner tonight. So I got, serve that up for dinner. If you would like to see me milking a goat and getting to know my
Lamatsia dairy goat Jazzy, I will link that down
in the description below and you can also see
that aspect of our farm. So thank you so much for
doing chores with me. Tomorrow's butchering, more adventures to come. I'll see you real soon with
another brand new video. Bye. (soft guitar music)
