Look at that beautiful sunrise over there, could you ask for anything better than that?
It's going to be a gorgeous day!
I never get tired of this amazing view.
rooster crows
birds chirping
It's such a beautiful place to live
I don't know if you can see them, on the ridge,
can you see those cows there?
I love that!
look at them.
Out lined against the sky.
The first thing I'm going to do is start these seeds soaking for the afternoon.
alright, let's go feed the pigs.
Chewey, come!
Let's see where Chewey went.
Oh he's up there on the road by the drive way.
Ok, that's cool.
He has started running off again
He spent much of the day gone last week, so we are putting his tracking collar on him so
we can get him before he gets too far away.
and we can call him back.
Look at this sky!
It's what my daughter calls "cotton candy" sky.
It's blue and pink.
and pretty.
Oh!Let's see if you can see that. The moon is still right over there.
Look at that gorgeous full moon!
Try and focus on it.
I don't know if I can zoom in on it or not.
Look at that, How pretty is that?
Kind of shaky camera, sorry guys!
Zoom back out.
Love it when the sunrise is coming up and the moon is going down.
Kind of cool.
Alright, there's our piggies.
Hello, Three Little Pigs.
Good morning.
Are you guys ready for some food?
Bet you are.
There you go.
Enjoy.
So, a general rule for pigs, is that they need about
a pound of food per month of life, per day.
So these pigs were born around Mothers day.
So that's May.
June, July, August, September, October.
Five months old. They should each be getting about five pounds of food a day.
That's a lot of food to eat.
Alright, Let's move on.
Hi!
Good morning, Mama. Oh, we need to comb out that mane, don't we?
Good morning, Mama, how are you?
Hi, Missy, good morning!
How are you?
Huh? Good morning, Sweetheart, hi. No, there's no food in there for you.
Look at her trying to get at the bucket.
There's no food in there, girl.
There's nothing in there.
Let's go up the hill and get some graze.
Normally these girls get feed at night, and hay at night.
There's a piece of trash out here, I'll take care of that.
and in the morning we just open up the gate and let them up the hill to graze.
But the grass up there has been mowed, and
it's getting near winter, so it's not as um
growing as quickly,
Starting to turn brown a little bit.
So I'm going to go ahead and start giving them hay in the mornings, too.
I'll make sure the rest of the family knows.
They are waiting to see what I'm going to do.
I'm going to go in here to the hay barn, and they are going to follow me.
Normally they would go right up the hill. Yep.
Here they come.
Hi girls.
Oh you're so pretty.
Can I take a picture?
Alright Lady, back up,
Lady, there's no food in there for you.
I'm going to give you some hay.
Back up Mama. I'll give you some hay.
There we go.
Because sometimes, Lady is a hog.
And she will push Missy out of the barn.
She's sharing pretty good right now.
Is that cause the camera's are rolling? Huh, Mama?
So if she pushes Missy out, Missy can come back in that door, and go eat.
Alright, I hear popping in the electric fence.
Which means we've got another short.
Let's see if we can't figure out what's going on.
Right here.
Look at that. It's almost frayed through .
That is something we will have to fix this afternoon.
Another volunteer gourd plant.
I don't think they are going to get much bigger.
They've been about that size for a while.
I don't know if they are going to grow any or not.
We'll keep an eye on them and see.
(Rooster crows)
Now I just checked Chewey's tracker to see where he was. It says he's here.
Let's call him. Chewey!
There he is! Hi! (Chewey barks) You were a good boy?
(Chewey barks)
Hey, shh. Shh! Shh.
And you stayed in our (Chewey barks)in our
Where you were supposed to stay. I know. good dog.
Hush. People are sleeping still.
I'm going to open this. (barking) Yes, I'm going to come in there.
(barking) Alrighty.
Good doggy.
(rooster crows)
It's like you put the collar on him, and it's an instant good dog.
Alright. Time for what, Chewey? Time for chickens!
So that buzz that you just heard?That was the device saying
"Near proximity Grandma's house"
So we have a set radius around our house, and around grandma's house.
So we know where he is,
and then we have points marked like down there where the road crosses the creek
If he get's down in that area,
It buzzes us so we can see he's getting out of line
and then it's got a little tone we can make beep that tells him to come back home.
It works pretty good.
Hi Miss Kitty! You want to go hunting?
Yeah? Ok come on in here! Go hunting.
yesterday she caught a mouse while I was in here.
Yeah, I can see there's been mice in here because there are mouse droppings.
Hi, good morning sweet Kitty.Yeah. You are a good hunter girl.
You're a good barn cat, aren't you?
Oyster shells.
Crushed oyster shells, that's good for their egg.
You can also crush up your egg shells if you keep your egg shells.
We don't eat a whole lot of eggs,
We do eat some,
But I sell more than I eat.
So I don't have a lot of egg shells to crush up.
So I do the oyster shells.
And this is the Texas Naturals non-gmo scratch.
I like this scratch because it is actually the whole grain.
So that's cool. You don't find that much in scratch.
Alright. This is just what it's called. It's scratch.
You toss it on the ground they scratch around and eat it up.
Ok. Oh! Look who's waiting for us!
Hi, Chewey!
Alright. Turn the light out and we are ready to go.
Let's go say hi to grandma's calves.
You can see them out there in the pasture.
Oh they are doing so good.
Getting big.
Now our chickens are free range,
but they are free range in the afternoon.
We have thirty-something chickens right now,
and, they were kind of tearing up grandma's yard.
we find that if we let them out later in the day they don't do quite so much damage.
So for the morning, I'm just going to let them out into the outer coop.
Then soon we hope to make a chicken tractor down at our house.
You want to come in this morning and see the chickens?
Ok.
Then we can let them out down there by our house.
Alright. now as the chickens come out
I count chicken heads.
You want to count with me?
We make sure we have the same number everyday that we started with.
Kind of give a visual inspection of them all.
Twenty-nine, so we have twenty-nine chickens.
oh, there's thirty.
There you are, you were hiding in the corner.
Thirty chickens.
Including 27 hens and 2 roosters.
Open the window and let some fresh air in here.
We have two additional banty hens.That sleep elsewhere.
Alright. Let me fill up their feed bucket.
Good morning girls! How's everyone doing today?
That was a bad view for you guys.
And then their water should still be good because I filled it yesterday.
it's fine.
Let's throw this chicken scratch out.
Boy they love this stuff.
Here chick, chick chick!
Alright, so the nights are going to start getting colder,
So some things that we are going to do
we are going to bring up a whole bunch of straw.
And then we will pile it on the floor.
So the really cold days they will have somewhere to hunker down.
And keep warm.
We also hooked up this heat lamp.
That we need to get on a timer.
Because right now it isn't. It's just always on.
That heat lamp. Sorry, I'm trying to do two things at once.
The door isn't wanting to stay open.
I should put a latch on it to make it stay.
Alright, let's check for eggs.
Sometimes there are eggs in the morning, But we usually collect in the afternoon.
Mama, what you got? Nothing. You're just hanging out in the nest?
Alright, very cool.
And if you didn't know, chickens don't sleep in their nesting boxes.
Except maybe that girl.
They roost
And then they lay eggs in the nesting boxes.
Alright, Chewey says chores are done.
So the horses water, and the pigs water.
Well I will fill up the horse water this afternoon.
They have enough to get through the day.
I think I'm going to have the girls clean out the horses trough.
It was looking a little green.
And I'll do the pig water this morning.
That's it.
We're not going inside now Chewey, come on.
I guess you could.
No, why don't you come back to our house? You need to eat.
Chewey likes to stay at Grandma's house when we go to church.
Alright. I need to put this back in the feed room over here.
And, chores are done!
Oh! Look at that sunrise!!
Could you ask for anything better than that?
A beautiful, gorgeous, day!
Have a blessed day everybody!
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