Youngblood Family Farm came into existence in 2010 when my Wife and I, along with 2 small children, bought an abandoned 20 acre farm in Southwest Michigan. Since this purchase we have added 3 more children, bring the total to 5. I find day to day employment as a High School Industrial Arts Teacher, which has honed both skills on the Homestead as well as the skills in Teaching others
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Thank you so much. Have tried EVERYTHING to get the groundhog that has burrowed under the slab of our house with no success. Am borrowing a conibear trap to set tomorrow. It's excavating enormous amounts of soil, and the hole looks like it's a rather big one. I appreciate your guidance!
If these are the units that I've been trying to find online that's in my hotel room the only install they're worth is straight into the garbage. I can't seem to find the exact seasons unit I'm looking for and this don't seem to be it. And I'm starting to see why I can't find them to leave a review
Looks great! I have never had Okra before, I heard it's good if it's cooked correctly. Looks like you have just as much poison ivy growing up your trees on the pasture as I do! I hate that stuff!
You add a LOT for me. I handle a 10000 sf garden by myself and I put on your video as I'm about to shell 6 pounds of peas for the freezer and absolutely delighted to be able to listen to you as I do it. It makes me feel not so alone. Keep it up.
Nice garden Joe. Oh and don’t even think that you don’t add to RU-vid my friend. You have inspired me to do a lot of things. Please keep up the good videos and teaching. Not only do you reach your students but us as well, a special me. Thank you very very much. God speed my friend.
Chris, you are Awesome. I guess there is a lot of that imposter syndrome. I lose sight of my own value, and yet I know what I know. Thanks for sharing your time with me
Pond is looking amazing Joe! Bet that comes in really nice on those hot summer days! I'm with you; being up and getting to it before anyone else is stirring is the way to go.
@@YoungbloodFamilyFarm lol, not intentionally! We have a river bordering our property, and depending on that water table even digging out the firepit some springs can get pond-like.
How did you finally get rid of the biofilm? That’s what we are struggling with at the moment and we have a pond guy who maintains our pond for us and I feel like we just gave our pond biofilm by putting in a muck eating biologic agent… any suggestions welcomed!
Ugh, I want to start by letting you know that I am not an expert. I tried every suggestion that Uncle Google sent my way. From what I understand, Biofilm is a result of just too much decomposition. In my experience I had added pond dye, had rotting lily pad roots, removed emergent vegetation (vegetation has the ability to consume some of these bads in the water), and added bacteria to break down the muck more. It was just too much at 1 time. Water temp rising and sunlight seemed to exasperate the presence of the biofilm. I have not had this issue yet at this point of the season. I had the water tested, followed the prescribed plan, and continue to do the maintenance every 2 weeks. Hate to say it but your pond guy might just be stumped like I was last summer. I would do the test, kinda pricey but worth it, my pond looks great and the kids are in it every day. Sorry this reply is long, but just my thoughts and experience, let me know how things go
Help! I have this problem on my pond now and it seems to have happened as a result of adding a muck-eating biologic agent. We have a pond maintenance guy who is working with us, but I’m frustrated because we use our pond as a swimming hole and until a week ago it was clear and blue and perfect! Help!!!
Thanks for the video, but I highly recommend looking into what can happen to devices connected to an ungrounded ethernet cabled buried between buildings before doing this. You must have proper grounding and bonding at both ends (lightning does travel through the ground). Buried cable must either be in conduit, or be specifically designed for direct burial. It must be buried at least 24" or below the frost line, whichever is deeper, because the ground does move.
Hi, e have a half acre pond, thinking about getting aeriator with 2 diffusers. We have put in the phosphate and bacteria and have a fountain and it has kept the algae down. What I’m wondering is it has your diffuser helped with algae
The aerator and diffusers move the water vertically and creates lateral movement throughout the pond evening the pond temps and keeping water from becoming stagnant. I think it is helpful but from what I have learned, algae has a lot to do with water chemistry. So many systems, so many variables, I’m no expert
I like your big cutting / butchering board. We shrink wrap our chickens a little bit different than you, but I might just give your version a shot next weekend! Looks pretty simple, Thanks guys!
Thanks Eric, this is the best cutting board, heavy, best to stretch before moving. I like these bags a lot, make way more sense than the straw thing folks use
Nice work! My wife and I have been using Texas shrink bags with a little tube zip tied in that we pull out once the bag shrinks - the slit trick is new to me looks like it works really well.
Eric, thanks for sharing your time with me. I figured I’d try to record some of the other fixits. Honestly, we don’t notice the non matching colors. As a kid, I remember my Dad running a pair of hubcaps on 1 side of a car and a completely different pair on the other side. I guess really something’s don’t matter
@@YoungbloodFamilyFarm it got impacted and was big and I tried for a while massaging and holding upside down to try n get to throw it up and it never would go down and finally 1 day it had busted open and I had no choice but to try n get it emptied so I made stated pulling out wods of long grass all twisted up in knots and it just was too much of a rats nest to exit the crop I guess. It ended up dying that night though. Maybe it’s not as bad if you have short grass but i wouldn’t give it to them if your grass is real tall
Do you still fight the bio film? And are you still checking and addressing the ph levels. I am and have been fighting the bio film and starting to add limestone to see if that helps. Your pond is coming along very nice. Thanks for the videos.
The pond has been real clean this season. I had this test done by Natural Waterscapes. I’ve been doing their prescribed treatment plan. Real clean at this point of the season.
For our rabbits, we use a 5 gal drink cooler, $25 from walmart, with an aquarium heater that keeps it from freezing in the winter. I would image you could attach the nipples to the side of the cooler and since its insulated, would use less electricity than a heated mat. In our case, we have an aquarium pump push water from the cooler through a 20 foot loop of tubing sleeved with pool noodles and attach rabbit watering nipples along a 10 ft row of cages. In the past two Maine winters, the line has only frozen up once and only for a few hours in the early morning. The aquarium heater is 100W and we set the temperature to 65f.
I like the nipple waterers you have for the chicken tractors. My tractors are too short for that style, but I can see where they would work well. We just use a 5 gallon waterer in the coop through the summer. We switch over to a heat plate and a smaller waterer in the winter. Last winter was pretty mild so we didn't have much of an icing issue. This winter I think is going to be a lot colder so I need to come up with a different system. Thanks for sharing Joe!
Nice summary! I’ve tried everything but the self filling bowls. My wife is daily operations while I’m just infrastructure - the nipples in the bucket are our go-to for winter. I wired up the coop with a dedicated 20amp circuit and drop a 5’ pipe heat cable in each 5 gallon bucket in winter. Works the best so far.
Winter is and always will be a challenge. However, during the summer these chickens drink so much, always trying to figure out good methods. Of course if it rains they just use a puddle
i liked this vid and i have a gp3600 that does the job for my small house grid to keep me with electricity while an outage like right now as im typing this at 9p.m lol i was looking for a oil change video and ran into yours with alot more great info .
Hey, perhaps you can help me. I am unable to open the manual sliding door from the inside. It's not child lock as the working sliding door behaves differently when child lock is on. When I pull from inside, the working door would pull further and will click and stop opening. With the non working door, the pull is half and no clicks or action. The door can open from outside.
I appreciate the concise video on how to use the trap, which is why I found your video. I know a lot of folks are not interested in seeing an animal meet its demise, but I also understand that unfortunately it’s what needs to be done sometimes. We’re having issues with a couple of groundhogs digging near the foundation of our main barn which has to stop. Thanks for the great video.
