Tips and Tricks for family country living. Farming, gardening, and diy projects are our passion. Living a life that is full of faith, family and getting in touch with creation. I own and operate East Fork Christmas tree farm in Ridgefield Washington.
The bands I bought said compatible for cattle, sheep and goats. Some bands are just skinny rings. The ones I used were flatter like a thick wedding ring.
Interesting… I bought an iron bull trailer and the same thing happened to me. I took it to the mechanic and only three out of four trailer brakes were working. Also, the first tire changes on all four wheels stripped the wheel studs due to being overtightened. Besides that, it’s a solid trailer…
I just went out to look at a weld job for my friend, he had an IronBull trailer just like that but with higher sides and he was hauling an excavator just like that one. the bracket that holds the leaf spring on busted off from the frame, one side of the bracket wasnt even welded to the frame like the other side of the trailer and the welds were so cold only 1/8 of an inch was penetrating. most all the welds with the brackets that hold the springs on were shit and another weld was missing. Driving 65 mph and that happens it could mean death. I will do a youtube video of it when I fix it. I would buy one but would check all the main welds first.
I hate disbudding, but my kids want to show goat and at least for their age range the goats are required to be disbudded or dehorned. I keep watching these videos and i think i'm at the point that i rather pay someone else to do it, i don't think I can. I've thought about using the paste but i have people telling me horror stories using disbudding paste.
A diamond blade for a circular saw will cost you around 13 dollars and you won’t have all those chunks of metal flying around and hitting your hands and face not to mention the teeth that will come off of your skillsaw blade that is not made for what you’re trying to do with it . The diamond blade will also last for hundreds of jobs . Ear protection should be a priority . I did not bother with it and now my hearing is terrible due to cutting metal, the carbide wood blade backwards in a skillsaw to cut roof metal is by far the worst thing you can do for your ears.
You can do it now. This would be a softwood cutting they would actually root quicker. However there are some key differences in the process from hardwood which I did and softwood. I have not posted a video on softwood yet. You can find others. Mike Kincaid has a good channel for softwood cutting advice. Also if you only need a couple plants Air layering is a good option this time of year.
You can do it now. This would be a softwood cutting they would actually root quicker. However there are some key differences in the process from hardwood which I did and softwood. I have not posted a video on softwood yet. You can find others. Mike Kincaid has a good channel for softwood cutting advice.
I wasted over $1,000 in a 10 wire barbed wire fence (prior was a 5 wire fence.) and it was a little less than a waste of money. I'm surprised your goats haven't ripped apart or eaten that barn where they sleep. My goats have plenty of pasture, but still love to rip apart and eat their shelter. I'm really wanting to get one of those heavy metal tunnels made for goats (domed so the goats can't climb on it.) and build a shelter for raising babies and milking goats. Zero shots for my goats. I'll never have a wether again. Mine was overly active and zero benefit to me, so finally got rid of it about 2 weeks ago.
I understand I started with barbed wire. Too easy for them to get out. I have never had a goat try to eat my barn. You must have an especially tasty wood. I agree on wethers. No use for them.
@@FlanaganHomestead Never had them eat my shelter, but they do break through corrugated metal and rip out screws as well as gnaw on wood, whether it be part of the 2x4 structure or wood partitions.
Looks scary, lol I’ve loss carbide teeth just cutting through shingle/cdx roofs But this looks better than the worm drive with carborundum cut off blades, those things break far to easy and go everywhere
I have two dwarf goats that have both been neutered. One is larger than the other and buĺlies and butts the other sometimes at feeding time. Is there a way to prevent this? Should I seperate them at feeding time?
If you put a partition divider in their trough/feeder. The aggressive one won’t pull his head away from the food to butt the other one. At least he won’t do it until he is done with his side. This gives the smaller one a chance to eat before the older is done on its side. The wider the divide the better.
If you determine how many planks would make the amount you want per bundle, you could tie a length of twine towards the bottom half- they would stay orderly as you split, then add the second piece and you have your bundle ready to go
Good idea. I haven’t done that yet but got one step closer. Instead of throwing all cut kindling in a box I have decided ten boards make a bundle. Split these and leave in one pile.
There is the problem with wood bundles. You get a bundle of wood and no real way of getting it started. A person has to get some paper or real small wood, pine needles, pine cone or fire starter just to be able to use the bundle wood. Now they can buy kindling for several fires, but if they only wanted one they have surplus.
That’s because to get them there I had done the call earlier to call them to the barn. They were already there and were confused why I called in the making of the video. I have shown the charge they come with on other videos.
I'm from Europe and we have a neat little way of dealing with smaller leaning trees that pose a danger of barberchairing. If the tree is too small to make a horizontal plunge cut after you make your face cut, you can bore cut the holding wood (minus the hinge ofc) diagonally. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-U8188I6H7Uc.htmlsi=4A2IBBRAbshz1VoP&t=2194 (timestamp is 36:33). The small trees are often as deadly as the big ones, even more so because most people tend to ignore the massive amounts of spring energy they have when they split.
Yeah, my little herd has managed to mangle three ancient white oaks even with hardware cloth wrapped around. Seems they rubbed their horns on it ‘till they broke the welds, and went to town on just enough to kill the tree. You have to be checking that shit almost by the hour with goats. It’s funny how destructive they are.
@@FlanaganHomestead I have water suplay to all my 5h land but I have to put in bag for 30 days in refrigerator first and then in pots and then next year I am planing to put in main field. Its our first time. I am so exaited that I cant wait 😄 but in same time we want to do in right way too
@@jurisjelnikovs6694 you will definitely be late and have a short growing season if you cold stratify now then plant. Best results would be to wait for next year. Or you could try planting 1/4 or 1/2 of them this year and learn something.
So, I bought 2000 and good grief, its back breaking work LOL.. I got lazy after 450, i threw the rest ontop of the soil next to each tree,,... it should still do the job, just not buried... will see...
Another option is to take the end hanging out and force the loop up, then shutting the tailgate and putting that tension against the tailgate. That prevents you from getting stuck at the end. 😊
I planted four blueberry bushes this year they came up the leaves looking really good no issues no browning nothing we had a really warm green winter. Almost no snow almost no subzero and it was green grass all year round just super bizarre so I really thought that the blueberries would come up earlierlast year I don’t think we had any blueberries. Any suggestions? Thank you. Said you had something about Austin Pineneedles, but we did add acid to the soil when we put the bushes in.
Thanks for showing the product. I couldn’t find it for the acid loving soil, but it’s very helpful. When people do a video they talk about the soil and talk about the fertilizer too many times they do these videos and they don’t talk about the important piece.
