Welcome to our channel! We started farming in the AZ desert in 2014 and have gone from a 5,500 sq. ft residential lot to a 1 acre farm and now a 6 acre piece of flat desert land that we're turning into a farming oasis in the desert. We're located about 1 hour from downtown Phoenix on the far edge of our small rural community. Join us as we learn and share how we're farming on the Edge of Nowhere!
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The issue with pecans is their water needs, which are substantially more than our other trees. I'll link to a video we did here on how we keep all of our 180 trees in full sun with no issues; ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DKR4aRpd5vY.html
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm theyd need less water with shade. These days we dont have normal weather, its way too frikin hot, its over 105 for a week forcast today here
Our dogs do just fine with the cats and they've only been together for a couple of weeks. They both were exposed to cats from birth, which does make a big difference.
What you see us doing here is pretty water intensive, so you would need irrigation in order to keep that pasture going through the Summer months. Natural rainfall would not support this.
@5:13 to avoid wind erosion, you could use a (larger) tiller that covers the expelled dirt. a larger tiller would also reduce soil compaction more and would make the swale wider and/or deeper for more water retention, which should be especially important on flat ground. however, larger tillers are obviously more expensive.
As someone who has owned LGD breeds for about 15 years, I'd strongly suggest you crate train both of them and feed them separately. Once adult brain kicks in, they are prone to resource guarding. Also if you ever had a vet emergency, if the crate is restful and not stressful that is incredibly helpful. These breeds are bred to work away from the shepherds so they are not bred to be obedient though it doesn't hurt to work on it. You already got two of the more challenging of these breeds and both have puppy brain. A lot will change as they mature. You got the two highest prone to roaming and fence jumping you could have possibly picked. They are slow maturing and won't get more adult thinking until 18- 24 months. I don't think you should add any other dog right now but that's just my opinion. These two seem easy now because they are babies. Teenagers are much, much more challenging. I don't even add two same age LGD on my property. As to kennel training I would get the largest crate you can find but he needs a much smaller area to start with that can be completely cleaned to rid any smell and then consider dividing the pen and gradually give him more space as he keeps his area clean. And rather than having to do very frequent outs, just be super consistent on a schedule until he gets the idea. You can gradually increase the time between outs but he will probably need outs about every 3 hours to start with. Teach both now before it is too late to eat in their own separate area that belongs just to them and do not ever leave food down that they don't finish. Its fine until it isn't. Remember they were bred to guard resources so that is what they will do and it often lends itself to food as well. Find the American Akbash Association on RU-vid - a lot still applies to your dogs and they have a lot of correct history you might like as well.
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm The E collar is your friend. LOL. They seem to all be naughtier at around 8-12 mos as far as wanting to chase livestock etc and the birds are harder because they will guard against flying predators so you have to teach them the birds are not that. So we use the alarm first and then vibrate. They learn quickly with this. You can find me through MnJ Poodles if I can help in any way. Once they hit about 2 they are magic to watch them work.
@@mnj5089 we did get an e collar with the vibrate and/our sound feature that we plan on using. Sasha's breeder suggested it for snake and toad avoidance training. Now to buckle down and get through the next year and half! Thank you for the advice and willingness to share your experience.
These were delivered through Chip Drop (arborists chipping as they work on tree trimming in the city). They are hit or miss when you're more remote, but it does work.
Jack Russel or Rat Terriers for rodent control. To get dogs to poo outside their kennel, put some of their poo where you WANT them to go, and take them there often.
Hey Dewayne, do your all in one almonds taste like pecans instead of almonds? I just wondered because that what mine tasted like this summer , I don't think it is because it wasn't ripe because I just picked it off the tree with no effort and the shell was all tried out and distorts and partly open. Thanks, congrats on the new dogs, I hope they do well for you guys.
It's been a few years since we've had an almond from one of our trees, but I remember it tasting like an almond. That being said, we're big fans of pecans, so I suppose it wouldn't be so bad we have the same experience!
So sweet I love seeing this soft side to Turkeys, when it comes to the new Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles animated series of 2024 and if I could guest star to voice both a good girl and a wicked witch-in-training the good girl who's autistic like me would have a pet turkey named Tina after the famous sing who passed away 🙏🏻💕🦃😄
My Brown Turkey figs in Louisiana don`t look like very many I see online. But I`ve heard there are 6 or more varieties. We always grew a small brown fig that had white cracks in the skin when ripe. I think it was Celeste. My Brown Turkey figs are larger than golf balls, very sweet, and greenish purple.The center isn`t hollow at all. But my tree was planted last year and it could change. The fancy fig growers hate the tree but it thrives here and the fruits are incredible. I trimmed it in mid June reducing production though and even though I watered them daily and have heavily mulched my trees we had yet another drought that affected them regardless. Apparently most of the fruits won`t be ripening before the first frost. Some have been on the trees for months. I planted two more cuttings from it and four new Celeste trees and four Dwarf Mulberry this year. Hopefully next year I`ll have plenty of fruit. But I expect yet another highly unusual "global warming" zero degree freeze again...of course. That`s the new subtropical normal while inflation is starving us. Growing food has been nearly impossible for four years here in all seasons. And they changed my zone to 9a when it should have been changed to 7b apparently.
Wow, it sounds like you're doing all you can to get those figs coming off the trees. It's funny, because we seem to have similar issues with the fruit not looking exactly like it does in other climates. I suppose it makes sense that the fruit quality would change, but you'd think it would still look the same!!
My dogs where soo good, are good. They never pooped or peed inside. When i had to move them to the kenel they really tried to wait. 2 or 3 days in poop started apearing overnight and while i was at work. I came to the conclusion theres nothing i can do about it. They are locked up. Theres not much they can do about it either.
Well, this is discouraging. Eventually it won't matter as these dogs will be free roaming the property once they're larger and trained, but for now they need to go at least a few hours and overnight without soiling the ground!
Cage train Maverik. He won't go where he has to sleep. Put the cage in the kennel and him in it each night. Chihuahuas were bred as ratters for people in towns. Phoenix has a problem with packs of them roaming the streets terrorizing innocent garden-wrecking cats, rats, and snakes. God help anyone who hurts one of those demoniacs. Those old-times will break a cane on them. Best critter terminator is a mini dachshund. Minis were bred to wipe out rats and so on. A female should stick close to home, but all male dogs love to explore. Mexican Village Dogs (AKA perros callejeros) are used for this, as well, something they passed on to Chihuahuas which as a min breed of them. Unlike xolo, the Villager is people oriented. But, as well, feral ones are the major cause of dog attacks from the US southwest to southern S. America. Last night, about 3:25 AM I heard a bump and woke up. Then Termite decided to attack. All I saw was a tall man's shadow outside the window. I yelled it was OK, Termite really only very playful. I guess he didn't think that was funny because he ran away. niio, kids!
Personally I would get a barn-and-stable breed, such as the multitasking Schnauzers which made their bones as ratters, herders, guardians, and hunters.
Hello! Totally think i would get a separate kennel for Maverick, he needs fo me kennel trained. A small kennel to keep him in at the veey least at night. Small space, he wont go to the bathroom where he sleeps. Once he gets this down then they could be back together. For training its important to be separated also, as a comment above. At least for the initial basics. Good luck, beautiful babies.
If you recall, I brought my dog by once and her breed is very nose driven. She's a Brittany. I met a farmer in Utah that a male who rode on his farm tractor all day and if a ground squirrel popped up, the dog would jump off the tractor in motion and chase it down. Just another option for you. I'll send a pic.
When your LGD's get old enough to patrol the property put spike collars on them so their necks are protected as that's where the coyotes would go for. A Terrier was bred for hunting rats and mice, there's a YT video showing them at work but I don't remember the name, just do a YT search of rat dogs. It's amazing how fast they are at dispatching rats.
Great suggestions here. We are considering a terrier for that smaller dog. They're fearless little guys and with the larger dogs here to help fend off predators they would be able to roam the property and hunt at will!
@@FourthWayRanch if they are hand raised they should be friendly and always come for treats, just be careful when you go to buy see if they come to the owner and want scratches and rubs. If they do then they should be people friendly.
Please adopt my dog lol need to rehome since i am allergic to her shes an English labrador haven't had the heart to leave her in the pound. Shes 9 months old.
Greeting from Zurich, Ont. Canada. We have a loaded apple tree in our front yard. This one produces fruit on one side one year and on the other the next year, but this year it is exceptionally full. My son started spraying in the spring as Ontario has a problem with the codling moth. Have made a bunch of cider and now following your wine recipe as l do love wine. Question though with your measurements as Canada's measurements is in metric and assuming yours are imperial and wondering if there will be much difference. Love your videos.
Glad to hear you're giving a go of that Apple wine. It's one of our favorite fruit wines (and we make several). As for measurements, I would assume a conversion calculator should get those figures for you. In fact, we weigh all of our fruit in grams and then convert to pounds after the fact with Google's gram to pound conversion tool.
These dogs are specifically bred to defend farms from those predators. That's also why we have 2 of them, working as a team a pack of coyotes would not stand a chance.
Oh happy days for both of your pups! Just remember this rule...the human must ALWAYS be the PACK LEADER! make sure they get separate lessons from you to maintain your pack leader position. Sometimes pups will grow up ignoring you because this never was taught to them!
Thank you for the notes on this. We've been keeping them together for these first few weeks, but I can already see how separate training is going to be needed and this totally makes sense.
And I LOVE my turkeys! They are way more fun than chickens who are nervous. And wow isn't it stunning when the males start strutting? Magnificent birds!
Look into crate training for Maverick. I've heard, but have never done this type of training, that a dog won't poop&pee in a smaller space. Then when you take them out, you immediately bring them outside to relieve themselves. This would entail him sleeping overnight in the crate and in the a.m. you bring him outside to relieve himself; but I do not know about other times, other than nighttime, when he should be put in the crate for this type of training.
That's a great suggestion and we may have to do that. Eventually they won't be kept in this kennel for longer than maybe a few hours when we have large groups on the farm, but cleaning out the poop is getting pretty old quick!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm Kennel training is great for emergency preparedness and transportation, as well. It's a good idea to have them trained for it even if you won't be crating them often once Maverick stops pooping his crate. If you haven't looked into positive reinforcement and operant conditioning yet, there are some fabulous trainers on RU-vid here who explain it well. Personally my favorite is @kikopup. Best of luck with your pups!
I crate trained my dog it woks! In fact, I was his retreat or space. End he never had an aide t in the crate. If the crate was open in the day time when was young he sometimes relieved himself but even then it was not in the crate, .
@@dawnjackson6741 based on the suggestions here we started last night on the smaller crate, so fingers crossed it will work. It's all temporary as they'll eventually roam the property, but for now it's a mess!!
It always cracks me up...the ducks and geese come FLYING out of their cage, but the turkey's S L O W L Y come out magestically and full of themselves. LOL!
Funny you should say this, Sasha has a tendency to eat pretty much everything in sight and she is already stopping to dig on some of the ground squirrel holes!
Said it many times, Jack Russel, but dont get a rehome, a young pup, they may think cats are varmits. Have had enough of them to know that cats and JR are varmit getters.
Pit bulls are great dogs for dispensing of pests. Look up "Joseph Carter the Mink Man" here on RU-vid to see some amazing dogs in action. He uses a combination of mink and dogs to catch rats and other prey on farms and ranches, much like you need here. Terrier mixes seem to excel at this type of work and they are incredibly driven to do so. Mixed breeds are both cheaper than pure breeds as well as having more diverse genetics, lending to a healthier dog overall. So many pure breeds have endemic issues due to limited genetic diversity.
It’s been 8 years sine I started my permaculture food forest. Last year I ordered 3 huge orders of wood chips ($4,000)! But it has made the biggest difference in my land. Water is retained, roots are protected and dirt is softer and streaming with life.
Merhaba Mesut. Türkiye'den tanıdığımız tek kişi olarak aklımızdaydınız çünkü artık bir besi köpeğimiz var ve o da yarı Kangal. Anladığım kadarıyla aslen Türkiyeli! O çok güzel bir köpek ve ÇOK büyük olacak!
@@EdgeofNowhereFarm evet gördüm ve seyrettim kangal köpekleri türk ırkından ama dikkat edin çok cabuk hızlı büyür tanımadığı kimseyi yanına sokmaz kesinlikle genlerinde sürü ırkı var çok sadıktır ve kesinlikle ihanet etmez nasıl yetiştirirseniz ona itaat eder sizi ölünceye kadar sahiplenir ve yaşar kolay gelsin
Love seeing all your sky shots - sunrises are so beautiful. Sasha looks sweet but I don't think I could manage a huge dog - LSGD or not. However, I have lost 2 flocks of chickens (and a few other small mammals) to the coyotes. In Ohio! Hmmm ... feeding 1 large dog might be a little less expensive than losing around 60 birds. Enjoy that sweet little girl before she gets so big she'll need both of you and 2 leashes for a walk.
Sorry to hear about those chickens. We lost our entire flock about 2 years ago to a neighbor's dog, so we know how it feels. Sasha will be the biggest one on the block and also now has a partner in crime, so we're not far from having a dog free zone...except for ours of course!
I missed the live, but I'll catch up later as it's Bible time and off to sleep, tomorrow is church and lots going on there tomorrow, and old age tires me out pretty quick. Goodnight ❤
