My dad grew up on a small dairy farm in central Michigan. His grandfather always kept muscovey ducks around, more for fun than prophet. When I farmed with my dad on our 100 cow dairy farm, he continued the tradition. The fly population went down drastically when we introduced ducks to the farm. Nothing fancy, just free range ducks. I always got a kick out of watching them too. Thanks for another great video, keep up the good work.
Pete Congratulation on the your replying to one person it was priceless. When you start off a channel, it's not to make money at least not to many. You create friends and content that people love and enjoy to see!! You bring joy to our day just by seeing your new videos full of thing that many people would love to experience but never will. Pete, Both of you have a great day!!!
Thanks! And there are thousands of super, great, kind people who watch the channel. I meet some of them every weekend at the farmers market. The ne'er-do-wells always get too much attention, while it is the first group who really should be getting all the attention. I am so thankful for all those people.
Good morning Pete and family, you do one helluva job on your videos and explaining farm life. Thank you so much for what you and your family does. Great diversion and inspiration from everyday crap LOL. When those chicken's come out it's like the bar at closing time!!
Pete...all I can say is that we think you are great in your presentations ...we love em all ! You are a very entertaining comical guy ! We appreciate your humor and funny comments. Andcwe always value all of your information from tractor 🚜 repair to piggies...cow drama..flies ....and hay ! Your Hilarie is a gem too. Just keep up the great videos ! We are always anxious to watch ! You are a plethora of information around the farm ! Explain if you would please...salt potatoes 🥔 from your neck of the woods ! From our neck of the woods in Michigan...see you soon friends ! 🙋♂️🙋♀️
Once again was great to see my Boise State T-shirt displayed on your Atlas-like body. Of course, I am 70 years old and my eyesight might not be as good as it once was. Love seeing the piggers. Hope you have a great day. Ray in Boise
It is incredible how much you learn about sustainability and the environment by watching this great channel. Climate change must be a very big challenge for farms today. Planet Earth, forgive our foolishness
❤️ your channel Pete !! I would love to have a 12 month calendar of farm animals and tractors and especially a picture of the parts tractor in snow. Thank you so much for your informative videos and farm life.
Hey Pete and hiliary! It’s great to see you expanding into new merch territory. I’m wishing you success in your new endeavor. I look forward to new videos and updates.
God bless you and your family sir, watching this from Europe and i really love your videos,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,, beautiful united family life 👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Hi Hilary and Pete. Yes, beef is what’s for dinner. I’m carnivore, and eat only animals and butter and some goat cheese. So nutritious, easy, and easily digestible.
Running commentary: Chicken "trailer" always makes me laugh, ingenious! Always save receipts--TS. Tawny calf--beauty! Liking your "fly science experiment"; following closely. AND Titus, such a buddy. 😍 Final: Hay math. Critical and 🤑! TY.
Oh yes, I do miss Salt Potatoes. Before moving to Phoenix, AZ I lived in Syracuse for 37 yrs. I also miss Hofmann snappys and hot dogs. Oh well, I live through folks like you who still live in that neck of the woods. I enjoy your videos Pete.
Salt taters! Please folks, ya gotta say it right ;) My first taste was in a bar in Syracuse freshman year. They were swimming in butter and plenty salty- I'm sure the saltiness helped sell more beer. I can taste them now just thinking of it.
JAFA,,,PETE, regarding hay,,you certainly sure about the weather, this year we had 1 week, where it got up to 105, few days, NEVER GOT BELOW 85 AT NIGHT, Few prople died, no rain although promised ,,just drizzled,,then cooled off but up again 104*F, days getting shorter, drought, water restrictions, , oh well so it goes, God Bless you all, 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
It is too bad that people just don't understand! Since I am not a farmer I certainly wouldn't tell you how to do it. But I have learned lots from you just for my normal old yard! Love your videos!!
Hey Pete, could you please do another visual explanation for backing up the wagons? I’ve become really good at backing up my livestock trailers, but gravity wagons are going to be the death of me. As a 51 year old woman farmer, I’m making it a personal vendetta to learn how to actually do it…lol. So any help would be greatly appreciated!! Thank you, Lorie 😊
Just remember this. The direction you turn the steering wheel is way the front end is going. So if you turn left backing up the trailer will turn the same way on tongued trailer
I love all the animals. I love how the cows always want a scratch. I have to say the piglets hiding like nothing is there and THEN here they all come. I always laugh. Merchandise I would like an apron.
Hey Pete. Some people don't understand you been doing this for a long time and grew up with it. Some people who have farming channels don't know that much and they kinda need a push now and again. I will for one stay on and keep watching until I kick the bucket down the road. Sadly Dr only given me 2 years so you better hang in there with me! I been with you for a very long time. Think you were at 10k viewers or something and always loved what you bring. You always bring light to my life and I love your videos. Don't change.
Your farm your way. What works for you don’t work for someone else. If you did or changed it wouldn’t be your way anymore. I think you started the farm because you love it and you needed peace in your life and every one wants to change you. Just be you Pete. I know the feeling when you feel like your being pulled in 50 different directions. Not a happy life
You should make a nutritious soup out of the flies to enjoy with your family along with some pork bbq. New England clam chowder move over!! a new soups in town!
I've got to say, I do really appreciate the good humour you take all the "suggestions" in. I hate to imagine what having a continuous verdict of every detail uploaded is like. I also appreciate your humouring my guilty pleasure of watching the fly control progress too. I don't know why it's so fascinating, but it is. Along with everything else of course.
Hi Pete and Hillary, hope you’ll are having a great day. Quite the the day of working in the field. Pete, just wanted to tell you that when you were in the pasture and talking to the camera 📷, the cows 🐮 behind you were studying you. Almost seemed like they could understand what you were saying. So funny 😂. Love ❤️ the fly 🪰 catching routine. I got to believe that your fly catching helps to reduce the amount of flys. Back to my important tasks, bye ✋ for now.
Clover has deep roots as well as alfalfa. Wonder if everyone in your neighbourhood put in the effort of fly control would make a bigger difference. Hay and firewood has lots in common. You can’t have too much stored ahead. Better to have more than to worry all winter about not having enough.
Pete, when you say the key to backing up a four wheeled wagon is to look at the relationship of the tractor drawbar to the wagon drawbar, do you mean you want to keep them in line and use the wagon’s articulation to steer it? Growing up on the farm I could never do it!
I enjoy seeing you with the animals and how they relate to you. It is a joy to see you and Heidi work together and share smiles of love towards each other. What a refreshing show from the daily news we receive daily
Love this episode, so much to see and learn and your soothing voice is perfect before I drift off to sleep with thoughts of the cows mooing over the fields...
Pete, I'm so grateful for you, Hilarie and your channel. I love learning about your farm, the animals and your farm practices. You remind me of my best friend who passed in 2006; It's comforting to watch you be yourself. Don't ever give up the Dad jokes. :)
The new baby is toooooooo cute. Love all the farm news. Enjoyed the video. Free advice cheap and plentiful. Lol I have none to give As I see it, none is needed. ❤️
Excellent video Pete :) & Hilary :) also 9 calves nice amount cows to & my dad & uncle like doing 1/4 acres each of Alpha also Clover depends on ground were use and rest was broomn Grass on all 3 farms too ! Beef cow love it plus calves too and did move Feeder twice years for outside adults cows too once in Spring Season after winter season and just before Winter Season Weather sets in and wood type plus got repaired up to ! Calves had own feeder in pole against wall but elbow 45 angle separated from adults till got up 700 pounds then be outside or inside barn were adults ones too! Also Pete for Metal water feeders floats tell one thing be to useful when screw garden hose use Black Rubber O rings so won't leak change in Fall and next time Spring Seasons to because do wear out and leak bad like fountain of Youth Lol!
People does Pete look like he needs your advice?!? Nooooo!!!!! Hey Pete, thank you so much for going over what makes up the pasture. It never fails, anytime I have a question you always answer it in the next video or soon after. I get a kick out of seeing you fix everything on the farm. I still can't get over how you break down equipment, say the name of the parts and what they do and then put the equipment back together. You are one smart man.
The merchandise question got my attention because no one ever carries anything that I can wear to the office. I don't think there's enough demand, but I'd be interested in a polo/golf shirt or half sleeve dress shirt or camp shirt (had to google to figure out what they were called) with a small logo on it. I know, I'm dreaming, but its fun to dream!
Always enjoy watching the videos. The experiments, ideas, and true farm fixes are great. I tried just fly bottles and garlic salt but didn't see a big change in fly load on the cows, even though I caught a lot of them in the bottles. The only thing that works for me to reduce the overall load, (yes a hot button issue) is diluting my fly oiler with water and spraying on the cows backs once a week. The only fly's this does not deter is the Horse fly's. I can spray it on them directly and they don't budge. Oh and keep up the dad jokes!
Que bonita granja tiene señor Piter me encantan sus videos y sus animales, los tiene bien cuidados, lo saludo desde siguatepeque Comayagua Honduras C. A Dios le bendiga y a su familia.