Everybody Has a Job, Well Sort Of.. | Animals of the Homestead | February 16, 2024 

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Anyone that actually watches your videos can tell you are an animal lover! I hope you ignore the naysayers and keep the videos coming.

I remember your last introduction to the animals and you said the horses job was to keep mamma happy. 😂

Folks know that They care for their animals like they are family. they make sure that they eat well, have shelter from the weather, they are not over crowded and have more than ample space that is well kept and clean! There is a circle of life with everything and these animals have a better life than many children sadly. If i were an animal i would beg to live on their land and be taken such good care of by them even if I knew the end outcome! Living would be like the equivalent of A 5 star hotel to humans! That being said THANK YOU FOR ALL YOU DO FOR YOUR ANIMALS AND THE LAND!

People don’t understand.This world is lost.We always give our farm animals the very best life they could possibly have and feed and care for them and like you said in the end they are there to feed us.

Love the way you treat your critters. They're much, much betterr off than animals on factory farms!

People dont understand farm life this is how it all works. I think you folks have done a good thing here.

It has been a proverb that the Lord gave me, That if people raise and grow their own food, there would be much less waste and waist.. Never so true.. ♥️ Love your channel ♥️

When you bless your food they actually are brought to a higher level. They are blessed to be a part of us as long as we serve God

The true animal lovers, have the best meat..not stressed..well cared for.. Like God created for us to do

That's fine what you do with your animals. You r truly an animal lover!

They are well cared for, plenty of sun and space and loving care. God gave us the animals to feed us and I know they are dispatched very humanly. Loved this video! Thank you for sharing your life with us!

I sure did enjoy the video, thanks. May God bless you more and keep you and Family safe.

My friend has roosters she will butcher just ornery! “ stew pot Steve” and crockpot Calvin” ! 😅

Another good video I love all your videos and yes, I can tell you’re a very, very loving person for people for animals and thank you for sharing that ❤️

Hi there from BC, Canada. What lovely video! It is so nice to hear the history of how your animals came to be with your family on your farm. Very nicely put together. Obviously you care for and treat ALL your animals with respect and love and raise them very humanely! Plus you always know what you're feeding your family!! Good, quality meat that we can't buy in a store. Thank you Meg.

I'm just here to enjoy the accent.

That was a beautiful video showing what a farmer/rancher know an animal lover should be like. Fantastic job Megan. Really enjoyed the way you explained yourself and the values you all have for the animals you have rescued and raised. Keep up the great work and values you teach your children, they will be great care givers of God's creatures He provided for food for our tables. Stay safe and keep up the great videos. Fred.

Best podcast on RU-vid.. May God continue to bless you!!

My Cats have brought me a snake,in the house!!! And twice let birds go in my house!! We love our animals

Enjoyed seeing your animals! Thank you.

What a wonderful tour!

They are all such beautiful creatures..

Really enjoyed the video, I think it is wonderful that you can raise your own meat animals, and give them good care. Y'all are doing an awesome job with your family and your farm, I'm so looking forward to garden planting time with y'all. Be blessed today.

I want to say I have huge respect for you and your family. I am disabled. If I wasn't, I would raise and butcher my own meat. People don't realize how terribly the animals are treated before ending up in the grocery store. And they don't have a clue how tasteless grocery store meat is. You truly honor your animals and the meat they provide you with. I respect that.

Thanks for showing us around the animals! Yes, you love animals you give them a good life,and it feeds your family! More of us need to know what goes into raising happy quality meat. Since we don’t, we support our local farms. We have chickens but not larger animals. But we love supporting our local farms. Wherever you live,search them out. So worth it. Fun video Megan,thanks.❤ God bless your family

I just truly loved this video.❤ You are such a lovely soul and I love your hair in this video. Might sound weird but us women folk that are on a constant with chores and kitchen duty tend to wear our hair up all the time, so it is really nice to have that freedom hair day sometimes.😉 Thank you for sharing all your animals with us. How neat to get get back stories and to juat hear how wonderful you care for them.❤

Great video , explaining the animals, you can tell you care about your animals, just amazing , stay safe , enjoy .

Always have a non electric backup. Practice and develop it to near perfection. If you can't live without electricity things COULD get out of hand if the situation arrives.

I enjoyed meeting all your animals and I could tell you’re an animal lover and they love you!!! Thanks for sharing!

You are a kindred spirit, because l am a animal lover too. I like what you said about butchering your own animals. I do the same. God holds me responsible for caring and loving my farm animals and I do my best to do just that

I too am an animal lover and know how you feel . I have butchered many of animals over the years to provide for my family . My animals want for nothing ! It’s call LIFE

Thank you for the tour and introducing us to your animals.

Very much enjoyed hearing more about you and your animals and getting to know more about y'all. Lovely farm. ❤

I to am an animal lover, I always treated them to the best life they could have and they repaid me with good food.

Favorite is an animal, most any, just love them.

Loved the tour of your farmily!! 😃🐈🐕🐎🐄🐐🐓

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Woman powered that critter ❤🎉

Very interesting video thanks for showing all the animals looks awesome❤

Love the tour Meagan. I am always looking for meat to buy from a family farm like yours. So happy I found your channel! Best wishes, Deb

I loved this video! Honestly, I love all your videos!

Love this video❤❤❤ thanks for sharing...also good advice on bottle fed calves.

The horses do have a job they have a job of keeping the family happy😁😁😁😁

Gen 1:24-31. God created all, and gave man dominion over all. those animals are treated (with treats and rubs, pun intended 😊) so much better then the history of those that end up in the grocery store. those that have a problem with your scenario are loyal to a system they do not understand. Bless yall!!

I have a very challenging job working with individuals with mental illness and substance abuse. At the end of the day I always think I will be home soon to watch your videos and it puts a smile on my face. Thank you for that!

I have 3 rooters like your big red one

We have animals to and we love them. So I understand.

Hey, Megan. The horses have the best job...to make you happy. I got my mare when she was 4 yrs, and she was 30 when she passed away. She was my happy place. So neat our stories are similar. God bless.

I’m thinking you should change the cow’s name to Shadow lol. Love watching the personalities of the animals.

Excellent farm tour Megan. No doubt in my mind you are and animal lover and take great care of your animals. You give them a wonderful life and in return, they give you great meat, eggs and milk. How do you like the New Hampshire red chickens?

Really enjoyed this video!

I love this video....beautiful animals❤

WOW AWESOME INFORMATION Thank you for teaching us all Meagan ❤😊

Great video! Really enjoyed meeting your animals. I grew up on a farm and we had our own meat, plus venison. I have raised many a bottle calf. My grandpa would buy a couple for my brother and I. We would raise them and when we sold them, we got the money. We also had a milk cow. There is nothing you can buy in the store that compares to home grown meat, milk and butter. I loved going to the stock market at Mt. Airy, Wytheville and Statesville. It was a full day adventure. Hope you have a great weekend and God bless.

I love your videos you and Andy are awesome I’m not much for these phones but I glad I have one cause there ain’t nothin on TV great job

Great comment at the end, kudos to you and your family for living how you live

I do a milk share. The raw milk is awesome. The best.

Hey, love those critters too. 🐴🐴🐴

Thanks for sharing Megan

I agree with you Meagan. The good Lord put all these plants and animals here to be used.Everything utilizes what is around them not just people. I would much rather know my meat and vegetables are grown in what I believe are normal circumstances than being raised under crowded conditions...believe me , I worked in a feed lot for a while.

The new look is a good fit for you Megan. Thanks for your videos and the knowledge y’all share! Keep up the great work

I love cows too and everything too .nice chickens enjoy your videos.

God put those animals on the earth for us to take care of and use as well. Raised on a farm. ,, retirement now but my children raise their meat . And it is delicious just like God ment for us !! Enjoy your time

Great job Megan. Love your videos and family. From the bootheel of Missouri.

Exactly! Well said!

Thank you for a great tour, and great explanation. God bless you and your family ❤😊

I love your videos. And you have the prettiest healthy hair.

Candys calf will be born on the 26th and his name will be George.. you’re welcome

Good video 👍

Being an animal lover myself, and raised on a farm, they are loved and cared for. That is their purpose.

I remember the first time I ever walked into a commercial chicken house, I turned around and ran out the door choking from the dusty dander and smell. No way I'd keep or eat animals like that. Cattle and hog lots are nothing but funky filthy too. Folks have poked fun at me on account of treating animals with a what I call a modicum of decency. Why on earth would a body want to raise unhealthy animals to slaughter for your table??? The reason commercial animals are dosed so heavily with antibiotics and no telling what else is because they're raised in absolute filth and need to be treated for diseases that could wipe out the whole flock/herd and potentially infect humans, but they still infect you with other things too. The whole animal, the parts you don't see at the grocery store, have two beaks, three legs, can't stand, all kinds of defects and physical ailments. To produce healthy meat for your table, you have to replicate the animal's natural diet as close as possible. Everybody thinks scratch corn is the best thing for chickens, when in fact, scratch corn was always a last resort choice of the poor folk because it was cheap enough to get the flock through the winter, and then they'd free range once spring come, but now folks shove that stuff down their gullets like they were made for each other. Chickens need assorted seeds, grains, greens, vegetables and a boatload of insects daily. It shouldn't kill you to grow some extra rows of kale for chickens that provide you with healthy meat and eggs. Insects ain't as easy to come by as it sounds, but still necessary. To properly provide for chickens you need your own worm farm or system of collecting from your property, as well as other insects. Meal worms are common but you've gotta be cautious about where you get your original stock from because they feed them crazy things they ought not be eating too just to make a dollar. Some folks raise crickets too, but they ain't that healthy compared to others. Beetles are good, depending on your chickens as to what kind they like to eat, and where you live. You can actually collect all kinds of bugs and beetles by walking a recently bush hogged field, or even a yard, just carry gloves, a hand rake and a burlap sack to get the nests that get kicked up, but be sure and start hunting right behind the tractor or the beetles and bugs will find another spot to build a nest. Placing old sheets of plywood and boards flat on the ground will collect worms and insects underneath, and you can either collect them yourself and add some to the ones you're raising, or you can just flip the boards and allow the chickens to gorge themselves buffet style. I use both methods, rotating the days each board gets turned over accordingly. Either way, them chickens need them bugs and stuff to get protein and calcium in their diet. Give all of your garden greens to your chickens, not just specifically kale or something similar, but the green parts you cut from vegetables when you prep food, they love them, and crush up your egg shells and let them pick from meat from kitchen bones to give them extra calcium and strengthen their shells too. Out of all of the grains in the world, if corn ain't the least nutritious, it's real close. There are so many other grains that chickens like that are way better for them, not as cheap, no, but better for you in the long run. Sunflowers can be a treat for them to scratch through and pick out the seeds, and believe it or not, it helps with their mental health. Healthy chickens need an assortment of grains, not just one, and scratch corn should only be added as a filler in winter. Some grains might be hard to find in bulk locally, but you can get it shipped easily nowadays, or some times you can get your local supply to order it for you. Even if you're in a position where you can't afford to your chickens anything but scratch regularly, you should have mixed grains to feed them once a week, or even once a month. Some folks say keeping chickens ain't worth it, on account of eggs being so cheap, not where I live, but there's other ways of making money from chickens. Back in the 1970s we sold chicken manure for $1 a bucket, what you can get for it in your own area will vary, but charge at least $5 a bucket, you can even make deals with local farmers, depending on the size of your flock, or you can fertilize your own fields, just don't burn your plants. I mentioned that on account of back in the 70s, I was the one in charge of the chickens, which meant feeding, collecting eggs, slaughter, reproduction, cleaning and upkeep of roosts and coops, selling manure and making feather dusters, all starting from the time I was old enough to walk and carry a little bucket at the same time and had mastered all of it before the age of eight. And looky there....., raising chickens has another advantage, it teaches younguns how to tend animals properly, instills a good work ethic because it's a 24h/d, 7d/w, 365d a year job, teaches them one aspect of providing food for the family table, teaches younguns how to judge what is fit to be sold or kept, teaches them how to make things with their own hands, and teaches them how to manage money, among other little lessons along the way. It gives younguns a great deal of pride knowing they've helped put something on the table. Great amount of advantage to raising chickens right. But all animals have advantages. And just because you eat meat, that doesn't make you some kind of mindless, bloodthirsty brute, you're just not in a food cult like them vegetarians are, and you're better off, since all of them cult diet folk are malnourished, anemic, or have some other physical ailments on account of it. Lots of reasons to raise your own food, but the most important one is that you'll be feeding your family food that hasn't been contaminated, modified or mishandled. This is one of them "don't get me started" subjects, in case you didn't notice. Just so you know.... Horses provide companionship, they provide transportation, they can work on farms in harness, they provide entertainment and they make for some pretty impressive scenery, they pay for themselves.

Megan, thank you for this video. Darran and I are going to have to start harvesting our own meat. Which is the most difficult thing I think I’ve ever done. Like you, I am an animal lover❤️ But this is part of homesteading and providing quality food for your children and their children…. While we are still allowed to do so. God bless you guys.

Loved this one! Goals!!!

Hi!! I get it a loving them till the end

i have a bottle baby lamb right now about 8 days old he is doing good

I love ur animals i was like you growing up on the farm im getting back into farming and loving every min of it. Ginnie chicken are great watch dogs. Not sure of spelling the chicken 😅😊😊

We have a mountain ker

It's sad people think meat just comes from a store. The horses are gorgeous!! I am curious if you trim their hooves or pay someone. We're thinking about mules (hennies really), but aren't sure if it takes a specialized skill and years of training to properly care for their hooves.

Who takes care of their huffs.

A small family farm is the most humane way to feed people. Plant based diets are nutritionally deficient; dump tons of pesticides (killing the birds and bees), and depletes soils.

Guinea fowl make great guards for the farm

just started watching you yesterday, but looks to me like your cows are malnourished, their hips are sunk in... ????...