Another great video Wes. Looks like the mealworms are the trick for keeping the chickens happy and they are fantastic for bream bait as well - maybe in that pond of yours if it has fish.
Enjoying your videos, I ran a poultry farm and we had approx 225,000 chickens. A suggestion for you, lift up you water to shoulder high on the chickens and you’ll find the water will stay clean, also do the same with the feed, had mine set at 4 inches high. When freezing chicken parts I put the pieces on a cookie sheet, partly freeze them and vacuum seal them, works well and I keeps from being freezer burnt. I’ve had packages lasting for over a year, forgot I had them and they were fine. Cheers my friend.
I like the way you do things. And your skills solving minor problems are interesting. Not to mention the variety of farming and milling skills you exhibit. I haven't seen any beef or goats for meat and milk. But you have lots of protein producers that don't require a lot of space. Along with your garden, you seem pretty self-sufficient. Looking forward to more of your videos.
To try to minimize the blight, trim you tomatoes so none of the leaves are in contact with the ground. This might eliminate fungal growth. We do it in NC with success.
Very interesting video - lots of different stories, & your adorable little boy!! 😍👍 Sue is too cute - rolling over so you can rub her belly. I agree with no rings in their noses! God bless you and your family! ❤️ 🙏❤️
Hollar homestead made a float flag to go in the water barrel to visually see even at a distance if the pig water is almost empty. Also I've seen the water barrel outside the fence with the nipple through the fence to stop knocking the barrel around but maybe they will wallow it out
Your videos are always so much fun. I'll go to RU-vid on my desktop PC and open a dozen tabs or so with different RU-vid videos. I'll watch some for news, some for learning, some for entertainment, then yours is like the desert after a good meal. It's always the best! Thanks!
Hey Mr. Green Jeans !! I'd like to order a few 3 pack of chicken breasts, and a couple packs of single chicken breasts for my crock pot and pasta dishes !! We eat a lot of chicken !! We are paying upwards of $30 CAD for chicken at our local fresh grocer. Breast packs of 2 or 3 run about $12.00 and singles/pairs run about $10.00. How big are you going to let the piggies go this year? It was nice to see our Junior Supervisor on the job this video !! Looks like he was having some good fun. I loved the "Why is there chicken poop on this lid???" he sounded very concerned about it !! ha ha ha ha.
Besides the fact that I love the content, pace and honesty of this channel so much as I was blessed to find you at your beginnings on this journey.... I must say, however, the highlight for this old Chicago gal was your mini me comment after mixing feed then sneezing...I laughed out loud and startled my dog off the bed....prayers and God speed for all that is what you do....
Back when we had raised bed gardens (6-16' x 4') I would move from one box to another to keep the blite away. We planted raised bed gardens for over twenty years and never had a problem. I kept moving plants around from one box to another except for the Potato patch. I had a 50-50 mixture of creek sand and topsoil and we raised sweet potatoes and Russets.
You can't get away from the fungus,I've done all the same stuff on my tomatoes it's everywhere. I'm not that far away from your area so we are in the same boat.
A couple years ago we had some 200 chickens…in summer we’d fish mackerel at a pier and I’d put three or four whole fish with water in the “mackerelmatic” and liquefy them. Freeze it in plastic and put whole blocks of it in the pen. The chickens would stand and peck it till it was gone.
Those pigs are growing. I have heard the old timers say to becareful when spraying cold water on the pigs when it's very hot. My dad told me that he seen it kill some hogs, I guess it must have made them go into shock. Just thought I would share that.
Hi Wes. The audio for was fine. I do not have a surround sound for my computer, just the computer speakers. For your chicken tenders: Have you tried the snack size zip lock baggies and then put those in the freezer baggies? I use the dried meal worms for the birds. Have good days!
Another cool project that my 4 yr old son and i are working on is a red worm farm. Izzy swan has a nice version that was simple and easy that i liked might be another way to grow some protein for your chickens as well.
To keep the predators from the ground from getting to the birds put a collar around the bird house support pole, like a dog cone for keeping a dog from bothering an injury. Open side of cone pointing down the pole.
Love the videos Wes. Are you doing RU-vid full time now. I imagine it would be hard to do everything you do and work a full time job. It's sad to watch the chickens being taken away. But I do love me some fried chicken. Until the next one.
Hey Jewell, RU-vid is primary, we sell honey and Christmas trees as a secondary (hoping to to do piglets one day too). Also a seminary student. Lots of stuff going on! Appreciate you watching.
If your freezer is self defrosting, then that’s the large source of your freezer burn. The defrosting freezer heats up inside each day to melt condensation and the unfreezes and refreezes the skin each day.
If you get too much liquid coming out of the fresh meat when you vacuum seal it, then you can freeze the fresh meat for a short time first then vacuum seal it. You won't get freezer burn once vacuum sealed.
Also can't you spray the plants maybe weekly I think neem oil I have heard of baking soda dish soap mix I think it works by making the pH to high for blight to live. It worked for my brown spot on my seedlings. Look up some mix ratios maybe try on 1 plant and see if it's worth doing
Wes, Vacuum pack anything you put in the freezer. It will last considerably longer than a zip lock bag... just in case you don't get to it. Will keep nearly a year that way!
Blights are a terrible fact of botany and horticulture. I am from Bermuda and a blight in the mid 1940s from imported garden plants destroyed 98% of the endemic cedar trees in five years. I now live in Costa Rica, and a blight wiped out the Pacific coast's banana plantations. That land is now used for oil palm plantations. It's great farming to see you using poultry waste as fertilizer for the raised garden beds.
Let me give you a suggestion to prevent freezer burn and I got this from my auntie is to add distilled water the water will freeze that will help it from getting freezer
How do you prevent tomato blight naturally? To create a solution that prevents and treats disease, add a heaping tablespoon of baking soda, a teaspoon of vegetable oil, and a small amount of mild soap to a gallon of water and spray the tomato plants with this solution. This needs to be reapplied regularly to maintain its efficiency.
@@falllineridge tomatoes do have a high survival rate. Once my dad bought 40 plants but than left them in a garage for two weeks without soil or water. So he went and bought 40 more plants but planted all 80 of them. They all survived and thrived. We were living in Gainesville, Georgia at the time so our garden was always fertilized with chicken manure. We had so many tomatoes that people would run away from us as we tried to give them away!
@@falllineridge 100% chicken manure. There were plenty of chicken houses in the area and between chicken crops you could take your truck and get all you wanted. We used it year after year.
