Social Media v.s. Real Life Farming 

Glamorous homesteads online kind of annoy me 😂 Show me the real stuff!!! Love this video Tom, great idea!!

Ya know my husband built a poop shelf underneath our roosting bars in the coop. I filled it with sand and just use a kitty litter scoop to scoop out the poop. Takes 2 minutes. That takes care of at least 50% of the coop poop. It's really awesome

You win the internet today! Thank you for the realness! Comparing is the root of all demise, in my opinion!

Thanks Tom, for being real. I also have a rooster that has charged at me like three times. I now carry a stick every time I come around to collect the eggs. I talk to him and tell him Diego if you keep it up I’m making a meal out of you. 😂

No one learns from perfect. I like your vidoes and watch them to learn from you - to learn what works better, what is more effective and also what doesn't work. I am here for education. So thank you for your content and honesty.

Thank you So much for sharing this information , I thought it was just me failing at everything 😔 I gave up on our garden and just buy from local farmers but still trying our best with our chickens 😀 GOD Bless you and your Family ❣️🙏❣️

Failure is a part of learning. We started a homestead about a few years ago. Like you we were city folk. We have had failures and successes. Keep at it. It does get easier!

YES! Finally a channel that tells it like it is. I try to show all of our fails or unsightly areas but so many channels just show their successes and perfect gardens and make it all look easy and it's so fake. Their makeup is perfect, their hair is perfect and they never break a sweat. I know these people are not actually doing the work and are just posing for shots and I want to call them out on it but resist. lol. It's not all sunshine and roses.

I use sand in my coop and it does look clean each day. I spend 5 min each morning, cleaning the roost poop board and a bit in the run. My eggs nearly always look clean. People think I wash them before giving them. 5 minutes-every day. Clean. Sand and 5 minutes a day will save you time and energy…and sanity.

Farming never stops. Always something to do. I'll keep watching. I Enjoy your content.

I’m cracking up!😂😂😂Thank you for being real.This is why I love your channel.❤️

Love it! 😂 the reality is so true! We all just do the best we can! Love your videos! Cattle panels and t-posts work so well to trellis tomatoes. And Mr. Olive Egger is beautiful but he needs to see the inside of a soup pot!! You can have a great protective rooster that still knows how to respect those who feed him! 😊

Thank you for being honest and human with the rest of us! I always enjoy your content! What a great video!

I LOVE your honesty. It makes me feel like I'm failing hard when I see all of these channels with people who have it all so together. I have a toddler and fibromyalgia. So there are days that all I get done outside is feed the animals and let them out/put them in at night. 😞 sometimes it's a mess. A lot of the time, really... But with your rooster? Have you tried showing him dominance? I had a couple of roos who were jumping at me and my toddler. I grabbed him, sat on him, and shoved his face in the dirt with the back of his head scissored between my fingers. Waited until he stopped struggling and counted to 5. Had my toddler do the same. No more nasty rooster.

You are so right! There is some woman beekeeper on RU-vid who shows how she can handle bees without any protective wear, her hair cascading down her shoulder, wearing nice cloths, handling the bees with her bare hands. It’s such BS, it doesn’t show how dirty, sweaty, and hard beekeeping can be, let alone getting stung. I don’t watch it, but have seen snippets of it. Sooo annoying!

Love it!! People always just show their best BS on social media. Keeping it real. Midwest is BEST! ❤❤❤❤

The rake for rooster protection...thought i was the only one who did that😂

Sounds like you need to make rooster broth…he won’t get better. You’ve got some roosters coming on see how they do. Oh yeah that coop…it’s never stays clean. Great video!

I'm just now catching up on videos 😬This is something I've struggled with since starting RU-vid/social media. I always try to change angles or clean up stuff in the background to make everything look better. This is a great reminder for all of us struggling through this crazy journey. Great Content as always! Hope you all are doing well!

Thank you! I had a melt down today over even trying!

I always look forward to your updates, and this project is great to see how you raise them from chicks to the point when they will start brining in eggs. Don't forget what and how often you feed them and vaccinate them over the coming growth period. You are an inspiration to watch.

that is so real, thanks for showing how it can really be .......love your videos, keep them coming !!

You guys are great! Keep it up.

It’s a shame that this page doesn’t have as many views as it deserves. This page was 100% the channel that helped me and my wife take the dive into homesteading. We weren’t necessarily on the fence, meaning we knew we were wanting to do it, but this channel was the one that helped us say, “Let’s not wait, let’s do this now.” Fast forward to now, we’ve bought 5.5 acres and a double wide and we’re fixing to move on our land in the next 2 months.

I have a roll out nesting box and eggs are always clean. I strongly recommend it.

Hahaha! I thought I was the only one with a traveling compost pile. 😂 thanks for the real view

LOVED this video man. It's funny because at the beginning of the video, I was like DUDE- your videos are always perfect. Thanks for showing this.

I love your channel. Its ok to get behind, everyone does, the main thing is your doing it!!! GOD bless

This is an awesome video, showing the other side of homesteading. Please though, save those pea pods that turn brown. Let them dry out so you don’t have to buy seeds next year!

My coop IS my compost bin!!😂🤣😂🤣😂

When it comes to a poo problem Joel Salatin says, “you have a management problem.” 😂 I’ve read the suggestion for the use of sand in chicken coops. I would avoid that for a couple of reasons. First sand can very much give mites and others a place to thrive in. Secondly, what use is the spent sand you simply cannot compost it? Blessings, Linda

Love this!! This is so true :) Also, I really love your banner...your family is beautiful.

Amen brother, keep up the good work, love your show

🌺love your channel, have watched you from the beginning and your doing a great job, most of us “older” folks that been working our farms, gardens, urban homesteads, we do know and understand what your saying. Keep it up, keep it real and May the good Lord continue His hand on ya’all

We love all your videos and my whole family has learned so much from your videos. We love how real and honest you are.

What a refreshing video! Love it!!!

You should try sand for your chicken coop I have sand in my chicken coop and it works great and it’s a lot easier to clean the coop and it’s a lot cheaper than buying wood shavings

I laughed out loud about the rake. Every time I come near the coop I have to take a broom because our rooster Larry is a total butt. Very relatable!

Thanks for keeping it real. That’s my style too. 😎👍

Thank you!

I appreciate your honesty and you are doing the best you can. Thank you for all you do for us. I will keep watching. 😊😊🐝🐝

Thank You 💕😊.

Lol! Thank you!!!

I think it can be beneficial to look to how your grandparents used to handle farming, take their best practices and if needed update with Modern techniques that improve timewise or sanitation wise. So many new farmers or homesteaders are too scattered and unfocused that they only have time for the social media pretty facade rather than developing a total environment that is clean and efficient for their animals and gardens. The question is whether they are wanting to develop a healthy environment for their food production As a primary focus and have a social media documentation as secondary operation OR is their social media production primary focus and the farmstead is just the framework for that social media.

🤣👍now I am no feeling as lonely as before! I thought it is only in my garthen things are getting wild and out of hands...

Oh thank you I needed this!

Yes real food comes dirty but it also depends on what substrate you use in your boxes. My eggs rarely have actual poop on them, sometimes some streaking but hay keeps eggs really clean! And I have a real homestead and collect eggs multiple times a day... As far as roosters, he sees you are scared and the rake is probably why he's chasing you. Put your foot up if he charges grab him and hold him upside down till he calms, rinse and repeat until he's calm

Give that rooster a swift boot to the chest! My husband did that once and it never challenged anyone ever again 😅

Thank you So much for sharing this information , I thought it was just me failing at everything 😔 I gave up on our garden and just buy from local farmers but still trying our best with our chickens 😀

Bad rooster = dinner. No questions asked.

that is won of the best videos I've ever seen😁

Great video.

You're pass are not a fail, you'll have seeds for next season.

We have a rooster that has come at me so I take a stick with me for protection, so I know what you mean.😊

Thanks I 😍the video

Ty acres of adventure. Yesiree chickens are poopie. We can’t seem to keep up with all their messes. My farmer told me when I had roosters fight she said time to butcher one !! :) one question we are looking for the corrugated clear roof that you added to the run, not sure what it’s called? Ty for your videos!,

😃

It looks like you got poop in your coop LOL!! I got a Dominique rooster and he is just a checkered marshmallow I love him so much. Maybe when you try a different roo try one of them?? You may even keep him, just saying.

I think you’re probably not spending enough time around the chickens mine were that and then I went out there and started sitting with them every day, and they stopped doing that.

Bro I don't even care. What they see is what they get. I give the raw homestead experience on my RU-vid. 😂

That's why I watch you. Your not perfect either. I can relate. LOL

Garden Skink lizards and green anole lizards eat all insects that can fit in their mouth so you can get rid of insects using lizards, there’s a lot of plants you can grow that repels insects, honey badgers eats snakes and small rodents, song birds like mockingbirds, cardinals etc eats flying insects, 1 bat can eat 2000 mosquitoes a day and shit The best fertilizer. Mother Nature does provide everything you need to sustain a healthy life just have to learn and there’s always a lot of learning to do. Lavender plants and peppermint plant plants repels a lot of different insects. I’m still learning there’s a lot of natural stuff you can do to get rid of harmful insects, rodents and plant diseases

It's understandable. Who wants to see the chicken poops in youtube? 😂😂😂

😂😅☢️👀😂🥰 So true 🤣 Nooice! 😎 STOC

Well now it'll take years fa yu n that 🐓 ta be at a respectable distance level but eventually he'll move as far as possible jus he might be 2 n a half yrs later or so

That's real life ,lol.

Tom, squash bugs and cucumber bugs ruined all my beautiful squash and pumpkins and cucumbers. Hate these bugs!

You are human

Best side only is an 'entertainment' "Homestead" channel, All sides with mistakes is an 'educational' channel set on a "Homestead". Show me the mistakes and working through them. More interested in learning how not to string tomatoes and what you're going to do next year to fix it, than a "Oh look at all our wonderful tomatoes folks... blah blah blah."

That rooster would have attacked my girl 1 time ----1 time. Im not feeding something that could hospitalize me or hurt my kid

I love you guys But I think you are taking so many responsibilities Maybe reducing them would be better for you. Especially having 4 kids That's double of the recommended number of 2

Thank you So much for sharing this information , I thought it was just me failing at everything 😔 I gave up on our garden and just buy from local farmers but still trying our best with our chickens 😀 GOD Bless you and your Family ❣️🙏❣️