The Unsung Heroes of Our Farm 

One thing that fascinates me about coyotes is their unwavering loyalty to the ACME Corp. Which unfortunately leads to their downfall.

And truly Abby has gotten much better with the geese chickens and ducks. Impressive! I like that Abby is allowed in the bird house now.

You were right, it was totally calming to watch the weird chickens drink. You should do that more often, It is calming.

When one of your cats rode on the back of one of the cows, that was like one of my favorite moments ever. cracked me up and was wholesome as hell

Too many are so focused on the small picture. That they don't get to sit back & enjoy nature as it is intended. Thankfully, we have Mr Morgan to give us a calm & enlightened big picture. The world would be a better place if we had more people like him and, of course, his buddy Alfred.

Great news for Toby, Abby has grown out of her zany puppy phase and starting to take her guardian duties seriously. Love the still, Toby looks so serene while Abby has that mischievous glint in her eye. They are so lovely together.

I love how when Abby wags her tail her entire rear end goes with it 😂 she’s so wholesome ❤

Carrying buckets of water like the old days! Bringing back good memories! I can't believe Toby is 3 years old, how time flies!

I love the weird chicken moment of zen followed by the blowtorch moment!!! 🤣🤣🤣 Great video, Morgan!!!

I wonder how they sleep at night in their new dog house - do they cuddle for warmth, do they sleep apart like an old couple? I'd like it if you would set up a camera in there for a night. 🙂

I’m from MN and remember when coyotes started to be a concern after a few pets were taken. Than the the deer were eating crops and being hit by cars. The moose were in decline. Bobcat were seen in places where they historically weren’t. Cougar sightings became more frequent. Some people said it because of the wolf trapping season. I just remember no one was satisfied.

I love how involved you are with promoting the different ecosystems and the compatibility of the different species having their place in it.

*Dude Morgan, the carabiner on your coat zipper-GENIUS!*

It seems like many problems in this world come from our trying to control nature instead of trying to understand and work with it. I would love to hear more about the coyote laws and also the coyote interaction with the rest of the ecosystem. I would really enjoy hearing more about the ecosystem your farm is apart of.

I love watching and thank you from us UK folks for putting the temperature in Celsius for us so we don’t get confused 😂

Yes Morgan, I would be interested to hear more about the coyote situation & how it’s handled there. You have the ability to grab the attention of your audience. Truly like to hear you talk and explain things. Thank you for sharing 😊

I loved "the weird chickens moment of zen". It was very relaxing.

I loved the weird chicken moment of zen. I don’t know if you have a second channel but I would love to see a longer version and just have it on in the background while I study. Keep up the quality videos !

Yes! Please keep talking about hunting wildlife and the laws in Vermont. Your perspective as a farmer is important to the greater small farm community. ❤️

Watching the release of the ducks and geese never gets old....

Sometimes, when a yard hydrant gets some ice on the control rod, the handle linkage will slide up and down on the control rod because the set-screw is not tight enough. Check visually to see if the control rod is moving up and down with the handle. It's easy to miss this. Getting the set screw adjusted correctly is also the key to getting the yard hydrant to drain when closed.

I really loved the "chicken moment of zen". I'd love to see more stuff like that... Maybe a regular thing at the end of a video? Helped me unwind after my day in the office! Good to see animals just being animals :)

I appreciate how you have a whole ecosystem view. It’s all about balance! 😻😻😻😻 1 for each cat! 🐶🐶 Can’t forget your beautiful dogs!

Hey Morgan! I love your videos and the little ASMR moment with the silky chickens was great! Wish you put a few minutes of zen in all your videos from now on, it's really relaxing

This video was 20 minutes of pure entertaiment and enjoyment. I love watching you go about your chores in the morning.

I love how wiggly Abby gets when she’s super happy. 🥰

11:33 “weird chicken moment of zen” made me giggle while zenning out. ❤

Understanding Ecosystem dynamics is pretty important. At least, I am pretty sure it might help bring some solution to the problem that both the parties can agree on. Honestly there are so many documentaries explaining this phenomenon. Might look into it. I think I'd love a video on coyote issues and how they could be managed.

We've had alot of issues with coyotes here in kentucky too! My poor Great Pyrenees is constantly on guard because they run the holler that runs against our property. We've had hawk problems aswell!

Thank you for being science based in your arguments. It’s such a relief to here facts quoted. I do appreciate you putting up Celsius temperature. I’m learning Fahrenheit temps. I’ve learned about black bear now too. Good dogs. They know their business. Hope you can fix your water issues easily. Thank you. May you please take care and stay safe.

Looks like the Security Departments team building exercises have been paying off. It is fun to watch them work. Moment of Zen 🐓 Props to planning water management. Great video with most of the animals !!! 👏

Coyote hunting laws in Vermont is definitely an interesting topic. 100% would watch.

When you're repairing/upgrading the water system, you should also invest in some quick release valves for your hoses/hydrants.

Toby and Abby are a fantastic term when it comes to predator patrol. Morgan, the Silkie chickens are interesting to watch. Please include more video footage of them in your future videos. Thanx!

Thank thank you for putting all that information out there on coyotes. It's ridiculous how many people don't know this. It just seems like the Hunter's just want to kill for the sake of killing. It's not like they're going to eat the coyotes. Please share more about their role in your ecosystem. ✌🏼💖🍕

I love your animals. I want a guard goose but I’m sure my guard turkey wouldn’t like that lol 😂

Yes, please continue to talk about what's going on in your state of Vermont, I find it very interesting and necessary to have discussions about wildlife and anything that disrupts or helps our ecosystems balance!

I received my tiny Toby - so cute!

Toby Dog explaining beneficial mutualism is the single best thing I've ever seen on a video yet. I love it. I need more of Professor Toby Dog please.

The weird chicken moment of Zen was so peaceful and blissful, loved it hahaha

Here in Mississippi Coyotes have taking over also. We recently been letting people on our farm to hunt them

Love those doggies, they are the best when it comes to greeting you in the morning. Hope there are no big problems with the pump, just watching you scoop up almost two inch thick ice off the Highlands water might just mean it needs a bit more thawing out. Really enjoy hearing what's up with Peachum, so please continue to share. Looks like all is well at Gold Shaw Farm, so thanks Morgan, and keep warm.

Love seeing the animals on your farm!

I saw a farm that put one of those blue bubbler water bottles in the water trough to keep ice from forming. It was partially filled with water and floated around the troogh to keep ice from forming - just a thought

You made my Saturday so special again Morgan...Thanks!

I always look forward to when you post Morgan ! Keep up the great work btw Abby and Toby are soo cute

I do hope you try to explain on those meetings the impact of hunting and the animals themselves on nature. It's an important topic & people should know about that. Also, yes, please talk about it. The more you know, that kind of thing. P. S.: It's so nice to see silkies. 🥰

South Texan here. We went into crises mode here when the outdoor temp went into the low teens one winter: all chickens cooped up with heat lamps, cattle sheltered and watered in huge buckets carried from house when pond/tanks iced, outdoor dogs and even barn cats were brought inside our home for the duration... It was scary. How do you manage in single digit temps? Massive respect!!!!!

Yes. I would like to hear more about the benefits of the coyotes and what they eat that helps control those species.

The bucket system reminded me of how it was before your farm got bigger and bigger and improved. :')

Morgan, you're opinion on coyotes is very interesting. I grew up in Arizona around cattle ranches. They were and still are considered pests to the ranchers. As such I shared their opinion about them. I learned something I had not considered about them. Thank you.

Lots of locals watch you, the more info you can put out about the ecosys, the better.

Morgan, you had me laughing again, thank you! Zen chickens, call the locksmith, love your narration, and stories, thanks for the videos.

I always love the ground level view of the release of the birds (Quaken)!

Loved the Weird Chicken moment of Zen!!!!!!😅😅😅

We have lots of coyotes here in Tucson Arizona! I live not quite a mile from a mostly dry riverbed at the base of the foothills. I have a small flock of laying hens, and a wonderful Great Pyrenees! Early mornings is when the coyotes are seen walking down the middle of the streets in our neighborhood!

We didn’t see coyotes when I was growing up in Vermont. They moved on to my parents farm in the 80’s. It’s interesting Fish & Game sees them as important to the natural ecosystem yet they are not a native species.

I love Abby and Toby

during the night coyotes will do roll call singing into the sky and when they find a member of the pack gone the females will go into ester so re populate the pack which is why they are so resistant to hunters and farms killing them off

Okay finally! I needed to order the Molly shirt and I think I’ll end up getting all of them the art for them is so good and fits well with my style! Can’t wait to see more kitty / bird shirts!

Yes, please do more videos about coyotes. They are found throughout North and Central America, and have even crossed the Panama Canal as of 2013!

Morgan, as a long viewer I remember when you filled water buckets at the house and pulled them on a plastic sled.

It'll be interesting to see if when Abby is allowed to roam free and the cattle are on the pasture if she spends more time up there than Toby.

Interesting facts about coyotes. Dogs are great guard dogs. It sure looks cold there. Burr. 💞

Morgan is such a great story teller, so relaxing and calming watching this channel just like of David Murray/8 Bit guy. Keep up the great work!

I'm definitely interested in hearing more about the rules making process and what input farmers have in them. You bring up a good point about the the importance of considering the ecosystem more holistically. The presence of wolves has been shown to improve the health of an ecosystem. Not sure about coyotes because they don't typically like to go after deer as wolves will. An overpopulation of deer can certainly have a devastating effect on an ecosystem. Thanks Morgan!

The weird chickens are adorable! Toby and Abby are great working dogs!

Coyotes keep the rats, mice and wild hares down. They are part of the entire system. I am glad you brought this up. Folks in the city may not know this.

Goofy Abby has a sister on the west coast..Goofy Sookie. 😅.. Love the opening picture of Toby, Abby & the goose. (Frank?) Have a wonderful weekend⛄️..🙋🏼‍♀️🐈🐕

Definitely love hearing your input on the fish, wildlife, hunting and agriculture in your area and how it all impacts the community and ecosystem. Living in northern Maine, we share a lot of the same issues and concerns.

Love the way your dogs protect your farm

Toby looks like a pup seal 🦭 so cute 😂❤️

I’d love to hear more about the coyotes. I live in an urban area with at least a few packs around. Lots of people freak out about them but I think it’s neat. Thanks for your hard work!

thank you for that moment with the upper crust silky chickens

Here in the England we’ve had temperatures of below -3 c very cold

I cannot believe you made me part with money when I just said I have to save every penny to move into a new apt this spring!! Molly MM, in purple, is something I couldn't resist!! Love that you share the farm and all the animals... and your wider vision of ecological issues. Keep us in the loop!!

Loved the moment of Zen with the weird chickens.

Water: too much or too little is the story of a farmer's life. There's a reason that so many of the iconic images of a farm include one of those Halliday windmills: pumping water into or out of an area is a big deal! As far as the coyotes: I would really be interested if you could interview some of the folks you met at meetings like that one, so we can see where each of the groups is coming from. It's possible that they're making assumptions about each other's beliefs about the entire eco system, that if spelled out clearly can be a key. So much of Vermont is forested, I feel like there's a constant tension between cultivated and uncultivated land.

If you use one of those propane flamethrowers, I wonder if it would melt the ice in the pipe. I dont know if it would damage the water pump thing or not.

Fantastic video. 💕💕💕💕💕

It was oddly relaxing watching the silkies have their morning sips

FILL A GALLON MILK JUG WITH SALT WATER and it will float in cow trauft and prevent it from completely freezing over! We tried it and it works!!!! Love your videos! We started on our homestead 2 yrs ago and love hearing others homestead stories! Thanks for sharing!

That was weird, when you had the blow torch going to unfreeze the hydrant, I could smell a hot metal smell, and I'm in my bedroom!. And as for Ginny I figured it out she's not a cat she's a Parrot.

11:40 .*chicken voice* "Ah, such an exquisite vintage" 🍷 :D

When I had to deal with coyotes I would set traps they could escape from. They are very smart. They get away and never come back. All you have to do is trick them into believing it is too dangerous to hunt their.

I would love to hear more about the Coyote laws in Vermont as they are important to every ecosystem they inhabit

Morgan I agree that since your farm is away from other houses it is okay for Toby and Abby Dog to bark what gets to be annoying is when you have a neighbor dog that lives close to you and their dog barks all the time. That can be annoying especially with people who have sensitive ears. I am fortunate I am deaf in my left ear so if I turn over onto my right ear I don't hear any noises at night unless an atomic bomb would go off. Funny story I heard on one of the Late Night talk shows. A classically trained organist had a neighbor whose dog would bark all night and day. The trained organist asked nicely several times for his neighbor to control his dogs. Well the next door neighbor did not heed his warnings. There was an old movie theatre that was going out of business and this man bought their old pipe organ. He put a hole in the wall of his garage so he could play his PIPE ORGAN at night. His next door neighbor's dogs barked one last time. After about 20 minutes the Classically trained organist played on his PIPE ORGAN the rest of the night. The nest door neighbor finally got the memo and he never heard the dogs barking again.

We had cows and never really minded about the coyotes being around. They would occasionally harass the young calves, but the cows started putting them up to nursery close to the house and the dogs kept the coyotes away. Occasionally we'd have a coyote come up by the house and we'd take them out if possible, but it was rare. Overall, they were not a problem and we left them alone and they left us alone. I worry with your situation that increased coyote hunting could cause more hunting dogs and hunters upending things on your farm at all hours of the night since trespassing doesn't mean the same thing up there as it does down here.

Hey, thanks for the weird chicken moment of zen... it was very chill my dude :P.

maybe throw some plumbers heat tape on your hydrants for the winter...may help a bit

I’d like discussion on the ecosystem of your farm’s wild spaces in general, not just the coyotes in particular. I’d like this to become a regular discussion as you plan to build out other land areas. I expect more of the woodland will be used for other projects over time.

I can't imagine that weather, it's 6:30am here in Qld Australia & it's 18°c here which is a bit chilly for a summer morning, it's going to be a good day with a max of 28°c. Would love to experience a real winter.

Your videos are always interesting. I like hearing about the state laws that effect the farms etc. It is always good to know what other states are doing.

Hi, cute special effects 👍💕

Vicious & cuddly. Polar bear: someone talking about me?

Needed that weird chicken Zen thank you Morgan 😂♥️👌🏻

Good job just letting Toby and Abby bark when they want to! Love these dogs ❤

Oh man I had flashbacks to when you used to fill up buckets at the house and drag them out on sleds. I'm glad it's not quite gone back to that.

I loved hearing everything you talked about. I'm not in the farming community but I find the day-to-day issues fascinating - common knowledge for you is a new world of learning for me. Wishing you a bountiful new year!

That is some crunchy snow!