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I love your hair down but I know with all your work you need it up. So enjoy your videos and your family. I'm disabled and can't get out so watching you guys makes me feel good. God bless you.
You Have got the most Beautiful Life God given and are doing your part to be responsible taking care of Everything. Enjoy And I know it is HARD WORK. Y'all are still young so Keep It Up!!!
Hello from Green Ridge Missouri, My wife and I live on 8 acres near Green Ridge which is in Central Missouri. I have been watching your blog since before Christmas and I have enjoyed your adventures as you live life in a wholesome simple way. Thank you for sharing your adventures with other people. Your videos give me ideas on how to improve our homestead. Sincerely, Walter Mutz
I'm older now but I'm wondering if I ever had the energy that you all do. I'm thankful for the life God has given me but I appreciate and admire homesteading tremendously. Thanks for sharing!
We do our compost the exact same way except we have it in our chicken runs. When we turn it in the summer it has steam that comes off of it too!! Just like you said we can grow some garden with it too! Love your videos!!
My grandma had chickens all my life while she was living. Her chickens roamed her entire property no fences no boundaries. She lived right beside a county country road that got some traffic Day and night. They did absolutely FINE. They roosted in the chicken house that wasn’t a mobile one and they also roosted in the black walnut tree if they missed the door closing at dusk. She had a double barrel shot gun for predators such as owls hawks or possums raccoons etc. and she used it as needed. Chicken snakes in the coop was the only real predators inside there. We killed a few in my day. Anyway chickens aren’t fragile flowers they’re scavengers and they love to walk and peck and they are in a sense a pack bird they’ll stay together for the most part. I love watching your channel and Megan is right they do learn their lessons. Love watching what you guys are doing. I grew up in Waterloo Alabama Deep South and very rural my life till I was 19 was a lot of woods creeks pines and dirt roads lol. ❤🙏🏼Leslie Florence Alabama
You are so right they aren’t fragile, we keep our rotated not only to keep them out of the garden but they go all over our pasture, they are the fertilizer for our grass and if they were free range we wouldn’t get that added benefit from them ☺️
Great job around there, you all have a lot of fun while you're working and that makes it so much more enjoyable being out there. That supper sure looked good. Eating what you've harvested makes it taste so much better also. Mother Nature teaches the animals a great deal about survival too and they repay your raising with food for the table. Keep up the great work and videos, stay safe and have fun. Fred.
I just ran across your channel and I can tell you I love your lifestyle and the way you are raising your family.! I did hit that subscribe button. Looking forward to your videos. God bless.
Love the way y’all work together as a team to get the job accomplished. I wish we could keep our chickens in electric netting . We tried and the hawk pressure here is real . so we have to just do a few hours of free range in evenings.
I truly believe our guineas have helped a lot with that, they will sound an alarm and all the chickens take cover under the building in a split second, it’s wild to watch because I’ve heard guineas and chickens don’t go well together but ours have been great
Hi y'all! I hope y'all weathered the storms ok and didn't get washed away. Andy you hit on a very important thing. If you're moving to the country with intentions of homesteading, make friends with all the neighbors, especially the local farmers. One thing you have to understand is you need them much more than they need you. Far too many times people move to the country and the first thing they do is plaster their property with NO TRESPASSING signs and put up a gate at the end of their driveway. They never speak or wave to their neighbors. Sooner or later, you'll need something and will find out how important they are. When I was farming, I had several old farmers in the community that were my technical advisers and they saved me more than a few times. As Daddy used to say, "you have to be a neighbor to have neighbors."
So glad y’all decided to share your farm and homesteading ways! I’m team Andy when it comes to bacon. But would it eat if it was crispy 😉 and leftovers are my favorite ingredients. Until next time, best wishes!!
i like my bacon both ways... plate bacon , chewy with a little crisp around the edges. Sandwich bacon, crispy and slathered with mayo and pepper... Andy, as far as the hay and land service trade out, seems like most dont get the "concept of give and take' , stewardship of time and relatiomships.
You are right, it is what it is. When you living in the country, your animals have to learn boundaries. We didn’t have a lot of predators because we had a really mean watchdog. The problem was, he liked chicken meat and began killing them. Everybody said we would have to put him down, but we sure did love that old dog. Daddy fixed the problem. The next chicken he killed, daddy tied it around on his back where he couldn’t get it off. He wore it a week and never touched a chicken again.
Notice you feeding your horses. Just wondering what you do with them. Been watching your show for awhile now, which we love by the way. Megan, your hair is beautiful down. Any way we have never seen you doing anything with your horses.❤
They are old and retired now, I used to be big into riding, but both of these fellas are pushing 30 so they are just living out their days taking it easy ☺️ I have had one of them since he was 4, I do occasionally get them out and the kids ride them but that’s all these days, but both of them have been many many miles in their younger years
Every video I have been watching has just been great! So much of what I've seen is new in that I didn't have experience doing that but knew a little about it such as making apple butter, molasses, etc. Ya'll are not only entertaining, but very informative and I love it!
Found your channel a few days ago and I’m binge watching. Lol. So if you see a lot of comments on your older videos I’m just trying to catch. Really enjoy y’all’s content. Keep up the good work.
I may be speaking to soon, but how many nets do you use for your chicken run? And how many chickens do you have in there? I want to move our chickens around. We have a stationary run right now.
We use 2 rolls of netting and have about 40 chickens, right now our egg mobile is a little over kill and we would like to eventually build something a little smaller but I used to keep about 85 in this same setup! We would like to have a cart kind of like Justin Rhodes for no more chickens than we have now. Hope this helps!
