Hey🙋🏼♀️ u should give the alfalfa hay to goats and chickens everyday. I have friends that give it along with regular hay to goats and sprinkle it in with regular feed to chickens and everybody LOVES IT!!
@@LumnahAcres Al do you give your chickens scratch feed I just started giving to mine they are 5 months old they like it I mix in with the crumbles and some meal worms ...you asked about the temps. it was 80' today its 69' at 10:30 tonight last week about 20 at night we are going to have wierd weather this year
I love how well you love and care for your wife and daughter, pets, and livestock! I wish every man, young and old, had that character trait and quality about them.
That was so cute tanner watching Olivia get the school bus..how he sort of sat up and looked as though he felt sad...That ice is really crunching loud...Al that slice of r.bread looked very yummy...time to have my breakfast making me hungry!😊👍
I have been sick in bed for almost a week now and have watched a marathon of your videos. Love the goats and chickens and the cat. Thanks for getting me through a tough stretch.
Classic job today. You are spot-on with that music. I just admire you and your wonderful family. You are a good homesteader and Gina is a heart support to you. You are doing a great job in the guidance you give to Olivia. Stay blessed.
Great to see a young family dedicated to hard work, ingenuity, and family values. You seem to be very multi-talented and a jack of all trades, everything from construction, animal hubandry, horticulture, and cooking/home-keeping.
Hey Al, I've been watching for a bit now and seeing you warm the car in the morning is amazing. It's a small thing but means so much. I hope one day I can be a man, even half, as good as you. May you have many adventures to come. - Jason
I was surprised by how much I enjoyed the satisfying sounds of the crunching ice together with the squeaky gate. I am ASMR satisfied. I think that’s the abbreviation for the recent sound effect craze!💜🙆🏼♀️🤪 I think listening to roosters crow and related sounds of nature as well as watching you work on the farm is very therapeutic!🌟
Olivia is going to love seeing this video when she gets home from school just to see little Tanner's reaction to her leaving on the bus. That was adorable
We got the ice and freezing rain yesterday. Some this morning. Those Chickens really liked the treat. My boy rides the bus. No school yesterday.Thanks for sharing.
I never thought of cooking pork roast the way you did, I'm going to have to try doing it that way, I just started following you and I really enjoy your vlogs Thanks for sharing your day with us,
I like when people care for animals. They way you painted the goat house red on the inside...adorable! Making sure the goats got different hay because for some reason they wouldn’t eat the other...great.
My chickens eat fresh grass in the Winter. I clear areas where grass is, and they go at it. We’re still getting full production of rich colored-yoke eggs from 10 chickens in mid Michigan. And because we have the back-to-eden garden, there’s plenty of area for them to free range in the wood chips. Also, they have a huge fenced area full of wood chips and food scraps from our meals (vegetables) that help. When there area is cleared, they’ll come out when it’s not bitter cold. And we will try to get them out for a little bit even if predators are lurking -we just stay out with them, sometimes as little as 15 minutes a day.
Al, when you warm up Gina's car in the mornings and there has been ice or sleet, put the sun visors in the down position to aim the flow from the defrosters back onto the windshield. It defrosts much quicker! It always works for me. I love these videos of yours. They are both delightful and soothing. :)
I like the way you talk about paying attention when are you having a bad day. My mother would ask - are you having a bad day? Or did you have a bad ten minutes and you’re giving it your day? Good to remember.
At 5 this morning it was -3 degrees here. Snow all weekend into next week. We are located 40 miles south of Yakima Washington. The good freeze means fewer bugs in my yard and garden.
I love your videos! I used to work for people who cleaned chimneys and they taught me something that served me well when we cleaned our wood furnace chimney. There is a trick to getting creosote to separate from your chimney wall. If you throw in a big raw potato or a bunch of potato peelings in a hot fire a few hours before or the day before you clean, the starch from the potato binds with the creosote and creates a dry crumbly substance that easily falls or can be brushed off the chimney. The creosote will have a dry look, not a shiny look when you clean.
I have that same chimney cleaning system, the weed eater string does wear down fairly quickly, I found running the drill on high cleans the pipe better
The chickens will love that treat and you for giving it to them and they will soon reward you with good quality eggs. Buddy, I watch your videos every single day and look forward to seeing them each day because you are truly living my dream. The only thing different I would do would be a bigger garden with greenhouses for winter and I would have pigs year round and different birds, Turkeys, duck, quail and I'd love to have more goats and a couple cows. You've got a beautiful place for it and you work hard, that's why I watch day after day. You have a beautiful family as well.
Great idea feeding alfalfa to your chickens, I've been doing it for years and it does help with keeping the egg yolks orange. Also put some of your raspberry sauce into some softened butter and mix, raspberry butter yum. Tanner has to be one of the cutest puppies I've ever seen.. look forward to your videos everyday. So awesome.
I was nervous🙎♀️😬😳😱 the whole video thinking a predator got in your 🐔coop! Everytime you went there I was like, this is it! 😖So glad it didn't happen to your 🐔coop and you are aware and can be more vigilant. How sweet 🍬was Tanner 🐶saying bye to Olivia?!❣💗 Anothet great dinner! Crazy ice! Blessings 🙏💙
Cooking tip: after unwrapping the roast, you have a nice clean piece of freezer paper to use when coating the meat, any spills are contained and you can pick up the paper and add the spilled to top of roast after it's in the pan. Then just throw paper away. Less dishes to wash, and I'm always looking for ways to have less to clean up. Those roasts looked delicious, glad we don't have smell-a-vision or we would get really hungry when you cook.
Gooood Morning Al , I'm sitting here with my coffee and you get out the frazelberry bread ! I think that I could smell that raspberry sauce. Now I feel rather deprived with only my coffee . My egg production is finally increasing . I had four eggs yesterday ! I had one of those tubes of sand for weight in my truck . But the sun took care of the plastic which disappeared leaving a pile of quite course sand . So , using a shallow wooden box , I guess that it's 3 inches deep X 18" X 14" wide , I filled it with sand and placed it into the chicken tractor . Viola ' a dust bath for the chickens ! I notice them pecking at the sand for grit also . Win , win , win ! I get to use the sand and the chickens are happy also . The sand is far more coarse than play ground sand .
Oh how I admire how you and your family get out there in any kind of weather and get the job done! 👍 I am a Texas girl and if I opened the door to snow and ice it would be whoa! 😳 lol! Again thanks for sharing!
I think your regular chimney brush doe's a better clean with much more bristles. Beautiful homestead and Beautiful family! Love your New Yolk City! Stay calm and Carry On! Love and God Bless! Uncle Jeff!
They do love it because I live in Midland Texas and I feed my chickens whole corn sunflower seeds and regular hay from my rabbits and horses and they loved it and their egg production picked up and the yolk is a lot more orange than the regular store eggs
You're blessed to live where you can have chickens & livestock. Here in rural AZ it's coyotes, farrel cats (who escape the coyotes), bobcats and farrel dogs. Then there are plants and bugs that poke, pinch, stick, sting, bite, impale...it's rough out here. But I'm wearing my beachwalkers this morning😁🌵🦂
@KINGMAN QUILTER , With all of those bugs , free range chickens should have a feast ! I know , you are going to retreat behind the predators for your excuse. Well , here in Northeast Ohio , I have predators also . Coyotes , feral cats , Bobcats , possums, skunks , raccoons , small predators such as weasels , an occasional bear , plus the flying predators like hawks , eagles and owls . Hardly any feral dogs . I simply have to use structures to protect my chickens . They free range within a solar powered electric fence. My chicken tractors are made with 1/2 " hardware cloth because it is much stronger than normal chicken wire. Raccoons can tear chicken wire open. Hardware cloth adds structural strength as well . A heavy duty bird netting protects from the flying predators . I am also thinking about getting a livestock protection dog .
Wow what a meal, I'm gonna try that idea of the bed of vegetables instead of the rack. Never fed whole corn to my 6 hens when we had them. Hopefully they make out okay. Thanks for another great video
We have already been dealing with a raccoon and a opossum. Its been in the 40s and as high as the 70s lately. So the wildlife is coming out. Lost a few chickens due to the wildlife getting in the coop on occasion. The roast looks absolutely delicious. Have a great day today. Be safe.
I think your brush won the chimney cleaning contest for all those reasons you mentioned plus who wants to deal with weed wacker string. Cheap and easy for the win!
We raised hens and found they like cracked corn better along with laying pellets. To use up what you have try soaking it overnight in water to soften it to be more digestible. Try offering black sunflower seeds as a treat. It will boost its core heat temperature and put on a little weight.
Willow is expecting ! Hope it's twin girls. Figaro is so smart he knows what you are saying. I think the chickens will love the hay/corn mixture. Chickens are Leary of anything different.
Well that just solidified my resolve to never move someplace snowy. We had 23 degrees today and yesterday which is enough for me. We have a garden to work on so excited! Chicken coop is next. We have to enclose our girls due to predators. Looking forward to having fresh eggs!
Chickens can smell, but they don't have very many taste buds, so they may not taste the Chaf hay. They recognize food by sight most of the time. Their sense if smell helps them smell some food, but when they are eating an apple, it doesn't always taste like an apple to them. They can't taste cayenne pepper powder or vinegar in their water, due to the lack of taste buds. ( so the pepper water doesn't taste hit to them, like it would to us)The know food is coming into their house because they recognize you, and associate you with food, water, and safety. Thus information was passed on to me over 40 years ago by a genetic poultry specialist who was giving a poultry talk at our State Fair. I asked the question "can chickens taste their food, or do all bugs taste the same?" He said they hunt bugs by nature, then went into the part about their sense of taste and smell.
Lincolnshire is 4c, but very cold wind and rain. As well as caring for my animals I do dog walking and cleaning for people, and this time of year I prefer the cleaning bbbrrr
I asked a corporate egg manufacturer about egg's orange yolk color and he said it was caused by the chicken's access to insects and it could be substituted by marigold powder.
did you ever figure out how buttercup was getting into the feeder? i have insomnia and a weak bladder so I find it amusing when i am trying to get back to sleep watching ASMR channels on you tube and i will get the notification from this channel at 3:45 or 4 am. lol i think to myself good morning Al.
Great video today! I like that your channel tries to teach something or you review something that would useful for other like-minded folks. I really appreciate that!! I'm hoping to start homesteading in the future, I'm in TX and we've bought 10 acres in the hill country but thats about it. I need to start clearing, fencing, building a house, barn, etc.. I have a question for you - where did you get your organic corn? Have a great day!
I have to admit I first started watching your RU-vid channel because I enjoyed watching you develop your property and the types of animals you are raising on your Homestead. But lately I get just as much enjoyment on watching the meals you cook and The other things you do in the kitchen. So I’m going to ask a favor, I really love Ryebread and pumpernickel bread or black bread would you please consider making either one or both types of these braids on your channel. Can’t wait for spring gardening animal raising and processing barn build. Thank you for awesome RU-vid content love the new Ozzy
Wow that ice on Gina's car was pretty thick. The bread and roasts looked really good! Happy to see you got a warm up, sure the animals are as well. Looked like the goats have been getting two heads in between a set of dividers in the feeder; maybe that's how the one had gotten broken a while back. Still wondering how Buttercup got in there...crazy goats :-)
I know what you mean about the predators. Now that winter is dragging on, but we're getting a bit of a warm spell, everyone is coming out looking for food. I just saw a bobcat on a trailcam I posted near our duckhouse.
Really enjoy your videos. I’ll second Thelma's comment! You’re right about this time year being a problem for predators here in the North Country. I lost a chicken less than a week ago. Left the body, took the head. So probably a mink or weasel. I’ve had problems with and have been able to catch several mink in the past few years. So I’ve set the traps but haven’t got anything yet. Curious to see your results with the chaff hay.
Unfortunately we had a fox get into our coop recently. We lost a duck and had one badly injured before we intervened. Hopefully, you all won't have to deal with any predators in your coops. The ice is wicked bad. Hope you all stay safe.
My late husband used a large chain, went on the roof put it down the chimney and banged it on the sides to knock down creosote. Didn't have these new fandangled gadgets....looks like it's working.
When you know theres going to be freezing rain overnight. Try putting a tarp over your car windows and windshield its easier to just take the tarp off no more scraping or wasting gas to thaw your vehicles out. I have done this alot during the winters or late fall or early spring in Michigan
You are getting the weather Ovid Michigan had a few days ago. Now we are getting freezing rain and tonight 45 mile n hour winds. Colder air too. Grandma Carol does not want to fall!
We lost 6 chickens about a month ago to fox. They were free ranging and the fox must have been around in the evening preventing them from getting back into the coop. In the morning the surviving chickens were huddled down in the snow throughout the yard and pasture. We haven't let them back out to free range since.
instead of whole corn, I learned the 7 grain scratch works better as winter leads into Spring. Just a suggestion, it is easier for the chickens to digest, and it is a better variety in diet.
Alfafa! Brilliant idea, I'm going to look into doing that too. I've been giving my flock cabbage and they love it. I defaulted to cabage because the non-organic kale at the grocery store went to $1.89 lb and I decided that was too much....in the organic section it was only 10 cents lb more! Great idea Al!
You guys should give your chickens cooked oatmeal during the winter...ours love it and egg production stay up a bit too...shells are harder and we get it cooked in large batches and freeze it in blocks...
Ha, I've tried to give my chickens some Chaffhaye and all 30 looked at me like 'WTH'. If you give them while corn they will need some decent sized grit to help break it up, not sure if you have any in there
