Why We Raise What We Raise 

A woman can do just about anything...that we put our mind too. Good job Andrea

whew you guys sure have your hands full !!!

Thank you so much for helping Jeff at Bobblehead Homestead!

Every Beekeepeer loves talking about bees ... because they are fascinating creatures :)

Rooster and Honey Biscuits for Dinner! Sounds good to me! Love your Videos! Much Love and Blessings

Just bought my first chicks and 10 keets for our 5 acre farm! Very Excited! Looking forward to BEES!, Goats, horses, and Dexter's! Just starting out, PRAY FOR US! Costing a lot, need to make some money now!

What a beautiful farm! I LOVE, love love Buff Orpingtons!! My favorite Buff rooster, Gimli, was so friendly and gorgeous. He followed me like a puppy. A couple of years ago two raccoons found a way into the coop and wiped it out. We trapped them and a friend dispatched them. It took me a while to realize that all breeds aren't as personable and friendly as buffs. Last fall I finally got more Buffs to fill out the flock and already I feel more attached.

Love jersey cows 💗 you have a great mix of animals. Old spots are sooo cool 😎 I love heritage breeds.

Great looking farm. God Bless!

So glad I found your channel. You guys are adorable!!! Saw you on R&Refuge and hear Living traditions HS talk about you all the time. My hubby and I live in the city, I’m a RN and he is a Veterinarian. We just bought a house on 10 acres here in California Central Valley and we want to quit the rat race and become full time homesteaders. I am soaking up everything I can to get ready!! Your channel is a wonderful resource and inspiration 😍

Nice livestock tour, I enjoyed that. Yes, I've got 21 olive eggers in the works, we'll do that. Around May I'll be able to start hatching Whiting True Blues that lay blue eggs like Ameraucanas. I'm going to try to talk you into a few of those to compare with the Ameraucanas to see which is the better blue egg layer for our area. Thank you!

My favorite breed of chickens are the show Rhode Island Reds. I have never had a mean rooster from the Rhode Island Reds, they love being picked up and carried around. I have raised Ameraucas, they're fairly good egg layers. The roosters can get mean, the are smaller birds but the taste is great. Horses are my favorite animal, I love to train horses and to ride. One of my dreams is to train wild Mustangs so that they can find good homes. They are very smart and on e they start trusting you, they bond with you.

another good video. I am seriously thinking about quail now. My mom (years ago) was flogged by our bronze tom when she was coming in from milking. She whopped him with that galvanized milk pail. He was tasty, too! lol

Great set up. We had Holstein. We are debating a black agus steer and/or pigs. Y'all bout have me talked into spots. Buffs have been my primary chicken (though I'm down on numbers right now, due to the move) for the dual purpose. And debating on bees. Like to here more of opinion on them. I love cows as well but I'm getting (younger) and I'm the primary farm hand so trying to keep things to where I can tend to myself easier. Thanks really happy for you guys..great way to live..xoxox

I came over after seeing you on Keeping it Dutch. Hi from Australia!

I’m starting quail this spring I’m pretty sure. Don’t know what breed I want to do though... She gets Americanas, you get more hives, win/win!

Have you ever heard of American Aberdeen cattle? We raise them and they are gentle and easy to take care of. They do well in the cold and you get more meat in return when you harvest them. Watch some videos from Given Chances Farm (our farm channel) this is the breed we raise cause we can put 2 cow calf pairs on an acre of land compared to the full size.

I was surprised to hear that you knew and did business with Jeff; Groovy Eggs (Bobblehead Homestead). I would love to see you do an update "why we raise what we raise...three years later."

Great video y’all love your place

Horse, cow, and pigs. People who haven’t or didn’t when they were young don’t know the fun they are or did miss.

I loved the rooster story! Great video

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This was a really cool tag! This was started by Homesteading the Hardway I believe. Many thanks to them. Thanks for going through your animals. I think it's a great idea to see what animals people have and why.👍

Love seeing your homestead. You make it look so fun too.

Love to watch this, so beautiful farm you have☺️

You are a great lady .

Love honey! Lol! This video makes me so incredibly happy ! We are looking for a homestead 😊 we are gonna be homesteading in Nevada !

Awesome to see the kids getting involved with money management! Good job parents!

Put some old hay down on the ground to walk on. Or mulch. Helps keep you safe from slipping in the mud. And you can shovel it all into the compost pile in the end. Your animals are so awesome! Yes I do would love to get some quails in my future too.

I wish you guys could come and consult for me on our new homestead. You know so much about farming and I feel like I might not make the best decisions on how to use what we have, and especially the best animals for us and how to keep them. I wish I had started this two decades ago, lol, there’s so much to learn!

New subbie here from Cabot Arkansas. I really like your channel and I have already learned some new things. Don't have a homestead yet just a few chicken thinking about getting out of the city one of these days. TFS!!

New subscriber ❤😊 I'm raising mud this winter, too lol

Thanks so much for sharing! I can't wait to start my non profit organization this year and to have some quail and goats of our own! We are currently looking to buy a house and I can't wait to get the garden all set up for growing! I've been a grower/gardener for 6yrs now and love to see the beauty of what mother nature has to offer us right in our own backyards! Great farm you have there!! Great video & information!

New Subscriber, from England, U.K. Looking forward to watching all your videos!! 🙂

Great video..

Jersey cream makes very tasty butter in a hand churn.

Dreaming of having a jersey cow one day 💕 also. Holy moly that pig is huge 😳

I love getting to see so many different views of your country life. So, when my Dad retired from the military, we moved to SW MO and started out on two large lots, house in the front, chicken house on the back lot, so we got some chickens. They were so fun and the eggs were wonderful. Then my Granny sent a rooster home with us. That little nightmare sucked all the fun out of gathering the eggs. You'd have to try to sneak into the hen house and close their little door before he got in, or if he did get in, just leave and try again later. One day he beat me in there, but I was feeling stubborn, so when he attacked my legs, I kicked him about six feet up the wall. He lay still on the ground for about three seconds, then came after me again. This repeated for a while until I was the one who finally gave up and left. Mom didn't say anything when I told her, but when I got home from school the next day, the pressure cooker was going, and we had chicken and dumplings for dinner. Something was said about it not being exactly tender, and Mom said "He WAS a tough old bird, wasn't he?". Then I knew, and just smiled. Nothing else was said. Tough or not, it tasted extra good to me.

It tickles me that you're afraid of roosters but not afraid of bulls. I must admit, I'm a little afraid of everything. The only animals I ever had that didn't scare me at least a little were canaries, lol. But I do pretty good with my three laying hens now. Gonna try rabbits, too, I think. Thanks for sharing your life. You guys are real farmers!

Thank y'all for another great video. Big Ben needs to do some Bee's Be videos. Ben is going to have to watch out when y'all have your gathering this spring cause I'll have a million questions for him. God Bless you all.

Great video, the quail scissors work great, we had 40 quail a while back we love the meat and the eggs

I have always wanted a milk cow and pigs myself. who knows.....maybe I'll get them now that I have a little land :)

Your both amazing I love your videos xx

Enjoy your new year. Learned a lot about different breeds. Thank you.

I loved the info on your homestead! TY VM God Bless

I hear you about the mud! I wasn't even trying to raise mud and it seems I have a bumper crop as well. 😜

I used to ride on pigs when I was little

Yum wish I lived near I love fresh Jersey milk. That is if you sell milk. However Charleston South Carolina is just a little to far.

Another great video -- enjoyed seeing all your animals--I can tell they are raised with love and attention.

I always had Rhode Island Red roosters for many years and I thought roosters were all just mean. Now I have a Black Australorp rooster and he is great! He’s our second one and they have both been really calm and nice. They are good at taking care of the hens, but neither one has ever been aggressive at all. I think it depends on the breed.

Fun seeing all ur animals in one video....I am impressed Andrea that u r so brave with the cows and a rooster freaks u out...I am just kidding about the rooster part...we had one rooster one time, never again, he reaked me out too! And we ate ours too! Thanks 👍

Loved seeing your farm animals. Great video. Hugs❤️

The rain this year is crazy. I'm going to raise cornish cross and quail this year.

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You can breed cornish cross by crossing a white rock rooster to a cornish game hen

Love the video!! I enjoyed seeing all the different animals!

The girls are looking good .

That was fun seeing all your animals! I don’t think 4-H has that program in our county. Our 17yr daughter is in 4-H, she doesn’t raise chickens but we know plenty in our club that do 😁

The best meat i have ever had came from a Jersey steer

I have chickens for eggs and meat. But it's just me so no need to have a lot of stuff. When there is just one person it's hard to use up all that you would get if you raised pigs or cows. But I do hit sales for meat from the butcher from animals that are not fed GMOs. Enjoy your videos!

Awesome, thanks for sharing....

This was great, God bless!

Good info. I’m a new subscriber (a week or two) so this very informative about your farm. Looking forward to seeing more. Tim

@Seasons of life..just came across your vids. Great and like them!

You are funny I mess jokes up so I get it lol .....

Really enjoy Y’alls channel, keep up the good work.

I love honey too as much as talking lol.....I'm not afraid of bee's anymore I should raise bee's I would love to have real bee's wax too :-)

Your pig was really big .looks like it really good eating .

I hate rooster too. I want to raise bees. Wish we lived closer to each other you could help me. Yes..debt free is way to be.. smart of you not falling for all the credit card scams

I just subscribed i thought i was subscribed but we are now and i love watching u all and also we are alot alike and how do u stop freaking out about your kitchen being dirty lol i freak out when the kids get diahes out and everything im such a clen freak lol and love your lotion video and alot of the others are great hope u come check r family farm out we r a little different then other people and u will see somr people are really rude to us but i got to stay strong god bless your family and happy happy farming

OMG!!! Such a great video!! Do you sell jersey cows? Please say yes!! We might be interested in purchasing from you as we are wanting to buy one!

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Have you thought about raising Scottish highlands. We raise them in Oklahoma

MUD. That’s the truth!!

On the farm we raised polled white face Herford and we all ways had calm well behaved cows the new younger bulls had to have a correction in there attitude sometimes but learned and in my opinion the meat is better than an Angus I don't know why people thing it has to be Angus beef to be better its probably advertisement got it stuck in peoples heads and then they tack on that extra cost

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There’s mud everywhere! Here in KY it’s ridiculous!

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have ya tried a jersey/herford cross? some of the most tender meat ive had.... thank ya fer the videos

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Thanks for this information so helpful!! I love your farm! We have a little hobby farm West of Searcy on hwy 36! We are in the process of building a goat barn. Would you all know of anyone who is selling Nigerian Dwarf goats??

You said "quail from Jess and Miah at Alchemist farm" ??? LOL I thought about chickens but don't want to deal with a rooster! So I want quail.

I have Nubians I can't wait to see that..I always tell people if u smell goat it is my new perfume.. LMAO..I have two hand raised male Alpine Nubian boar goat mix..and yes they stink but I love them..

ALSO YOUR A WOMAN WITH GREAT PURPOSE

Mud lol We like mud pies

Who doesn't love honey ???

Our next venture is bees..

I am terrified of roosters too. I was spurred as a kid so I will never turn my back on one.

I am local to yall, outside of North Little Rock. Do yall sell your milk? Or is that even a thing? I'm new to all of this but I've never had fresh milk and want to try it. Also, how do to we contact you about buying a fed out pig?

HELP COULD YOU PLEASE TELL ME HOW TO TREAT EAR MINTS IN RABBITS, NATURALLY? THANK YOU IN ADVANCE

Have you thought about raising brahma's? We raise brahma's, they are the best.

I'm going to talk to my buddy. he has property in the farming area ....I want him to raise animals I can't in town like pigs :-) and chickens.....I have rabbits but am not allowed farm animals I think we are only allowed 1chicken...... anyway if I help him pay up front costs then pay him the rest at the end of growing out...this way if he wanted animal's too it's easier to pay in bulk....he has experience since childhood but needs a push to do it himself wink wink lol

How many milk cows do you have.

I am GREATFUL to see this VLOG. I met you when Jeff Bobblehead came to your home. He SPOKE so highly of YOU. He was so BLESSED to travel to you & talk about HIS CHICKENS. As BEN talks about HIS 🐝's & 🍯 honey. (You know you are HIS #1 HONEY) JEFF SPOKE ABOUT HOW YOU BLESSED HIM with your MEATS. He SHARED some WITH HIS New FAMILY when mr.& mrs. 😎😎 came to BUILD HIS TINY HOME 🏡 with LOVE . YOU are TRULY a KIND & LOVING GOD FEARING FAMILY in JESUS'S NAME. You FORGOT to mention your #1 you raise #1 GODLY CHILDREN❗🀄🀄🀄🀄🍄🍄 YOU ARE BLESSED. I AM JOKING WITH YOU. I think you STOP being so afraid of roosters when Jeff Bobblehead came over. As ALWAYS. Thank you for BLESSING me with your FAMILY LOVE. In JESUS'S NAME SHALOM from MICHIGAN CHOW

Do you have allot of trouble with parasites?

May I ask why you stopped raising rabbits?

Hahah “you have to be rationed” 😂😭

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I'm a little NW of u and mud and standing water is awful here. My goats are hating it.