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Fast Homesteading Michigan
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Homesteading on a 2.5 acre property in Southeast Michigan where we try to utilize free and cheap resources to work towards self sufficiency. Sister channel of Fast Gardening Michigan.
How to Introduce NEW Chickens to your Existing Flock
Introducing new chickens to an existing flock. I added young chickens to my flock of older hens. This was my approach and it worked great!
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Fix Broken Chicken Leg with a Pencil
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#chickencare #backyardchickens Save a chicken with a broken or hurt leg by making a cast with a pencil. Easy splint with electrical tape holding it in place.
SunJoe Wood Chipper Review | Pros and Cons
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#woodchipper #sunjoe #electric Cheap wood chipper with great results but not right for everyone. I have had this electric chipper for 3 years and it has not failed. Here are honest thoughts for anyone considering purchasing this. SUBSCRIBE, LIKE, & Comment! Friendly donations welcome and appreciated: www.paypal.me/fastgardeningmi Want to show your appreciation for the Fast Homesteading Michigan...
Cut Chicken Food Costs! Chickens vs. Mediterranean Cuisine
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Composting with chickens is a good way to cut Chicken food costs and keep a dry chicken run. The compost is a bonus. Notice how healthy these chickens are. They eat a balanced diet, not just grains. Feed your chickens right for more eggs and healthy chickens. SUBSCRIBE, LIKE, & Comment! Friendly donations welcome and appreciated: www.paypal.me/fastgardeningmi Want to show your appreciation for ...
Simple Chicken Treat for HOT Weather | Frozen PESTS and Snacks
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Eliminate garden pests and make a treat for your chickens. Check out my permaculture gardening channel: th-cam.com/users/fastgardeningmichigan SUBSCRIBE, LIKE, & Comment! Friendly donations welcome and appreciated: www.paypal.me/fastgardeningmi Want to show your appreciation for the Fast Homesteading Michigan channel at NO EXTRA COST to you? Use the link below for all of your online shopping! Y...
Splitting Elm Firewood by Hand | Easy Technique
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#firewood #splittingfirewood #woodburning Elm is tough wood to split for firewood. A wood splitter makes it easier but I split by hand. Focus on edges instead of down the middle. SUBSCRIBE, LIKE, & Comment! Friendly donations welcome and appreciated: www.paypal.me/fastgardeningmi Want to show your appreciation for the Fast Homesteading Michigan channel at NO EXTRA COST to you? Use the link belo...
How I Get FREE Firewood Delivered to my House
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How I Get FREE Firewood Delivered to my House
Big Mike is a hen lol. I get it
I'm integrating some of mine right now as well..Lol!!! Chickens are freaking ruthless...LMAO!!!
@@hiltonhillfarms5995 having them side by side for a while really helped. It wasn't a HUGE surprise to them when they finally comingled. They're doing great now.
In the 80's you could hear so many Bullfrogs croaking it sounded like a chainsaw around Maple Lake/Joes Pond. Now a days you hear one or two on the far side of the lake croaking. We might be doomed ha
They're loud here in the summer!
I assumed you'd tell angry chicken that you weren't mad, just disappointed. .
This chicken is near the bottom of the pecking order so she had to feel tough picking on the little ones 😂
I use popsicle sticks. Both side support works good too.
I was going to do that but I used all mine to label plants!
@FastHomesteadingMichigan me too. But I bought plenty though;)
Funguy
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Nice job!
Thanks! I thought she was a goner
feel ya.. I just did a cord of fresh elm and its hard going... it took the both wedges and the sledgehammer, then maul for the quartering. the splitting axe would barely touch it and the big crotches might as well have been made of steel. I ended up cutting short rounds- like 1' so it would split easier without stringies and some of the stuff I had to cut apart with the chainsaw. It splits easier when rotten- am in the middle of another cord of the stuff- it still splits a bit hard- doesn't need wedges but also tends to shatter when the pieces are small. pretty tough wood all around. At least when this elm is done its back to locust which is a lot more manageable. otoh maybe leave the toughest rounds as chopping blocks- they'll last forever
I just split some more to make a garden bed. After 6 months it hasn't gotten easier! I have a pile of centers that I probably won't put any more effort into. The edges still chop off nice.
One recommendation I have for you, is to put a big round on too of the dirt, to serve as your splitting bottom. When you split into the dirt, a whole of energy transfers more through the ground. Unless it’s a hard surface like concrete or pavement, you’re losing energy transfer. With the large round on the bottom, the energy is forced to stay within the round you’re splitting. Hopefully that made sense.
I'd been using large rounds as chopping blocks but it took extra effort to lift easier splitting rounds like oak or maple when they'd split fine on the ground. It's better for the axe on the block, that's for sure
I got a 16 pound monster maul from hell. It struggles with elm. Chip your edges and go in and break bigger chunks off when you're not going to kill yourself. A powder wedge or splitting gun would kill this shit though
By any chance, is that Middle Eastern food from LaMarsa restaurant? Looks like the trays of food we get at work..LOL
This is not La Marsa but I've been meaning to try that place
Have a back yard full of rounds from hurricane Beryl...bought a new fiskars for it ....sh*t this is not what I wanted to see 😂
When I request free logs it's "no pine, cottonwood, or ELM" from now on
you re a good entertainer, you got me laughing,,, made my day Thanks now im going back split wood with my friend electric log splitter,,, see you in part 2 lol.
I'm turning the rest of this into borders for raised garden beds. It's slightly easier to split 12" cuts than 16". I'm wearing down my files sharpening my chainsaw blade and burning through oil. No more elm for me 😂
Maaaaaan I feel your pain!!! I went and picked up ALL this wood thinking it was Oak and started splitting it and was like WHAT THE IS THIS.... then I was thinking maybe s pignut hickory but I quickly realized this is probably something I'm not going to be able to use to smoke meat 😮 American Elm it is... my wife was begging me to stop✋️ 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Dutch elm disease took out most of the elms around here so I didn't consider it something I'd get, especially this size. It looks like a wood that would split easy but it just eats the axe. 6 months later and it's still as nasty as it was fresh. It's making some nice garden beds though!
I understand your pain 😅 just picked up some dead english elm here in uk. Only 7" diameter? Cut into 10" logs then tried splitting it. Bloody hell! Had to pound it with a wedge before it went. They say it burns good and long so maybe worth the effort 😅
I tried a wedge and it just ate it 😂. I hope it burns good. I can say it does make nice garden bed material but is putting a hurting on my chainsaw blade.
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Now thats just wrong
I hope the way you're pronouncing Tortilla is for the bit
Thats lowkey f up u could just get corn bruh 🤣
Cannibalism...and what a strange pronunciation of tortilla
These tortillas are made in the USA so they're tortillas, not tortillas.
@@FastHomesteadingMichigan But this still does not mean the pronunciation was not odd. Your comment is silly.
Dafuck is wrong with you 💀
Discussing
共食いさせるとか頭おかしいだろ
tell me this is not horror movie
"Easy technique." Nothing is easy with elm.
Rac = shelf 🍱🪤🕶️ Coon = hound👀
The only crime is the mustache.
how about a coon taco tomorrow eh?
The raccoons I've had (urban) have foraged the bugs and grubs that hide near weeds. I've put out a large planter dish of water. The weeds tend to die off too. They love pine trees and will return year after year to raise babies. Then those babies will come to foraged for food. I haven't had an issue with them and I have cats. Also, the coons tend to go away when coyotes are around.
He’s your friend, accept your fate
It's pronounced Tor-tee-yah.
It’s called a “dad joke”, genius. If you really believed you just corrected him, then I have a time share i could also sell you in Mexico, Mr. Gullible.
Most people say it incorrectly for comedic effect
@@OverIt822lmao piss off
@@OverIt822 regardless of the OPs initial comment . Why not act civil? Doesn't cost you anything.
pbr nice choice
Mine would put me in a chokehold for giving them a plain tortilla. One dunks his nuggies in bbq sauce like a human. They're bougy.
"Tor - till - a" 💅💅💅
Perfect pronunciation
Not tortila its tortilla guey
Next, see if 🦝 wants a quessa-dilla 😮
Definitely wants a queezy dilla
He wanted to see what ya got 😮😅
I had tortillas this night. Nothing more
Pro wildlife rehabbers will tell you it's bad for wild animals to be hand fed. The next human they approach for food might not be so friendly.
Tor tea YA Lean real hard into the YA like it came here on a boat and traded you for syphilis infected blankets or love.
Tortila 😂 tortilla !!!
Happy he pronounced it like it is spelled. This is not Mexico.
But it's a Spanish word. Same as when we pronounce any other word from another language, we say it how they say it. To do otherwise is just redneck nonsense.
Please tell me this is satire
Stfu lmao. One third of the English language is said differently than how its spelled lol. Tortilla is a Spanish word. LL is a letter in the Spanish alphabet. So its T o r t i ll a. LL does the same sound as the English letter Y. You really can’t say tortilla but can say New York, yes, yell, Yellow?
Tor tilla? Seriously?
I say it like that fucking around and I'm Mexican lol
Use a splitting wedges and a small sledge. Personally I use a 2.5 pound because I can swing it for hours. Drive one wedge in, then the other to loosen the first, this will rip those rounds apart quickly. Also of note, American Elm doesn't dry out. Years later they are still wet inside. We always referred to it as piss elm because of this. I grew up on a farm with a lot of elm on it, and had to split enough to last the winter.
The rest of this elm may be chainsawed up to make garden beds 😂. The stuff I split and stacked is drying out nice
Splitting elm was a useful way to work out my frustrations out as a teen. I still go out and hand split wood when I visit my folks, it's no longer needed as much as when I was a kid, but they like to use the old wood stove occasionally. The repetitive motion helps me think, and i find it calming. I will agree though, using a chainsaw is a lot faster if all you are looking for is to process a few cords of wood.
The 'no onions' for chickens is a myth with a little bit of truth. You don't want to bury or hide it in their daily diet, but having them cooked or raw on occasion is not a problem. They will eat what they need and no more. Onions are a good source of vitamins C and B6, sulfur, minerals, fiber, and have antibacterial properties. They have strong antioxidant and anti-inflammatory properties as well. The occasional scrap cooked or raw is not going to hurt them.
I've never had the chickens get sick from anything. They pick through and eat what they want. They get avocado skins and pits, apples and pears with seeds. Free range birds would come across a lot more they shouldn't eat and turn out fine.
Do you let your birds have acces to small rocks to help them diguest better if not i give you that as a tip!
They got a bowl of grit in the coop but they get a lot of rocks from the 2NS sand and the soil I dump in there
A post you make a fence with
Ha make sure they know it's really for the chickens.😂
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I miss those ticks. I grew up spending a lot of time in the woods of CT, always had dogs, always saw those ticks. I saw my first deer tick in probably 2000. I got lyme disease in 2003. Now a days I very seldom see those ticks. But I can't walk my dog around the block on a sidewalk without him picking up 3+ deer ticks. A hike in the woods, on a nice trail, will leave me with between 5 and 50 deer ticks between my dog and I. Complete infestation for the last 5-7 years. I'd love to know what's going on. A few years ago I worked in East Lyme, where the disease was named. Every single homeowner I spoke to had stories of contacting lyme disease. There are no warnings on trail signs for deer tick awareness, but there are about triple E because apparently some horses died a few years back. The federal gov paid for aerial spraying of all new england counties to combat triple E carrying mosquitoes. They did that the same year the stories of the horse deaths came out. But despite the CDC's website acknowledging that between 35,000 and 350,000 people contract lyme disease each year, no measures have been taken to address that problem. Not so much as an article of information at the trail heads. Which many trails have an information board. It's hard not to be conspiratorial.
TLDR. Our Government doesn't recognize the disease for two reasons: 1) It released it; 2) Doing so would put far too much stress on health insurance. I'm chronic with Babesiosis, which is a Malaria-like (protozoal) disease. Guessing they added that in for shits and giggles.
Barred rock hen
With spurs 😬