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You have foxes visiting day & night‽ Do you mind saying where in Australia you are? Town-specific optional but region/state? I was raised in & live near bush in the Hunter Valley NSW and only encountered a fox twice (with years in between each sighting). 😋

Well, how do you watch all your chickens eat when they're in different runs. I only free range one small group and only under supervision. I've lost chickens to predators and my chicken community that are experts have suggested this. Now i love all your ideas. I don't see the rats but i know they are there and one from your video i have those feeders, two I'm constantly trying to sweep up feed off the ground thrown everywhere by the birds. Unfortunately I can't get it all but i can get most. So i will try the trays. Ive always been told to leave food out if they don't get to free range. Thanks for the ideas but i think you should consider to leave out the judgement in the end. You have really good ideas but if offend someone you lose the possibility of helping others.

Hi, I have stumbled across your channel and love your Kelpie, I also have one. I would love to see more videos of him

Chook. Slang term not heard in The States. Kelpies are definitely fast as hell.

What are your thoughts about hibiscus seeds? I have hibiscus that preduce lots of seed in the Fall. Are they safe? Are they good for chickens?

Thanks guys! Love the kelpie!

Best dog I ever had was a Border/Kelpie cross. Very excellent dog, excellent!

I just got a 40kg bag of 18% lay mash for $25.80 here in ontario Canada 🇨🇦

My Kelpie is a female and close to 60lbs .. she can rip an arm off... But I do believe my girl has a little Shepard in her

Great video. Just remember not to have your dog off-leash in a public area. My neighbour the other day got fined $840 for having their dog off lead in a public area. Also, my vet said not to feed our dog ice cream due to all the dangerous additives and high sugar content that can result in pancreatitis, obesity and diabetes. Great training content.

Old mate asks the young girl a question then talks over her without giving her the courtesy of giving an answer. 😂

Those are som HUGE chicken eggs dear lord

I love the idea of using quail for pest control! They must absolutely love the chance to get at live bugs. I don't have a garden so I have to feed my quail dried meal worms instead, and it is their most favorite food ever, they go absolutely berserk for it! And they recognize the meal worm bag, so when I pick it up they all immediately run to the cage door to wait eagerly for it. Indeed, normally I can leave the cage door open and none of them ever try to come out, but if there are meal worms on the way, they will run right out of the cage in their eagerness! LOL! I should probably pick up some live crickets from my local pet store and see how the quail react to them. And as long as you wash the vegetables thoroughly, or peel them fully, depending on what type they are, there should be no reason to fear trouble from the birds having been tending to them. People really do have strange ideas. And if you cook your veggies properly, then you really take any associated risk down to as close to zero as it can get. I'm guessing the people making this kind of claim are mostly people who have never done any gardening, and probably never been in any sort of rural or wilderness setting at all. I can believe these kinds of people might be at increased risk as their immune system probably isn't as strong as those who have (or did have at some point) a more rustic life, so maybe those people should indeed stay away. But for those of us who grew up with gardening and playing outside and being a free-range kid, it's fine.

great dogs...❤

Fabulous - we have Kelpies too but not as diverse as this beauty.

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You make a great team, thanks for the video.

Blue or red heelers make a good family guardian. Ive seen the damage they donwn when they bite. Not pretty

Mareemas are very noisy in a metro area setting. Kelpies when you get the more confident ones can do many things. Good as a guardian and alert dog with training

Of course not!? (Y’all get the joke right?)

flow hive sucks basically, as expected. overhyped to oblivion, including by me at the time.

The dog to have my red kelpie removes Turkey's and is a racist dog does not like African's not bad for 2yrs old getting better every year almost human

Way too much work to feed

Really good video! Thank you for all the information.

I am wanting to get a little bit of honey, but I only have 1.5 acres. Any suggestions on how far away the hive should be away from the house? Maybe what I should use?

I started using your chicken feeding method a week ago, works a treat. I’ve had an ongoing battle with squirrels, and be honest, the squirrels were winning. So when I saw your method I thought this could be the answer. And it is, hens are feeding well and the squirrels have moved on to greener pastures. So easy to implement, just takes a bit of time twice a day. Thanks from South Carolina

Why did u kill my family? :(

lol, let the girl talk.

thank you for sharing the video

We had the grandpa feeder and the Norway rats here figured out how to trip the latch and enjoy the feast inside. As soon as I saw it, we switched back to hand feeding. Sorry rats, kitchen is closed!

Kelpie is not a guardian he is trying to hide when some real danger is coming

I got into bed keeping because of flo hive. I found it to be a wonderful experience

Waffle waffle waffle

Kelpis are such great dogs - so intelligent and so loyal!

Awesome

Chickens actually help reduce issues with small hive beetles.

What chipper would you recommend for the dual purpose of chipping acorns for feed and for chopping oak leaves and windfall branches for mulching?

You commented people are getting snotty with you for talking too much lol. I definitely don't feel that way, but I do think the content is very much focussed on audio. Have you considered making a podcast? I think that would be a great format - Just chatting together and working through a peer reviewed paper with some homesteading implications with an informal not too technical way that a lay person can understand. I think most journal articles have so much esoteric lingo and jargon in them they are not often not really accessible to non-scientists. Even this video I listened to the majority of it with only audio while out doing farm chores myself. Even the processing acorns part could be explained on a podcast if you described in more detail some of the visual elements (i.e. the colour of the acorns). Anyway, just wanted to send that idea along, I see you haven't made a video in a while so not sure if you're still at it, but If you make a podcast I would definitely subscribe and tell all my friends too as well. Hope all is well and thanks for the great video and channel!

Great video! Always glad to see evidence based homesteading insights in an age where it's so easy to peddle pseudoscientific nonsense for likes, clicks and sales. Never thought I'd see a succinct breakdown of what a peer reviewed article is in a video about chickens! Keep it up :)

I have to disagree about “you shouldn’t have chickens if you can’t do this same feeding routine everyday”. Our small backyard flock is kept in their coop and run most the time, we can not let them free range the yard all day everyday because of our hunting dog, hawks/predators, and the weather isn’t nice enough all the time to do so. We also have a large garden in the back yard we can’t let them have access to all day long. So I wouldn’t want 100% of their diet to be just their feed rationed out in exact increments with a 20 minute opportunity to eat, since they can’t spend the rest of the hours of the day foraging around. I spend a lot of time taking care of our chickens but it’s not realistic for us to do that daily routine for feeding them, that’s pretty tedious. And there are often times where we are not home-leave town- so it wouldn’t work then, a feeder in the run is needed. Lastly that feeding system is unfortunate for the ones like your black silkie who gets bullied away from the feed, she didn’t get any feed! If it’s perfectly rationed out for them to get their daily requirements but the ones at the bottom of the pecking order don’t get their ration, that’s a flaw in the feeding method. Just don’t think it’s fair to say no one should have chickens if they don’t take the time to feed them this way everyday.

Chickens eat Mice Mice do not eat their feet if they tried to they would become Chicken Food!" If you have a Hanging Feeder from a Chain a mouse or especially a Rat would have a hard time feeding from a Spinning Container make a Barrier with Hardware cloth or Aviaria Netting....

You need to learn to stop the useless drivel and talk about information relevant to the topic of the video. I almost threw my phone waiting for you to make any useful or coherent points or to give out any actual useful information 🤦🏻‍♂️

You're not freeing "range quails". Neither are they "range quails" that are free. Rather, they are free-range quails. They hyphen is important. "Free-range" or even "freerange" must be joined in this case. Also, you are free-ranging quails. Please help bring back word joinery and visual reading, thank you!

So in the history of chicken keeping it has always been done your way right? Raising chickens and caring for them is not always cookie cutter. What works for you may not work for another chicken keeper. I've had chickens for a while and I have them quite content and healthy. I get your good intentions. It is not one size fits all.

Last year we had a horrible problem with rats. We have Norway rat and mice here in Alabama and when we added to our flock this year, I started fermenting our food and we have no birds eating our chicken feed and 0 rats now because our flock consumes 100% of their daily rations. I've also cut out their scratch grains in the summer months because it creates over heating in the chickens body, and here we call it eating at McDonald's, i.e., it's less nutritional for them. I also added vitamins and probiotics plus electrolytes for the hottest days to their watering container. Another idea is to add frozen water bottles to help cool the waterer a bit of like a cool drink for them. The other bit we had to do was clear back brush and ivy. The only time I put bedding down now for our girls in the coop is when we have rain to keep them out of the mud and I'll make them a tub to dust bathe in with potting soil, DE, sand and herbs to help them feel fresh and prevent mites and lice. Great video, let your daughter finish her sentences, lol. I know as a parent we want to move ahead quickly, I was guilty. Your a great Daddy for teaching her and she will never forget these life lessons, I never did. 🐔🐓❤🐓🐔

Just adopted a female - mostly Kelpie - pup here in San Diego CA and although we don’t have chooks I found this video so helpful and fascinating. Thanks for sharing your knowledge! Love you informative style.

Love the cast!

BEST video ever, wish I had seen it a year ago. I'm implementing it tomorrow morning even it's too late, I found mouse droppings today.

Old video so do not know if there is any one ever reading this. You obviously had your experience with this product but I'd like to challenge you a bit if I may. To me it seems like your problems would come down to user error. Firstly from your video it does not look like the hive was tilted backwards when you first start draining it. It has to be tilted backwards ever so slightly for the honey to run out of the drain pipes. It may not have been advertised on your version of the flow hive though. Normal use it should have a tilt a bit forward so rain water will not run in and when draining have it tilted backwards for gravity to help the honey flow out. Point 2. In your demonstration of how much the frame twists you seem to be opening a whole frame at once. That is not recommended. And combined with not have enough of a tilt backwards the honey had no where to go but into the hive and kill all your bees. I'm so sorry for the loss of your bees but I am happy that at least the FH gave you and your daughter a good hobby of bee keeping. Beekeeping is an amazing hobby and I dont even like honey. Cheers

Please give your daughter space to finish her sentence. You talk like a nervous wife by times