Top Worst Jobs on the Homestead
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 12 มิ.ย. 2024
- Today Jason talks about the least fun jobs on the homestead and solutions on how to get through them. Links below!
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Jason has the craziest resume… just from homesteading. Add doctor to the list 👍🏼
I was raised on a dairy farm in Pennsylvania. when my Dad was castrating piglets my baby brother about 5 y/o said "I'm glad that I'm not a baby pig!"
You are so very smart to mask up when cleaning out the chicken coop!! Breathing that mess is dangerous to breath!!
Right! Back in the 40's my FIL got histoplasmosis. They had a chicken farm. He almost died,
I love ALL Sow the Land videos!
I remember bbq at Anna and Randy’s house and having a good time. Now we are out living the dream. Homestead life truly a blessing. Never would have thought this dream would be a reality. ❤❤❤ happy a homesteading ❤❤❤
Great job on the vlog.
See you at 51 SHOPTALK 🎉
Great video, Jason. Maybe not what you had planned originally, but it turned out to be very informative and that is how homesteaders learn. Seeing other peoples successes and tries that didn't work...never failures !!!. Y'all have a Blessed day.
Jason how about adding a vinyl flooring on top of the existing one, (in the brooder) that IS NOT attached so at cleaning time you just pull it out and empty it in the wheel barrel and take it to the compose pile.
After all this time, I still really enjoy all your videos. The three of you are definitely a success story! Thank you.
Happy to hear that!
Jason, just from what I can see, I like how you run your homestead. I like it that's not super chaotic and that usually you don't bite off more than you can chew!
Really enjoy all your videos, especially like to hear all the sounds of the animals and around the homestead. Better than any music.
Loved the format of this video, so many homesteaders show us the animals when they get them and then that’s it, loved the way you started off with a relaxing view of the farm . We really enjoy them. Ty
Your farm is really starting to take shape with everything you have done. Well done!
2 bad days, sounds like a title for a Western
Another great day on the Homestead! Blessings on your family and your growing season Kiddos!🌻🐛Carolyn in Ohio 🌿💚🙏💕
Short n sweet but very informative ❤from Glasgow Scotland 🏴
I enjoyed watching your video, Thank You for always going the extra mile to make this possible 👀👀🙏🙏❤❤
When we castrated our boar pigs and our bulls we used a product called Gentian Violet as sanitizer and after care in Mexico they use same product according to my buddy there it's called Morado
I’m an old nurse and have had medical drs order this for wounds on some patients. It does work great just don’t spill it oh lord what a nasty stain it leaves even trying to clean it off anything it’ll smear on everything too🤦🏻♀️
Jason is filled with so much wisdom...he always has a solution for each problem that arises in their homestead...Thank you for the video...hard work will bring great success. .Blessings are on the way❤️❤️
Chicken brooder cleaning is the worst!.. AND a duckling brooder X100!.... CLOSE second is harvest day (kill, clean) AND THIRD on my list is assisting births ........ I've loved watching your videos and your progress!
All good ones!
Mulch, mulch mulch, we go to our city landfill and get wood chips that tree service are dumping there. Or get a chipper, use for weed control
I saw the pod cast I knew what was coming!
225 views in 5 minutes. Y’all are awesome
You guys are doing awesome. God bless.
If you use landscape fabric made of "corn starch" it will breakdown on it's own and you don't have to remove it. It actually is good for your soil. :)
Love your video’s. Truly enjoy your authentic nature to home steading
Thank you so much!
I think the worst job is trying to work out what to cook and then cook it, every day of your life till you die. 🤣🤣
😱 you are so right!!
I wish I could live that life style if I could go back 30yrs...lol...I would love it..
I lost my farm due to getting hit by a car walking out of a gas station. A 16 year old kid was texting and jumped the curb on the walkway and flew his car into me. I was two steps out of the store. It was my dream to have a farm. It's all gone. After 10 years of daily pain my husband is sick of me. He wants me gone. I couldn't believe he didn't believe I was in pain all the time. He says it's all psychosomatic pain whatever that means. It hurts to walk and my knees don't work. It's good we are getting a divorce but I will miss being on a farm. Try to never get hurt. It changes everything.
GREETINGS AND BLESSINGS
BIG HUG FROM CHICAGO IL 🌪️🌪️🌪️🌪️🌪️
You all do a wonderful job
Hello from Iowa
I agree with Lorraine!! Any outside job in the summer during high peak is horrible!!! Luv u guys!!!
I Agree 100%. Heat is heat. But, add in the humidity. It's horrible! The only humidity I've ever felt worse than where I live in W.TN was a short time we had to live in The Keys. You opened the door to go out and before your second foot made it out of the door you were profusely sweating. Crazy and hard to breathe. That was back in the 90's.
Jason, great video. There are definitely times that I have to remind myself that the process is worth the provision when it comes to chores.
I love your honesty and we need more of it in the You tube world. You guys have been an inspiration for us in our homestead journey. It is so true that it is not all fluffy chicks and baby goats doing par-core off the resting platforms.
Here is my least favorite list:
Burning horns off goats #1 Absolutely necessary but horrendous. Castrating pigs #2, mucking out the barn #3, loading pigs for market #4, giving any kind of shot to the 250 pound goat buck. He runs and hides when he sees me #5 . Trimming hooves on any goat. #6 . Banding goat bucks #7 . Weeding the garden #8. Milking goats every day no matter what because they will get mastitis if you don’t #9 . Watering rabbits in the winter #10.
I do realize 6 of the worst jobs on our farm could be eliminated by getting rid of the goats but we love our Lamanchas and Boers so and they provide all of our dairy and some meat.
Glad to see you are friends with Brian. Have watched some of his videos on Valkyrie Homestead and enjoyed his laid back personality. Would be nice to see him around from time to time. Also would like to see more of you and Ben Hollar and Randy working on projects. How is Randy doing?. Hope he is well.
I mentioned on the shop talk podcast that my parents in the UK use the rubber band method to castrate pigs the same way you do cattle. Maybe worth looking into. Se if you can get bands and a stretcher tool in the USA 🐷
You have done an amazing job making progressive improvements to your land and in your methods!
I always experienced cognitive dissonance going to a gym with lights glaring, air conditioning set on frozen, and electricity running all the equipment. People in there sweating and pumping iron, but all the "work" we were doing was not being used, unharnessed work! Growing up on a farm, it felt ridiculous and bizarre to go to a gym. At 66 I still feel that way. If you go to a gym, you should be able to get on machines that let your work power the system. Now that' would be innovation. Just thoughts...💖💖💖💖💖Your channel and all you share. Blessings.
You’re a huge inspiration to my husband and I. You are one of the reasons we keep moving forward with our farming dream!
I know what you mean- dad used to castrate calves every spring, dozens of them. Almost every year one would kick him hard enough to break his leg- he was in a cast for weeks every summer, still riding and working 400 cows and calves!
When working in n Farrowing on hog farm we would hold the body backwards and between our legs. Then you can push the testicles forward then it's easier to do the deed.
Your video are always funnier them most, Just keep making them thanks
Thanks Jason🎉🎉
Hey, sorry the mic didn't work.. BUT I really liked this video! It was fun!
You sure have transformed this new homestead in such a short amount of time
Great video! Whenever you are able to get one, a small tractor will be a big game changer for your homestead.
❤ Jason and family doing a fab homesteading job. Jealous everytime while watching your videos with envy ... horrid jobs make it so worthwhile. Slowly all with your projects developing the homestead making life easier and quality living.
Hello Jason, I’m sure you’ve said many times, but how old are your piglets when you castrate them. I just got my first breeding pair of Kunekune pigs in march. It appears like my six month old boar got the job done and we’re expecting our first litter the 5th of September 🙏🤞
I know it’s the way it’s done but I just find it horrendous that piglets are castrated with no sedation or local anaesthetic or anything.
Do human males get local anesthetic to get circomsized ?😮
Back in the 60’s my uncle who we referred to as a country man had a chicken house and he also raised fox terriers there was one young terrier that drove him crazy humping everything in sight and one day he said that’s it him my dad and my younger brother took him in the hen house where there was a stump they castrated him on that stump my brother said he just poured some peroxide over the area and turned him loose. It does sound barbaric but he was a farmer and that’s how they do things. Btw I graduated from nursing school and seen a circumsistion done and was horrified they took hemastats and pinched off the skin and sliced it open 😳 that and a bone marrow extraction was awful. I’m glad I had girls
I like the 15 to 20 minute videos.
Hi.... Jason and Loraine nice to see you Love watching your video homestead keep it up bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋👍👍👍
Elvira really has become a great mom. You waited so long for her to finally get pregnant, now she’s raising six!!! 😂
Well told story of what makes things easy or hard…a positive attitude certainly helps life go better! Thanks for sharing! Blessings to all 🤗🇨🇦
Great video as always😊❤
Cleaning out the chickens broods, pens, and the slaughter days ughh.
Thanks for another good video!
Glad you like them!
Great video:) have a wonderful weekend.
Please consider using lidocaine. That's what my daughter and I do when we have to do this.
Love the video. So much fun living the dream
It’s homesteading. Nothing ever goes as planned. Great work adapting.
You got that right!
Completely enjoy all Jason's content. Videos and podcasts. Keep it up ❤
Awesome video!
Thanks!
I really enjoy watching your wife and daughter in the videos. Always a joy to see them ❤❤❤❤
I love your videos. I do wish they were longer.😊❤
Because i’ve heard of this happening before, I think it needs to be said for people who don’t know - don’t try this with your farm dog! They will bleed to death!!!
The process for castrating dogs is very different from that of pigs and cows.
You definitely have lots to do. Really enjoyed this video. Thanks for sharing!!
🐝thanks for the great video🌻
You guys are doing a great job 👍👍 I’m very proud of all your accomplishments and your fence. ♥️♥️👍👍
love how Ben calls himself the pig's snack man lol. lorraine should add cleaning the house.
Yeah I agree cleaning pins suck I use to raise rabbits my breading stock had it where it went down a shoot and into a bucket I built it myself and my grow out pin I could move it but in the winter my breaders was in the garage with pans under them I hated the winter
Literally living my dream.. what a beautiful life.
Have you ever thought of running the chickens between your garden rows? They keep up the grass, keep down the insects, prepare the ground and fertilizing
Geese! Geese mostly eat grass.
Long, skinny chicken tractors rotating from one pathway to the next. Brilliant!
Small spray bottle for the wound spray works really well. They are cheap at the $ tree
Worst Job when farming 200 acres is cleaning the barn out or anything maintenance on the equipment
Great Job guys!😇!😇!😇!
When I was in college in Southern Ohio in the early '70s One of the young woman in our class grew up on a farm where they mainly raised pigs. She was a fun, vivacious, intelligent woman. A lot of guys in our class were trying to catch her eye. She developed a method to, I guess you'd say weed out the boys from the men - she would take them up to her farm and have them help with castration. This is not one or two, but several dozens of young pigs 🐷🐷🐷.
She didn't care if they were experts, or ever wanted to do it again, but if they couldn't face it then the next week you'd see her with someone else.
I know all this by the stories that went around campus. I wasn't one of the guys who pursued her 😏
The pigs must heal fast. Because you bring them right Back home
The reason why castrating is the worst for most people is simply the age/size at which they decide to do it, i've done so many i can't even count and I will tell you, it's so much easier when they are smaller, usually did it day 2-3 of their lives and it took less than 30 seconds each 1 including giving them iron shots and docking their tails. If they ever do a Homesteaders of America in Iowa and all of you youtubers go to it, i'd gladly come out and teach it even on an older piglet, up to wean sized.
Kupieren der Schwänze? Aber nicht wenn die Schweine draußen leben. Das macht man nur wenn sie eng zusammen leben.
I have cut 15o in one day
Happy for you!
Work for apig sell barn
Me too
@@SowtheLand and I had 125 sows of my own
Guys, have just binged your channel from when you moved to the new farm. So enjoyable and entertaining. Jason yr a legend and love yr sense of humour (yep that is how we spell it in Oz). What you all have achieved in such a short time is commendable and you should be very proud. Cpl of observations - firstly do you guys have a product called cutter guard in the US - might help for the leaf build-up on you lean-to with the big black tank. And secondly, I reckon it might be time to change your thumb nail photo cause your little girl Pen, well she ain't so little no more. I will now mourn the fact that I have no more episodes to catch up on and wait impatiently for my weekly dose of Sow the Land. I also wanted to tell Jason that he reminds me so much of Jake Gyllenhaal (especially when he smiles) but don't want to give him a big head😉.
I think you forgot one. Remember moving the pigs on the other property?
BUT if you save the mountain Oysters !!!! SOO GOOD!!
A farmer friend always did it on the full moon says they bleed less of at all and goes better
GOOD TIP
Thumbs up 👍
You have a beautiful property
Thank ya kindly
I just adore you Jason. Great video. You made it work. Glad u got some of the castration in it
Easy
Another great video. I'm. nOt sorry we missed most of the. Castration. Yep one of the worst jobs.
Isn't it amazing how different people enjoy or hate different jobs. For me I love whipper snipping (weed wacking) and I hate carting water. (My farm is very hilly).
I've only ever castrated piglets once before and never want to do again. So I totally agree with that being a bad job😅
Hoping all your jobs become funner!
I squealed for that fella
Nooice! 😎 STOC
for cleaning out brooder , would one of those leaf blower vaccumes for bagging mulching leaves be worth a try?
Jason you need a Uncle Moe pig holder, it will make the job so much easier and a 1 person job.
Never heard of him
@@SowtheLand it's a metal device the hold the piglet.
Techniqual difficulty day for sure. 😢
Jason out here doing actual Farmer’s Carry’s lol
🇦🇺You could use another poultry coop or two.
It never ends
Good day to all. How old is the little pig?
Well our first time went well with the meanest boy he is officially in freezer University. 2 more to go.
he wasnt too noise loud so that was nice hugsssss