Another great video Wes. Looks like the mealworms are the trick for keeping the chickens happy and they are fantastic for bream bait as well - maybe in that pond of yours if it has fish.
Enjoying your videos, I ran a poultry farm and we had approx 225,000 chickens. A suggestion for you, lift up you water to shoulder high on the chickens and you’ll find the water will stay clean, also do the same with the feed, had mine set at 4 inches high. When freezing chicken parts I put the pieces on a cookie sheet, partly freeze them and vacuum seal them, works well and I keeps from being freezer burnt. I’ve had packages lasting for over a year, forgot I had them and they were fine. Cheers my friend.
I like the way you do things. And your skills solving minor problems are interesting. Not to mention the variety of farming and milling skills you exhibit. I haven't seen any beef or goats for meat and milk. But you have lots of protein producers that don't require a lot of space. Along with your garden, you seem pretty self-sufficient. Looking forward to more of your videos.
To try to minimize the blight, trim you tomatoes so none of the leaves are in contact with the ground. This might eliminate fungal growth. We do it in NC with success.
Hey Mr. Green Jeans !! I'd like to order a few 3 pack of chicken breasts, and a couple packs of single chicken breasts for my crock pot and pasta dishes !! We eat a lot of chicken !! We are paying upwards of $30 CAD for chicken at our local fresh grocer. Breast packs of 2 or 3 run about $12.00 and singles/pairs run about $10.00. How big are you going to let the piggies go this year? It was nice to see our Junior Supervisor on the job this video !! Looks like he was having some good fun. I loved the "Why is there chicken poop on this lid???" he sounded very concerned about it !! ha ha ha ha.
Very interesting video - lots of different stories, & your adorable little boy!! 😍👍 Sue is too cute - rolling over so you can rub her belly. I agree with no rings in their noses! God bless you and your family! ❤️ 🙏❤️
Hollar homestead made a float flag to go in the water barrel to visually see even at a distance if the pig water is almost empty. Also I've seen the water barrel outside the fence with the nipple through the fence to stop knocking the barrel around but maybe they will wallow it out
Your videos are always so much fun. I'll go to TH-cam on my desktop PC and open a dozen tabs or so with different TH-cam videos. I'll watch some for news, some for learning, some for entertainment, then yours is like the desert after a good meal. It's always the best! Thanks!
Besides the fact that I love the content, pace and honesty of this channel so much as I was blessed to find you at your beginnings on this journey.... I must say, however, the highlight for this old Chicago gal was your mini me comment after mixing feed then sneezing...I laughed out loud and startled my dog off the bed....prayers and God speed for all that is what you do....
Back when we had raised bed gardens (6-16' x 4') I would move from one box to another to keep the blite away. We planted raised bed gardens for over twenty years and never had a problem. I kept moving plants around from one box to another except for the Potato patch. I had a 50-50 mixture of creek sand and topsoil and we raised sweet potatoes and Russets.
A couple years ago we had some 200 chickens…in summer we’d fish mackerel at a pier and I’d put three or four whole fish with water in the “mackerelmatic” and liquefy them. Freeze it in plastic and put whole blocks of it in the pen. The chickens would stand and peck it till it was gone.
You can't get away from the fungus,I've done all the same stuff on my tomatoes it's everywhere. I'm not that far away from your area so we are in the same boat.
Hi Wes. The audio for was fine. I do not have a surround sound for my computer, just the computer speakers. For your chicken tenders: Have you tried the snack size zip lock baggies and then put those in the freezer baggies? I use the dried meal worms for the birds. Have good days!
Those pigs are growing. I have heard the old timers say to becareful when spraying cold water on the pigs when it's very hot. My dad told me that he seen it kill some hogs, I guess it must have made them go into shock. Just thought I would share that.
Love the videos Wes. Are you doing TH-cam full time now. I imagine it would be hard to do everything you do and work a full time job. It's sad to watch the chickens being taken away. But I do love me some fried chicken. Until the next one.
Hey Jewell, TH-cam is primary, we sell honey and Christmas trees as a secondary (hoping to to do piglets one day too). Also a seminary student. Lots of stuff going on! Appreciate you watching.
If your freezer is self defrosting, then that’s the large source of your freezer burn. The defrosting freezer heats up inside each day to melt condensation and the unfreezes and refreezes the skin each day.
Another cool project that my 4 yr old son and i are working on is a red worm farm. Izzy swan has a nice version that was simple and easy that i liked might be another way to grow some protein for your chickens as well.
To keep the predators from the ground from getting to the birds put a collar around the bird house support pole, like a dog cone for keeping a dog from bothering an injury. Open side of cone pointing down the pole.
If you get too much liquid coming out of the fresh meat when you vacuum seal it, then you can freeze the fresh meat for a short time first then vacuum seal it. You won't get freezer burn once vacuum sealed.
Wes, Vacuum pack anything you put in the freezer. It will last considerably longer than a zip lock bag... just in case you don't get to it. Will keep nearly a year that way!
Also can't you spray the plants maybe weekly I think neem oil I have heard of baking soda dish soap mix I think it works by making the pH to high for blight to live. It worked for my brown spot on my seedlings. Look up some mix ratios maybe try on 1 plant and see if it's worth doing
Blights are a terrible fact of botany and horticulture. I am from Bermuda and a blight in the mid 1940s from imported garden plants destroyed 98% of the endemic cedar trees in five years. I now live in Costa Rica, and a blight wiped out the Pacific coast's banana plantations. That land is now used for oil palm plantations. It's great farming to see you using poultry waste as fertilizer for the raised garden beds.
How do you prevent tomato blight naturally? To create a solution that prevents and treats disease, add a heaping tablespoon of baking soda, a teaspoon of vegetable oil, and a small amount of mild soap to a gallon of water and spray the tomato plants with this solution. This needs to be reapplied regularly to maintain its efficiency.
Let me give you a suggestion to prevent freezer burn and I got this from my auntie is to add distilled water the water will freeze that will help it from getting freezer
@@falllineridge tomatoes do have a high survival rate. Once my dad bought 40 plants but than left them in a garage for two weeks without soil or water. So he went and bought 40 more plants but planted all 80 of them. They all survived and thrived. We were living in Gainesville, Georgia at the time so our garden was always fertilized with chicken manure. We had so many tomatoes that people would run away from us as we tried to give them away!
@@falllineridge 100% chicken manure. There were plenty of chicken houses in the area and between chicken crops you could take your truck and get all you wanted. We used it year after year.
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My apologies for the questionable audio on this video. My good microphone went out and I haven’t had it fixed yet. Thanks for soldiering through!
sounds fine to me
Pigs are looking great. 61lbs at 12 weeks is a good weight. Active, heads up, bright eyes. Good group!!
I was hoping you would stop by. Thanks for that info, I really didn't know if that was good on the weight or not. Thanks for the help!
My first look at the pigs and said to my wife, they are 60 lbs, lol
That's a lot of good farm stuff! I love seeing the animals and plants and their progress! Great job!
I thought the same thing
I got a kick out of your 4 year old's mixing method, and the sneeze was perfect.
It worked pretty good in about one square foot of feed.
Another great video Wes. Looks like the mealworms are the trick for keeping the chickens happy and they are fantastic for bream bait as well - maybe in that pond of yours if it has fish.
Loaded with fish, planning on using a few for that very purpose.
Enjoying your videos, I ran a poultry farm and we had approx 225,000 chickens. A suggestion for you, lift up you water to shoulder high on the chickens and you’ll find the water will stay clean, also do the same with the feed, had mine set at 4 inches high.
When freezing chicken parts I put the pieces on a cookie sheet, partly freeze them and vacuum seal them, works well and I keeps from being freezer burnt. I’ve had packages lasting for over a year, forgot I had them and they were fine. Cheers my friend.
Thanks, Gerry! Someone else mentioned freezing them first to eliminate all the juice. I might start doing that. Thanks for the help!
I use 3 gallon water jugs with 4 pickers in each, always clean a easy to use.
I like the way you do things. And your skills solving minor problems are interesting. Not to mention the variety of farming and milling skills you exhibit. I haven't seen any beef or goats for meat and milk. But you have lots of protein producers that don't require a lot of space. Along with your garden, you seem pretty self-sufficient. Looking forward to more of your videos.
That's to bad about the bluebirds but at least you still have the geese to look forward to. Nice video. Thank you Wes.
To try to minimize the blight, trim you tomatoes so none of the leaves are in contact with the ground. This might eliminate fungal growth. We do it in NC with success.
Also, they need calcium. I put a rolaid in the hole, cover with a little dirt then the tomato plant.
Baby birds go from making noise to flying in a matter of days so they may have just been done with the nest. Thanks for the video as always.
Hey Mr. Green Jeans !! I'd like to order a few 3 pack of chicken breasts, and a couple packs of single chicken breasts for my crock pot and pasta dishes !! We eat a lot of chicken !! We are paying upwards of $30 CAD for chicken at our local fresh grocer. Breast packs of 2 or 3 run about $12.00 and singles/pairs run about $10.00. How big are you going to let the piggies go this year? It was nice to see our Junior Supervisor on the job this video !! Looks like he was having some good fun. I loved the "Why is there chicken poop on this lid???" he sounded very concerned about it !! ha ha ha ha.
I just looked at the CAD to USD conversion and that's some expensive chicken!
Very interesting video - lots of different stories, & your adorable little boy!! 😍👍 Sue is too cute - rolling over so you can rub her belly. I agree with no rings in their noses! God bless you and your family! ❤️ 🙏❤️
Hollar homestead made a float flag to go in the water barrel to visually see even at a distance if the pig water is almost empty.
Also I've seen the water barrel outside the fence with the nipple through the fence to stop knocking the barrel around but maybe they will wallow it out
hello fall line ridge it's is randy and i like video is cool and hello to yours family and good luck whits pig thanks friends randy
I really enjoyed this video.
Your videos are always so much fun. I'll go to TH-cam on my desktop PC and open a dozen tabs or so with different TH-cam videos. I'll watch some for news, some for learning, some for entertainment, then yours is like the desert after a good meal. It's always the best! Thanks!
Ooh those chooks were like chicks on a rockstar!!! 😂😂😂😂 they love meal worms 🐛
Besides the fact that I love the content, pace and honesty of this channel so much as I was blessed to find you at your beginnings on this journey....
I must say, however, the highlight for this old Chicago gal was your mini me comment after mixing feed then sneezing...I laughed out loud and startled my dog off the bed....prayers and God speed for all that is what you do....
Thanks! He's a hoot.
I laughed out loud too. Good stuff. 😁
This is the American dream if there ever was one.
Yes there was
I love the pigs. Keep up the good work.
Back when we had raised bed gardens (6-16' x 4') I would move from one box to another to keep the blite away. We planted raised bed gardens for over twenty years and never had a problem. I kept moving plants around from one box to another except for the Potato patch. I had a 50-50 mixture of creek sand and topsoil and we raised sweet potatoes and Russets.
hello fall line ridge its is randy and i like yours video is cool thanks friends randy
I think I'd put the inside Hot wire back up. Just a thought. As always good luck and God bless and stay safe out there.
You always put a smile on my face. Thank you.
Used to run an animal program at a Montessori school, my wife grew meal worms for the chickens,finches, turtles, toads and bearded dragon
A couple years ago we had some 200 chickens…in summer we’d fish mackerel at a pier and I’d put three or four whole fish with water in the “mackerelmatic” and liquefy them. Freeze it in plastic and put whole blocks of it in the pen. The chickens would stand and peck it till it was gone.
God bless you lil buddy @ 9:38
Those meal worms are great treats for the chickens!
nice video keep on doing your thing it's fun to watch.
You can't get away from the fungus,I've done all the same stuff on my tomatoes it's everywhere. I'm not that far away from your area so we are in the same boat.
I raised two Yorkshire pigs last year and at 11 months, one was 605# and the other was 585#.
Hi Wes. The audio for was fine. I do not have a surround sound for my computer, just the computer speakers. For your chicken tenders: Have you tried the snack size zip lock baggies and then put those in the freezer baggies? I use the dried meal worms for the birds. Have good days!
That's actually exactly what we're doing, Buddy. Tenders divided up into sandwich bags, then those bags into a gallon freezer bag.
Those pigs are growing. I have heard the old timers say to becareful when spraying cold water on the pigs when it's very hot. My dad told me that he seen it kill some hogs, I guess it must have made them go into shock.
Just thought I would share that.
Processing our pigs this coming Saturday. First time for my daughter to do the deed. She's pumped.
A 4 year old camera man is a GREAT idea! We'll be seeing shots that aren't in any films class book
Great video....Covered the entire farm.
Well done . Informative 👍👍👍. Thank you for sharing. Be safe🇨🇦
Love the videos Wes. Are you doing TH-cam full time now.
I imagine it would be hard to do everything you do and work a full time job.
It's sad to watch the chickens being taken away. But I do love me some fried chicken. Until the next one.
Hey Jewell, TH-cam is primary, we sell honey and Christmas trees as a secondary (hoping to to do piglets one day too). Also a seminary student. Lots of stuff going on! Appreciate you watching.
Really interesting - you have so many little projects on the go at one time.
If your freezer is self defrosting, then that’s the large source of your freezer burn. The defrosting freezer heats up inside each day to melt condensation and the unfreezes and refreezes the skin each day.
Another cool project that my 4 yr old son and i are working on is a red worm farm. Izzy swan has a nice version that was simple and easy that i liked might be another way to grow some protein for your chickens as well.
To keep the predators from the ground from getting to the birds put a collar around the bird house support pole, like a dog cone for keeping a dog from bothering an injury. Open side of cone pointing down the pole.
If you get too much liquid coming out of the fresh meat when you vacuum seal it, then you can freeze the fresh meat for a short time first then vacuum seal it. You won't get freezer burn once vacuum sealed.
That's a great idea, thanks!
To get the air out of zip lock bags is to put a straw in the end and suck the air out of it when you are closing it
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do you think making some differrent bird houses to spread around the property to see what lives in them would be good content?
Maybe so, but finding the time to do it would be the challenge!
Interesting experiences. You are doing well.
thanks, enjoyed it!
Bet those meal worms are terrific bait for pan fish as well as chicken snacks.
You should do some pond videos
I love that jeep
Excellent informative video, thanks 😊
A quick question. do you spread your sawdust for the chickens?
Wes,
Vacuum pack anything you put in the freezer. It will last considerably longer than a zip lock bag... just in case you don't get to it. Will keep nearly a year that way!
Add Epsom salt and used coffee grounds to that Roma branch you planted...
Also can't you spray the plants maybe weekly I think neem oil I have heard of baking soda dish soap mix I think it works by making the pH to high for blight to live. It worked for my brown spot on my seedlings. Look up some mix ratios maybe try on 1 plant and see if it's worth doing
Blights are a terrible fact of botany and horticulture. I am from Bermuda and a blight in the mid 1940s from imported garden plants destroyed 98% of the endemic cedar trees in five years. I now live in Costa Rica, and a blight wiped out the Pacific coast's banana plantations. That land is now used for oil palm plantations. It's great farming to see you using poultry waste as fertilizer for the raised garden beds.
good stuff
Blue birds. Red Squirles love baby blue birds or any bird as far as that goes. they are very carnivorous to the babies. Might be your problem??
I don't think we have red squirrels around here. Lots of grey ones and chipmunks though. I really have no idea what got them.
Try to find a propane weed burner they come in handy for all sorts of projects.
How do you prevent tomato blight naturally?
To create a solution that prevents and treats disease, add a heaping tablespoon of baking soda, a teaspoon of vegetable oil, and a small amount of mild soap to a gallon of water and spray the tomato plants with this solution. This needs to be reapplied regularly to maintain its efficiency.
Let me give you a suggestion to prevent freezer burn and I got this from my auntie is to add distilled water the water will freeze that will help it from getting freezer
I'm guessing that the pig named Sue her last name is Wee.😄
Find it interesting that you are attending Seminary. What is your background, it must have to do with forestry
Are you planning on getting a milk cow in the future.
Thanks for the mealworm info. Also, where'd you get that J Bar T shirt? Picked up a J Bar stump bucket recently.
They sent them to me after I made the video on the mower. Shirts were free, mower wasn't...
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Fresh chicken manure will burn almost everything in the garden. Need to let it compost at least 6-8 months a year would be preferable.
Some rooting hormone would have been nice on the stem of that Roma tomato plant.
Probably would have helped, but they seem to do pretty well with just water.
@@falllineridge tomatoes do have a high survival rate. Once my dad bought 40 plants but than left them in a garage for two weeks without soil or water. So he went and bought 40 more plants but planted all 80 of them. They all survived and thrived. We were living in Gainesville, Georgia at the time so our garden was always fertilized with chicken manure. We had so many tomatoes that people would run away from us as we tried to give them away!
@@TheCalWillden Did he use only chicken manure? Asking because I've got plenty of that, and would love to not purchase fertilizer.
@@falllineridge 100% chicken manure. There were plenty of chicken houses in the area and between chicken crops you could take your truck and get all you wanted. We used it year after year.
Looks a little dry there. It is drying up in mid Missouri
Got some rain yesterday and today! Very thankful for it.
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Have you ever tried soaking your pig food overnight
No I haven't, I know there are benefits but it's just an added step for me. Keeping it simple.
Now since, notifications did not work, to find the vid where you hurt yourself.
I didn’t film that, Bruce. I just happened to mention it on the big shed build video.
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Nothing to do with this video. You asked on one of your videos if anyone is interested in seeing your hunting sdventures . I would be interested.
I think you wasted a lot of bleach and propane as well as time on your tomato cages . Maybe I have been doing it all wrong for the past 60 years.