In a perfect world..... you are human and put your family life out there on display FOR other people to learn by your ups and downs. Truth, it's a hard life and you are rocking it. I watch your channel because its real. I'm not a homesteaders never will be. To old and disabled. I also love watching your kids. Learning as they go, they are intelligent, caring humans who will be able to take care of themselves having real life skills. Keep rocking it.
I wanted to come back on here to give my 2 cents to the critics. I don’t know anything about homesteading since I was born and raised at the beach in So Cal. I couldn’t kill an animal unless I was absolutely starving to death. But I love this chanel and Mike sharing his family experiences as they learn along the way. It’s encouraging and I learn a lot. And you all are doing your best to raise your kids with Godly principles. I find it to be a beautiful thing. The people who have it all together just make me feel like I’d never be able to do it. I appreciate watching people who can show their failures and take me on a journey to learn with them the dos and don’t and what it really looks like to homestead from scratch so to speak. So just know my family and I enjoy and look forward to everything you guys share the good and the bad ❤️🙏🏼
no one can begin with all of the knowledge, experience and funding. A chicken coop can always be improved upon in one manner or the other and housing is only one of dozens of factors. Learn as we go and always strive for improvement! This gentleman is out here trying and that is more than you can say about much of the human population.
Greg reminds me of the goose my grandmother used to have! She lived within walking distance of the local college in the town I grew up in and he would act just like Greg does when the college students would walk down her street to get to the sports field. She used to let him roam free, but finally after several "incidents" of him protecting her yard she finally had to pen him up in the backyard. He never hurt any of us grandkids and he was fun to play with ☺️
I love the commentary you did on this video. And you’re right!!! Some people will find fault in everything you do but life and death are the reality of homesteading. I wish I had land for chickens but that’s for another time. I live vicariously through you and your family. So keep doing what you do so well. On a side note Your daughter is growing up to be a beautiful young lady as well as those handsome sons of y’all’s. You have a lot to be proud of Mike. I didn’t see Your wife but she is the woman behind the scenes sometimes. I look forward to your next video
Your goose is a fantastic guardian and protector. I did think about this though. You could've scooped those maggots into your chicken pen. They would've eaten every single one of them. Don't ever get discouraged when you have a loss, just learn the lessons from it, and do better next time. That's how we all learn.
Loved this video it reminded me of when I was a little girl and we had two geese and they would chase me every time I was out side. They scared me so badly. We named them Jake and Cate.
I enjoyed your take on the problems that can arise, as there are many. For me coyotes. No more free range chickens here. I loved my African gander named Godzilla. He was better than a guard dog until he started beating up my poor dog. There's always something to keep us on our toes. Good one.
I hope you didn’t take my comments as criticism! When I said I hope that you will someday have permanent coops, I really meant it! I want to see your family blessed with everything that you need. I know the heartache and trauma of losing flocks through my daughters family experiences. The worst was last summer when two stray pit bulls got into their electric pens and destroyed 30+ birds including layers, meat birds, turkeys, ducks and geese. All while my daughter and her 6 children watched in horror from their homeschool room just feet away from it. The previous year, Their guard goose, “Father”, became territorial after goslings hatched and attacked my grandsons when they tried to feed the geese. Father Goose thus became Christmas Dinner. Some lessons on the homestead are very hard indeed. It’s nice to see you moving forward proactively and nice to see Josiah helping you build the new coop. He is really growing up. All your children are such great kids.
(If you can stand it) You'd just made a carrion feeder for your chickens. Poke some holes in the bottom of the bucket and leave it hanging in your chicken area. The maggots that fall out will feed the hens.
Thank you for sharing honestly! Death stinks! Actually! Yes, sadly, there will always be those judgmental people. I call them salt in the wound people. As I said, thank you for sharing honestly, you didn’t have to tell us about a mishap or sadness. This is real life for homesteaders-predators, weather & sometimes disease. I’ve learned so much from you guys, because like Living Traditions Homestead, you guys talk about your successful endeavors as well as the not so successful ones & outright failures. Like you said somebody might have pictured it perfectly, but I don’t imagine that they are honest or perhaps first generation homesteaders! Love how y’all work together!
Mike, you will always have people that thinks they know everything. Ignore them! You and your family are doing a terrific job on your homestead! Your children have all become such great helpers and are learning life skills that many don’t get to experience, ever. Keep up the great job! ❤️🙏🏻
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Some are mean, some aren't. When I was a teen, our neighbors used to have me come over and feed their mixed flock of ducks and geese every time they took a 7-10 day vacation. At first, I was a little bit wary of the geese (I had heard stories of people getting attacked & wing beaten, it had happened to my mom when she was young) but they just never did that to me. I'd get in there, do my chores, & get out. They accepted that I just needed to do that each day, and I never did get attacked. 👍🏻
Thank you so much for this video and allowing me to be a part of it! I loved it! I love seeing all the animals and then the hard work that y'all do! I love all of y'all so much. Waiting and watching for more here in Paris Tennessee
You are safe with me, I'm not perfect either! I haven't started with animals yet, but hope to soon. Since I am thinking of giving my garden a rest next summer, I'll probably get about a dozen chicken and six turkeys next spring. We can't have anything else where I live now. If my spouse decides to move us back to Nebraska next year, I can do it all! Our son has ten acres I can use. We are going to our son's house for Christmas and we will decide after we have a chance to look at homes in the area. I just have to be patience and I'm not good with waiting.
Mike you're a great story teller and very engaging. Just love the videos. I'm hoping Lacey will create more Herbal Medicine videos. I want to learn all I can about them. Thanks again!
I don't have a homestead at all, and it's not anyone is just being critical of your content. Mike we all have little misshapes from time to time. But for some reason even though we might expect repetitiveness in many of the daily activities on a homestead. But it's almost like on your homestead after all this time! You sometime come across in my opinion, as if you still lack the confidence in your ability being a Homesteader. May you and your family continue to experience good health, growth, success and prosperity. God bless.
You guys are fantastic animal guardians & raise all your animals so well. Ignore any critics & as they say "Let them walk in your shoes for a Day" Great video just loved it. Cheers Denise- Australia
I had to get a second batch of 18 layer chicks recently because I made the rookie mistake of not having the brooder ready and keeping the chicks too hot while I set it up. I didn't realize it was too hot where I had them. It took less that an hour to get all set up but that was too long. I checked on them a couple times and they seemed fine. Oops! I've been doing this for 12 years now. My second set are fine because I had the brooder all ready to go. Lesson learned the hard way! Your meat chickens do look good. I understand that unfortunate things can happen. I felt really bad making that mistake with my layer chicks. It's never a good feeling to lose your livestock on the farm. I love ducklings. I've lost some of those too. I have the Khaki Campbell ducks too. I just love them! Yay, Greg did behave himself. I'm glad he didn't attack you Mike. Thanks for this!
I’m sorry for your losses. I’m here to give a suggestion. I saw where someone put the carcasses in a bucket with drill holes in the bottom so the maggots can wiggle out. They hung it with the chickens so they could eat the maggots as they dropped to the ground. A good protein source for your chickens and the other ones didn’t die in vain. 😃
Sorry about the lost of so many of your chickens mike, i just plant some veges and when they flop i feel so bad and discourage, but i go back at it and does not give up, and i am 66 years old , so you guys are young , dont give up😇😇🙏🙏
Mike I hate to say it but chickens love maggots 🤢 extra protein for them even though it's really gross to us and recycling is the way to go lol. Man that Greg though he gonna be something 😂 I missed seeing you Mrs.Lacie hope your well best wishes 🥰💐
Hey, Hey Mike and Family nice to see ya again. Yes lol Goose are mean! I was walking in Forest preserve and the Geese/Goose walk up to u, but i never heard them hiss, i laughed so hard never did i know they did. Keep it popping, yr Home stead ain't No one else's period. 💝
I've had my fair share of losses this year to EFS but I've had great success with ceramic heat bulbs even in my outdoor coops. They're warmer than the glass bulbs and don't burn out as quickly. Also, if that ever happens again... You can feed those maggots to your chickens. They would love them!
I’m excited for y’all. The new walk in tractors are going to make it so easy. Hopefully my comments weren’t received as critical they weren’t intended as such. Every homesteader experiences loss. I lost two chickens to my male goose this winter because I didn’t realize how aggressive he would be during mating season.
Yuk! Maggots...hey, free food for the chickens! LOL Sorry for your loss Mike...poor birds. But, don't lose hope and learn from the incidences so you can prepare for the next weather change. God bless you Lacy and the children. I love learning from your videos and experiences.
The guard goose we had was never a problem, it was one rooster that would attack you when you came to gather eggs. He was a little tough but he sure made good chicken and dumplings.
So sorry for your loss on the little babies' chickens and ducks. Sad really but it is what happens on a farm. My brother got a broken arm from a goose who attacked him at a park. My uncle got bite on the arm, and it was not pretty from a goose also at a park. We tease them to this day. Had a friend who had a goose for a pet, just one goose. It was a great watch goose. No one went in the yard unless they were outside. This goose was real smart too. I was a kid then. Love your kids they are all so pretty and the boys handsome. Peace!
Mike. To keep from crushing the legs in the chicken tractor, you may want to put a board that the chickens can stand on or put an elongated pool noodle so as not to crush and bruise their legs.
Thank you for the discussion of the carcasses etc. I always wondered what to do with a chicken that passes for one reason or another. I just started laying them in the woods. Thank you.
Teamwork makes the dream work baby! 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾 And if you guys ever breed Greg, you're gonna have to share some of his goslings! That's the level of guard goose we all need. Better tread lightly around his babies! Oh and Greg's soundtrack is highly underrated 😂😂👌🏾
You are doing a great job, don't worry about haters... They will be there always, happiness, sad, loss, profit anything happens they will be there to say poisonous words.. They are just unhappy human beings that's all....👍👌❤
We love you guys. There are some people that think they no everything but they dont your going to have loss when having animals that is a fact. I have loss chickens and it is hard .But you have to keep going . The animals looking great.
Put a bar across back a couple inches from end keeps them from getting caught in the move. Called a move along bar 😉 Remember being attacked as a child by a goose. Have no Geese on our homestead 😂🤣
Mike please tell me you kept those maggots. Chickens love those and that is a great way to feed them. I did a maggot bucket a few years ago and the chickens loved them.
Before you process your birds could you show the different breeds? Tell us what you think about them, likes and dislikes? Hoping to start a small chicken flock in the fall.
I can understand the closure & potential safety of incineration & I hate to sound cold but; Nature is not sentimental, and returning things to the cycle is about as natural as it gets so I would have used them as activators for compost, and maggots make excellent chicken feed.
Hey yall! we too lost 7 birds to rain flooding our tractor followed with cold. lost them literally 1 day after a predator, assuming a weasel, pulled 3 birds from under my tractor. so in 2 days time i lost 10 from my flock.... it was absoultly devestating. we went all year last year with no loses. no problems. not many challenges. this year is different. we put our carcasses into our compost to give it back to the land. theres more than one way to skin a cat to each thier own. love your channel bud and critics can b too critical lol lil crickets lol
I didn't know there was a name for the chicks flopping over. They're like turtles flipped over. We've lost a few that way and to a fox and just them squishing each other. Gone from over 50 to 13 chickens. Got to learn from it and keep pressing forward.
Hello Mike and family. I just found your channel and I enjoyed this episode. It was nice to see the whole family work side by side. I would to know your wife's name and the names and ages of your children. I think you are doing a fine job. Have a good evening and a wonderful Blessed weekend full of Good Blessings for you and your family. Looking forward to seeing more videos from your channel. From a new viewer in Toronto Ontario Canada
Okay, advice: don’t leave dead anything like that around, take care of it then…then if it does happen, spare me the maggots…🤣🤣.. the smell had to be horrible…
will hard plastic last in dirt ? im just spit balling but if you hammer down something slippery underneath the new and improved chicken tractor should make it easier to slide around like a Christmas sled :)
Goodness. You learn by doing the critical people usually aren't doing and don't have experience...you guys are doing great!! U learned that burying the carcass n spreading garden lime on it keeps critters from smelling n digging..and that area now has fertilizer ☺ just sayin
interesting to watch how the Dewawere Broiler does at a meat chicken and egg layer - Also interesting to see if the American Bresse crossed with the Dewawere Broiler would do as a homestead chicken for meat and eggs so you could grow your own each year - the Dewawere looks like it has a bigger body? I am sure you could do a swap with your friends at that have the American Bress this year and get a rooster from each other to try it - growing up on a farm keeping baby animals alive with mother nature is not alway easy not matter how hard you try - I remember as a kid having lambs in the warming draw of the oven and in boxes over central heating vents when their mother has rejected them and its been stormy and wet outside outside - we didn't keep all of the alive no matter how hard we tried getting up in the night to feed them
I have gotten attacked by one. That was not nice. My husband stopped them from attacking. He would catch them and hold them and pet them. They hated it. If they seen him they would run away from us
Your doing just fine and Look at your FAMILY, working side by side, like Family did when they were stronger back in the day!! PRICELESS..
Great job in dealing with death and batting the comments. Those ducklings are so cute and I love Greg's protective attitude
In a perfect world..... you are human and put your family life out there on display FOR other people to learn by your ups and downs. Truth, it's a hard life and you are rocking it. I watch your channel because its real. I'm not a homesteaders never will be. To old and disabled. I also love watching your kids. Learning as they go, they are intelligent, caring humans who will be able to take care of themselves having real life skills. Keep rocking it.
I wanted to come back on here to give my 2 cents to the critics. I don’t know anything about homesteading since I was born and raised at the beach in So Cal. I couldn’t kill an animal unless I was absolutely starving to death. But I love this chanel and Mike sharing his family experiences as they learn along the way. It’s encouraging and I learn a lot. And you all are doing your best to raise your kids with Godly principles. I find it to be a beautiful thing. The people who have it all together just make me feel like I’d never be able to do it. I appreciate watching people who can show their failures and take me on a journey to learn with them the dos and don’t and what it really looks like to homestead from scratch so to speak. So just know my family and I enjoy and look forward to everything you guys share the good and the bad ❤️🙏🏼
no one can begin with all of the knowledge, experience and funding. A chicken coop can always be improved upon in one manner or the other and housing is only one of dozens of factors. Learn as we go and always strive for improvement! This gentleman is out here trying and that is more than you can say about much of the human population.
Didn't know geese hiss like that! Greg's a good protector. Thank you for the video. 🙏
Mike your doing great ignore the icky comments
Greg reminds me of the goose my grandmother used to have! She lived within walking distance of the local college in the town I grew up in and he would act just like Greg does when the college students would walk down her street to get to the sports field. She used to let him roam free, but finally after several "incidents" of him protecting her yard she finally had to pen him up in the backyard. He never hurt any of us grandkids and he was fun to play with ☺️
I love the commentary you did on this video. And you’re right!!! Some people will find fault in everything you do but life and death are the reality of homesteading. I wish I had land for chickens but that’s for another time. I live vicariously through you and your family. So keep doing what you do so well. On a side note Your daughter is growing up to be a beautiful young lady as well as those handsome sons of y’all’s. You have a lot to be proud of Mike. I didn’t see Your wife but she is the woman behind the scenes sometimes. I look forward to your next video
Your goose is a fantastic guardian and protector. I did think about this though. You could've scooped those maggots into your chicken pen. They would've eaten every single one of them.
Don't ever get discouraged when you have a loss, just learn the lessons from it, and do better next time. That's how we all learn.
Loved this video it reminded me of when I was a little girl and we had two geese and they would chase me every time I was out side. They scared me so badly. We named them Jake and Cate.
I enjoyed your take on the problems that can arise, as there are many. For me coyotes. No more free range chickens here. I loved my African gander named Godzilla. He was better than a guard dog until he started beating up my poor dog. There's always something to keep us on our toes. Good one.
I had a goose like yours he lived here for 19 years best guard around. Now I got a pair love geese
I absolutely love how you include the kids in every phase of what you do!! That is education at its finest. Keep it up!!
Greg was just doing his job, that why I don't have ducks anymore never had a goose. Predators got the ducks. You and the kids did a wonderful job.
I hope you didn’t take my comments as criticism! When I said I hope that you will someday have permanent coops, I really meant it! I want to see your family blessed with everything that you need. I know the heartache and trauma of losing flocks through my daughters family experiences. The worst was last summer when two stray pit bulls got into their electric pens and destroyed 30+ birds including layers, meat birds, turkeys, ducks and geese. All while my daughter and her 6 children watched in horror from their homeschool room just feet away from it. The previous year, Their guard goose, “Father”, became territorial after goslings hatched and attacked my grandsons when they tried to feed the geese. Father Goose thus became Christmas Dinner. Some lessons on the homestead are very hard indeed. It’s nice to see you moving forward proactively and nice to see Josiah helping you build the new coop. He is really growing up. All your children are such great kids.
(If you can stand it) You'd just made a carrion feeder for your chickens. Poke some holes in the bottom of the bucket and leave it hanging in your chicken area. The maggots that fall out will feed the hens.
Ha, I was going to say the same thing. : )
Thank you for sharing honestly!
Death stinks! Actually!
Yes, sadly, there will always be those judgmental people. I call them salt in the wound people.
As I said, thank you for sharing honestly, you didn’t have to tell us about a mishap or sadness. This is real life for homesteaders-predators, weather & sometimes disease.
I’ve learned so much from you guys, because like Living Traditions Homestead, you guys talk about your successful endeavors as well as the not so successful ones & outright failures. Like you said somebody might have pictured it perfectly, but I don’t imagine that they are honest or perhaps first generation homesteaders!
Love how y’all work together!
I love your honesty. God bless. ♥️ You returned them back to the earth.
Lol 😂 geese are funny! I’ve had my fair share of these interactions. He doesn’t want you to mess with his babies haha
Ducklings grew really fast lol. Glad the goose left you guy's alone sheesh he was 😡 upset! Can't wait for new chicken Tracktor !!!👍🤗❤
Glad to see you and Josiah working together on a project.
Mike, you will always have people that thinks they know everything. Ignore them! You and your family are doing a terrific job on your homestead! Your children have all become such great helpers and are learning life skills that many don’t get to experience, ever. Keep up the great job! ❤️🙏🏻
Some are mean, some aren't. When I was a teen, our neighbors used to have me come over and feed their mixed flock of ducks and geese every time they took a 7-10 day vacation. At first, I was a little bit wary of the geese (I had heard stories of people getting attacked & wing beaten, it had happened to my mom when she was young) but they just never did that to me. I'd get in there, do my chores, & get out. They accepted that I just needed to do that each day, and I never did get attacked. 👍🏻
Thank you so much for this video and allowing me to be a part of it! I loved it! I love seeing all the animals and then the hard work that y'all do! I love all of y'all so much. Waiting and watching for more here in Paris Tennessee
Greetings from East Texas! Bwahahaha! Greg hissing at you tho! 🤣🤣🤣. That just made my day 😝 Blessings to ALL y’all. Have a wonderful weekend
It's awesome to see the blessings on the heels of a painpoint! Keep going!
A gardener in Australia puts carcasses in his compost pile and after a time they are turned into rich soil.
The chickens would have LOVED those maggots! Also good for them to eat. Good protein
You are safe with me, I'm not perfect either! I haven't started with animals yet, but hope to soon. Since I am thinking of giving my garden a rest next summer, I'll probably get about a dozen chicken and six turkeys next spring. We can't have anything else where I live now. If my spouse decides to move us back to Nebraska next year, I can do it all! Our son has ten acres I can use. We are going to our son's house for Christmas and we will decide after we have a chance to look at homes in the area. I just have to be patience and I'm not good with waiting.
Good luck at your new place!
Can't wait to see the final look on the tractor. It definitely helps get animals in and put of those for sure.
Mike you're a great story teller and very engaging. Just love the videos. I'm hoping Lacey will create more Herbal Medicine videos. I want to learn all I can about them. Thanks again!
As always, my favorite youtube family!
Thank you for sharing the reality of this lifestyle. Not just the fluff. You're the best!
Glad the new batch of birds are doing well. I guess you could call that winner winner chicken dinner.😀
I don't have a homestead at all, and it's not anyone is just being critical of your content. Mike we all have little misshapes from time to time. But for some reason even though we might expect repetitiveness in many of the daily activities on a homestead. But it's almost like on your homestead after all this time! You sometime come across in my opinion, as if you still lack the confidence in your ability being a Homesteader. May you and your family continue to experience good health, growth, success and prosperity. God bless.
Enjoy watching your videos and enjoy watching them every time they come on.
You guys are fantastic animal guardians & raise all your animals so well. Ignore any critics & as they say "Let them walk in your shoes for a Day" Great video just loved it. Cheers Denise- Australia
Love watching you and your beautiful family a big hello from 🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪🇮🇪
I had to get a second batch of 18 layer chicks recently because I made the rookie mistake of not having the brooder ready and keeping the chicks too hot while I set it up. I didn't realize it was too hot where I had them. It took less that an hour to get all set up but that was too long. I checked on them a couple times and they seemed fine. Oops! I've been doing this for 12 years now. My second set are fine because I had the brooder all ready to go. Lesson learned the hard way! Your meat chickens do look good. I understand that unfortunate things can happen. I felt really bad making that mistake with my layer chicks. It's never a good feeling to lose your livestock on the farm. I love ducklings. I've lost some of those too. I have the Khaki Campbell ducks too. I just love them! Yay, Greg did behave himself. I'm glad he didn't attack you Mike. Thanks for this!
I’m sorry for your losses. I’m here to give a suggestion. I saw where someone put the carcasses in a bucket with drill holes in the bottom so the maggots can wiggle out. They hung it with the chickens so they could eat the maggots as they dropped to the ground. A good protein source for your chickens and the other ones didn’t die in vain. 😃
So sorry for all your fowl losses. That is the tough side of farming. Ole Gregg sounds fierce. Nice video. 💞
I love hearing Greg now I know his name💙💋
Sorry about the lost of so many of your chickens mike, i just plant some veges and when they flop i feel so bad and discourage, but i go back at it and does not give up, and i am 66 years old , so you guys are young , dont give up😇😇🙏🙏
Loved this video, you're a great story teller, lol.
Mike I hate to say it but chickens love maggots 🤢 extra protein for them even though it's really gross to us and recycling is the way to go lol. Man that Greg though he gonna be something 😂 I missed seeing you Mrs.Lacie hope your well best wishes 🥰💐
I'm sorry some people have to "put their 2 cents worth in" with negativity. I do miss seeing your wife in videos. Prayers for you and yours.
Hey, Hey Mike and Family nice to see ya again.
Yes lol Goose are mean! I was walking in Forest preserve and the Geese/Goose walk up to u, but i never heard them hiss, i laughed so hard never did i know they did. Keep it popping, yr Home stead ain't No one else's period. 💝
I've had my fair share of losses this year to EFS but I've had great success with ceramic heat bulbs even in my outdoor coops. They're warmer than the glass bulbs and don't burn out as quickly.
Also, if that ever happens again... You can feed those maggots to your chickens. They would love them!
I’m excited for y’all. The new walk in tractors are going to make it so easy. Hopefully my comments weren’t received as critical they weren’t intended as such. Every homesteader experiences loss. I lost two chickens to my male goose this winter because I didn’t realize how aggressive he would be during mating season.
DUDE... GREG WAS REALLY TWISTED!!... LOLOLOL, GREAT IDEA WITH THE FIRE. IV HEARD OF FOLKS DOIN THAT TOO.
Sorry for your losses after all your hard work. 🙏🏻🙏🏻
I started with the John S style chicken tractor and love how easy it is to get chickens for processing or move them onto grass!
I think I'll have to switch over too.
Yuk! Maggots...hey, free food for the chickens! LOL Sorry for your loss Mike...poor birds. But, don't lose hope and learn from the incidences so you can prepare for the next weather change. God bless you Lacy and the children. I love learning from your videos and experiences.
The guard goose we had was never a problem, it was one rooster that would attack you when you came to gather eggs. He was a little tough but he sure made good chicken and dumplings.
So sorry for your loss on the little babies' chickens and ducks. Sad really but it is what happens on a farm. My brother got a broken arm from a goose who attacked him at a park. My uncle got bite on the arm, and it was not pretty from a goose also at a park. We tease them to this day. Had a friend who had a goose for a pet, just one goose. It was a great watch goose. No one went in the yard unless they were outside. This goose was real smart too. I was a kid then. Love your kids they are all so pretty and the boys handsome. Peace!
Mike. To keep from crushing the legs in the chicken tractor, you may want to put a board that the chickens can stand on or put an elongated pool noodle so as not to crush and bruise their legs.
Throw them maggots in the pond for fish feed, everything has secondary and tertiary uses, u got lemons make some lemonade :)
With experience comes success! Though I was a little surprised when you threw all that prime chicken food on the fire. They love that stuff.
My son Scott is excited about the new chicken tractor, he wants one when we get on our new property next month.
Thank you for the discussion of the carcasses etc. I always wondered what to do with a chicken that passes for one reason or another. I just started laying them in the woods. Thank you.
Teamwork makes the dream work baby! 💪🏾💪🏾💪🏾
And if you guys ever breed Greg, you're gonna have to share some of his goslings! That's the level of guard goose we all need. Better tread lightly around his babies!
Oh and Greg's soundtrack is highly underrated 😂😂👌🏾
thanks for the video have a blessed day
Hey everyone,
...I call my male duck a Dooster...
Just wanted to share.
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You are doing a great job, don't worry about haters... They will be there always, happiness, sad, loss, profit anything happens they will be there to say poisonous words.. They are just unhappy human beings that's all....👍👌❤
We love you guys. There are some people that think they no everything but they dont your going to have loss when having animals that is a fact. I have loss chickens and it is hard .But you have to keep going . The animals looking great.
Great video! I love Greg! He is awesome!
Put a bar across back a couple inches from end keeps them from getting caught in the move. Called a move along bar 😉
Remember being attacked as a child by a goose. Have no Geese on our homestead 😂🤣
Hi family ❤️. Love your videos.
Indeed it’s sad to loose animals. I also lost half of my meat chickens. I lost 50 of them to cold weather
Look into the American Bresse chicken. They are a great dual purpose bird. We have 3 pet Bresse girls and they are sweet birds. Nice disposition.
Mike please tell me you kept those maggots. Chickens love those and that is a great way to feed them. I did a maggot bucket a few years ago and the chickens loved them.
Greg is cool i want one, much love
Before you process your birds could you show the different breeds? Tell us what you think about them, likes and dislikes? Hoping to start a small chicken flock in the fall.
Goose champ
Greetings from Dubai family
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I wasn’t ready for the intro beat
I can understand the closure & potential safety of incineration & I hate to sound cold but; Nature is not sentimental, and returning things to the cycle is about as natural as it gets so I would have used them as activators for compost, and maggots make excellent chicken feed.
Hey yall! we too lost 7 birds to rain flooding our tractor followed with cold. lost them literally 1 day after a predator, assuming a weasel, pulled 3 birds from under my tractor. so in 2 days time i lost 10 from my flock.... it was absoultly devestating. we went all year last year with no loses. no problems. not many challenges. this year is different. we put our carcasses into our compost to give it back to the land. theres more than one way to skin a cat to each thier own. love your channel bud and critics can b too critical lol lil crickets lol
Your goose is funny great job
Always interesting
This was a great video
Chickens absolutely love to eat maggots if you can stomach harvesting them.
Maggots, if you give them a good rinse, are very good chicken food.
I didn't know there was a name for the chicks flopping over. They're like turtles flipped over. We've lost a few that way and to a fox and just them squishing each other. Gone from over 50 to 13 chickens. Got to learn from it and keep pressing forward.
Hello Mike and family. I just found your channel and I enjoyed this episode. It was nice to see the whole family work side by side. I would to know your wife's name and the names and ages of your children. I think you are doing a fine job. Have a good evening and a wonderful Blessed weekend full of Good Blessings for you and your family. Looking forward to seeing more videos from your channel. From a new viewer in Toronto Ontario Canada
Okay, advice: don’t leave dead anything like that around, take care of it then…then if it does happen, spare me the maggots…🤣🤣.. the smell had to be horrible…
will hard plastic last in dirt ? im just spit balling but if you hammer down something slippery underneath the new and improved chicken tractor should make it easier to slide around like a Christmas sled :)
Goodness. You learn by doing the critical people usually aren't doing and don't have experience...you guys are doing great!! U learned that burying the carcass n spreading garden lime on it keeps critters from smelling n digging..and that area now has fertilizer ☺ just sayin
I love you guys
the chickens would have loved those maggots gross for sure but lots of proteins hugsssss
The Nakid Farmers say the Cornish Cross chickens have lots of healthy problems. They buy American Bresse and have great luck.
It just depends we have raised Cornish Cross with no problems but you have to have a hard butcher date.
You realize all those maggots were major living chicken food.
interesting to watch how the Dewawere Broiler does at a meat chicken and egg layer - Also interesting to see if the American Bresse crossed with the Dewawere Broiler would do as a homestead chicken for meat and eggs so you could grow your own each year - the Dewawere looks like it has a bigger body? I am sure you could do a swap with your friends at that have the American Bress this year and get a rooster from each other to try it - growing up on a farm keeping baby animals alive with mother nature is not alway easy not matter how hard you try - I remember as a kid having lambs in the warming draw of the oven and in boxes over central heating vents when their mother has rejected them and its been stormy and wet outside outside - we didn't keep all of the alive no matter how hard we tried getting up in the night to feed them
So far the delewere's aren't far behind the cornish in growth. We will see how well they perform and taste.
I have gotten attacked by one. That was not nice. My husband stopped them from attacking. He would catch them and hold them and pet them. They hated it. If they seen him they would run away from us
Hey cousin I need to bring the girls down to sometime to see you guys and the ducks. It's Keith by the way!
That would be really fun! ~Lacie
I like the idea of the walk-in version, seems a lot more convenient.
I lost all my meat birds too because of the rain They slept on the wrong side of the Tractor where there was no roofing.
Maggots are serving purpose too
Can't believe you didn't feed the maggots to your chickens. They even have maggot making buckets that drops maggots down to the chickens.
Yesterday we lost 3 baby bunny's to a gofer snake now we have mommy and the remaining 4 baby in our 22 foot trailer with us in a dog cage
Oh! Hahaha. Magett overload
We had a goose that if he got mad, would deliver some very painful bites. ouch!!!
I have heard the American Breese (sp?) chickens will both be meat chickens and will reproduce.