A SKUNK is NOT our Favorite Homestead Animal!!!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 7 ส.ค. 2022
- A SKUNK is one animal that NO ONE wants on their homestead. Until we find the skunk, we will be looking in every place we go and being very cautious. We do have a LOT of TOMATO juice that we can use, just in case we get SKUNKED!
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Ms Wanda: “I’m fixin to deal with it.” 😆💕 love it!
So glad to see you looking better Danny. Praying for you every day. You snd Ms Wanda have a beautiful place and God has blessed you mightily! Wonderful to see it!
I loved seeing around your home. Your gardens and critters. Such a beautiful, plentiful place. Thank you for sharing.
Greetings! Blessings and Grace!
I just love to see people being successful with their harvesting. Does my heart good.
I'll tell ya. It's been a TOUGH season. And I mean TOUGH.
We are just beginning our homesteading journey; thanks for sharing your knowledge and encouragement!
❤ I'm struggling with a groundhog in the city as well. Love to you all. Glad to see you getting getting around so well Danny. Wanda I've been canning my harvest amd watching you all. I'm so Thankful for yours and Danny's valuable information. Much love.
Danny - that new fruit picker you got - that's what city folks use to reach over the fence to get fruit off their neighbors trees
I’m so glad you’re putting out these videos on harvesting. There’s always a tidbit of something to benefit from.
you did a fantastic job on your cooler!. i love your wire baskets.
I'm new to your channel but, Love all I've watched.
This is about the skunk & my dog being sprayed over n over as she held this skunk by the throat & refused to let go protecting our younger dog. Tomatoe juice only made one big mess. After trying several times, I finially found that a simple mix of dish soap, baking soda, lemon juice and I beleive it was alittle vinegar took that stinky smell out after 2 baths.
And many dirty towels. Just remember if a pet gets sprayed in the face it can effect their upper respiratory & breathing. So watch closely & if worried at all contact your vet.
I let my farm dog out this morning and she ran down a huge possum and killed it. When she brought it to me I thought at first it was a goose hangin down both sides of her mouth. I like possums, but this one had moved up near the house and was having babies. She already got the babies, now finally got the mom. Now skunks are a different matter. If coming through the place I bring in the farm dog until the skunk moves on. She did get skunked twice when younger. When I smell one I say NoSkunk to her cause she grabs first and thinks second! She keeps the rif-raf out of the place.
🌷 How Peaceful on your homestead 🙏
I enjoy watching and listening to all you do 🌷
God Bless you both 🙏❤
Danny the reason the chickens aren’t stripping those potato vines is because they’re afraid you’ll whack their head off and go down their gullet to retrieve the vines! They’re smarter than that ol’ rooster!!
I love my picker ,it’s definitely a works well for my mango and avocado keeps me away from the tree since I am allergic to it and off the ladder more.Good tip on sweet potato vines, I need to trim mine, didn’t realize or even think to replant them ,I am not sure I have any actual potatoes growing but vines are strong, so might replant some in another bed.
Stunning pears neighbors, enjoy!!
I love watching you two when you visit the pineapple forest. Such pleasure on your faces and in your voices. Makes my heart happy. God bless you both. 🍍 👩🌾☀️
Please take it easy a minute or 2. You just got out of the hospital! And we love you!
Morning Y’all , … Miss Wanda do you have or will be doing a video on canning the pears ? (my tree is loaded)…. and thank you both for all your hard work doing these videos, I enjoy them very much, you are helping me in our homestead journey !
We can do one.
@@reacyhubbard5887 I LOVE jello with pears. My mom always made red jello and added canned pears to it. Delish!
Dog Fennel is an amazing insect repellent. All you have to do is stripe some of the leaves, crush them up in your hands, and rub that on your exposed skin! I use it EVERY TIME I work in my garden!
I’m in Southeast Louisiana….. the mosquito is our state bird!
Good to know! I've also read that native americans used Beauty Berry leaves as an ingredient to an insect repellent.
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Well, that's good to know! I've got plenty of it! Thanks for the tip!
Thank you
The country homestead is so refreshing amiss the busy life we have to deal with. Thanks for the tour this morning! Blessings,
My sweet potatoes are going nuts also. We planted some in dirt we bought and they are doing fine. Then we planted some on dirt we composted and they are out of control. They are so green and spreading like wild fire. By the way how is Danny doing after his doctor visit. My wife and I saw the video of the steak, potato and pineapple and we said it looked good, so we made some and men was it good.
Don't grab that skunk up like you did the chicken.loll have a great day.
Hi Mr.Donny. God bless you and family's.
you has help so many people. you will only now it when you get to Heaven
Thank you. Danny for answering on your video this morning about the pole used I'm 80 sure can't climb my trees to harvest.
Place a small burlap bag on your fruit cutter. My grandpa used to do that and cut 4 to 5 at a time. He used to use a hook knife on it. Your new stick is fine
I'm the weirdo who loves skunks. I never thought I would until I had to battle the fig eater beetles. The beetle larvae will take out a whole fruit tree. The skunks go out nightly and dig up/eat the grubs. And baby skunks are the cutest thing ever. To not get sprayed, we announce ourselves. We can't have chickens without attracting rattlesnakes, so skunks are the next best thing.
I know animals are different everywhere but ours want to avoid us as much as we want to avoid them. The only bad part is in breeding season, when there is competition, there is a lot of spraying. I'm not a fan of that at all. But that lasts a short while.
Your fig beetle may be what we call a kudzu bug.
Scuppernong jelly is the only grape jelly, jam whatever, that I’ll eat. I also just love pineapple, how blessed are y’all!
The farm I grew up on had a sand pear tree with a trunk my brother and I could barely reach around. We climbed in it all summer. The pears would turn soft and yellow when ripe and were so sweet. Pears from the store just don't taste the same. They were too soft to can but my mother made pear honey and pear sauce from them.
Now you’ve got me wanting scuppernongs and pears!!!!
Woke up this morning to 60 degrees - first time we've seen that in over 60 days! I can air out the house! Your picker is a handy tool; it's been 25 years since I owned a feed store, but they also make baskets where the wires are closer together - called pecan pickers.
Danny & Wanda I have one of those Fruit Poles & they are fabulous. Great Video & glad to see you are looking OK Danny. Nothing keeps us old people down xxx Cheers Denise - Australia
My pears got stung this year too. The Plum Cruculio stings apples, and I think they stung the pears too. I will be researching this. Thank you for all you both do for all of us! God Bless!!
I love pears. My grandpa had two big trees with giant pears on them. I still have dreams about trying to get the last few huge pears way up in the tree late in the year.
That freezer is awesome with all the bins! Good for wanda too. It’s not overwhelming having to process it all at once. Love that set up! So smart and such a blessing! Your homestead is A #1. Danny, glad to see you are feeling better. God bless you both. ❤️
Our pears are coming in nicely. I just pick apricots. Those pest ear wigs. Got to a lot.of them. But just clean and rinse. I'll make jam with them.
LOVE LOVE LOVE this video!
GOD BLESS Y'ALL!!!!
I had a whole skunk family 100 feet from my house under a storage trailer finally after 2 months the family left on its own
Love the way your cooler is. Set up god.bless
The coons got most of my pears but I ordered sum of Billy’s bone sauce ... I got sum pears from a friend yesterday and painted sum on the porch and the fence posts the night before .... left pear cores on porch last nite to see if it works on coons... the pear cores are still there..
Around your chicken coops and other buildings you have skunk issues, you can install a anti-dig barrier, basically hardware cloth (1/2 x 1/2”) bent in a “L” shape, attach the vertical part of “L” to coop/building, the horizontal portion you put in ground just under the sod, no more then 4”. Bring the horizontal portion out 18 “. It will keep raccoon , skunks, woodchucks, ect from digging under.
I put the hardware cloth in the l shape like you said and I do think it is working on the critters...but now my cucumbers and tomatoes plants are getting nipped off at the tops...I guess it's the birds but haven't seen them....there has been plenty of rain..I wouldn't think they need the moisture any thoughts
I did this with both my coops, BUT this summer I went down at dusk to lock them up and there was a raccoon in the run! I had a lamp with me and I was so surprised I just yelled 'HEY!" Whereupon he literally ran UP the FENCE and jumped over my head to get out at which point my Shepherd took off after him. They can climb like a monkey, those coons. Chooks were fine. Timing, timing, timing. ( That coop has a run that is not covered, my other coop does.)
@@saddleridge4364 yep it only stops them from digging under, if you want them to stop climbing attached a 3 foot anti-climb barrier along the fence at the top, sheet metal works.
The other option would be to fully enclose the top as well, however do not use chicken wire for any animal proofing wiring.
@@davidhbrooks chicken wire BAD. Hardware cloth-Good.
Morning 🌅 My pear tree is young. It bloomed. It had like 2 pears on it but they never grew. They fell off. I have sweet potatoes too for the first time. Getting excited to dig them up. Blessings for you and your family 💖
Pot ash will make em bear.
@@kennethcanaday1960 Thanks
Such a beautiful peaceful morning! Thanks y'all ❤
We were having skunk problems every year last year my husband took out nine skunks they ran us crazy for about 2 months it was horrible but we love the country and we did real good this year so far love your place it's beautiful
I remember harvest those same pear at my moms house by shaking the tree. It did not end well. Long story short I ended up with a busted lip. lol
I still harvest that way though. 😭
Skunks in our area dig grub worms in yards.
Our chickens free range at times and they eat all around the sweet potato’s but rarely eat the greens either.
I'm in Southern Missouri and we have armadillo's here that just devastates your yard and garden they are hard to get rid of
I’m in East Tennessee and this morning I walked out I smelled one too I was eyes 👀 open walking to the garage
Danny & Wanda you two have a beautiful Homestead! God Bless you Both! Love your channel! Indiana
I grew up in Mississippi and we had a pear tree like that. It was the best pears for making pear preserves and pickled pears.
I used a picker like that fir 30 years on my 50 yr old naval orange tree. loved it. On occasion, I'd still drop a few but oranges hold up better than pears. If y'all get 1/2 what yallhad last year, y'all will be loaded.
Blessings, julie
my sweet potato slips are growing in pots on my porch and my chickens haven't touched mine either.
Thank you for sharing your garden with us.
That is so strange about the skunks. We had chickens and a 1 acre garden. They never bothered the garden or the chickens. They were our friends. They loved the japanese beetles and larvae. They were always diggin for bugs. They are cute little critters. They would come up on the patio and scamper over our feet. We just sit real still and quiet. They were looking for food or water. They also like sunflower seeds. We learned the alert sounds they make and they also raise their tail and shake it before they spray. They never sprayed us but watched them get a dog. Poor thing. Oh well.your pears are amazing.
Praise God I am so glad your knee seems to be better!
What an awesome invention! SO glad it makes it easier for you. Love your property. SO beautiful.... Love hearing the turkeys..
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You guys truly have a beautiful place I know it was alot of hard work to get it that way labor of love for sure
Talk about running. A friend and I were walking with my springer a black and white dog and he took off on me. I called and he came back with a young skunk following him. My friend and I took off running away. We thought the skunk thought the dog was it's mother. His backside was similar to a skunk backside. It must have been the funniest thing seeing 2 older ladies running for their life. I wish I had a gun and knew how to use it. I had a mother have a litter of 3 under the floor of an old shed. Hate them!
Matthews NC has had rain every day for about 6 straight weeks.
Excellent garden, chickens um not understanding. They know whats wrong or don't look right.
For your skunk, use a live trap. Put it by the hole, put eggs in the trap and you'll get your egg thief.
It feels bad when you work hard and something happens to your crop. But when your hard work pays off it feels wonderful.
My Bartlett pears produced bumper crops ever other year.
Those pears look delicious! We use an older version of the fruit picker pole for our mangoes and avocados. Next season we will get a Eversprout telescoping fruit picker pole and avoid using the ladder.
Perfect pear / pineapple pickin mornin , glad y’all got more rain . It’s still scorched earth down here in Texas . About to be 60 days no rain . Friday ,we did have a cool front come 😂 , only hit 99 .
I let my chickens out to graze each afternoon and they go through my little sweet potato patch and they don't eat the plants, either! Surprised me!
So glad to see yall have pears. Our tree was loaded and now we only have one. This tree us old but never had this problem.
Sweet potato vines do not like too much water. You should get some good ones this year!
Oh Yum!!
I have my great gran parents fruit picker! They had peach trees and she made the best peach pie. They grew them from seeds and survived the great depression.😃
Danny, what happen to your coffee tin you had tied to the pole? That seemed to work great!
Fell off last year. It was old.
What a blessing those fruit trees. Enjoy it.
Skunks are the least of my worries. Since June, I have trapped and relocating 16 raccoons and 9 possums. I caught one skunk. I carefully covered the trap with a tarp and opened the door with a long pole and let it go. The only problem a skunk causes is eating a chicken egg now and then or raiding the compost pile. I had one coon kill three of my meat chickens in one night. That's when I bought the trap. LOL The coons still managed to destroy about a third of my early sweet corn before they were removed. Deer and coons together took out 90% of the field corn I planted just up the road from my house. There is a lot of housing developments going up a few miles from where I live, and the wildlife is being pushed into my tiny corner of the world. It's almost unbelievable how many deer I see daily. We can only kill five deer per hunter, per year, in this area. If my son and I killed 10, it wouldn't make a dent in the population. The ten deer that I saw daily in a field last year, has turned into a group of 20 this year. A group larger than that has moved into my area as well. On an average day, I might see anywhere from 20 to 50 deer. They watch me all day long and then come visiting during the night. The only good thing is they keep the apple and pear drops cleaned up under my fruit trees. LOL
Yup, those deer know exactly what time to visit….grrrr
So glad y'all got that pear picker . . . . . .what a blessin!
May God bless you in all your endeavors today.
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Wonderful pineapple too. Way awesome. 🍍🍍🍍🍍🍍
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Good morning 😊 I'm not a homestead but I live in the country and thank God no skunks this year lots of deer though
That’s the biggest pears I ever seen! My granny made a pear salad when I was small! Delicious!!
I put up 50 qt last year and have been canning Pears for 2 weeks now... Sooo I'm in Pearville Love them
Sweet Potatoes are in the Convolvulaceae family along with bindweed/Morning Glories which are a little toxic to chickens. That might be why the chickens aren't gobbling up the vines too much.
As my mama used to tell me: "Between the A and the T."
Can you please get Mr Danny a microphone because I couldn't hear him for most of the video. Everything looks so great! I hope the pears taste really good
You are so lucky to have the pears. I had big plans for the 2 trees at my granddaughters new house- last year they were prolific and this year- not a pear to be found.
Them sickening summer cedars and chamber bitters have been horrible this year. Same with pig weed in the pastures. I haven't seen any skunks here, at least yet. The armadillo, though. They're everywhere. The grapes are looking fantastic! I really need to get some. That high dollar seedless Razzmatazz hasn't done squat since I planted it last year.
My razzmatazz hasn't grown any either.
I got sprayed 2 days going through my garden. 😂just let him go you can't beat that war. . 😂
If you put chicken wire 2ft deep that would prevent the Skunk from getting in
What is the “harder” variety pear in the smaller tree that were better for canning?
What do you say about removing the sweet potato blooms to promote root growth? I can't wait for my pears! Another few days to wait.
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Skunks... they must be everywhere! We have them around here, too, though they never seem to cause much trouble. They do dig for grubs sometimes but seldom come around to areas that they are bothersome. We have barn cats so we do have to be careful about not leaving food out in places they would easily find, and never leave it out at night.
Most of our encounters haven't been so bad. One such encounter was me looking around the pond and the skunk coming by to see what it was I was looking at. He never offered to spray but was very curious, as though I was going to show him where the good morsels were. Needless to say, we did not encourage the friendship but he really just never bothered us. When they become a bother, we have to deal with them but so far, I've had way more trouble with deer.
I learned to keep deer away from eating your plants is taking an empty film or prescription btl,
Poke holes all around it & fill it with SHAVED
IRISH SPRING BAR SOAP.
Tie a string around the bottle and hand them all around where you want the animals to be on their way. Works like a charm. Learned this from the forest district.
Your sweet potatoes look amazing wow huge 🍐. Ms Wanda I just received your cook book in the mail it's raining here so I'm doing things in the cab your cook book is amazing well set out and is worth the money the quality of it is unbelievable thank you so much I'm going to cherish it for everi can't wait to start cooking from it
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Danny, the chickens are probably leaving the sweet potato leaves along because they remember what happened to the guy that messed with your garden.😂
Rabbits enjoy grape leaves
I usually can about 10 dozen pint jars of pears every year I do them in the medium syrup and they are so delicious! Love pears. 🥰
I’ve hit at least 4 skunks mowing 1st & 2nd cutting alfalfa. I can’t see them but when you hit one I can’t drive fast enough to get away from the smell. I try and remember where and what row so it’s not chopped up. Dang it’s smells bad. 🤢Sometimes I think the small ones are stronger than the adults.