The Secret Is In The Feed
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 31 พ.ค. 2021
- The pigs are all growing amazingly, and the meat chickens topped out at a great weight. So what’s the secret?
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Meg - I love the idea of an intern learning how you run a single-person internet business at a profit. (It encourages entrepreneurship and shows you don’t need to have a lot of money to start building your own business.) Most interns seem to work for big corporations, which is great, but it doesn’t show you the full picture. I hope that works well for everyone. 😁🥰
Thank You Hollar Homestead for allowing us to follow your journey!
It must be a good feeling having so much food in the freezer . Well done boys. Well done dad for allowing them to take responsibility. Well done all of you. 🌻🌻💞
I believe that pigs do not have sweat glands, and the water holes help them stay cool.
Yes.
Yes that is why many cultures consider pork a dirty meat. They cannot eliminate toxins through sweating. Funny huh....we have been conditioned as humans to put antipersperant deodorant on to STOP sweating. Keeps toxins in. Once you don't use deodorant, you will find your sweat does not STINK anymore. Toxins have been able to be eliminated.
@@pamelaremme38 how true that is.
My father was a pig farmer and always had a pond accessable to the pigs because of their need so cool down.
Yep, I've always wondered where "sweating like a pig" came from bc they dont even sweat...may as well say "running like a fish"😂
I'm glad you praised the boys for their hardwork of producing great tasting chicken. And you could see that they were proud of themselves. That teaches them to have selfworth and a lot of kids these days don't have that. They will value themselves when it comes time to be a man. Thank you for being such great parents.
Always good to give teens some ownership responsibility for livestock and gardening. It gives them a sense of contributing to the economy of the family as well as an appreciation for all the work effort that goes into producing food for the table. They stop taking that for granted and appreciate the efforts of their parents & siblings as well. This is a great way to raise good kids. 💚
That is so fantastic that the boys stuck with their program and raised all those birds. What a sense of accomplishment and pride they must have. And congratz to Ben for being able to "let go." And Hip Hip Hooray for Bumblewood.
So happy for you that you got such a great yield on your birds. That was well done boys. I know that you are very proud of yourselves getting all those birds to freezer camp without loss. I can tell mom and dad are very proud of you also. Have a Blessed day.
Hello Margaret, how are you doing?
Added value is the soil repair from chickens, gas you save not going to a store to buy chicken. And the character you’re building into the boys as they farm along with you! I love watching the seasons pass and seeing you grow your own food.
Yippee Bumblewood is making a comeback. Nice weight on those birds too.
Thank you your vlogs I love them, I live in Windsor UK 🇬🇧 don’t have any farming knowledge, I live in Berkshire, say it Barkshire. I live by the Queens land so have lots of wild life in our garden, deer, pheasants, all sorts of wildlife God Bless 🇬🇧
Awesome,do you live in Buckingham palace..
@@RegNarnoc21, Windsor is actually in quite an urban area and about a one hour drive from Buck palace. Sounds like Sue is looking some kudos for living near a castle. I’m in Scotland and pretty near a castle as are many folk in U.K. but we normally don’t woohoo it!
M C I know😂I was only joking,I’m Irish but lived near Windsor for many years...
@@RegNarnoc21, wow, do you know Paddy O’Rourke!
M C shur why wouldn’t I...
I Love your family and your journey, it doe's my heart good to hear Ben praise the boy's on the good job they did with the chickens.
The boys did a great job raising food for the family. Your homestead is always so beautiful in the spring.
your children are already very big congratulations beautiful family
When you said you were going to talk to Meg about what she was doing I started dancing inside, I knew what it was. I hope when they hit the store I'm not broke just then! Wouldn't be the first time I missed out on the soap:) Generally, like a lot of not that wealthy folk I'm broke by mid-month.
Hello Patricia, how are you doing?
Always exciting things happening at your place! We have had to take a step back from our homestead goals this year due to the crazy prices on everything, but it has been fun to come up with other things to do with stuff we can get for free. 😅
So proud of your boys for taking care of all the chickens. Have seen maturity and confidence growing in the boys over past year. 💖
Hello Janet, how are you doing?
Yay love waking up to a new video over here in Aus. You guys are such a joy to watch and keep us going while we work towards our own homesteading dream. Thank you for all the inspiration
Much respect for how you feed (& sprinkle) your pigs... they love wet food... chickens & ducks too! And you proved it saves on feed, which I hope inspires others to do the same. Good to see Meg making soap and great job raising the chickens boys!!
Oh, Ben! That beautiful Deliverance slip of the tongue had me giggling! Glad to see your self employment projects taking off and though you're savagely busy, I would rather purchase one of your customised knives than the Asian alternatives being pushed on us! Let us know when they will be available. Sorry Meg, with my own walled herbal garden, my own soap is home produced. Besides, you sell out in no time! You've done wonders without sacrificing your integrity and appeal. Beautiful people!!!
"We end up at the end of the road" lol
Hello Diana, how are you doing?
Meg you are a real trooper, you never whine about needing a break from your kids, your hard working and are always preparing such great meals. And now your back to making soap! The boys did a great job with the chickens and Ben, your always creating neat things around the farm. You and Meg have created a great family bond in your new life change.
Also, you know how you raised your birds and what feed they had. What a great healthy product for your family. Great jo
This morning before my shower I was thinking, "I wish I had some Bumblewood Soap!!". Yipee!!! I am SO READY.
Yay for Bumblewood coming back online! I'm rationing my Coffee-Cinnamon soap... only for special occasions, like lunch with a friend! ~ It was interesting to hear about your different breeds of pigs, Ben, and what they get fed and why. Thanks for sharing. And, finally, GREAT job guys raising those meat birds!! You were extremely conscientious to not lose a single bird entrusted to your care. Lots of work, day in and day out, and you really stepped up to the plate. I know your entire family appreciates your contribution. You've definitely got my admiration, as well.
Another question guys: Do we need to register again on the Bumblewood site to get notices (I want to make another pre-order), or are we still good from our initial sign-up?
Pork chop, Bacon, and Sausage, are gettin' BIG!
Seems like on the hog house w tin roof- u could rig up gutter to catch rain water for the barrel an save u that trip.
Great Averages on the Chickens way to go Boys. Glad Bumblewood is coming back. Life is good on the Homestead. God Bless and Peace from WV
Yeah. bumblebee. I need a I needa good job kids raising those birds so proud of ya, God Bless
in New Zealand the structure you are talking about building is called a lean-to - with your skills think about making the roof framing in steel making it strong enough to hang a pig with a pulley system
I’m so excited to realize that y’all have soap! I’m going to give it a try.
From past experience, her stuff sells out almost instantly. So if you want some, get on the mailing list by clicking the soap link in the description here. I just signed up so I hope it works. :)
@@Denisewithonei thank you for the tip ❤️
Great work on those meat birds, boys !!
Mud serves 2 functions for pigs: cooling and bug defenses.
You have productive homestead ,its a lot of hard work but your handsome helpers did a wonderful job with their chores. Another successful chicken harvest.
Wow what another great video thanks for sharing the boys did well with the chickens can’t wait till I can get some hogs
Hi, The LDS prepper made a video about self wicking pots. and for a float , he used a wine cork and a 18 inch skewers in a pvc pipe in the pot.
Hi...... Meg and Ben nice to see you, thank you for sharing your video homestead chicken farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 👕🐔🐓🐥🐖🎥👍👍👍
Bought organic chicken here, it was 2.99/lb. You did well!
A nice day on the farm! Well done. 👍🏾👍🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Congratulations to the boys on their chickens! Great job! 👍🏻
We are doing our 99 chickens this weekend.
We are getting our first batch of meat birds this week we are also raising 4 pigs for freezer camp our daughter works in a creamery and we get 25 gallons of whey a week to and to our pig feed also give a little to our laying chickens
You’ve got to be SO PROUD!!! How much you have and how much you will continue to have!!! Great JOB!!! I want to “live a day in your life”!!
Good to see you guys l know all the boys help ,but the one boy seems way more interested in homesteading .l will check on Bumblebee again ❤️
Hello Ann, how are you doing today?
It's so awesome that the birds only came out to 10 bucks a bird here in New Zealand just cheap small supermarket birds are about $8NZD if could raise them here for that of that size ours in supermarkets here usually around 2kg birds not that big
I have soaked my grain for feeder hogs for years. My neighbor feeds dry grain and his pig pen is the same color as his feed. The pigs waste so much of the food turning it into a fine powder on the ground. Soaked grain. Is easier for them to pick up and eat. I really like soaking/fermenting my grain with apple cider vinegar (the real stuff) mixed with water. Takes about 3 days to get going. I start a new days worth of food every day until I have three days worth soaking. Then feed the oldest, and start a new days worth. I keep the bottom third of the bucket full to inoculate the new food. It's an on going cycle, but once it's going it's no more work that any other method. So much more bioavailability
Good harvest...the hardworking boys deserve an extra piece of meat from the bbq .. even better since news about JBS worlds largest meat processor got cyber attacked...all these attacks and "accidents" worldwide will have consequences for the supply chain in near future. Hope people prepare accordingly
Thanks for the video. I enjoy watching your family channel so much. We pray we have our homestead in 2years, so your knowledge you share will be awesome for us 😃😇
As a family you are amazing x
Great job young men what an accomplishment working hard is skill. Wow the pride to help provide for your family is a fantastic reward. You guy's have wonderful parents teaching great values. Keep up the awesomeness
💓💓🐔 Chicken Ninjas have won the heart of TH-cam🐔💓💓
To measure the level of water in the pigs' water barrel....float inside barrel attached to string. Attach weight on other end of string. When full, float will be up on water so weight on outside will be down. As water level drops, float inside drops pulling weight on outside up. Paint outside weight bright colour and you will see water level from far off
Your veg garden is looking good
I get so excited when I see your videos post. I am so amazed by All you have already accomplished on your homestead in such a short time.
It is so nice to see the older boys did such a great job raising and caring for the feeder chickens. You must be very proud Momma and Poppa! Remind them that All winter they won't be raising feeders, right?
Nothing like knowing exactly where your food came from!! Priceless!! Great job Hollars!! Your family is amazing❤️
You guys are diffenitely homesteaders now!!
Still so impressed with that chicken plucker Ben. You are so clever and think outside the box. 🤗
Soak my oats overnight in the winter months always, given that I live in the frrrreeezzzing northern hemisphere and helps with body heat and other movements! Leaving now!
How cool Meg! I’m fairly new to your channel so I didn’t know you had a soap shop. My sister in law and I are getting into cold process to provide healthy soap for our families (while sharing the work load). The whole process is so fascinating!
Y'all are giving me hope that I can do what you do and make a homestead for my family 🥰🥰🥰🥰🙏🙏
To me wouldn't matter the cost what matters is you know what you are feeding your family
That's how we feel! But we like the numbers too. 😉
@@TheHollarHomestead numbers are good I agree but you got the best of both and by the way love the video's me and wife been followers long time
You guys give me inspiration to get out and make a video as often as possible
Oooh! It's video time 😍 Greetings from Sweden as always!
The boys did a great job with the chickens 👍👍
Yep, tapping into that Carolina red clay! 🙄
The boys did a great job!
Yup, when we had chickens I'd ferment their feed. It increased bioavailability, and made the feed go about 30% farther. It also made it harder for the birds to waste their feed. Good news! Looks like we'll be getting chickens again this year.
So a good way that I have seen 2 put a level on the barrel is a quarter inch clear rubber hose that you attach at the bottom on the outside and run it to the top so as the water goes down it shows where the level is inside like a old school water level now the only problem with that being that the pigs may take a liking to it and Chew On It or Break It so the bobber ideal might work better
Glad the hay work out may be sometime you will get Mr wayne as he has house guests!!!
Cider vinegar keeps ticks off pigs👍 that's a good price 2.14 lbs congrats to the boys nice job 👍👍👍👍💕😎
🙋🏼♀️🕊 hi there. So happy for you getting your soaps back in line. 🌝Blessings to you and your family. 🕊Looking forward to getting your 🧼soaps done🤗. I hope Ben gets his knives going in the winter, and gets to teach the boys to make them. I got to see a couple that one time , 💖🌝they are amazing. I’m first on your list when you do, winter seams to be a great time for farmers to complete things like that. And keep the boys busy as well. 🍀🍀good luck in all your endeavors 🐥🐖🪴🌱🍀🍀🍀💖
Yay! I am so glad that Bumblewood is going to reappear! When I read about it before baby bug came, and it sounded so interesting. I’m glad things have settled down enough that you can get to doing it again! Wishing you great success!
Put a plastic "tank fitting" which is a hose tail with locking nuts upright into lid of tank. Use light plastic pipe that slides easily up and down inside fitting, fit a small plastic bottle or similar to bottom of pipe for float and pipe will move up and down to indicate depth of water in drum.
Glad you are so kind to your pigs. Yes...Pigs need water or mud to stay cool!!!! They don't have the ability to sweat.
Thank you for doing the math and breaking down the cost. Very helpful.
"Happy as a pig in mud" winky face.. gotta love it.
Your boys are a great help! This is amazing teach them all the skills you can! Enjoy your channel! God bless your family!
Thanks for letting me travel along with your homestead adventures!! The boys did such a great job with the chickens! Love your HAPPY FAMILY !!
Great job young men
Fantastic, good luck on your chicken plucking. It will be awesome 💞💞
Good job guys. God bless you
Another great video. I'm fascinated by your ingenuity and abilities to make anything, do anything and, oh, raise 5 kiddos..
Not only an answer, also a prayer.
The raised bed gardens look great, too!
Both of my grandmother's raised chickens for eggs and meat. Each spring they got unsexed hatchery chicks to add to their flocks. When the roosters got to eating size they butchered them to sell. My Grandmother Lewis had regular chicken customers every Saturday.
Blessings to all!
Great job!
I like that tune around 7 minutes!
Well done, guys!!
Great job guys!!!
Things are looking good!
Congratulations on a job well done to the boys! That has to be very rewarding to take care of that many birds that will ultimately feed your family. Good on ya, guys!
It's always great to see your videos, no matter the 'topic'. You guys never cease to warm my heart and put a big, old smile on my face. Thanks for that!
Heather🇨🇦
Hooray! Bumblewood!!! So excited!❤️❤️❤️. Thank you in advance!
Love that you put your date on your videos. Thank you. Good morning beautiful family.
Pigs don't have sweat glands from what I've been told. Maybe that's why they need water.
Hey Ben if you get a Y connection for an extra hose and float you can hook it up to refill water tank automatically...worked great on my parents farm for decades!
Pigs are actually very clean animals if they are able. A kiddy pool will make for some VERY happy pigs! And no pigs have no sweat glands and have no way to cool themselves off other than water, mud, or digging a ditch to lay in.
awesome having the student there, get a couple more to help with garden etc.
So excited the soap is coming back!!
Yay!!! Soap is back!!!!!
Soaking the feed also creates less waste. Feed can be crumbly/dusty. This way the animals can eat all of it 😉
Great stuff guys. We miss raising our own food.
Love seeing more of you Meg.
Hello Tina, how are you doing?