Tour Our Small Farm | Homesteading in Canada
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ต.ค. 2024
- Join me today as we tour our small farm right here in Ontario, Canada. Lots of winter scenery and loads of fun today at the homestead. #homestead #canada #farming
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Thanks for the tour! I like the way you keep your rabbits. I can't stand seeing the way most people raise their rabbits - keeping them in metal cages all their lives. You let them be rabbits, run around, dig burrows. It's great. Also love the fun names for all of your buildings. 😊
Thanks for following along. It’s always fun 😊
From a cat rescuer- it's more important to spay the females than to neuter the males. There could always be a feral male wandering around but a fixed female is a done deal regarding kittens. We fix all our cats, but the females first and foremost. We have night catio enclosures too, good job.
Love the farm and your laugh is delightful 😁
Aww thanks ☺️
Such a beautiful piece of land
It’s really like a secret paradise 😊
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I live in Indianapolis ,Indiana. I'm so glad we don't have winter / snow like that. We will have 2 -3 inches of snow at best. This year , we barely had any snow.
Oh that’s not too bad. I could deal with a few inches no problem 😂
@@HiddenSpringFarm Are you planning to have a green house in the future?
@@risquecat oh yes, I’m just not sure what kind…I was thinking maybe a conservatory style.
Thank you.
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It’s just a beautiful winter wonderland and I love 💗 all the animal family! I wish sweet Bubbles well at her vet visit! Thank you for sharing this family with us. Stay warm and healthy 🙋♀️
Yeah I hope I don’t make Bubbles any worse, she’s just getting settled down.
Why does it make me laughm when he mentions Kenny
Great looking property! All the animals look healthy and happy. Great job!
Thnx so much, appreciate the comment. 🍻
Love it ❤
I love the name of your buildings. 😂😂 I watch a channel called Cog Hill Farm and the have a hen house that they call Cog Hill County School Bus. 😂😊
Oh wow! I watch Cog Hill all the time. That's why we got mini pigs cause of Peaches lol. I appreciate you watching. Cheers.
I just came across your channel and I’m so glad! I grew up just a few min from Horseshoe, in Minesing! We are starting our own homestead now in Timmins. Subscribed!
Awesome, best of luck. Very rewarding kind of life, much more than I anticipated.
Love your farm! I have a little farm house built 1920 but, not in country.
Awesome, lots of old world charm I bet.
Yes! Still working on my dream to have a little farm though. I grow fruit trees mostly, in my back yard. I also have 8 cats; love your animal names; very creative
@@rsollecito5947 awesome we also have 8 cats I call them the claw crew 😂
YOU SO SILLY CHAD. I LOVE IT
YES!!! always fun times here eh.
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06:48 and 09:05 that's a true CEO talking 😂
On his small farm. Lmao
I'm used to you calling the cats' names now lol
Great Farm!
Thank you!
Sunflowers are beautiful
They’ll be mammoth sunflowers, hopefully 10’tall with huge heads. Exciting.
Great tour!
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ontario canada same here nice local content where abouts?
oh we're close to Horseshoe Valley near Orillia & Barrie.
Enjoy the tour ,alot of work. Do u have a special way to clean out LA poop. They naturally like to poop away from where they live, right? That's what the documentaries say.they re free range in the summer u said right.?hope u can get a couple of sheep and goats.cant wait to see u guys in the summer again.
Aww thanks so much. Haha watch Thursdays video it’ll have some poop in it 😂 most animals don’t poop where they sleep but I find with poultry & water fowl they just drop it wherever. Cleanup can be more difficult in winter cause it’s frozen. We also use the deep bedding method so it adds many layers of poop and straw and acts like insulation.
I would love to see how you re-train chewy and bubble 😊. Hope they warm up to you soon.
Hope so too, I have a few clips in some of the these videos but nothing much happening. I will though have a full video on them if I ever make good progress with them. I just filmed the other day and Chewie was slowly showing his face...still scared but improving. Bubbles goes to the vet this week too so I hope I don't set back her progress by grabbing her again but she needs her final vaccinations.
@@HiddenSpringFarm can’t wait to see their progress! 🥰
@@HiddenSpringFarm have you watched any of the videos from Morgan at Gold Shaw farms regarding when he brought Molly murder mittens and her kitten to his farm?
I LOVE MOLLY AND OLIVE
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I think I’ve fallen for Bubbles 🥰❤️
haha yeah she's a cutie
How do we book a stay? We often come to Ontario to see my family in the Ottawa Valley
You really have a beautiful place there! You are living my dream! I could never do any outdoors type stuff because I get overheated too easily and get heat stroke. So instead I watch TH-cam videos and live through you all. Hey Chad, I am wondering if you will get your female cats spayed in addition to the boys? It's much healthier for them and will stop them from constantly going into heat and possibly roaming away from home. No judgement here, just a thought! I love your content and appreciate you taking me along! Love from Texas ❤ (85° F here today, 29° C) 😰
Aww thanks, well you just take it easy and I’ll keep the videos coming 😉 long story short about the cats. The boys r all fixed now but the girls are not. The vets up here in Ontario wanna charge me like $700 to spay the girls. That’s crazy. Big business here. The boys were only $165 each. Molly the sheepdog was $1000 for her spay. We have no neighbours really too so I just didn’t spay them for now. 😊
So is there another house on the property that you live in, or do you own one somewhere nearby? Your property and buildings are stunning! I love your enthusiasm!
Our house is about 20 mins down the road. Hopefully we’ll eventually build a house on the property somewhere 😊
@@HiddenSpringFarm Okay. Thank you for responding. I've been wondering that ever since I watched your first video about this new land.
Love your farm, the animals and all your animal houses! We just moved to our 10 acre homestead in Canada too in Nov and so far our cats have been in our house all winter but we are worried about predators like coyotes in the summer. They are used to going outside in the warm months but come home every night. Do you find locking them up at night is sufficient to protect your cats from coyotes?
That’s awesome thnx so much. I’m happy for u guys, getting out the city was the best decision we ever made. Where abouts in Canada? We’re in Horseshoe Valley, Ontario (close to Orillia & Barrie) we lost our best cats to coyotes when I used to free range them, Stormy used to ride on my shoulders everywhere even in my tractor. I miss her dearly. Yes we protect the cats nightly now in the catio & cat house/workshop. Haven’t lost any in daytime but most likely because of our 2 sheepdogs, Olive barks loud at any little noise. Olive is a great guard dog but Molly is a big pushover and cuddle bear. Our dogs don’t live outside either, they’re really just companions. Something you should think about is getting a “farm” dog or an lgd if you have tons of predators. Our cats are mostly trained to come back when I call, easy in winter cause they don’t go far but in summer sometimes it takes more than an hour for them to come back. We have 4 younger cats that haven’t been outside yet as I don’t trust they’ll come back. Gonna try two of them this summer I think they’re ready, but two I’ve somehow turned a bit feral and are retraining. Always fun though, a lot of ups and downs too. Best of luck at your new farm. Chad & the gang. ✌️
Thanks so much for the reply! We're on the Quebec side. Yeah we are on a wait list to get a St Bernard. Our property is narrow and we're a bit too close to neighbours to have a lgd that would bark all night but we think having the St bernard out during the day will be super helpful to deter coyotes etc. And we do plan to bring our kitties home every night. Same as how we lock our chickens up after dark. It's too dangerous for them to be out all night. Just scared about what could happen even during the day but hearing you say that you havnt had day attacks is encouraging!
Give her 6 but Alexa guinea fowl. Lakeshake Jennifer like alarms any predators are coming in the area.. from what I understands you have to acclimate them to your property slowly but surely..
I keep hitting the wrong button.. I'm just curious if you can put goats and sheep in the same area... That might be an idea for your pasture area is sheep in goats... They're good for controlling weeds and their produce milk makes the coast produce milk and they're both food.. I see the couple of the TH-cam channels that have one or two cows.. they produce enough milk for what they need for their property and around the house with your kids they make cheese out of it and make butter out of it ... I mean the milk.. I was just curious if you had any interest in any of these other.
We’re interested in sheep and goats, we’re just not ready yet. Need to get a bunch more things done first but it’s on my list of things to do. 😊
@@HiddenSpringFarm I understand I guess my, should have been in a form of a question. ... Good luck OU homestead..
What about the black chicken cycle of season and light that are so connected to laying? Old farm girl just asking - 80
I expect a drop in egg production but the 7 black leghorn hens haven’t laid any since last Aug and it’s still summer for us. They did this last year. I love their metallic black feathers with a slight green hue too but so far the breed has been disappointing.
Hey Chad, not sure if you're aware of this, but when you're walking around and using your camera, the audio only plays in my left earphone.
It may be something to do with how you're rendering your videos and the audio settings but I'm not sure
Actually I never noticed that…500+ videos 😂 I’ve always watched without headphones. I’ll look into it, thnx.
@@HiddenSpringFarm just wanted to make you aware! It's only when you're recording audio with the camera, other video segments sound fine!
@@e-floydproductions7317 interesting, sometimes I use my Sony, sometimes my Iphone and sometimes a voiceover with a mic. Gonna have to troubleshoot some settings. Thanks though.
Chickens eat mice too
yeah chickens are pretty quick too.
Which area are you living
Olive reminding you to have fun while working by taking fetch breaks lol
Yeah for sure
I don't know why, but this is the second of your videos that has no sound. ? ?
Hunh? Of course there’s sound. No music either or just my voice? Are u listening on headphones cause another commenter said they can only hear my voice in one ear.
@@HiddenSpringFarm When you talked to your cats and towards the end to your geese. It was very clear. Otherwise, it was mostly lip reading. I had no problem with your earlier videos and no problem with other channel videos. ? ?
@@sunnyday5621 very strange eh, I mean lots of people watching. I’m not sure what to do. I just watched it in my tv and I can hear everything fine. I’m sorry about this. How r u watching? Phone, tv, computer?
@@HiddenSpringFarm On my laptop. Just chalk it up to weird. I just thought you should know when there is an issue.
@@sunnyday5621 yes thanks. 🙏
Where does your wife and you stay when you rent out the house?
Oh we don’t live at the farm, we’re about 20 mins away. Hopefully in the near future we can build a house on these 90 acres somewhere, in the meantime we try to run it as a farm stay.
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Do you know you litter train rabbits, might help clean keep cleaning easier? Rabbits can be taught use a litter box like cats
Yes, I do talk about it. I had litter boxes for a long time but they just never used them. It sure would be easier.
@@HiddenSpringFarm I guess outside rabbits see the world as their bathroom
The females can easily get pregnant if you never fix them by strays!!!!