2 SNAKES Eating Eggs! So I Had to Grab em by Hand!

Jonah was getting the eggs out of Lily's posse and came across a black snake eating the eggs. He's gonna be stuffed. Good God, help us out, pray. Got the drone out. Why do I have the drone out? You guys gotta see this. It's probably the best way to capture this. Do you see it yet? All our animals are in one paddock. Well, about to be. We need to get the fat hens in there, and let's get this drone up there and show this system. I found— figured out this chickshaw thing. Measuring tape. Jonah, hey, where's the measuring tape, bro?

I don't know.

Did you figure it out yesterday?

Are they gonna scrape?

No. Not with this, not with this solution. Jonah said the turkey goose is out and in the woods. Okay, I don't see it out there. Huh, let me go see if it's not up there and you guys might be hearing things. He thought he heard a goose down there. I heard something too. What is she in? A pretty place? Has she found the pretty place? She's swimming up creek. Bless her, bless her. We'll never keep her in now with that pig net. Here she comes. That's great, love it. Uh, she'll probably get out right here.

She's trying.

She has an edge on us on the water. We can't catch her. There she comes.

Papa, don't move so she's not scared.

There we go, that was easy. Uh-oh, somebody's gotten got. Predator. Yeah, I wonder if that's because she was chasing it off and she wasn't here. That's an aerial predator. Were these guys shut up last night?

Nope.

Yeah, let's shut them up. We got any more casualties? No, it's a small one. It's probably—

she was chasing out and then was getting— and then got out and popped out on accident.

Okay, so I just found out from Polly Face that it seems that they transition their turkeys from the brooder to poultry pen We're using a chicken tractor, so we're doing the right thing. I think we are just gonna— based on that, we are gonna have to shut them up at night. And then once they get older, they go in that. This is similar to a poultry pen. This is a chicken tractor, smaller because we only have 24. It's all we need. Were they going in this at night still, Jonah? They might not. They might be going into that. They hang out during it during the day. Decimated their grit. They're a little small yet for this big bad world, so we'll continue putting them in the nursery at night. So we were doing it, we just kept the door open to the chicken tractor, but, uh, I think maybe they were probably getting out too early or not getting in.

Are you gonna dig this?

Yes, hopefully today if we beat the heat. Hey, I need a measuring tape for, for measuring the shigshaw, hopefully before I move it. Yeah, you found it! Where was it? Okay, that's cool, we actually put it back. Okay, hey, now that you're on a row, where's the swill bucket to cook this dead turkey? Pigs like it better cooked. There's the lid. The pot might actually be up here at the grill. No, shoot. That's where we left it. Pretty sure.

What about in the, uh, storage?

You can check. No. Oh, there it is. There it goes. All right, let's not put this thing to waste. The pigs will eat that raw, but they do some— they do such a better job when you make a swill out of it, which is basically cooked scraps. Today, easy enough move. Although from here to that way over there, it might not hurt to have Sally. Can we make it so that we can pull this by hand if we want to, and we can pull it by Sally if we need to? All right, we got 7 feet, so 8 foot, would that be long enough? I want to run a board from the bottom, on the bottom, through the middle, getting all the, you know, mounted up. Well, let's make sure that's not Yeah, yep, manure will be able to still fall through. Have a board— oh shoot, but then it's in the middle. Does this— this won't come all the way down. Forgot about the ramp. Okay, and then the idea was to have a hitch come out to right here.

We could put a board on the top to look— still have to have a ramp.

Hmm, a ramp up to a ramp. The other idea is to turn these handle make these handles more flat, put a bar across at the end, and then hook a hitch to that. Experiment continues. If that were to work, I don't see why this couldn't be switched, why the handles couldn't be put on that side. I mean, it's a little easier to get your eggs without having to deal with a handle every day. That's why. But you're having to lean over this handle to open the door. But eggs is a little different. Thought about pulling from back there, but it would lift like that and then legs would drag. Thought about wheel— wheels mounted on those. That might be a possibility. Thank you, Josiah. Hey, where's your clothes? You don't know? You want to go back in and get your clothes on?

Yes, could you come with me?

Oh, we got the sheep, their morning water. We're gonna do with this trench over here, hopefully bury a pipe under that road that's not going to collapse and get water lines going down our lanes so that we can easily— oh, we could do an auto waterer to the sea monsters, the meat chickens, and the sheep. And we wanted to do this. Just have to check the water in the morning, make sure it's working. That's it. See, this is where the cows have been. There's mucho más for the lambs. See how they've been picky? Cows are pickier than sheep, and they just get in between there and the sheep get the rest. Everybody's looking good. We got any more casualties? I think we made it. I think nobody has died. Uh, let's move this. I think we got some time before we have to get in the drone in the air. We've got some fog, so we got a little bit of time, good lighting. Keep going all the way down to the middle. Yeah, nobody's dead, that's good. Everybody's alive and well and huge. Uh-oh, Josiah, the sun's starting to pierce the fog. We got one more thing to do. Here, shoot some more grit, guys, you voracious Rooster teeth eaters. I think it would be fair to say this is the permaculture pasture at its highest. One of the greatest benefits of permaculture for us was making connections to the farm. Not to have cows over here and sheep over there and gardens over there, and then it becomes too impossible. It's too— there's too many different things. But what if they could all work together? And that's what's happening here. The cows going ahead of them, mowing down the pasture for the chickens, giving spreading their manure. The sheep going behind the cows, cleaning it up for them, eating what they don't eat. And then the chickens spreading the manure. Absolutely everything is working together as one. When that happens, we use fences for different things. We only have to set up one fence. It runs first the sheep and then the chickens, making more abundance with less effort. Wasn't that beautiful? All right, pickaxe time. Will you grab that red one for Mom?

Where's my little one?

I don't know, you probably left it out. Hey, can we dig a trench here? This sun, this morning sun, is a lot easier than that 1 o'clock sun. We almost got underneath that fence. We're gonna run it underneath that fence so we can easily get into it over here because it's going into a bank. If we're gonna have to run something in later, we're gonna have to dig out the hole right there, but At least one side will be open. Randolph's here to do a bit of construction. Watch, you guys want to see a reaction from Randolph, our cousin carpenter. We got us a way to polar plunge in the middle of summer. Oh wow. Okay, so no worries, you get to take a cold bath after you're done. No, it's for, uh, it's for that space for, uh, processing chickens, getting them cold after the butchering. But we've hooked to our hydrant and it's leaking. See, so we have constant wet in here. You think that's something you can mess around with? Yeah, I looked on the internet. It depends on what color it is. Oh, there's a kit you can buy to get used to it. It looks like it is coming, coming right out of there. Randolph's gonna actually run— plumb us in too, and so he's gonna fix the hydrant and plumb the ice machine in. I see you doing the ice machine. Machine dance. Okay, we got 7-ish minutes. I think we could get it, guys. I think if we hurry, I can get under this fence and to the other side, and you guys could go— what do you need to go? You're probably there with the PVC. You probably just need to dig a shallow hole for the hose and the electric wire. Work, sleep, repeat. We're pulling it out. That's it, just how you got it. Okay, we got the electrical out. We're getting the water line out. Yeah, let's see if we can— yeah, that filled up with water on it. Ready? Ready. Look at all that water filled up with water. This is lower than that. Yeah. That will help going all the way to the end. There's only sideways rain would get in there, but then it's gonna be hard to keep water from going down in there. We might need to do your idea where you loop S it up. All right, it's after 9. I gotta pull myself away. I mean, I don't want to. I'm breaking a nice sauna sweat there, but I gotta break. Now listen, we could do like your mama— mom's saying is make it as high as we can up here, very shallow bury, and then dig this out more so it's not such a slope down. You got it, Lily? Yeah. Okay, I got Lily set up, washed her off. I've turned this hydrant off. We're having low water pressure in the house, and so I just want to make sure that nothing has been left on. Like, I'm thinking the Sea Monster might be on, so I'm just going to turn it off right there, check the other hoses. This pasture's water completely turned off. The hydrant at the well is turned off. This hydrant's off. Okay, how's it going over here, Lily? You need me to move her foot? Okay, pull the bucket up so she doesn't kick it when I move her foot. Okay, ready? Does she have alfalfa?

Yes.

There, how's that? Hey, did you happen to leave the water on out at the Sea Monsters? No. All right, still low pressure. I can see the barn hydrant from here, it's off. Let's try the sprinkler. No. I wonder, is that— is it that particular spigot? Water's fine here. It wasn't the sprinkler. It wasn't the amount of water. There's something wrong with our kitchen sink. The good news is that Randolph is here today and he can have a look at that. It might have something to do with what he's doing on the hot water heater down there. I'm just relieved it's not our sprinkler system. Hey, you got a helper, Lily. You got a nice pretty dress there. All right, John, are you helping her?

A piece of grass got in, but yeah, you can take it.

Okay, thanks. All right, we're going to show the garden some love. Folks be wanting, why are you using a sprinkler? Why don't you use drip irrigation? I don't know, 5,000 square feet of gardening. Drip irrigation is great. It uses less water. It waters the soil, not the foliage. It's better to do that, but This is why. Do you see these weeds around this? It's so much easier. You can just get in there and weed. You don't have to remove— can you imagine removing drip tape out of there so you could weed? Yeah, it's just not going to work for us in this larger market-style garden. Oh gosh, it would work great in the instant chicken garden, but we don't need it because of the mulch. It's doing just fine. And, uh, But that's our reasoning behind it. Just makes things easier for us. Oh, and we have plenty of water. We have a great water source. Much better. And really, Haroon helping out today. And really, 20-30 minutes once a week, that's, that's 2,000, 2,100 square feet of garden. Not bad. Oh my word, what is going on?

This is the bank. This is my town.

Okay, and that's money, all those rocks?

Yeah, I like it.

Afternoon chores. How about let's get these pigs a second meal today? That didn't cook all day. We turned it off, but it's actually still warm. I got a little treat for you piglets. They also got a little treat for me and the cows. The grass is seeding. All right, do they like the broth?

Oh, gross.

Oh yeah. Wait, what's the matter? It's gross.

I drink broth on the road.

Oh, you don't like to see a pig drinking broth? All right, now they're eating that already better than yesterday. They didn't touch the raw chicken. Nipping my pants. I gave you food right there. Oh look, they have warmed up to it. They're eating it, probably looking for some skim milk. Look at that, guys. That's where the chickens were— what, Rebecca? 3 weeks ago. We just let the cows over and look where she went. They love it. All right, let's get this old net up. Forgot to do that this morning and move it. Hopefully then we'll have enough time to get this new pipe in. Randolph picked us a pipe when he was in town for some supplies. All right, Jonah had set us— almost set us up here. Looks like we lack two nets. Rebecca, I really want to hurry because we don't have our electric. We don't have our electric across the road, and it'd be really nice to get that through the pipe. And not have to jerry-rig it for tonight.

Yes, yes, 100%.

So let's hustle, we got 50 minutes. One bucket knocked over, one bucket practically empty. This was no problem until summer, they started drinking twice as much. So that's the emphasis on this water line.

I know summer is harder on them.

Yeah, they're gonna drink twice as much. On second thought, that's chicory. Let's jerry-rig this electric wire and let's get the polar bath on, Becky. Let's get in that ice. It's so hot. It's gonna be refreshing. We will fix this in the morning when it's not so blazing out. All right, there's some nicks in here I think where we were digging, so we're gonna have to replace this wire anyway. But let's just— it'll work for the night. Let's hook up our fence. Let's see how Randolph's done. Randolph did get us direct plumbing into the ice machine, and we have stopped the leak, at least on the hydrant. How is it?

It's cold.

That's good. It's supposed to be. You think it's 50?

I'm pretty sure it is.

There he goes. Big boy.

Wait a minute, wait a minute. Not quite done. Wait a minute, wait a minute. All right, good. There we go.

You having a good time there, Grandma?

Yeah, he has some dirty footsie.

Yes, he did. Your grandbaby Teddy.

There you go.

A very orange supper tonight. Coleslaw, beans, sweet potatoes, and pork chops from the land. Uh, Jonah was getting the eggs out of Lily's posse. And shutting them up. And there's a chick— no, there's a black snake eating the eggs. Has he got any in his mouth?

Nope.

He must be sick. He doesn't have any in his mouth.

Nope.

He's gonna be tricky to catch. I was hoping he'd be full, 4 eggs or so. Oh, oh yeah, he's got a couple eggs in there.

2 at least.

How many snakes are in there?

1.

Gosh, he's huge! He's probably stuck.

Holy moly, his leg goes— there might be two in there.

That's what I'm saying, there's got to be two in there.

There's two in there!

All right, so I think we can get that one because he's gonna be stuck in that nest box.

There's darn two black snakes in here! This is insane, Papa! There, there's two black snakes in here! You gotta come help.

Yeah, see, he can't back out.

Be careful, do not get bit.

Hang on, he's getting out, but he can't. Oh no, he can't because of that egg. Wow, that's disgusting.

And it's some other snake.

I feel like it couldn't back out because of the egg. What's got one in there? All right, let's get him up. There we go, he got through. We're back and we're gonna get the other one out. Is there another nesting box in there?

Yeah, without a snake.

Now does this have a bunch of eggs?

Now that's a big snake that you're gonna have That's so huge. You're not happy, are you?

No, I'm not happy. I don't like handling snakes.

Who does?

I feel like that snake's injured or something. Oh, there he is. He's normal. Does he got some eggs in there?

No, it doesn't look like it.

So anyhow, I assume it's a he.

Trying to go into the ground.

I really got to grab the back of his neck, and he's gonna wrap his long snaky body around my wrist, and it's gonna be freaky.

Go for it. If I get bit, I'm gonna drop this camera.

You won't get bit. How will you get bit?

Well, if you come too close with me.

No, hold on, hold on, hold on. I know. I've got him. He's trying to rear his head to bite me. All right, you hold the camera.

That's freaky, Papa. That is so scary.

He's trying to hold on to the perch. Oh my gosh, this is the longest black snake I've ever seen. Oh my gosh, this is incredible.

Are you really gonna displace him? Yeah, sure.

This is a record. That's like—

oh my gosh, Bubba, watch out! Don't let him get away, whatever you do.

He's probably 7 feet long. 7 feet long.

A 7-foot black snake. I don't like measuring.

Let's displace him the other way. Put him off of the woodpile. That is just— ah! Look how long he just goes on forever. Oh my word, that's so creepy.

I got you some good pictures right there.