Chickens Eating Their Eggs (Before I Can) FIXED!

Where are your shoes, Mr. Brown? Mr. Brown, did you find your shoes? Did they get frosted?

Am I sure they're wet?

No, they're not. They're just cold. Come on.

No, they're wet.

Oh wow. Take your other— take it off. You're right. You're right. All right, you want me to wait? You'll catch up. Did you find anything? Where are your play shoes and all those shoes? I don't know.

Probably in the barn house.

Gonna get the pigs out this weekend. We gotta get this fence hot. Are these to be played in or are these to be just town shoes? Jeans with socks. All right, we'll be those people. You know what we should do first, Gideon? Let's check the eggs, see if they've been busting them. Covered our veggies again. Should be the last. I think today was the last frost inside. I bet it's the last. May 1st is our, our official day, average last frost day. I'm gonna need to let him down. Doesn't look like he's gonna stay though. Will you stay? Okay, stay. Going right home. I'm now Rebecca, I guess. Let's see if it worked yesterday anyway. Okay, fake eggs, no sign of breakage. Like you'll get yolks on the hay. Oh, look, still breaking them. Maybe it's going to take a few days. Donna, they're still breaking them, so we gotta keep checking. Okay, that one had some yolk on it. Hey, Jonah, get some hay for in here too. Don't worry about Teddy. Look how hungry they are for this. I just threw eggshells down, they went crazy for it.

Eating so many eggs. Well, look at this. This is all low. That's not—

you could go switch her out with one of the chicken tractor. Okay, the battle continues. How you guys doing on minerals? Okay, kelp. And we never did— we got to clean out that one. Look, we still have the NutriBalancer. You got to take care of what you have before you start building something new. At least that's what I'm telling myself. Look at you waiting by the door. I'm just putting these in. I'm gonna hold you and step on your leash here so you don't get in. Come on, come on, come with us, come with us, come on, you come with. I'll get you off the leash. Come on, come on. Nope. How you doing, Miss Thang? You're coming. Come on, come on, Daddy, come on, let's go. What are you doing in there?

You have to do this the only way.

Okay. All right. Good job. He thinks he caught an egg eater, so we'll switch him out with somebody in the chicken tractor. Do you switch out the water and stuff this morning? Okay, can you get the chicken turd out of there? You want me to do it? Look, look how hungry they are for calcium, Jonah. This is why they're eating their eggs. Well, we're not gonna just fix that problem overnight. It's gonna take a little bit, get them restored in their minerals. Was there chicken squat in there? Well, when the chicken squats in the wrong place, it's It's the whole— it's the, uh, evil chicken poo. You got the evil chicken poo out of there? Holy chicken squat, if we get it in the right place. Oh, you want to switch out your, uh— will you do your mineral feeder today? Yeah. Yay! They perched in our mineral feeder, so we gotta lower the lid half. Half of what it is, my man.

I was gonna hire the, um— I was gonna hire the feeder.

Oh well, I guess that's one option. Yeah, you could. Yeah, you could. You could raise the feeder and wouldn't have to cut anything. That's a good idea. All right, see if it works that way. There we go, some NutriBalancer. I wish it was aragonite for calcium, but we don't get our feed order until early next month.

There was a little bit left in there, but it was just a little tiny amount, like, um, just like mix of that mineral and some poop.

Listen, look, they've already eaten all those eggshells. We've got to be better about getting them their eggshells every day. Uh, want to move them real quick? Let's give them some fresh grass. All right, just get their feed and lead them into their, their door real quick. We can— I bet we could do this in less than 5 minutes. Say pig, pig, pig, pig. Did you spill a bunch? Okay, bring the feeder out here. There you go. It's no use, they— we've, we've dropped some here. There you go. Pig board would be nice right about now. Keep going, Josiah. Good job.

Keep it—

don't spill any, don't spill any. Keep it not tilted. It's hard, I know, it's hard, I know. All right, there you go. Run in there. Good boy. All right, now we can close them, set this fence, and then open it up again. We can run down this lane. And into our backyard grass. This will hold them until today, Saturday, till we move them out behind the luchadors. Grab their pants, say pig, pig, pig, and let's practice leading them out.

He peed on it.

Do it a little closer. Do you need me to help you? There you go. Pig, pig, pig, pig. Good boy! How's that? Green grass. That took what, all 3 minutes? Good job, guys! Project time! Uh-oh, but Teddy snuck in somehow. Oh no, there he is! Come on, Teddy, come with! Come on, there you go. All right, project time, my favorite time! You want to turn it on? We'll test it, see what we're dealing with. We're trying to get this lane hot right here so that we can run electricity. We'll run a line off of it to power the pig fence behind the 2-2 sheep. I hear it clicking. 5.4, should be doing much better than that. We're here all the way at the end. It's not hitting right here though. Okay, can you fix this real quick? I'll go look down there. Yeah, I guess maybe that was dragging the pole. What is this? Why do we have this out here? He wants to show me his briar fort. Nice. Hey, I watched your video though. I'm not crawling through there.

The problem with making a fort in the thorns is that it hurts. See, I got caught.

Ah, bunch of ouches and oohies. Nice. Did you get in there and mow that?

No, um, I just ripped all the stuff out.

Nice. You got all kinds of paths and craziness in here. Good job.

The other end.

Nice. I did not see that fence hitting in one— well, maybe at the end, but let's test how hard they're hitting at the source. Only 11.2 at the source. 11.0. At the source. That grounding rod probably needs to go in deeper. All right, we got our grounding rod in further. No better. 11. That must be a max. It goes up, over, down through that line, comes down this fence, goes through a cable, down under the ground, down under the road. Insulated cable. Let's see what we're at right here. 10.5. So we fixed it. Wow, almost 11. Okay, this lane is hot. That means we could put little piglets behind those— that ram and wither— and just connect to this lane. That's ultimately, guys, that's ultimately what I want to do with the sheep fence is always keep these lanes hot and build the cow fences off of the lanes. These are our source fence and pig fences and sheep fences, whatever fences.

We've flown through two projects.

Now what are we—

we completed our project.

Let's Let's go milk, uh, feed the pigs. Look at this silvopasture. Pigs help do that, guys. Pigs help do that. This used to be dense forest, but right here— oh shoot, oh shoot— oh, reclaim the forest is reclaiming the pasture. And we, we want to partner. We want to partner. We don't want to get rid of the forest. We want to, as Joel Salatin says, pasture our forest forest our pastures. So clear some of these trees so grass will grow in there, be a nice habitat for pigs, nice habitat for cows. Out in the— for out in the pastures, we'll plant trees. This is crazy. Look how crazy dense this is. I don't hard to see the vision down here because there's so many trees. Jonah, let's bring the cows to right here this afternoon. They're over there. Open it up into here. It's not that great of a grass, so we're giving them a huge paddock. We might even feed some hay on this dumpy areas. Okay, Jonah, we'll feed some hay right here. This is where the brush piles were, and they'll be seeding that, and that'll maybe encourage some growth right here. The next day I put hay down in this area. They wasted a good bit of it because there is green grass. They'd rather eat that. But that's good because in this bare area where the brush was will be what now? More organic matter, some seeds in this hay. You're helping us. A lot of fertilization— fertilizer right here because it's concentrated. Let's add hay there a little bit. See, a lot of fertilizer here. It's a quick way to build back poor— a poor area. You know what, we might have us a project because I'm pretty sure they're about out of water. Oh look, I distracted them, you got in! Look behind you guys.

There you go.

All right, how they on? Yeah, here, let's, uh, point it downhill a little more and all of a sudden we have 4 inches. Yeah, we fixed it, right? We fixed our hose. We got our supply line. I've got you, I got you. Whoa, they're fast! Oh my gosh, this isn't gonna work.

They found a treat. They found a real treat.

What was the real treat?

I don't know, but they found something that was really good.

We got cabbage leaves, we got juicing pulp in there, skim milk. All right, so the problem with our water is her our hydrant— or what, our hydrant source. It was low pressure before, it's not working now really. So we're gonna have to run an extension line to another hydrant.

That's way powerful. Oh, it's way powerful, and it'll shoot down a hill and then it'll have the field to go up.

That's the good news. The bad news is probably gonna have to run 150 feet of line, but I think we got it. We got all the supplies, don't we? Okay, we're gonna get the cows while we're over here. Why not just take them down the road? Goodness, Phyllis. Okay, that's fun. Look at this productive woman. It looks good, right?

Yeah, I have no idea what I'm doing, so I'm just putting things in place.

Yeah, misorganized.

It's gonna be wonderful.

Good job. It's a box. 2 strong gallons. I'm gonna go milk the ice cream cow now.

All right.

Look at you. You put all my gear in there.

I did.

Looks good. What's happened to our drawer?

Well, I accidentally broke it when I was putting it together. So since it's wood, we are repairing it.

Okay, I like it.

And it's clamped in our bedroom.

All right, now let's see how many pull-ups you can do.

No, actually, I need you to move that to there.

Yeah, that would be nice there because then you don't see it. There's no wall there, and yeah, nobody sees it.

It has warmed up. We had a frost the last two nights. I don't know if it frosted the other the two nights ago, but last night it did. And it looks as though everything is gonna warm up, so I'm gonna take the Agribon off this garden and then that garden down there. And I'm gonna just put it off to the side because we still have another two-ish weeks. I got that one done up there, and then now I'm going to uncover the onions, and I got in another batch of onions, so I gotta get planting those soon or then later.

How's it going out here, Beck?

Good, I got everything. Oh my, what is this?

Those are weeds.

I know. Do we have any carrots coming up?

It looked like, uh, maybe—

is that a carrot?

We're sprouting weeds. That might be a carrot. How old were the seeds?

I don't think they were that old. I don't know, maybe that's our problem.

I don't know.

This is frustrating.

Yeah. How's everything else?

I feel like it's dry. I feel like everything's so dry.

It's wind, it's drying things out.

Just dries everything.

Did we water this morning?

No, I don't think so.

Let's water before you leave.

Like, then my, my— these are like coming out of the there are holes. Frustrated.

It's hard gardening. It's also one of the most productive things, but you do have to put in the work, don't you?

Yep.

Hey, Lily, will you go check the eggs in the breakfast posse? Thank you, honey. You want a basket?

Yeah.

Okay, is that what you got?

Yeah.

Doesn't look like any are busted. No, that's good.

They were pecking at the fake eggs.

Okay, that's good.

So I pulled on the nesty box and all the eggs fell off, fell out since the chickens— I grabbed the roll as I'm literally picking up the eggs.

Did any of them break? No, no. Good job.

Eggs are real breakable.

Good job. Let's get nice and clean. Looks like we're starting to break their habits. Training?

No, I'm just trying to get them to go to the bathroom.

He's a little slow on that, or we are one. Come on, jump off. Whoa! Afternoon chore time with the beautiful one and your beautiful green. I like your watering move there, bud. Moose, you ready to move? You ready to move, sheep? Let's do it! Moving time! Oh, come on, Moose, you're gonna cause problems. Look, this balm of Gilead is so invasive. But look, that's the thing they go for first, which is good because they're gonna eat that and that will kill it. This is the next day. Look what they've done to this balm of Gilead already, stripped bare. Whoa, it was all like This problem into a solution. A problem tree becomes food for the lambs. Remember, we're serving the cows first. Sheep serve the cows, help to bring back and restore this pasture. I want you guys to see this. Oh my gosh, do you see what's happening? Do you see what's happening here? Look at this beautiful pasture. For one, you see the shade? You see the spotted shade? This locust creates spotted shade so the grass still gets the sun and it grows green and you guys are eating. This area was as thick as that, but look at what they did for us, Jonah. That's incredible. We can actually get in there now and get at these trees. Good job, piggies. We had pigs clear it, stir up grass seed. And then we could get in there and pick up behind them. And now here we are, the finished product. It's the next day here. They've already eaten this down all the way, almost all the way to the ground. Got a lot of tops out of this. You guys have hung out here a lot. Stud's still here eating, aren't you, buddy? So why do I get so excited about that? We only have so much pasture. We have a lot of forest and we need more pasture in order to feed our cows 100% off the land all year round. Right now we're having to import hay, but eventually we want to get away from that rotational grazing, improving the pastures we have, and creating new pastures with silvopastures.