Chickens put to work behind Cows on Pasture

Pretty foggy morning. Nice and cool. Gonna move. Those guys, the Icelandics, up behind the cows for the first time. Before we move those chickens, we have to count our crop garden chickens. Come on, Mr. Brown, I need those scissors. The official scissor bearer. Come on. The gardens are prepped and ready. Gonna be on to the next job. For now, we need to count them for feed rations and clip their wings.

Let me see that.

1, 2, 7, 8, 9, 10. Oh, it's a bearded lady! Bearded lady! It's a rare selfie event, guys. A photo with the bearded lady. Jonah, we have 36 birds. How many pounds of feed did you put in this bucket. 3 scoops, 36 chickens need a third pound of food each. 11.88 pounds, let's make it 12 pounds. If you soak it, you can cut off a quarter of that, 9 pounds. Doesn't that seem like a lot?

Jonah said it was only like 3 scoops, but I looked it up on here And it says they need a teaspoon. Okay, because there's 144 pounds of chicken, uh, approximately. Okay, but then you also add a little bit of extra because— yeah, you can stir that up because you want to make sure that everybody gets some.

We're gonna do that with the pigs too. This is herbal dewormer. This is just maintenance. And, uh, it's the moon.

That's fine.

We're those people now. We're going by the moon. Well, we're old farmer.

It was full room last night, so it would have been beneficial to do it yesterday, but That's the best time to fight parasites? Well, around the surrounding the moon, we would— I mean, ideally we would have done it like last week, and it would have— so we would have started before the full moon and ended after the full moon.

Let's get the pig feed while we're at it. Get it, 2 scoops. It's dry, Mom. Is that okay?

That's fine.

Give me a pet, Mom.

Me and Bear.

Oh yeah, pigs are getting big. Don't put out the chicken feed yet. Okay, good. Spread these out. What, you got a fascination with the bearded ladies?

You said give me it.

It's a rare moment.

Two chickens.

We got so many pans because we want everybody spread out so everybody gets some. Man, that fog's cool. These guys— totally forgot about these guys. We only have 40 minutes left. We gotta move them. Look, they've reached the end of their netting.

I want to be happy.

You guys ready to go from here to here? Jenna, let's get their, uh, let's get the shawl over.

All right, good.

They all went over. Hey, how are we going to catch this loose icy? We have one loose icy. It's not good. They're crazy hard to catch. We're tracking way up there across the road on that huge tree. She'll never find home. Can you guys come help me catch this chicken? She was distracted by Jonah up here. I saw her tail hanging off. Oh, oh, come on, ready? Open it. Yeah, we opened the door and one got out. Okay, it's crazy here.

I don't care. I hope you saw that, man.

Got that chicken midair. Okay, this time hold it open. Ready? All right, who's the chicken ninja master?

You.

Roll up this fence and see if we can't rest it on this roof or something. Oh, what's this? This is part of the Energizer, honey. Oh wait, don't drag your cord.

You picked it up with it.

Okay, the grounding rod. All right, bring that— roll that up. Hopefully we're gonna free-range these guys, but for the first few days we're gonna put them in their net. All right, ready? Put that in there.

Come on.

Oh, kick— do our kickstand.

Our kickstand's all jacked up.

Good.

He's safe! Papa, your net, your net! This is— this camera's stuck recording because I'm holding your net in.

Exciting! There's the cows. Eventually they'll be able to roam and spread stuff like that around, but we're gonna make sure they're trained to this chickshaw. Yeah, let them out! Stud muffin's in for the show. Flap those wings, waddle! What a beautiful sight right there. I like a chicken that has more interest in foraging than sucking down grain. We did it, guys! Let's go, we'll milk Violet and be done for the morning.