Did I Re-Break My Nose

Get out of that! Hey, hey, hey! She knows who will give her the attention. You naughty dog, getting in the garden. Besides, says we got some sheep out. Maybe our two strands in the creek did not work. Let's go, buddy. I see a lot of sheep in. Is it Nacho? It's Nacho. Holy smokes. Well, that's good it wasn't them getting through our two strands. Now how are we gonna get him back? I don't know. Uh-oh. Cows are out too. Okay, we have to find them just in case they wandered off to somebody else's property. Cows are up behind the pond. Let's see if we can get Nacho in now that we know where the cows are. See if we can lure Nacho without scaring off his wither buddies. I should probably feed him alfalfa more often. That's not gonna work. We're gonna have to put up this net and herd them down in here. There we go. Get him in the whipper. Get him in the pasture. Holy moly, he just follows them around. You got no leadership, Nacho. And they're just half wild. We've gotten in this nook where I can't really get with the side-by-side. How am I gonna catch you guys? If since they're on that trail, you can kind of herd them to this road and then herd them down into a net system. I just get this close and they start walking away. Come, come up, Josiah! Come over to the trail! Come to the trail! Cut to the trail! Cut to the trail! That's good, that's good. Stop! Can you not hear me? I feel like you could start setting up the net, right? In front of Selma and you make a U-shape and we can herd them down the road right into it. I'll hold them here. Gideon, carry him 100-footer, please. Shoot, they broke away. Let's see if we can't herd them with the machines down to that corner net. I can't go through there. They must know this. Hey, go back that way. Give them some pressure. The effort it would have taken to check their fence would have been a lot less than this. Note to self. Okay, let's get them cut across. Come on. We're doing good. Half the battle's up. Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey. Whatever you do, don't let them back on this road. There we go. Getting that out of the back of Sally. Oh, my word. I didn't think that was ever gonna end. I didn't think we were gonna get him, did you? No. I mean, I knew we'd get them eventually. Let's herd the cows down in Here we've opened up the fence quite a bit. They should be easier. Good sensible driving, Josiah. You can get excitable when herding with machines and. But he just. He keeps a level head. Yeah, much more rel Get a lot more slower paced. They don't want to herd uphill. We're going to get them uphill and we've got a trail there. They like to follow trails. There we go. So you got them to the trail. Now it's downhill, guys. Whoa, I didn't expect that. Oh, she can't stand it. Their subordinates are ahead of her. Plus he's caught the whole— oh shoot. Okay, cows are so much easier to herd, right? That's all of them. We used the last of our eggs on that vanilla pudding last night. It was worth it. Telling you, we're living egg basket to egg basket. That's breakfast. I think we have some leftover eggs. Here you go. You look nice. I can take over so you can get dressed. How you feeling, Big Bird? I guess something's going around. Next to Josiah's bed. Yep, that's charcoal. It was in the puke, now it's stained. He didn't hold down that charcoal, Beck. Josiah threw up mega last night. He did get first round in the toilet, second round in the bowl, but then he knocked the bowl off the bed in his sleep. Henry, you gotta go with us now because Mom's leaving. Did he take that? No, he's already— can we take something else? Bye-bye. Bye, babe. He's allowed to take the frog out. Okay, check on the house real quick. Can you stay here with Henry? What little animals haven't you done? Uh, basically none. None? Okay. Are the forest pigs all right? Yeah, they're in, but the Energizer is not working. How do you know? Battery needs changed. Did you test it? Yeah. Good one? Yeah, 12.8. Yeah, that's a great one. Put those on for the pigs and then get the other ones charging. If we've learned anything this morning, we don't want our fences not to be working. Yeah. Baby of the world. Baby of the world is done. See you on the next episode. Can you change your poopy? Yeah. All right, get you something to eat too. Just, uh, some eggs on the stove. Now's your chance to pet him. Scratch real good. Come on, stud. Come on. I'll just start milking then, stud, and maybe you'll show it. Maybe you'll get up to try to come over here. Well, he didn't take the bait, and there he sits. But because we're not putting the sheep in here today after them, I'll just leave this paddock up. Then I don't have to set up another water. They can just get that water. Pretty sure because it's blazing hot. He's heard of them back there. Yeah, that's good. Get it, get it, get it, get it, get it! Look who's up! The sheep did such a good job underbrushing, getting along that creek. They need something to eat. I'm thinking we're gonna do this in here today too, below the pole barn. You want to just try two strands of electric all the way around? Yeah, we can try it. It'd be a lot easier. I'll go, um, set tomorrow's net and then I'll work on that. All right. Are you feeling better? Not really. Well, good to see you out anyway. Maybe that'll make you feel better. Yeah, just some sunshine, movement. You want to cut the weeds back with the string trimmer for the fence, Josiah, or start pulling the tarp up? Both very unglamorous jobs. I'll pull the tarp up. She's a beefcake. If our fence is going right along the edge, we need to trim this brush so that it's not getting all over the fence. Why don't we just run it along this one tree? How are you gonna put it in the ground? How are you gonna post it? Like, can we tie it to the post? It might ground out if we tie it to the post. It gives them a little more room. Yeah. Do we have straps like this? Well, then we'll just put straps on her. And heck, with 2 strands, this will give them more, more room and less pressure on the fence. Word on the creek is a snake under this. No, there ain't. Okay, watch out. I don't see a snake. While we're at it, let's see if they'll clean up our rock wall. I don't know if posts are any faster because you got to go around and hammer them in. Secure our post to these pole barn beams. Hopefully we don't have a big rain and it comes washing our pail away that's holding our energizers. It shouldn't though, shouldn't rain for a week. Here they come, finally! Oh, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa! Let's get some room over here. Let's get these steers going. Ready? In! Here they come, they want to come. Lily, Josiah, bring my strands of electric. Bring my back fence up, please. Keep her out. I don't know if this cow hit this fence, wasn't on yet. We're gonna do this for him to do net along this part. Shoot, now they don't want to go back over. Problem is we need to have a— everybody's out, but we need to have something for them to come back to, so we are going to have to wind this Yeah, we've gotta— we've gotta wind this fence up. We are gonna have to put it back, but in order to get the two strands up everywhere else, we're gonna have to roll it up. Not a good day place to try to keep them in with two strands. Creek's fine, it's low pressure. That was super frustrating because we spent so much time making those posts, getting those posts ready, and then for them to just walk right through it just like that. Some weird reason though makes me even more determined. We're not going to be able to put our net against the pole barn, so we will need to string trim this. I know it's just started bleeding suddenly. I didn't hit it or anything. Does it look crazy crooked? No. Okay, there's a pile of pallets in here. Just add it to the scary things. I think this paddock is making them very nervous. You got to be kidding me, we're 15 feet away with a 25-footer. We're just gonna cut this corner, uh, we are not gonna pull out a 50-footer or 100-footer to make 10 feet. That's just crazy. We'll find 10 feet somewhere. We're making a funnel to put them in here. It's going to be awkward because of this rock wall. Hopefully, because it's hot midday, they'll obey. I said, Josiah, should we just put them behind the cows? This is ridiculous. This is when the permaculture concept, putting the animals to work for you, isn't really working for you because, uh, it's too— it's too much trouble compared to what a machine Could do. They do need to eat something. Uh, and this is good food, but we do have lots of food right now. That's what we did not expect, them to take a sharp left right here. Watch them, Josiah. It doesn't look like there's a place for them. Oh no! They went right under my decoy. Come on. Good, good. This is what we want. Just side right here. Okay, we got him in here. It's a traffic jam. Oh yeah, we're having a day, buddy. Papa wanted me to call you and tell you. What happened? I don't know. No, what happened? I don't know. It's bled a couple of times. I didn't hit it or anything. Let's go look at it. Is it crooked? I don't know if it's crooked, but there's like literal coagulated blood. That's not normal. I feel like they said it should— that should have happened like a long time ago. I know. I swear to God this isn't crooked. Okay, it's not crooked. I just need to call the doctor. You deal with this. I'm gonna call the doctor. After lunch, they're still in there and they've eaten the stuff. We can see the wall. Jonah covering Big Daddy's internet, bitch. He's getting you covered, huh? He's getting you covered. Yeah, don't get close, you'll get hurt. Really opting out of dinner? Yeah, still a little under. You didn't like the squash casserole? Did you go through your nose? All right, more for me. How'd it turn out, Beck? Good. This evening Rebecca's putzing around in the garden. Let's see what she's up to. Let's get an update on the house. It's going to take me about a minute to walk over there. That's as long as our trailer for a new micro documentary we're putting out on a friend of mine. She's a sheep shepherdess and a goater, and they have an inspired or inspirational story, him being a vet and disabled and what the farm has been able to do for them. Guys, walk that— watch and enjoy this trailer while we walk over here. I'm making it available to everyone, paid or not. You just got to get the Abundance Plus app and you can watch it for free. I woke up in Iraq one morning, I could not feel my leg. My left leg was just basically completely numb. 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Link down in the description. You gotta sign up for our email list, get the app. You're going to be able to watch it for free. Some perspective, guys. There's the outside. That's our greenhouse, our parking area. Come in through here, there's going to be a mudroom entry. Stairs are going in over there, going up the hill here. Look at this, some plumbing. Pool room's right, right here. Big Daddy's drawing it right there. We're going to have to saw into this concrete. Wait, who's with the baby? Jonah, don't let me forget, we got to go see your corn. But I'm not going to make the same mistake twice. We're gonna get in power to these cows. Check on these cows and sheep. So proud of them, they crush it. This will be even more so in the morning before we move these guys up. Oh no, Payton lost corn. That muffin got in your corn. You think it'll be all right? Yeah, there's still a lot of corn. Yep, this one's got two wires on it. What are you gonna do with all this corn? Eat it. We put them in the front yard, kind of a bulletproof run. There's a mama hen in there, hopefully to train these guys what to do. I put them in the coop thinking, well, maybe they'll stay in there tonight and then they'll know that's home.