Finally Got the Rat Who Killed 100 Chicks

It's gonna look red or something. Poke it with something. Ew, yuck, it's like rubber. So I gotta move the fat hens today, but I'm gonna get some poultry nets because they're big enough to go out of the chocker knots. I've gotten Henry Out to the fat hens. My golly, they're going from here to here, so I gotta set the net up. I have set up the new fence. Now I'm gonna move the chickens in. Done with it. Set up the electric fence to it. It's time to go move the turkeys now. They're just going from here, here. Finish the turkeys. Now I'm gonna go in and see how Papa's going.

You are getting cholesterol checkup. But mainly inflammation.

Bye, buddy.

Bye.

We'll see you. You want to give a hug? It's not like we're going away real far. Maybe be gone a couple of hours, 3 hours max. We'll be back soon.

See you in 3 hours.

See you in 3 hours. Bye-bye. He's holding Teddy back. Because Teddy, Teddy would die following you.

Yes, he would.

He would just wear himself out. He's still running after us!

Still going fast. He's still running!

Oh my word.

Oh, Daddy, go home! Go home, you're gonna get eaten. He's gonna get eaten, Justin.

He's still running so fast.

What's gonna eat him?

Coyotes! I'm on a cane today. That's better than a walker. It's amazing how my knee's not better, but it feels so much better. I haven't taken any— I didn't take any pain medicine last night.

No.

Or today. Was able to sleep. You think that one pill I took the night before last is still Still working?

No.

Well, then that means I'm getting better. That means the crappy lettuce is what I like to call it. Creptilettuce?

I don't know. It's an herb for arthritis.

It tastes like crappy lettuce. Like rotten juicy. It tastes like I'm drinking rotten lettuce juice.

Sorry.

Hey, but it's working.

It's helping.

That and everything else I'm doing. Broth. I did take in turkey soup this morning that the turkey had been boiled for a while. Lots of turkey broth because I'm about to go do ozone injection in my— I don't know where.

Well—

Pick a joint, lady.

Well, we're gonna talk to the doctor about it all.

Yeah.

And we're gonna find out if we're gonna do Prolozone, which is ozone, or prolotherapy, which is not ozone, but it's a healing— Oh. Um, it has— it's got some stuff in it that's healing. So I don't know. I don't know what I don't know what we're gonna do. We're gonna find out.

This is on an attempt to avoid steroids.

We watched Seabiscuit over the weekend.

Yeah.

And—

I wonder where this is going.

The horse, you know, it hurt its ligament or whatever, and the vet said, I'll put it— I'll put the horse down if you want me to. And they brought it home and they rehabbed him and he ran, he ran and won again. So I'm not saying we're gonna put you down.

She's like—

or anything, but—

You're gonna give me the put-down sweat and then I'm gonna miraculously heal. We ended up just doing— just traditional ozone. When we talked about prolotherapy, you can correct me if I'm wrong here, Becca. Prolozone.

Yeah, prolozone.

Prolozone or prolotherapy. It turns out it can be really high inflammatory. It's inflammatory.

It can— it creates an inflammatory response in your body, and so her concern was that it would create too much inflammation systemically because of what she actually injects into you.

Our hope was to avoid steroids there. We're gonna think about it through the weekend. Yeah. She and our other doctor are okay with it because this is not like a— this is not a chronic, chronic, it's never gonna go away kind of issue.

It's a lot to go through and it's, it's hard sometimes too to make a decision on what to do because is a level of stress surrounding it all too.

I'm walking into the house. A rat. I'm pretty sure that's a rat, not a mouse, is dismembered. Josiah says that's about the size of the rat that got our sea monsters, 100 sea monsters. Hey, Royal. You deserve a bonus. You know how we have 75 acres but only 10-ish are usable for what we're doing? We got a lot of steep property. We're breaking out the map. Joel Salatin, when he was here, he looked at this with us. You can pan down here. This is our house. We're on both sides of the road, and he was looking, and although it's steep right here, you can see the contour lines. There's maybe he thought 5 or 6 flattish acres up here. So I'm kind of wanting to send the boys on an adventure to maybe find this peak.

We already found it.

Look for any kind of property lines. Did you already find it?

Yeah.

And then, and we kind of go property line, kind of go down and then back up. I'm pretty much going to get a survey so we can find our line. And then look, we have these old logging trails. Joel recommended getting our access roads in for future irrigation ponds, because that would be all going down here to our property. And that'd be pretty amazing. See the old logging trail? Probably won't be that hard to clear. And then wouldn't that be cool, guys? We could actually ride around our entire property. And we might really have something here, Rebecca. Top of the mountain right here. That means we could have pigs there. That means we could have pasture You have cows for animals? That'd be big.

We're up here on the top of the mountain looking for a road up to the top of the mountain for Papa. This is the road that the access road will go up. The trail is pretty steep up through here. This is actually really good. This tree fell from up there and it landed straight right in the ground. That's just nuts. Push it.

Randolph's back today, and you guys will never believe— you know, you saw that rat earlier that one of the cats got, but I believe Randolph got her. Look at that, there's my hand, and she had one— she had 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10— 10 rat babies. Man, so what happened? What's the story, Randolph? Well, I lifted up that floor and, uh, she— well, I was going to get the gun and artillery. She moved every one of them babies to the other side of the room, so I had to take all the plywood up. Yeah, you came and told us about it. Yeah, I was gonna do something about the babies. You went back down there, they're 12 feet away. Yeah, and you saw the mama with them. Yeah, you got her in one shot? No. All right, we got her with a.22. Yeah, that's why we have a.22 and a.22 Magnum, because.22 long rifle is good for rats, little things. Yeah, yeah, it done good though. Good, it did good. That makes my day. We had a rat eat 100— that rat kill 100 chickens. I mean, it's just looking out for its mom. I know you said it was probably pregnant.

You said it was either pregnant or had babies, and that's what it was.

You pregnant mamas get desperate.

We do.

I gotta say, Randolph gets a bonus.

Yeah, I don't know what the bonus is.

We could give him a chicken, we could give him some cash money. We got to give him a bonus. Well, he'd probably enjoy that. We got to go hunting for a rat. Did you guys get soaked?

Yeah, we ran home from the lake.

Oh wow, okay, you came down that side?

When we were on that side, it started pouring.

Okay, well, do we have any— do we have any flat land on our property up there? Yeah, a lot.

Um, I don't know.

Let's see what Jonah thinks. What's the report, Josiah?

It's flat.

It's flat? A lot flat? Pretty much. Mucho flat?

Yeah.

Hey, mucho flat or poquito flat?

I think so.

Can you clear it enough so I can get wheelie up there?

I think so.

Good luck. I want you to look in this bin.

Oh my gosh, is that a rat?

No, that's not a rat, that's the rat.

Yeah, but isn't it? That's, that's the rat.

You see what she's got?

Baby.

You see how many babies?

What's that big rat jaw right there?

That's just an old possum jaw, looks like. Wow, all kinds of interesting things down in there. Possum, raccoon, who knows.

Where'd you find it?

Randolph found it under the flooring in the basement.

The baby's starting to move.

Went on a rat hunt.