This content was created by Victor Justin Rhodes. This content was uploaded by Victor Justin Rhodes. This is a YouTube video titled "Happiest Day For Ike (our Ram)" (created 2024-08-15) consisting of an English farm vlog/dairy/farmstead recording. Multiple family members and farmhands are heard informally narrating and interacting while doing chores: preparing turkeys and large quantities of potatoes, tending chickens and a dust bath, discussing bees and sunflowers, addressing finishing tasks needed for a certificate of occupancy (handrails, ladder, electrical plates), and introducing the ram Ike to ewes and handling lambs (weaning, catching, and bonding). Participants include various named family members or crew (Mom, Josiah, Annie, Gideon, Randolph, Henry, Papa, Beck, Jonah) in a casual, diarized style.
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12 hours of sleep later, I feel better but still tired. Josiah sits down. He's the last holdout. Oh, and Annie got it, so that should be the last holdout. Looky here, déjà vu, déjà vu. Second round of turkey. Let's go do your other turkeys, painters. And we better hustle, it looks like it's going to rain. That'd speed it up, wouldn't it? Come on, let's go! Don't these ones look big? I'm thinking they're ready, Gideon. I think they're ready to eat. All right, you can start it. I'll be right back, don't leave. This is too much for our house. Maybe we need to just get some out. That's 100+ pounds of potatoes. Just getting near the potatoes. Y'all stay here. Mom's feeling better and she's hungry. You hungry? Yeah, I think that's all I am is just weak from not eating yesterday. You filling up cows from the mountain? Is it working? I think I hear it peeling. I think it's peeling off the mountain. I feel like I'd like it to go a little faster. Let's check it in a second. Oh no. Well, water's coming off the mountain. It's been disconnected. Oh yeah, that's a good problem. Ah, so strong. Look at this, it's working! We got water off the mountain. Electricity Required. We've got the chickens the dust bath. They're really enjoying it. This is crucial when it's been really wet and they can't really make one in their run. We forget to put the lid on it at night. We're gonna see if we can't put it in the shawl and hope they don't perch on it. They start laying eggs. How's that, ladies? Don't spoil it. Otherwise we might need to make a dust bath shawl, which I think the ram shawl would do. It's a small shawl that's just a lid. And we could just, uh, it's just a roof. We could just put the dust bath under it to keep it dry. That might work. We have a taker going on their bath. Henry, I heard you. Where are you at? What are you doing? Okay, I need to go talk to Randolph. We lack only 3 things from getting our CO, certificate of occupancy: handrails on the stairs, a permanent regress ladder to my loft in my office. I need to get a picture of something here. Ah, muy bonito. Bien trabajo. Just the painters to finish to put the plates on the switch, and then we can get the electrical inspection. That's it, 3 things. Randolph, hey, hey, do you know where this railing hardware is? They're missing the hardware. Randolph's brave enough to try to put the Cabinets on top of the fridges. What do you call that? It's one of those fridges that hide counter depth. You see the dishwashers? Look, you can't tell it's dishwasher. All right, you found it. All right, I'll give it to him. And those are the handrails. Yeah, yeah. All right, I'll go give it to him. All right, he'll be happy. Should we pull these sunflowers and put them into the chickens? No, she won't. She approved. You can't walk through there. You think they're okay? You're so funny. The bees are still on them. Papa, the bees are still on them. When would be your plan to get them out? Where are honeybees gonna get honey? There's plenty of places. Hey, come on, let's go eat breakfast. Stop messing up the shop. After breakfast. Why don't you want to eat? We're all so starving. I forget, you ate yesterday, so you're not starving. Hey, you feeling any better? He's the last one to come through. We just killed breakfast. Oh, so much. Maybe that'll help us start feeling better. What do you think, Beck? I hope so. Today is the day. It's Ike's best day of the year. Ike's going in with the ladies for January babies. That's perfect, man. Got it right. You did. Look, you nailed it. Now we just have to pull it forward a little bit. A little lamb. Harriet can't be alone. It's not good for them. They get really stressed out. And she and— she and Ike have seemed to bonded, so it's working. I have a question. Yeah, you see these stripes on her? Mm-hmm. Are those hunger stripes? No, those are flossy stripes, right? Flossy. It's American milking Devon stripes, I guess. All right, I don't know how we're gonna do this. If she goes in there, it's fine. There you go. That's it, that's it. Block him. Good work, guys. That was too easy. Happy day for Ike and you. 5-ish months, you know, they have a 3-week cycle, so 5, 6 months we'll have little Ikes. Open it up. I'm pretty sure he'll go straight to the ladies. I wonder if he and the steer are gonna get into it. Look at this, what a happy day. Oh, look, he's curious. We might already have one in heat. Don't fight the steer, Ike. Submit, Ike. You will get beat up. So what we're gonna do is now is catch one of the— oh man, is that one still nursing? Oh yeah, they're all still nursing. Well, we need to wean them. I'd put the steers with the cows, but they nurse. They would drink all their milk. We're gonna find a little baby lamb. That we can put over with Harriet. There's a couple that have been crippled. They're going to be easy to catch. Oh boy, I don't know if I'll be able to catch it, Jonah. The good news is they're not that crippled. Got it, I got it! I think this is Belle's baby, so she's a little more tame. That sheep is just gonna submit immediately. Oh yeah, he could fit underneath there. Yeah, let me be free.
