Honey Do List | Pretty Chicken Coop Build Cont...

Jonah, Jonah, Jonah, Jonah. Here you go, you'll need that to call me. First thing let's do is break it open, haul this stuff in. Yeah, because I think— I don't think we can carry it all at once. Well, I know we can't carry it all at once. Okay, there it is. This is what separates our chick shawls from a pretty shawl. Nice tin, nice roofing. What do you call this thing? Nice boarding. Oh, is that— you're gonna be your trim, those little pieces?

But I was thinking it was a bit bigger.

Oh, that's a little tiny trim.

I know, I might have to go to Lowe's.

You might want to go ahead and order some bigger trim.

I couldn't find it on their website.

What about 1x4s? That's what I was thinking. Okay, or 1x2s.

Yeah, we could do that. Yeah, yeah, because that trim—

I'll show you a 1x2 in there.

I just ordered what I was looking at.

Is it full? Does it need to be drained? Yeah, I don't know. Let's drain it. I soaked the pigs' feed last night. Uh, they're gonna love me extra special today. Gonna water the new—

sorry, I'm sorry—

gonna water me the newly planted carrots and lettuce. Wasting no time because the cold is coming, the light— the days are getting shorter. Hopefully, Rebecca When are we gonna do this? Pull this back and sow a fall cover crop, huh? And pack away the plastic. Problem is we got a lot to do. We've got this, we've got the shishaw, we've got— we've kind of hurry on the shishaw because Grandma wants her chickens back and her chickshaw back. So, and we need to get those pigs out. Yeah, like that needs to happen this weekend.

Well, we need to happen in the cold. I think we could do that. Well, not if we're gonna plant.

I think it all needs to happen like this weekend, like Sunday seed day is getting the pigs out, so, and cover, uh, cover crop. What do you think?

Don't we have to shape beds?

Oh, I thought we shaped— oh yeah, you're right.

Shape beds, put compost down, so cover crop, get all this weedage out.

Yeah, that's next week.

Like, it's a lot of work. There's a lot more than just—

yeah. All right. One thing that's going to help us on a crunch like this is we've got Jonah, Josiah, and Arun doing the regular morning chores. We'll catch up for them for milking time, but Mom and I, she's gonna water, we're gonna feed the pigs and get this chickshaw ready. Did I say chickshaw? I meant pretty shaw. But talked to Randolph yesterday, our carpenter. About how to do this arched roof. I'm not a carpenter, so I incorporated some consult, and then he's like, you know, because he's kind of been out, he's had some knee problems, but he's like, you know, I could come back to work on Monday. And I'm like, yes! Oh, is that mine? Okay, they hungry? Oh yeah, they've gotten to that point.

They're like, oh, big papa's coming!

See if I can get them. Follow a bucket. See if they're ready for a move. Pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig. I think they're ready to go. What do you think?

Yeah.

You think they'll follow me anywhere now? We'll wait till they get this milk soaked grain. They'll follow me anywhere. Kelp, Swine NutriBalancer DE, vitamin C, and charcoal. They're still excited about it. So we got them some minerals there. It's good for you to pet them, Lily. Hey, I think we got a name for him. Well, you know, we have— we've named him Beefcake. He's our breeder, he's our boar. One of the commenters said, how about Beefcake? Then best is Cheesecake. Make people laugh, that's what we're trying to do here.

Get a second pan in here for her.

Beefcake does hog the pan a little bit, so I'm thinking two pans of feed will help a little bit. Hey, thanks. Pigs usually pick a favorite spot to poop. These guys have been no different. Makes it easy to cover, doesn't it, buddy?

It does. I need to— she's gonna spin.

Look, they seem to do all right most of the time. She's so much smaller. Here, right there. Oh wow.

Hey, you're supposed to guys get married and behave.

Get married and behave. Look, they end up eating out of the same pan anyway. It's the same thing with Diesel and, uh, Hammer. I got them two pans, but they end up eating out of the same one. I don't know what it is. Look, they think one's got something special. Well, maybe they'll go for it. All right, Teddy. Oh yeah, don't, don't put— are you really putting Teddy in here? All right, Teddy. Oh, really? Look, you got him out of here. Look, he's like, that looks kind of tasty. All right, well, you think we can get started on this shaw? I like Mom's wood here. It's going to be beautiful paneling, beautiful roof. So this is 1x2, Rebecca?

Yeah, yeah, that's what I just—

I'll order someone thinking that, right? Yeah, for your trim. Okay, this is good. This is why we're going over it, so stuff like this can get ordered.

Was this made here? Did we make this?

We had it longer and we were gonna do the swivel nesting box, but we don't do that anymore. We realized we don't need a swiveling bar, which makes it even more simple, because if we want to block chickens from getting in this nest box, my buddy Mike said just do this. Voila! You could even turn them backwards, and then you do that in the afternoon and chickens can't get in there if they've gotten the habit of getting in there and perching. And you do that for a week or two and you broke them of it, and you can turn it around. You still have to have a landing bar, but it is more simple because this doesn't have to swivel. We're just making this simple and simpler. So we're almost there, Rebecca. I think the only thing we need to do is build the frame on top that hinges, and it'll be ready for Rambo. We should make a dust bath for the chickens. Okay, well, let me talk to you about this. Yeah, we should. We'll put a dust bath around. Rebecca, you're gonna have this dust bath. This is gonna be solid, helps protect the nesting box. This is gonna be— you're gonna have to decide how big of a window you want here so you know how much trim you want to get. I want a pretty big window, but I'm voting a pretty big window, like maybe this big. Yeah, right? No, on both sides. And then you're gonna— are you gonna put the door in the middle? Yeah, it's gonna be thinner.

It's a 1-foot door, 1 foot wide.

So you're going to do a 1-inch wide door, a 1-foot— sorry, yeah, 1-foot wide door, because— and that makes it— it's gonna be harder to get in there through the door. So it's good we're making a hinge. I thought about it, you might get away with a normal Chickshaw 2-foot wide door not even having a hinge. Yeah, because you can get in there on this 4-foot by 4-foot one. Yeah, you can easy. Yeah, but I want a small door. We're gonna get you a small door and windows on both sides. Yes. This is where I really appreciate Randolph, is he's not just a carpenter, he's thinking farm-wise. You know what he said? You know how— okay, so this is about right. He said we could put our roof angle at whatever we want, right? But the roof's like this, you can't put an opening here because rain will get into the nest boxes. So this needs to be solid. All your openings and your roof can be down there. Okay. Oh, that was easy. I thought you were gonna put up a fight. Okay. All right, so, oh, here's another thing. We— I— you're gonna make an order. I think you need to get some hinges because remember, we're gonna hinge— we're gonna put— we're gonna actually put some kind of door there to cover up the Ugly, ugly milk crate nesting boxes. Or you could paint those nesting boxes. Okay, I have 15 minutes till milking time. I am going to join them for that. Can I do it? Can I do one frame up here? I think so. I got my roof fitted and cut. I just need to put it together. I mean, to make some measurements and put this thing together. That's my goal. They're pressuring me. They're ready for me to milk. Technically, I have 5 minutes, but I guess they're ahead. So let's get this done. We won't be able to hinge it, but I think we'll at least see if I cut it right. All right, I almost got it. I got it enough to test it. We have to do this at the ends because this is our 4-foot cube from here to here, but then we have to have end support for our roof. But I want to wait and put that one on because I've learned the hard way you want to put that hinge on first. Before you try mounting a hinge in here. So which end we gonna hinge it from? Okay, be better to hinge it over here because those handlebars would be in our way. So there you go. I think that's gonna work. Yes! I measured right. So there's our frame on top. There'll be another one here. Oh. That's where I'll put my hinge. I'll flip this, but there'll be another board here. Here, let's see if I can just put this in without screwing it. I don't have time, I'm gonna have to go milk. Yeah, it'll be like that. That looks pretty good though, doesn't it? It'll be a nice little overhang. The roof will be like— oh, I wonder if I didn't have to do that. Well, we could do that with the roof, but I think you do that— shoot, I could have just, could have just done it. Well, we're one step further, just a little bit more to do. So how's a real roof work? Because this, it comes out mucho. I think I might have messed up. The overhang comes from the extension. Yeah, look. The roof doesn't stick out and then it go— and then go down. Ah, the roof. Yeah, I messed it up. I didn't have to— this didn't have to overhang. This could be like this. It's easy fix. But so, so that would be like that, and then the overhang comes from the roof hanging over. See that? That's how it works. All right, well, all I have to do is cut these 3 inches. And redo them. Okay, another time. Lily, let's go milk. How's it going up here, Rune? Pretty good. That time, save some for the sheep. Yeah, I have here. Okay, good. Oh good, look at the sheep, boy. They're getting the— they're getting the memo. You put your leg back. Do the back of your— do the back of your wrist so you don't get your hands dirty on her leg. See what I'm saying? She has some, uh, cuts on this one just from drying out. I think we put some of our— we got Synergy Animal Products, um, udder cream. And I think we're not going to give her the calf right away. We'll come back in an hour. Just to let that set in because the calf would start nursing right away. So we'll get her over the shed, over the sheep, over— keep them separated for about an hour and then get them back together. The little calf is not happy about it. We'll get you to her, okay? She'll feel better. All right, back at it. Got about 20 minutes, so I need to start making brunch. Johnny, will you unscrew these for me? We made them— I mean, it's 6 inches too long. What I did do right is go long this way. I think it'll be good to go long that way on either side because it arches up like that, and it's gonna be great to have some overhang. All right, I got my— I'm working on perfecting these plans, getting closer and closer. We've got this set up, we've got this shortened, we just got to attach our hinge. And I think we'll be ready for Randolph. I'm gonna need some expertise for the rest, so we're good. Josiah and I are cooking breakfast. He's heating up some rice. He's cooked some of our sausage, our eggs, our chicken. That's a nice looking plate. Leftover Indian chicken, Italian sausage, bacon, eggs. Y'all happy with your breakfast? What are you having, breakfast tacos? Good deal. Breakfast was good. I want to show you one thing here. We got our, our bundle up. It's Get Your Homestead Bundle this weekend. You know, um, we're not vlogging this weekend. There's no shows this weekend. But if you want more of us, it's Homesteaders of America. It's online. You can sign up for my bundle, it's down below, and I'm going to give you my Intro to Permaculture show notes, which I'll be speaking on, and then I'll give you what I've written about, a piece I've written about getting your children involved. That's one of many topics we'll be talking about with family-friendly homesteading. And I'll give you a link to sign up for Homesteaders of America should you want to. 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