Hoping King Feeders Help my Underweight Chickens

Hold on for a second. Caught a mouse last night. Turn that problem into solution. Put in the pig's food. Actually, I wonder if I should give this to the cats. Will you like it if it's dead? They're hungry this morning, so you cats have actually done a great job for mice outside. We haven't got any getting our seeds. We haven't got any in our thousands of pounds of feed just out in the garage. Mr. Brown, your shoes. Okay, you light it and then hand it to me. Okay, thank you. Let me do it.

Daddy, I gotta go pee-pee.

Papa, let's see, we're cooking apples, banana peels, kale stems. Onion tops, carrot tops. Let's let the swill cook while we move the ICs, then we'll come back down, let it cool off, and then maybe feed it towards the end. Mr. Brown, legs are tiring out. I'm saying just come, just come at your leisure. It's gonna take me a while to get up this net. Got it up. Look nice up here. It's one of my favorite spots on the farm. It's gonna look even nicer. When the apple trees come up.

All right, hey there!

Best part of my day: animals on new grass. Give it a flap, come on, Waddle! All right, let's come back for that, check on the swill. How's it going for you this morning?

Good.

Yay! You ready to go to do the pigs? Yeah, okay. He's got his Sawzall. We're clearing where the pigs were. We're gonna see if— did they really help? Come on, I kind of know the answer. I kind of, kind of gonna be very partial, but let's go look. The end. They're gonna love me. Gideon, you coming? We're about to go to the forest. Come on, darling. I told you not to take your pants off. Okay, you put your pants on, I'll get the feed, and then we'll go. That's why I told you not to take your pants off.

Hello.

Hey, buddy. I like your jewelry. Hey, where's your pants and socks and boots? He came home. I told him not to take any of this off. Pay attention, bro. Okay.

Yes, we got it, Bob.

There you go, you got your gloves. Now you're ready. All right, we got 42. That's actually A terrible amount of time to get something done, huh?

Gotta wait until it warms up.

Hey Josiah, good morning! You guys have done— doing a great job. Look at this. Okay, okay, I'll give you your food. These pigs are doing a grand job. Working up this soil, manuring. I've noticed they're manuring in more places, not just right there but down there. Had to be careful where I put the food. You could see where we've put our food and how well they've cleared, right? A little more around a tree. Interesting. So we're going to keep on going down the line there and hopefully time this to a week. This morning we need to see our pile here. I'm thinking there's already a pile going right here. I don't see any trees around that we're going to keep, so let's just make this our burn pile.

That'll be cool, cutting trees into it.

Yep, we can cut trees right down into it. First, let's get this old net out of the way. We don't need it anymore.

It's not really helpful.

It's easier if I just pick it up, but It gets him busy, makes him feel useful. Good job, Mr. Brown! Thank you for helping me. You're getting the logs off of it. Good job, Gideon! Look at you with your work gloves, working hard. Yay! We have maybe 10 minutes, but you know, if you make 1% change for the better every day, you've doubled in not that long of a time. So 10 minutes is better than no minutes. One of y'all told me better not wear that apron while sawing because it could get caught in the blade. Thank you. Thank you. Safety first. How about just this section right here? Did the pigs help us? Well, you used to— couldn't even see down in there because there was so much underbrush. Could they have done a little better? Yes. Did we give them too much space? Yes. So they've got less space this time. And already I'm seeing a big difference.

These boys are so eager.

I have to move around. That's not solving it. I'll cut it down there, okay?

Okay! Y'all let me clear a little area before you come at it. Let me get ahead of you a little bit.

It's good to have some eager boys, but I can't keep up. Come on, I turned the camera on and you stopped drinking. Come on. All right, they all three came and got a good drink. We did clear this. We cleared from right here to right here. Little time is better than no time. We got something done. Hopefully tomorrow we can get out here and get a little bit more time. I'm thinking we could get this down tomorrow. They're back at the water. I just want you to see it. You guys have got to see this. This is where the pigs were last— the time before last. Look at this grass coming up. Are you serious? Look, look right here. Look at all this come out. This is grass that was not there, that they disturbed. They got that out, out of the seed bank. And just wait a minute, this is where they were last time, just last week, just a few days ago. Look in here, look in the midst of this forest. Do you see it? Oh my gosh, oh my gosh, that'll excite a grass farmer for sure. It just proves to me that it's working, that this effort, that this hustle— work a little bit, hustle— is paying off. Look, grass growing right underneath this locust tree. This is gonna be the cow's favorite spot, this tender grass shade under the locust. Mm, let me pass it to you. All right, it's all you, it's all you. Take it. Time to feed the pig pork some skim. Oh, oh, there was a— oh yuck. Y'all want to see that? I can't find it. It's not too hot for you guys. You got your fishing stuff out?

Yeah, I'm making room for a new tackle box. I want to tackle.

When you gonna get new tackle?

I don't know, we're going to, um, Dick's to get tackle today.

No, when? I don't know. Okay, okay, is this the third time? Help us. Okay, I told Mr. Brown, go get your boots on, get your snack. He's wanting a snack, and then I'll come get you. I'm going to talk to Jason. That's boring. And then I'm coming back for milking. Look who's here! Good morning. So we had a leak right there. Okay, I don't know if you— do you think you can do anything more for your leak, or is that A roofer. Should we get a roofer?

I could probably caulk it more. Okay.

I mean, I'm not sure what else.

Okay.

I actually—

I just got some more caulk, another tube of it, but like it's for wet locations, so you can apply it on when things are wet.

Oh, maybe that helps. The only thing we have here, Jason, is water getting in the side here.

Yep.

You're gonna fix that with the gutters.

Yeah, that should fix it with the gutters.

But somehow this has come apart and it doesn't reach over, right?

I mean, now looking at the pigs, me, I have no experience with pigs. Like, maybe if I did have experience with pigs, maybe I would see this latch and be like, okay, that's not gonna work. But now that I see it and see how big they're getting, yes, I could see that latch and be like, okay, that's not gonna work, right?

Yeah, they just shoved this around enough split. We can try it.

I mean, I bought, um, like a one of those carabiners so you can maybe like after you latch it put that in like a lock.

Yeah, we could try that. That's Flossie's too, Beck. 2 gallons. She even bumped it a little bit. I want you to look at Flossie's eye. All better. Kick that. Come on, she does not like to get out of the stanchion. Come on, come on, come on. Now Manzo's working on that mouse now. Been editing the Ben and Meg Holler Homestead video. Their story is amazing, absolutely inspiring. We've been looking through old footage to put in the video, and it's just amazing how they went from quitting the job to build themselves as a family, travel to America, and finally found it. And we're actually helping them build it. This That's amazing. And Rebecca's got her pickles out.

Well, I'm just looking at them.

Oh, they're not done?

Well, when did I start them? What's today? It's been 7 days today.

So does that mean that's the day?

So do you test it on—

I thought it took longer than 7 days.

It said 1 week to 3 weeks.

Oh.

Are we gonna try one?

I guess.

That's cucumber from our garden. Yep. You can try. Oh my.

Is it good?

Mm-hmm.

What do you mean when you say oh my?

I'm gonna say, well, it was better. It's better than Bubby's. It's a hair salty.

That tastes delicious.

I want to let it go just a little bit.

I see the potential here. Huge potential.

It's gonna be good.

It's a hair salty. That's a lot for me to say too.

Well, then I'll cut down the salt next time, but these taste pretty good.

Wow, I'm impressed. All right, Jason is done. How'd it go, buddy?

Went pretty well. I mean, it took a little bit of a thought process, but yeah.

I mean, you are putting a gutter system on a carport, right? Nobody does that, right?

No, there's no directions.

Like, even if this leaked for a car, who cares, right? Right.

No one's thinking about pigs.

And most carports are level, but this looks good, man.

Yeah, I even tested it with the hose. Just to make sure.

Yeah, that always works better with the camera. Did you capture that?

Yes, I did.

You captured that? Okay, good. You're making a video about this one?

Yes.

Okay, when's that coming up? Uh, yeah, probably next. Okay, I'll link your channel. Uh, we got the both sides. It's looking good. The water's gonna come off.

Yes.

What is going on this evening? Premier One King Feeders. Hopefully our solution to our, um, underweight sea monsters.

These are the homemade pickles that we ate today.

So will you be able to make pickles out of this? So big. Yeah, I'm gonna—

yes, these I'm gonna ferment right here.

Cool.

What you doing, bud?

Safe and out here.

Nice. All right, Rebecca, we— Jason also had some time. We got a drying rack for your garlic just in time. Two buckets, right? Do you know the spacing and stuff, or do you just put them on there?

Can we start at maybe one end and then I was just pulling them out?

Okay. All right, time to assemble these King Feeders. Boom! Two of those going out. Hey, I was gonna— I was gonna put three of them out. I didn't order enough lids. I thought I had an extra lid. Look how big that carrot is. Y'all are eating that like candy bars. It is candy.

Sweet.

Mom, you won't be able to keep them off of it now.

I'm all right with that.

Are you?

Look at Mom saving these tomatoes. I gotta get her— give her a hard time for her volunteer tomatoes taking over the, uh, sidewalk. We might have to tie something to hold these off or drive stakes in the ground.

It's all right, we'll get enough. Of good tomatoes out of them for that, for the work, for how much pain in the butt they are.

You guys weeding the strawberries? We are. I'm gonna go take this sea monster feed out. All right, what's that for? Each, each, each of them? Yeah, one bucket for each.

Yeah.

Okay, let's do it. You're funny. Okay, put it there. All right, Jonah, you don't think it's gonna tip? Okay, I guess not. Good deal. Out here at the sea monsters. They're not like all swarmed around this thing, so— but I think I want them to be more leisurely eating, and I want to— I'm— they're underweight, guys, they're underweight. So we're butchering this in like what, 9 minutes? 2 and a half weeks? 2 weeks?

2 weeks?

2 weeks tomorrow. Yeah, we got to pump up the Volume. It's funny, our other ones were overeating. We had to restrict feed. Their crops are full.

They're too spry. I saw just one jump onto that hood.

Yeah, they're so spry. They are. They're so healthy. They're out and about. They're burning calories moving about.

So Yep, we should.

Look, they're crowded. That one, and then some are over here, and those wouldn't have been able to fit. So I'm thinking this is going to create a more leisure— whenever they feel like it, there's going to be a spot for them to eat.

All right, Jonah, what are we doing?

Picking the acorn squash. Look how big it is!

Let me see.

Wow.

All right, pick it.

No, Papa has to be here.

No, he said it's okay. Goodness, put it up to your head. It's like as big as your head.

It's probably bigger than my head. It's as big as Gideon's, see?

Whoa, it is! That's a good-looking acorn squash you got there. It's a good thing because our family loves acorn squash.