I Thought I ruined My Cows Stanchion (Too Narrow)!

We go too narrow somehow. Hey guys, do you think we should get Phyllis down here to try it? No. Well, what if tomorrow morning we can't get her in there? Then we'll just— what do you want me to do?

Because you have to milk her.

You think she can fit in there? She's so wide on the side. All right, I just think it looks small, so I'm getting her down here right now because I don't want to find out tomorrow morning she can't fit in the stanchion. Randolph, what What do you think about us testing it? Yeah, you already put these boards on the outside and higher, so that's good. All right, you're the tester. All right, Mr. Brown, we'll see you, buddy. He said he wants to stay in. He's gonna help Mom, right? I heard you say it, you were gonna help Mom. Hey, we got back on schedule after this crazy time change. Getting back on time with the milking at 8 o'clock. It's an hour early for you, isn't it, Flossie? Messy. And for you, Miss Phyllis, it's an hour early. But first, these guys have been getting out. Do you think it could have something to do with this dinky fence? You can have something to do with this or this. You're getting out right here. It's a little saggy. Do you guys know where a cap is? We're missing two caps. Good morning. Hey, where is Teddy? No, she doesn't. Look, I think he's so friendly. The other animals aren't so friendly. You're so friendly and trusting. You just accept everybody. Behind the scenes here. Listening to Smart Passive Income, Pat Flynn. One of the best podcasts out there, guys. When I first started out in this business, huge, huge for helping me know how to do this online content marketing thing. Also got a text from my assistant. Here, let's do this. Let's milk and talk.

Can't open the door.

You might need to hammer it in because I can't get it far. Finish nails are hard, especially in this tough wood. Thank you for fixing that. I said, hey, you gotta— you help me milk. He said, I think I'll clean up. Oh my gosh, you'd rather clean up than milk? Well, as you probably maybe know, I'm getting Joel Salatin to come here, guys. One of the segments we're going to do is actually for the vlog. He's going to be on that side milking, I'm going to be on this side milking. Well, it won't be the vlog, it'll be an interview show. Milking Time with Joel Salatin. That'll come to you guys, uh, March 29th. But beyond that, we're also capturing a bunch of content for the member area. He's doing a lesson on You Can Farm. I'm doing a lesson tour on Permaculture Homestead, and we're going to do a consult. Like, we're going to go around this farm and Joel's going to do a homestead consult, like how we might improve, therefore how you guys might improve. I kind of always wanted Joel Salatin to be like my uncle, like be able to just text him up call him up. What about coming to the farm? He's coming to the farm, guys! I've been following him. He's been a mentor of mine through the books and then through going there and getting interviews with him. Now he's coming here. Now, he's not free. He values his time. Totally respect that. Happy for that. Uh, contracted with him for this. So what we're gonna get great content from the member area, which By the way, opens— when are we gonna open that? We're gonna open that, uh, the 20th— yo, it's out there— 30th, uh, March 30th. You know, I'm just giving you guys the behind the scenes. Mega here. One thing I learned last night— I'm in this, uh, about this business book from Donald Miller, and he's give us this free summit. They said one thing you want to do is, uh, do a waiting list. Okay, let's do a waiting list. You guys want on the waiting list for the spring launch of our member area? I'm gonna put out that waiting list, and how about I give you guys— like, everybody on my list— early bird access? Like early bird gets the worm, or early bird gets to milk Flossie. Where's Brianna? I'm early today, I get to milk Flossie because she's easy to milk. Anyway, that was, uh, Heather, my assistant. Heather is a great assistant. We go way back. Works from home. Anyway, I asked her, please send me updates because— well, you guys don't— well, do you know? No. Some of you know this. With Joel, we're capturing some vlog content, a lot of member content, but we're also opening it up to a few for a physical workshop. And long story short, we opened it up to the members first, sold 7. Just opened it up to those of you on my email list, sold 2 already this morning. It's only like 8:30. We only sent that out like 2 hours ago. Jonah, there you are! I'm gonna switch your cows. Switch my cows, bro. Thanks, man. Right there.

Watch out, he's behind you.

He's right here. Hey, you playing with everybody? You playing with everybody?

Sit down, sit down. You're just too cute.

Oh, you're just with me. You're with me. Gallon and a half. She's slowing down. Uh, it could be because we milked an hour early. Calf could have got her at the last minute.

Did we milk her early today or was that yesterday?

Yesterday we were basically on time. Their time. This is like milking them at 7:30 right now. Anyway, how do you feel? Because we, we decided we were gonna go to bed an hour early.

I feel pretty good.

So we're in the bed, lights out by 9.

Well, try it. It was like 9:15 last night.

You know what I mean? Well, okay, 9:30 then instead of 10:30. How about that?

Yeah, I'm liking it. I think that it's gonna be— once we get, uh, more sleep, because I'm— I think that we will My prediction is that we'll sleep longer for a little bit and then we'll start waking— like, we'll not— because you can't catch up on sleep.

No, we hope to start getting up earlier. She tells me the hours you get before midnight of sleep are better than the hours after midnight.

That is what I've read, is that the, the hours before midnight are more restorative than hours after midnight.

And wasn't it Benjamin Franklin who said Early to bed, early to rise. Early to rise makes one healthy, wealthy, and wise.

Yes, I think so.

All right, let's go with it. So what I was saying was, did I say we're gonna have like a workshop here, like hands-on, but only 15 people? So we just thought, okay, let's open it up to the members first. Uh, we're only gonna take 15 people. It was in here. If you're on the email list, check for that. But if you're not on the email list, get on that waiting list for the member area and that That's one way to get you on the email list. And let's, let's be fair to you guys, we'll send out an email again Thursday. So you're gonna get this Tuesday. That gives you a couple of days to get in there, get on my email list, and then maybe you're one of the few who can come and like be in an intimate event with Joel and I. I'm going back down. Who's going with me? I know Jonah is. He's gonna take— hey, hey, Ted, are you going? Well, that would have been cool if that was Teddy Roosevelt who said that. I don't think it is.

Theodore. Somebody said they're like, when you're angry at him, you're gonna call him Theodore.

But Teddy does have another good quote. Named Teddy like teddy bear, but it does remind me of Teddy Roosevelt's quote, one of my favorite quotes. It's not the critic who counts, nor the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds can have done them The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming, but who does actually strive to do the deeds, who knows great enthusiasm, the great devotions, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat. Look who's here, Randolph! I've got Randolph back. We're looking at some more stanchions thing here, Randolph. You did a wonderful job on this fence. It's working so good. What I want to do is get rid of this cattle panel And I want a gate that opens right there. Yeah, so it would hinge right here. So it'd be good if it opened like we could come and open it this way, and then that way somebody could get on this side and milk. So I'm saying, here's where it's going to get tricky. Yeah, so the stanchion is too wide. Yeah, so I'm thinking we need to It can be over where it is, so it can move that way, but I think it needs to be 10 inches more narrow because we want to be able to get 2 people on either side. And right now it's too wide, and it's too wide for the cow anyway. Yeah, so this needs to come in about— and I don't know if it needs— if you can reuse it. Oh, I mean, all the stuff this way obviously doesn't need to be touched, except I want this to come up a foot this side and 10 inches outside. No, total 10 inches. If you go from both sides, then just do 5 inches. Yeah, okay. But if it's easier to do one side, just do— all right. We're gonna actually gain 10 inches in our hallway, which is gonna be nice too. Yeah, because right now, if that bucket's right there, this, this won't swing. Yeah. But if that bucket was 10 inches over, yeah, that would have swung. Yeah. Yep. What kind of— does it matter what kind of gate you want? One like that? No, I don't want one like that. I'm glad you asked. I'm gonna tell you, get one of those tube. Yeah, like red tube, red, you know what I mean? Red. I think those look better. Okay. You know, I hate to— I think we'll do with this, but I was thinking maybe replace it, but it's in pretty good shape. All right, as Pop would say, use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without. Yeah, that's the motto, ain't it? Yeah, if you're here, he'd make you cut that gate and use it, wouldn't he? Yeah, yeah, he would. He's like, can't you make that work over there? That's right. All right, we're gonna get Wilder and the puppy together.

Look at his dog! He's gonna be my baby.

I don't think that dog will spend a day alone in his life. Oh, is he gonna take a nap?

He already did.

How do you get a nap with all these kids? Look, he's dragging because he's got FOMO. You don't want to miss out. Might be done, guys. Hey, it got hot, but is it cooked through? Oh, I think we're ready, guys. Breakfast is ready. Breakfast is ready. Breakfast is ready. Breakfast is ready. Breakfast is ready. Where's Mr. Brown? Okay, I just answered about 20 emails about this, uh, This Joel Salatin event, I think one underlying theme that maybe would apply to you guys is the question that I'm getting, is this just going to be available as a workshop? No. The question is no. Like, most of you are actually going to benefit from— well, I'm going to put the interview I'm having with Joel online on YouTube, and then most of the other content is going up into our member area. Overwhelmingly, most of you are not going to be able to make this event. It's only open to 15, but we're going to document it very, very well and get it out to you guys in a broad way. Oh, and some of my YouTube friends are coming, and they'll be documenting as well too, and that will be going up on their channels for free. So look forward to lots of content about this soon. Lily has recruited me to help her with— I'm sitting here editing, and I just realized The Joel Salatin thing, I'm gonna send that email out Thursday, but you might want to get on the email list because I'm gonna give you like the best of Joel Salatin. I'm gonna give you all the links like to free stuff like his— well, his books aren't free, but to his books. But then I'm gonna give you videos I've done with him in the past that are free. I think you're gonna want to just get on the email list just to get that. Is he having fun? Oh, he's having a blast. I'm almost done with the vlog. Jenna's editing a gift from Chris. There you go. That's a terrible lighting. Chris Bordessa from the Attainable Sustainable book.

Justin and Rebecca, just a little fun thank you for your support. I'm so honored that you're sharing Attainable Sustainable with your membership.

Aloha.

Coffee, banana chips, banana chips from Hawaii, organic Hawaiian honey, all-purpose seasoning, a Kona bar.

So Chris, thank you, Chris wrote this amazing book published by National Geographic. Just a bunch of homestead, living off the land, homemade living, cooking lifestyle book that is amazing to read and look at and to feel. You guys ought to think— this feels amazing. But anyway, she's thanking me because I bought 100, 100 of these to give out with my members launch coming at the end of the month. Like, I'm stacking this thing, guys. Special thank you for Chris for sending this amazing stuff. Thank you. And for anybody else, you guys might want to check this book out. It's, it's amazing. We're giving, uh, it away with our membership at certain tiers coming up at the end of the month. All right, I'm going back to the grind. It's almost 3:30. We really need to be getting out there. It's a move day. I'm almost done with this vlog. Let me finish this vlog and then we'll go break away. We gotta break both— break away. I did finish. Still gotta write the description, get the thumbnail. You coming with today?

I was thinking I would, but I need to— how long is the video?

Uh, 20 minutes, 22 minutes, 30 minutes. You need to watch that?

Yeah, that, and then I need to make dinner.

Okay. All right, Josiah, we got your chores, my man. Will you collapse the seats? And Sally, we're gonna have to get the mom's minerals. Let's check and see how Randolph's doing. Look at this, we're already 10 inches more narrow. I see how you did it. You just cut into it right there. Yeah. And this is— did you raise these two? You haven't raised these yet. No, you wanted them 10 inches higher, is that right? Yeah, but I think this was mounted in You see what I'm saying? Yeah. So I think—

is she gonna be able to—

it might have been to where we need to make it. Oh my gosh, right there! You see what I'm saying, man? We both be milking now, Jonah, huh? You're not excited? Wait, wait. Uh-oh, backfiring on me. Man, this looks snazzy. Hey, garden girl. Yeah, did you see the stanchion?

I did. Are you afraid it's too small?

Yeah, it looks— it's tripping me out. I'm like, this is too small. But I measured. I was even thinking I should take 12 inches off. Yeah, yeah, your plants are jamming.

I know, I feel like we're doing really good here.

All right, I just think it looks small, so I'm getting her down here right now. Oh, oh, we got through, Randolph! It was a bit of a squeeze, right? I don't think she paid attention. She did. She said— I thought it so much. Look, I nailed it! Yeah, because look how much room she's got in there. See, now I can lean against the cow. Oh, I like it. Just says we're gonna try it. We're gonna try this with the squeeze bar, squeezing her over, and then somebody can sit right there, which is real nice. But I'm wondering if the squeeze bar mounted in the inside is gonna make it too narrow. You want to let her out?

Let her out.

Here, I'll do it. Here you go, Mustang.

Do I take her up?

Yeah. Okay. I couldn't— didn't get to see it. You don't even hit it. I feel like she was— her belly's below it. Yeah. What'd you think? My finger right there, she didn't even touch my finger. Yeah, I think that'll work. I mean, if it doesn't, I'll cut it. I'll cut it and hang it in there. Yeah. And we decided to go ahead and cut a little shorter, that way we'll get a fresh end and it will hang in here so it won't— she didn't hit it, but this but like when it hangs in storage, it kind of hangs out like that, see? So she would come in here and that'd be too narrow. But if it was chained up and it was over here, she didn't even act like we'd made any changes.

It does look really thin.

I'm back up here with the sheep. I put up two of their new nets and I'm about to carry them this water. But isn't this a beautiful day? Holy smokes, it's a beautiful day. Not gonna complain about having to walk this water or having to go— can you see it in there through the woods? You probably can't see it. Way over there is the other net. Yeah, I'm not gonna complain, it's a beautiful day. Warm too. I just realized I'm trekking this water into here. To their sheep shawl. Their sheep shawl is going to be moved right over there. Just carried this for nothing. It's a good workout though. I can do some curls while I'm carrying this water. All right, I'm gonna put this right there. The next move is to get that net. Let's get that net and put it up. We got it. We're ready to move these guys. Best part of a grass farmer's day, moving animals to new grass. Oh, let me show you something. Let me show you something. I'm glad I remembered. Okay, so look at here, look here. Multi— uh, what's it? Why am I blanking on this name? Multiflora Rose. Look at this budding. Okay, it's terrible. You walk through the pasture, ah, you— this, this rubs you. It's a briar. Cows don't eat it. It spreads like crazy. You guys are already ready for this move, aren't you? There they go. Now this is a multiflora rose where they were. Look how the sheep ate all the buds off of it. It was budding. Oh sure, they left some here at the top. But they loved it. They ate the buds off of it. This root system is going down, so it's mining for minerals, I imagine, and the sheep are getting it. But this is gonna die. It's gonna die. I don't know if this round, but if they keep doing that to it, it's gonna die. The cows are a little behind the sheep. They're not as cooperative. All right, let's go, buddy. Come on. Oh, oh, we're too weak right there. I need to add a brace right here on the end of this. Hopefully I can pull it. I did it! Oh, hold it by the front like that. Ow, briar! I won't miss them holding it up like that. Okay guys, you're sitting on my bucket. Let's grab it. Sit right there. Sit right there. That had been knocked over, so I don't know how long it had been. They don't seem too thirsty, guys. I got chocolate for you after supper. Yeah. Also want to notice something. This dog is amazing. He's just sitting chilling right there while we eat.

He's not chilling.

No whining. Was that him I heard barking earlier though?

What?

I did hear some barking consecutive.

Oh, that was this. Yeah, that was nice.

That's the most I heard. Oh, that was probably y'all.

We were fine.

He's playing with his blanket. How's your video going, Jonah?

Getting there.

Now don't feed him from the plate, then he'll— then we'll start a bad habit.

Then he'll start whining.

No, don't feed him from the plate.