Look What Happens AFTER Chickens Prep My Garden

Over here at the Animal Garden Miracle, your tarps are being blown off. These are going to be our spring gardens. See, critical that these stay down, so we're going to add more sandbags way down our silage tarp so they don't blow away. That's one project. This is where the chickens were a little bit ago. We gotta go in and rebuild our beds where the chickens scratched the surface. The beds are still there, but they put some of the loose material and the pathways. 9 gallons of milk right here, plus the 3 or 4 more we're gonna get this morning for cream separating. Frozen ice packs. That happens sometimes in the cooler cooling off the milk. The bottom came out. I'm glad that didn't come out with our glass. You got it secured? Yeah. Did you guys I think so. Dress problem number 2. Look at these, they're normal light bulbs. I'm back out in the loft. It's pretty dark in here, right? Can you see me? I turned on the light and the lights went out. Normally I would wait till Rebecca has to fuss at me. I'm gonna be on it today. Yay! That's really enough. But it's not enough. That one's out too. It goes like that sometimes. No, a lot of times. You're on time for doing chores, maybe you're a little early, and then the lights go out. And we got another issue. What we've been soaking the milk in, you can see it's getting hazy. All right, all right, Grandma, Grandma, camera from the other side. You gonna stay and read a little bit, buddy? How are your chickens this morning?

Good, but Peter broke—

You're welcome. Wouldn't be far— Oh snap! Wouldn't be farming without problems. Tried to knock the feet out and broke the feeder. There's your water on this 26-degree morning. It's gonna be frozen around the ring. Yep, don't want to break this thing. There. Well, let's see, with 7 minutes to go, we should check the waters. And the nesting boxes. Those are the nesting material. The boys don't— I don't know, they just don't really do it. And the waters, it's so important. I'll do it. Oh, and let's— while we're at it, let's show you what we hope to do today with the gardens. See that blinking red? Every other one red. Battery's half dead, so we'll switch that battery out, get another one charging. What? It's good.

You wanna know a trick?

What?

Hands up.

Yeah.

When the ice is stuck in this hole, Papa, you get one of these and you just shove it down it and the ice goes out of it like this. See, there's a piece of ice blocking it and you go like this.

How's Lily gonna feel about you wearing her gloves out here?

She'll never know. Oh, I knew, I knew.

How'd you know?

Because I saw him walking by me.

How did you feel about it?

Uh, crazy.

Were you upset? Yeah. You look real upset. You let them out, please. I'll check the nesting boxes.

Good.

Oh, they've been turning it sideways. Good job turning it sideways so they won't go in there at night and perch. Good job. Here it comes. There you go. How's that?

It's good.

Did you guys already let out the other chickens?

Nope.

Okay, good. The water's working. You guys need to get out of here. Why are all these frozen? When they're frozen, I hit the hot wire to that plastic. It's a cage fight. Come on, I'll let you out. Sorry it's taking me a minute.

Good, good.

Oh, bad.

Holy squats, right there. Squatty hay, clean hay. Food's coming. We're gonna restore beds there. We also got to do it up at a Rune's Garden and cover them. So get the tarps out, get more sandbags out. Hope we ordered enough sand. It doesn't really look like sand here at our old pig port. We're taking the material, pyramiding it up, hopefully getting it breaking down some more. How about let's get the chickens on this? They can help. They can manure that. They can scratch that, pile it up there. Maybe in a week move it over to this side. So we gotta clear out that wall and these walls, and we gotta finish piling that up. Oh, and this happens sometimes. You have a Mysterious death. And it's kind of sad because I don't know why this thing died, so I'm a little hesitant to feed it to the pigs. Still, it won't go to waste. I'll feed it to the forest. Hey, what you guys got? Teamwork. Okay, thanks. Put some skim in that, honey. We got lots of skim. We don't need to do grain really. See, we're gonna do skim again today, and there's 15 gallons over there. So will you guys do the pigs? Clean out their pans and water pans real good, please. You'll have to bring them back. I see the spigot is hooked up and on. I'm wondering if you did that this morning though. Nope, it's frozen. That's the quickest way to break these things. And it won't shut. Donna, come here. What happened? I didn't unhook it. It won't— it won't budge. Hopefully it doesn't break. Sometimes if water gets up in there, it freezes in this stuff and breaks it. Bad news, their water trough is empty. We didn't fill it last night— yesterday afternoon when everything's thawed out. That line is frozen. We have to bucket water to that trough. Oh wait, huh? You don't step on— oh, well, good that color did. Thank you, Flossie. That's called wolfing it down. It's already gone. One scoop. Hey, I see you look like you're ready for the polar plunge. Well, maybe. All right, I'm gonna go down and get your milk. I got my— can I get my supplies? First cow, and then that happened. Thankfully I just poured it out. I don't think she stepped in one drop of milk. Come on, come on. You want to eat from that? Oh my gosh, stepped in our milk. I am behind. Rebecca's gonna need this milk. For her cream separating. It's a timing game. Almost done with the first round. Stop, put the gaff on. It's gonna be a minute. Don't you do that! She gets— she's worse than— you think Flossie would be the punk in the stanchion. Flossie stands there like a stoic. All right, we're done with Phyllis, probably a gallon and a half. Have I messed you up too much?

Um, no, not too bad.

How can I help you in here? Start tidying up?

Well, once this is done, we can start washing this.

Okay.

Because the pots are already washed.

Wow.

The dishwasher's going.

Wow. Let's go all the jars. It's 26th. It was, it was the perfect day for a dunk in the creek.

You don't have to stay in a long time.

I know I won't.

So why are you doing this, Brianna?

Because my kids did it.

And why, why are you, why is, why are you letting your kids do it?

Oh, because they wanted to. Yeah, why not if they want to?

They're like crazy.

Yeah, they're like, we're gonna do this, and they literally just like ran in. They didn't even like hesitate.

Yeah.

You can go in.

I can't.

I don't know if I can. I waited too long. It hurts, it hurts, it hurts. I can't go any further. Ready, set, go!

Joyful!

How's it feel now, Brianna? Did you push through?

Yes, I'm proud of myself and my kids are proud of me. I couldn't stand my kids up, let them down.

That's right, you can get out, right? Look at those bright orange eggs. Eggs plus sausage. We got kale. That's not from our farm, but this yogurt is. We're done eating breakfast.

And I'm gonna go help, and if my friends want to help, they can, right, Papa?

With the, uh, comp chicken port. This is the glory, ironing my shirts.

Um, it was on my list. I didn't actually have it in order. I had it as the bottom starred. You must iron shirts. They're really wrinkly too.

The last vlog on Friday, went to the doctor. He gave me some drops. We've been doing the drops. My eyes have been a lot better, haven't they, Beck?

Oh yeah, they look a lot better too. Like, that one was really— I mean, I had noticed that one was really inflamed, but—

Been doing drops every hour. He also gave me some other medicine drops. We've been doing those and it's getting good. So we'll go see them this week. That reminds me, I think I do have some safety. Yep. How does it look? Doesn't matter how it looks. Fashion went out the window in high school.

Are you gonna shoot guns?

The eyes are more important. No, I'm gonna, uh, just work on the farm. Get in.

What?

Shall we find your shovel? Yeah, it should be— get a couple of tools for the adult in here. There's a little shovel. Little-ish. That's not your shovel. Okay, it's nowhere in here, buddy. Yeah, should we check across the street? The old barn? He's left it somewhere. Here's a nice adult shovel. I'm not seeing it, Gideon. Can you use that medium-sized one, I guess?

No, that's too big for me.

Yesterday we had this owl. Look, this is a dead owl. It was just perched on the ladder right over there on the ground. Alive one minute, and then the kids came out later and it was dead.

Papa, we should bury it.

Beautiful bird. Jonah, Jonah, I said where are my drill bits and your screwdrivers? Drill drivers. Stop yelling, that's not helping me hear you.

Okay, I didn't hear what you said.

Where are my drill bits? Do you know where my drill bits are? Who? My drill bits. Do you know where they are?

Ask Jonah.

I'm trying. Let's look down here.

So I think this—

let me see that. Oh, that's old. Yeah, that's theirs. Is that down? Okay, why are there so many missing? All right, chicken pork time. I'm gonna remove those doors, honey. Oh, just remove this. And then that way we can get this out of here. We're going to remove all the— these cages on this side. So you can help me remove stuff, or you can start piling this up.

Okay, it's a you now.

Yeah, I understand, but this has to get out of here. Oh, okay. And the only way to get this out of here is take this, this 2x4 off so that I can take this one off there at the bottom. We got it. Yep, there's our walls down. We're gonna try one side without walls. It'll be a little easier to access it, to turn it maybe. And we're gonna try one side with walls, which will contain it better. So we'll see which side we like better. See if our water lines— okay. Mr. Brown's found a job, I see.

How can we tell when it's watered enough?

It's watered— well, when it comes out the bottom. Okay, which is going to take forever with this big old pile. That's a huge pile.

Can you hold this here for a second?

Can you hold it? What's wrong?

I'm just so tired holding here, and I gotta go pee.

Okay, well, let's see if we can just set it down then. How's that for the non-glamorous? Picking up our mess. We can bring chickens in here tomorrow. Uh, all this gotta go. Gotta— it's got a place. All right, you guys are on this. Are you the inspector?

Yes.

Let's put— can you put 2 more scoops in here? Just come right here. Bring your scoop right there. 2 more scoops.

This is a great job for the cheddars. You think we got enough sand? I think it does look a lot more— it looks more plentiful now that they're actually digging into it. I've been, uh, getting stuff ready to mark out the the garden bed, but I need the— you are, but I need the sledgehammer, like the little handheld one. Jonah, do you know where it is? Do you know where it is, Josiah?

Oh yes, in my DeWalt tool thing.

I've got everything but my sledgehammer. I guess we transported it. Oh, that was huge. You gonna take that? Arun's garden, first one we're gonna rebuild. What I did here, I got my 4 corners, 14 feet that way, 14 feet across down here, 50 feet down, and then I did a line on the upper side and then on the upper side so I can measure can measure out from this, say 30 inches, and then I know where to put my next stake for line. Right now I had my edge on, so I just did my edge. See, I took a flat shovel and threw material back on the beds. Now I'm gonna get 2 stakes and we just move this over 30 inches for our bed and then a foot for our walkway and then 30 inches. Well, I'm still on this one bed though. Let's broadfork it. Okay, we're picking up our tools. That looks good. We got our beds reestablished. That is black, black soil. Let's put our tools away and then let's find our silage tarps for this. Then what's this one? Is this a full size?

I think so. Well, I don't know though, because why wasn't it on that garden properly?

Well, we can pull it out and undo it if it's not right. So I think we did a full-size one, 24 feet. Just pulling it. So that's 25 feet. Yeah, no way. Looks like it's a square. We would have had Arun's garden, we would have had the kids' garden, so this could be the leftover cut from the kids' garden, or this, this could actually be the kids' garden because there's no holes in it.

Oh, is that a hole right there?

Yeah.

Now we're going that way. 24, almost 25. We found a new one, but I've cut it into a piece. It's only measuring 47. We need 50. So what happens is I have one of those tarps too long. What do you got?

49 and 3 inches.

So 2 feet. Whoops.

That sucked.

That's gonna have to be an odd piece.

So I'm gonna say how many feet long?

Yeah, I would say 47.

47 feet long.

All right, roll this one back up. We do want to bring the chickens in here, right?

Yeah, I want to bring them in here just for a little bit so then we can re-tarp it. Oh, and we could put leaf mulch on it too.

Yeah, we can put the leaf mulch on it. And then, um, so we'll just use this tarp. That means emptying all these sandbags, dragging it up over there. Gaps donuts.

Well, they're not completely gaps, but—

You are a donut fool. What's the non-gap part? Maple syrup?

Maple syrup and arrowroot powder.

Okay. What's your icing there, Rebecca?

It is just buttered, butter melted with Powdered maple sugar.

The donuts are out of the oven. Good.

It's delicious.

It's yummy.