Maggots are Eating Our Sheep Alive!

Full framing crew is back for this homestead house remodel. Let's see what they're up to. Putting our bedroom windows further apart. I was kind of hoping it was this roof. There wasn't enough room for— Lowering the header. It's just too low. People are gonna hit their heads. Good morning.

Good morning.

Where are you going? To do my chores. Good morning. How are you? Haven't seen y'all in a while. Yeah, what y'all working on today? I had a couple of things in there that needed to finish. Oh, okay. Protecting more trees, and we're gonna do just two. We thought we needed three, so just two. One low and one high. Check our meat from yesterday. Oh, it's getting there. One of the cool things about Cream separating all the skin.

You know how Miss Lisa, she, um, has camp horses and they go away at summer? Maybe I could do that and I can have like 1 or 2 camp horses.

She's going through all the plethora of ideas for a horse business. Yeah, you would rent out— you would host camp horses when it's not camp?

Yeah, and I would make money that way, and I could also do lessons.

I don't worry about her, she's gonna be just fine. We got our feed for the chickens tomorrow. Hey, let's soak it a little bit. Let's put a little bit of skim in there. Rest water.

I know today I like 2 samples this day and then I would do lessons on that.

Oh wow, what happened here? Oh no.

Well, he left my bike in the road and—

and Jonah ran into it. Is that a crank? What do you think? Yeah. Yeah. I think it's spacing the 2 appropriately and we don't need 3. There you go, see? And then I want these like this. Let's go one more up because that tree— yeah, it's little now, but it'll be up here in the future. Push it there in the middle, Jonah, and see if there— you think they're gonna penetrate that? No. Lily had to go get some alfalfa. We ran out, and then she just walked off. But we're not done milking her. We have to milk her because she doesn't have a calf. We got to get all the milk out. Crew's leaving. They're done with their little tidbit job today. That was quick. It's like 8:45. They start at like 6:45. 15 minutes, the machine washer is going to be here. Then Enrique, the guy who washes our machines, is coming. We've got to get this stuff done. The machine washer. Josiah's turning the compost pile before he gets here. We got to move this milk sled before he gets here. Here, Lily. Here comes— trying to get the little calf over. It takes a minute to get them trained. Oh, that went pretty smooth. We moved the milk sled over, then we let people over. We gotta get them something to wash. Josiah, can you go get the Suburban? Pull the mower out too. When it gets that bad, they can't keep up with the other sheep. We have to do something. I keep pulling forward and it keeps coming off. Where is it coming off? Okay, then just hold it there.

The sheep has a broken ankle.

Oh, you think it's broken?

It's broken.

I bet something's just wrong with its hoof. Our newly covered tree— sheep and cows were just here. From afar, I'm like, does this have its leaves? Did it get it? But when you get up close, no, it didn't. This locust stayed strong, and boy, they would have loved to eat that. We got these guys started. I think we got them everything. Whoa, it's a mess! It's gonna be clean. Suburban's up, but don't forget the mower, the Mini X, and the track loader. Oh, and the truck. Is this Belle?

There's Maggie.

Okay, is there? Wow. Wow, that's definitely some sort of infection if you got maggots. She is literally getting eaten alive.

It's gonna make her feel better.

It will make her feel a lot better.

So is that how you do it?

Yeah, and I think that will expose this. It won't be a haven for these maggots anymore.

Ow, just cut yourself a pinch.

A little horsefly got me.

Wow, I got it. She got a sore and then her hoof grew over and then— yep, maggots caught in it.

Yeah.

You ever seen a foot this bad?

No. Maggots come out of it? No way. We have cut off all the extra hoof. There's no place for these flies to hide. There are some sores on the bottom of her feet that the fish were trying— or the flies were trying to get into. And now we're gonna— we're washing it with soap water from the cows. And, uh, we're gonna put some disinfectant on it, and the kids want to wrap it. It's probably not a bad idea. Enough for a day. That's enough trauma. All right, go ahead. Let's see what happens in a day. Okay, anybody else limping? All right, I think everybody else is all right.

Beck?

Yes? You look nice.

Oh, thank you. I do have to go to the bank at some point to do a wire transfer to pay for some doors that I'm gonna buy. I could send a check, but I have to send it UPS or FedEx or whatever.

So yeah, Belle was limping and we went to go trim her hoof. She was limping pretty bad. And we go to trim her hoofs and she's got maggots in her hoofs. She's being eaten alive. Huh?

Gross.

Your face needs copper. She has a copper.

I think that's what it is.

Okay, so what I did was trim the hoofs. So the hoofs were growing over and hiding The sores— she has a couple sores on her feet.

Okay.

We trim the hooves like crazy, and then we put—

trim everybody's hooves or just hers?

We looked to make sure nobody else was limping.

Okay.

And then, um, we put— what is that we put on the pigs? Is it iodine? It's a disinfectant after we castrate them.

Yes.

Yeah, which we ran out of, so we're gonna do that. Okay. So would you have done anything different?

Possibly, and I wish, I don't know if I kept my sheet book out. I thought I did, but it never made it in the house.

What you got?

Flower isn't meant for you.

I would have maybe soaked it, but maybe not. Maybe that's all I would have done. I don't know.

I mean, we washed it with soap and a brush.

Well, I would have soaked it.

I understand. Rebecca made Dutch babies with blueberries. Dutch babies are like an egg-based pancakes. So I guess animal-based pancake. There's a little bit of starch in it. You know you're a homesteader if your main breakfast course is egg-based Dutch babies and you have a side of eggs and bacon. How are the blueberries in that?

I really like it. I hope everybody else does.

I was a little sus at first, you know, blueberries and eggs, but it's actually pretty good.

Well, it's like pancakes.

Yeah. Boom! Just ordered a gallon of iodine. We'll have lots of treatment for this sheep. Mr. Brown's turn to cook. You like being a cooker, don't you? Who's your sibling? Bush.

What about Jonah? Can you say Noah?

Can you say boys?

So can you say Jonah?

He's stuck on that one.

Can you say— can you say Gideon?

They're all going with me, so you get some stuff done, babe. What am I supposed to film you doing today? She's making a video on her phone.

One video of me walking, two videos of me trotting, two videos of me cantering, and three videos of me jumping.

Okay, she's quite the director.

And I also need a picture, two pictures of me jumping and one picture of me cantering.

Okay, well she's gonna have me busy the whole time. Who do you have today, Lily? It's your favorite? He is.

He's the oldest.

He's the oldest. Tried and true, Smokey. All right, we gotta get her a walking shot. A couple walking shots. You want to give your apple core to the horse? She said you can give it, but you got to put it in it. You got to put it in the feeder. Put it in the feeder. Good boy. Now watch, it's eating your apple. All right, we're getting a trot shot. Looking good. Waiting on a canter, which is a light run. Are you filming too? Are you filming too? Yeah, turn it on. It's famous, this baby cam.

And that keeps him on the edge. All right, back to your try having a bruise on that outside of that right hind.

So you're gonna do it.

Turn the nose slightly to the left.

Now she's jumping. We're gonna get a different angle, a different jump down here. We're supposed to get 3 shots according to the director. Come on, you keeping up? He wanted to come with me. Hey, why did you want to come? Why did you want to come? I'm glad you did. Hey, I can't hold you and 2 cameras. Hold on. One second, I'll get you. We've never came down here. All right, ready? Here she comes. Maybe I shouldn't have done that for her video. She didn't say the woo. We'll get one more shot down here. We got a little cowboy here. How do you think I did with the film shoot?

Good.

I think we got our shots. We're back. It's evening. We're gonna check out what they've done in the house, and we're gonna check out what Jonah's done down in the little surprise extra field we've got there. You're gonna take a break from studying to come? Yeah. He's taking the DMV practice test tomorrow. You hope to get your learner's permit? Good guy. Gonna be driving. Where are y'all going? I guess we're not walking, are we? Oh, we need to take a little walk after, after the meal.

That's a good idea.

I guess we're gonna see your house. In just a minute. All right, about a week or so, Jonah graded out what we thought was a swamp, ended up just being bad irrigation— irrigation? Bad drainage. Uh, and he says he's wanting to give us a progress report. Look at this beautiful pasture. We have to get our—

be built up so that the water comes.

We have to build this road on contour. And there needs to be a swell or a ditch, probably a swell or something there. And we probably want to be up a little higher up there.

Yeah, we do.

And it'll catch this water that may be coming off, off the mountain, and it'll be on a 1% grade bringing it to your creek over here. Now's the time to figure that out now that the grass is mowed in here. And look, doesn't that look nice with our, our tree guards and with actual trees in them because the animals didn't eat them? It's running nicely. Is that still dry over there, Jonah? Wow, I think that pipe's working, Becky. I don't think— I think maybe it was clogged up and it was causing swampage up there. Is this gonna be dry? Wow. Can you get in here with the track loader and smooth this out?

Here I went to there and got it.

You sink. So you're just gonna let it dry out a little bit more?

I tried to slope it so the water goes into here and then down to there.

Oh, it's wanting to grow, isn't it? I was telling Jonah we're going to graze this by the end of the season. Jonah, can you grade it over there, or is it too, too wet? Rebecca, if we sink, the machine is definitely gonna sink. Yeah, look how wet this is. This has got to get smooth somehow.

I can get on.

That side looks good. It looks like it might soak all the way to the creek. What do you got in here? Oh wow, look, cantaloupe, red cabbage. You got a red tomato here, honey. Yeah, mucho. You gotta, you gotta grab it off, it's gonna rot.

It's getting too hot. So he said they're gonna, they're gonna run registers up there.

The framer said we gotta run registers up to the attic. He's afraid it's gonna get hot, but I'm thinking, I'm thinking we're gonna do that all along, right, Rebecca? Okay, no, we gotta do that. Here we go.

So much better.

What do you mean so much better?

It's hard to tell because our bed can go right here. Ah, the bed frame can be as tall— it can be 8 feet tall.

Yeah, and we're gonna have our bedside tables here on either side.

Perfect. Whoa, you could easily see if the chickens are out.

We're gonna have a mega pulse on the farm, baby. From here we can see the high tunnel, the pasture posse, the crop garden. Over here we can see the pigs in the pole barn. I can't wait, Beck. It's so nice and cool out here. The porch outside of our This is a new porch. We can come out and see the compost going, the pigs. I see us sitting right here once the sun's gone down over the mountain, or in the morning before the sun hits it. We're protected by this sun— this, this— the sun's coming up over there, we're protected by this.

Oh, now all we need is a zip line to the chicken coop.

Hey, Gabe said these are cool railings. Are we gonna keep them?

No, we can put a third one.

No way.

On the bottom, and a third, and a third, and a third.

Yeah, no, we gotta, we gotta keep Henry from walking off.