In this farm vlog, the host and his assistant Jonah walk viewers through a day of low‑cost, hands‑on homestead experiments. They begin by feeding pigs with frozen chicken and discuss using chickens to help till soil. The core of the video is a field‑milking trial: the cow (Bear) is tethered to a tree, fed alfalfa, and milked in a pasture using a food‑grade bucket. The host measures the milk yield (about 1.25 gal) and demonstrates a traditional cooling method to bring milk from 100 °F to 40 °F within an hour, emphasizing safety and shelf‑life. The vlog also covers ancillary projects such as building a mineral sled, considering a UTV purchase, and constructing an egg‑washing station with quick‑release water hookups. Throughout, the tone is practical, instructional, and enthusiastic about testing small‑scale, low‑investment solutions that could be scaled up on a homestead.
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Oh my goodness, let the cage fighters out, Josiah! Free the birds!
They're like the cage fighters.
Food's coming. Gotta take care of the pig. Give you a little diverse farm trick right there. That big chunk right there, that's frozen chicken.
Guts.
Pigs love it, and so we freeze them in bags and dish them out. Now that's frozen, they're not going to touch it right now, but that'll be gone. Oh, oh, jailbreaks! Oh, y'all know what's that? Thankfully, these pigs are not great hunters. They're much better scavengers. So they tolerate the chickens. Look, they're getting close to being done. We have plants that need trans— transferred like 2 weeks ago, but y'all know it's been crazy. That's crazy. Let's leave the one wall up.
She got out and Jonah's getting them back in.
Here we go, off-road 2.0. It's got the most vigor. There's gonna be a revolt, Jonah. We're out in the operation. My first time slaughtering chicken. He's eating. He's gonna have to work like this. I'm gonna spin him around. Well, that was crazy. What'd you say?
What is— you don't need a tractor to till them, till the place.
Good point. I think if we had chickens in there with them— see, look how smooth the till job of the chickens. Look how smooth. Smooth and shallow. And the pig, rough and deep. Now we can easily go in there with a rake before we plant and smooth it out and get rid of some of the weeds. But could it have been better if the chickens were in here to kind of find, you know, kind of smooth that over and keep it flat? See our greenhouse plants? Too big. That bok choy is jamming, but it's too much, too big for these little pods.
We would got to go on a walk and come back.
Joe just thought we'd turn on his water. I think I'll take a bucket it. I'm afraid that'll sink into the ground. Oh yeah, I've been thinking about this for a long time. What if we could milk in the field and then we just bring Bear to Mama, all our stuff, we milk her and come back instead of going to get her, bringing her back, and then taking her out? That's intense. I mean, it's not the end of the world, but always thinking how can we make chores easier. Well, let's see if she even have potential to milk in the field. Listen, so I need a food-grade bucket that will take our alfalfa and our amendments. Jonah got the grain out. Now let's rinse this. Boy, this is not working out that great. Maybe we should have waited to let him out. Yeah, until we went. Just timed it something right there. Oh, let's get this stuff. Okay, selenium, copper. Who's gonna grab Bear?
I will.
Put the cloths on the bottom.
Wait, Papa, there's poop on the bottom of that.
Oh, thank you.
He knows they're violated. He doesn't. Whoa, Bear, load him. I can hold him.
She doesn't like this new arrangement. Doesn't know where her calf is.
Papa, I know you said nothing at the farm.
Uh, Papa, it's the bucket's right over there. So we have her tied on the tree, letting her get the alfalfa. Watch out, watch yourself. Hey, I think she's gonna let me. What do you boys think? Yeah, this is nice. This is working out. She's sitting still. I got her tied to a tree and that might work, but could also maybe do a mobile stanchion one day. But like, look, she poops, she pees, who cares? It's right here on the grass.
Oh no, he's gonna touch him, he's gonna get shocked.
Well, that went incredibly well. She stood still for me. Look, I think we got more milk than usual. Well, that would be the fresh grass over here, but we probably got a gallon and a quarter of milk, and it's probably this tender young grass. They've mowed this, they're done with this. I need to open this up for them. We're gonna put up the cross fence, so let's keep the milk cool the way old-timers used to. That'll keep that milk cool while we, uh, there's the back. You got to get milk down to 40 degrees within an hour. Safety and longevity and storage stops the breaking down process. Milk's 100 degrees when it comes out. But we won't be but, what, 7 and a half minutes doing this, maybe less. Oh boy, you kidding me? All right, move the fence a little bit closer. I guess we ran out of wire right there. We're 3 feet away, so what we're gonna do is move our fence.
Time to let the beast in.
Time for the best part of our day, new grass. You are very welcome. What a beautiful view. What a beautiful sight. Cows on new grass. Look at this, Mo. Yesterday, today. We're gonna have to develop this system. This was nice. This has potential. You test things, low scale, low investment, and then you start investing into it if it looks like it's going to work. Let's get our milk. Hey Mom, we milked in the field first time.
I know, did it go good?
It went great. We got to smooth it out now that we know it's— well, now a potential. Or maybe that's why we need to get a UTV. Mama's voting for the UTV. Well, this is my guess then. You could have— is that a UTV?
Yeah.
Okay, okay, I'll carry those. You're gonna carry something? Why don't you just carry one thing? Ambitious little guy. I'm gonna try to finish this mineral sled, or at least continue to work on it. I think all we got to do to get these wheels off is undo that. This is smaller than our 26-inch wheels on our Chickshaw, but hopefully it's the same size hole there. Pick it in, we're waiting on you. Are we coming?
Barely.
Okay, we're going. No! Well then, come on. Can Jonah carry that? No.
How about you carry it, I carry it? How about I carry you and you carry the tire? We're just gonna have to let him scream.
Come on. All right, Johnny, you carry this one. He's not going anywhere. Hey, it'll be, it'll be suppertime by the time we get in there. You ain't gonna let go? Jonah, get me the— give me the axle.
Yes!
We got our wheels. Let's do this. Jonah, let's flip this thing over.
Keep going.
Don't drop it. Don't drop it. No, don't drop it. Okay, there we go. Is that near hitting? No, I think that's all right. And it'll be even better once you get a little further out. I know this is a gamble. I know, stud muffin. —could come for 1 inch and flip this thing. We're just gonna gamble because this is just so cool and would be so easy. What do you got there, buddy? Our egg washing station.
You can also wash your hands.
Did you drill holes in this? Okay.
For the water to drain. Okay. Hook it up.
Cool.
Okay, it hooks up with a quick release. I'm gonna turn these off. You have to have them all 4 on to turn it on. Okay, turn off, Jonah. And then when we're done using it, we can move this and turn the water off. Okay, I like it. And we can put the soap here.
You got the scrubber right there. We can put soap here. Okay, and that's your clean rack? Yeah. Okay, who's going to be in charge of taking those up? They got to be refrigerated after cleaning.
