MONSTER Meat Chicken 3Xs Normal Bird

Come on, buddy. We're gonna do an update video today instead of tomorrow because we got a lot going on tomorrow. Getting cats, kittens, and go visiting John and Manchie.

Whose farm was flooded and giving him some seed, some of our start.

I'm gonna pick them up with the tummy.

We're gonna take them to them. And we're gonna go pick up the kittens and dogs. Dogs is next week. You want to go put the chickens out?

Yeah. Okay.

Why are you running, Mr. Brown? All right, they laying in their nest box? Nope. You want to check the eggs, Mr. Brown?

What?

Oh, check under that Is that a broody hen?

Don't poke.

Have y'all been avoiding this one?

No.

You've been getting eggs?

Yeah.

Has she been broody this whole time?

Yeah. Okay, let's see.

Let's get her out. Maybe she was starting to go broody. Maybe she just laid an egg. She's out eating.

Hey, Papa, if you're broody, we would have another Kai. Kai! There's a white egg in there.

Oh, well, we need a rooster to fertilize that egg.

See, a white egg? That's Kai's egg.

Oh, that's Kai's egg?

Put your hand over his wing so they don't flap. Put one wing to here and put the other hand right there.

Is Kai your favorite? Why is Kai your favorite?

Because I love him.

This shade mobile that Jonah and Josiah built— excellent! The chickens spend most of their time in there getting out of the heat. Would you like to go under there in the heat of the day? Yeah, show us how it's done.

And then I just stand here.

Get a dust bath. We should put a dust bath in there for them. These cucumbers are jamming. Pretty soon we're going to be training these cucumbers to the outside of this trellis, and we'll see how high they go.

Look at that tree coming in, Mr. Brown.

Yeah, you're gonna get fruit off that tree this year. Mama's tomatoes, they seem to be struggling a little bit. I think they might make it. I think Beauty might get some more, just to be Sure, that's probably her favorite vegetable. Look, you want to point out the— oh yeah, oh look, I guess this one is the one I'm making.

Probably shouldn't be fruiting at that little— whoops, it's got a little bit of fruit there.

Show them the salad. Get down low.

Salad, salad, salad, salad, salad.

Now looky here, look what we're gonna have real soon.

Kale.

Don't pour out Mama's compost tea. Right next to the tomatoes here. I don't even know if I can count the amount of volunteers here.

I try not to step on them, but it's kind of hard.

Yeah, it is. What happened? It's like a seed explosion of volunteers.

The chickens did it.

Good for you, chickens. I'm about to give up and let you do it all. You guys, you guys saying good morning to Bear?

Yeah.

Holy smokes, he's taller than you now. Get in.

What?

He's gonna be taller than you before you know it.

Still racing him.

You bringing him on chores with us?

Yes.

Get me out.

You want out?

Yeah.

Okay, you're gonna see if the chicks laid the eggs?

Yeah. Okay.

Any eggs from the chicks? No. Okay, let's feed the sea monsters.

This one's pooper.

Hey, grab me 3 random chickens, Josiah, one at a time. Okay, wait, wait. Let's balance it out. Hold the chicken. Let's make sure the weight of the bucket is canceled out. Put her in there. 3 pounds. They're 5 weeks old. 3 more weeks to processing. 3.5 pounds. Grab another one. 4 pounds. So 4, 3.5, and 3. That's a perfect average 3.5-pound bird at 5 weeks. Watch out, Gideon. Wondering how much Cooper weighs. Not very much, like 2— no, 2 and a half pounds. Don't drop him, you gotta put your arm under him. That's okay, he didn't bite him. He's curious, he's nibbling on him.

Yeah, look, he's picking at his car hearts there.

Okay, put him down, see what happens.

See what happens.

Pooper doesn't want to have nothing to do with that.

He wants to go back to the people.

Yeah, Pooper does not like this.

No, he doesn't.

And I think Bear could care less.

Yeah, Bear doesn't care.

Jonah, let Gideon hold him a little bit. It's fine. We need the goose to get used to the people.

Oh my. I thought Gideon wanted to hold him.

Catch him, Gideon.

His body is wet. His body was wet and wet. Probably he's a runner.

He's wanting to go back to them. He's already bonded with them. That was quick. Look, he wants to go right back. He had a hard time, I think, when his old posse was just right across the way. Now he can't see them.

Come on!

Better.

Look, he's trying to get back. I wouldn't let him do— get in the practice of that.

I'm sorry.

Help. Oh, wait. The scarecrow's been working. Good job, buddy. It's been a week, nobody's gotten killed, not a single person. We are moving them every 3 days when we move this net for the chickens. You giving them 5? Bring Bear, let's go check on the sheep. That's a bunch of happy birds right there on new grass. By the way, Those bigger ones there, that one, guess what? That's as old as the sea monster. Probably not even— certainly not even a pound. You want to go in there and get one? Which one are you going to get?

Little ones?

Overall, they're handy for this. Bring it over here. That's the Icelandic. It's doing good.

I love you.

You love this? Yeah, you got a tender heart. Good job, Jonah.

I'll get the big one right now.

A goose. Goose comes scratch that deer pod.

Yeah, I kept the goose. He doesn't care about eating this grain. I would say these sheep are one of the most easy to maintain animals on our farm. We're moving them every day, every other day, every other day. They have this paddock that it takes them about 2 days I mean, to totally clear it, it'd take probably 3 or 4, but you want to keep your sheep moving. We move their shelter every day. So easy, wouldn't you say? This is so easy, Jonah.

Nobody's died.

This is great. They seem very happy. Still a little skittish.

A little? A lot.

A lot of skittish.

Yeah, I can't even walk up to them.

Right here are our chicken crop garden. We've been planting this all week in mulch bombs. Big stuff like pumpkins and watermelons, and I think some cucumbers. Big gigantic pumpkin in the corner. I need to go in here though before the grass and weeds start growing and sow cover crop, hopefully after the chores this morning. I'd say Mama's herb garden is jamming. The question we all want to know is, are we going to pop a blueberry into our mouth? Oh my word, we're getting so close. And the raspberries also doing well. Look at this. We have some weeds. We need to come cover those up, put some mulch on them, but it's not affecting their growth yet. Mama's greenhouse. She up-potted our pumpkins and cucumbers, a gift to a friend, John Manche. We'll be going to see him tomorrow. Lost all his produce in a flood. Oh, look, it's gonna be time to transplant that lettuce. My comfrey starts are blowing out of the pot, need to transfer them out. You trying bear on your new cart? Okay.

Get up, let's go! Go give the car a little push.

Okay.

It needs wheels, it'll make it lighter. Papa, should I put 2 wheels or 1?

Uh, you could do it like a shaw, like 2 wheels, or you could put 4 wheels on it, whatever you want to do. About these potatoes, look, although these, the mulched potatoes were the easiest to maintain they're not performing the best. And actually, there's a, there's a sequence: small, medium, and large. The large potatoes were sown into cover crop, existing cover crop. The medium potatoes were— we hoed. And the mulched potatoes were mulched. It could be that we have richer soil here in the middle though, so it's not 100% foolproof experiment because what if it is a richer soil because the compost pile that has been spread here naturally came down the slope a little bit.

Do you think it'll make it lighter if we attach wheels to the buggy?

Yeah, it'll make it a lot easier for him to pull. Okay, in here we got— I don't see— oh, Mom's gonna be very happy. Look, Jonah, We got beets. We got beets coming up in here. No, I don't see any carrots, but I think the carrots were planted down here. I think this might be a carrot. Maybe this might be a carrot. Those might be carrots. We might be getting carrots. Okay, look, look, Johnna!

Oh my gosh!

Oh my gosh, you guys are gonna believe this. Look, a little tiny broccoli head. Look, we got broccoli and cabbage. Are we gonna get cabbages? Cabbage heads, little tiny cabbage heads are starting to form.

You're gonna get— you're gonna get to taste your cabbage. The onions are coming.

Our onions in our sheet mulched area are doing just fine. The melon ain't doing Slowly but surely.

The melon ain't doing just fine.

No, the melon's got a little yellow. Randy Kleiman seems to think that's transplant stress.

The corn's doing great.

Yeah, it is. Good job, buddy. More— that was your idea, that was your doing. It's all going good right here. We— somebody asked how long are these plates gonna last as sheet mulch. Is this one here? Here, here it is. Let's dig it up. This week. Still feels pretty— I can't pierce it with my finger. It's still pretty tough. I don't think it's going to last too long, probably certainly no more than a month, but you don't want it to last real long. You just want the plant to get your head start. You want that sheet mulch material to break down, the worms to eat it, and your plant has been established. You've got some mulch on top of it and you don't have any threats. Not too much to update you on here, the crop chickens. Although Violet helped them significantly. They've got this grass, but particularly here, she got the grass down real nice. They can get in there and scratch more effectively. They got along well. I think our next experiment is to put these pigs in here with them. You want me to turn off the fence real quick?

Yeah.

Okay, go quick. Don't let them know it's off. You ready?

Yep.

Go!

Then I'm gonna turn it back on. No, actually I don't. Wait, move that pan out away. Here, dump out your old orange peels. They ain't gonna eat those. Here, there you go. We're impressed with their till job. Okay, we're gonna do an experiment and have them prep this garden area like the chickens would have, but it looks like you pigs are gonna do it a little faster. Let's go get Violet. Josiah, you using, uh, Papaw's milking stool? How is it? Is it perfect for you or what?

It works.

2 days in a row, 3/4 of a gallon. Gave a gallon all last week. I think she's slowly losing production. We're coming out of spring. If she is pregnant, they do get more in the beginning and then it naturally wanes. So we'll see, we'll keep on keeping track of it. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5— 5 plus the big pumpkin, 6. All we got to do is mulch 6 more of these things and we're good to go. So we need some cardboard. Boys! We're out of plates, aren't we? No, we have more plates from last night. Let me go find the boys. Here, this is too big.

Let's save this for a big area.

That stuff, that's perfect. Get all that down there and we're good. Time won't stop, so gonna get on the ride. Twisting and turning through life. No matter how rough it gets, I'll get by. Hey, Rebecca.

Yeah?

Are you happy with the asparagus and strawberries? Yeah, I am too. What you working on, Rebecca? I'm just trying to cut down some of the outside weed pressure, and then we're gonna mulch it. Yeah, see, this is the jungle. It's putting too much— it's like wanting this area so bad. And this is our asparagus and strawberries. I want you to see something pretty soon, Beauty. We're gonna be like, this is what we've been working so hard for. Look, that strawberry's almost red. We're gonna have our own chicken in 3 weeks. There's broccoli heads, potatoes are coming along nicely. Like, the broccoli comes in, the chicken comes in, you know what we're having? Broccoli chicken Alfredo. We got it cardboarded. The boys are going to come bring a couple loads of mulch. Let's go get some cover crop to put in this garden. Good job, guys! That might do it. One last thing to do out here today. That's what you call undersow our cover crop. Our plants have got a 4-week head start. We start these seed— these undercrops, and that grows instead of weeds. You want to help sow, Lily? Hey, not too much in Too much enthusiasm now. Contain yourself. Not too excited. Heart rate might get too high. Now this was maybe 2, 3 hours of work. We've planted it. This is probably over 1,200 square feet, and we're walking away until harvest. I like it. Let's see y'all's mulch job. Pretty good. I want you to finish out the wheelbarrow, okay, Josiah? So just keep going around with it, okay? Just make it thicker and thicker till it's all gone. Grab some of Mama's compost.

See you later.

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