In this farm‑vlog, Victor and a co‑host walk through a busy morning on their homestead, juggling chores, animal health, and infrastructure challenges. They discover a missing goose and discuss the limitations of their poultry net, planning to temporarily house chickens behind a sheep fence while seeking a better partition solution. The water line feeding the lower fields is examined for kinks, revealing intermittent flow that prompts plans for a mountain‑top water catchment. The centerpiece is the health crisis of their sheep, Ryder, who shows weakness, gray/greenish poop, and frequent urination. The hosts administer B‑vitamin injections, Epsom‑salt drench, and a dewormer/mineral program, while hypothesizing that contaminated paddock material may be the cause. Throughout, they involve the children in chores, consider a garden‑partition layout using T‑posts and cattle panels, and reflect on personal fatigue, elevated heart rate, and the need for self‑care while maintaining the farm.
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Somebody's missing. Winnie is gone. All three up. Somebody didn't shut the bottom latch. Winnie, she's supposed to be in the cage. She just had, uh, she just got spayed. You're not supposed to be walking around too much, honey. We're gonna have to get you in the cage. Come on, I'll get you some meat. She does not want to go in this cage, but can you blame her? Good girl. The problem is it's getting dark so late, the chickens are still out by the time we go to bed, so we don't shut them up. And on the other end of the spectrum It gets light so early, we're not quite up. They're all going to be out by this time. It's like 5:40. It's broad daylight out here. There's not one single bird in here. There's no goose either, which is a total mystery because the goose never got out of the net. I haven't seen any traces of attack. The goose is just gone. The chickens are there. They're gonna go here. The good news is there's a gap in the mornings between the sheep and the chickens. We had to leave our sheep fence up so that electricity can connect to this poultry net, but I can just move the chickens into there and the sheep fence will hold them temporarily, and then we could start moving them later in the day. So problem solved right there. So far so good. Decoyed. I just spent a good 30 minutes doing this. Makes me appreciate what we had going on when they stayed in the sheep net. But as good as an idea that was, you don't know anything's a good idea until you try it. And on paper it looks great, but in practice they don't keep these wild dinos in. See how tight woven this poultry net is. It's a good thing because by this afternoon they're going to be pacing it looking for an escape. They're actually going to find one right here. You gotta realize they got nothing to do but walk around looking for loopholes in your system. It's better. Wake up, guys. You getting up? Burning daylight. So we kind of need to move pigs, don't we? Yeah. How's your leg doing this morning? Good. Good. Josiah fractured his foot the other day playing, but the doctor says it's healing up nicely. That's good. You see any kids? Kids! I thought they all were out here. Okay, Lily's doing her chores. Jonah's doing something out there at the cows. He's got his own ideas. Could you put Henry on your back? Yeah, you want to go outside? That leaves Mr. Brown. Mr. Brown, let's go! You done with your chores? Yeah. You did the breakfast posse? Did you check their water? No. Well, let's go do that. Hey, there you are. Where's your shoes, Mr. Brown? I don't need them. Okay, that's good. You got water? Looks like it. What do you guys think? Partitioning half of this off, planting a garden in half of it, then flipping it. I got a compost there. Just look at that. We'd have to put a partition fence. This is probably midway, maybe about right here. Maybe T-posts and cattle panel with poultry wire on it. What do you think, guys? Would you stay? That's the question. Would you stay on one side? Look at this cabbage, it's ridiculous. We think we're growing cabbages, but we're not growing cabbages. Here, you guys just— sorry, there's no tripod. Just stay put sideways there. Come here, you little rascal. Come here, you little rascal. First, we're going Shidler's. That means I gotta take 5 minutes and gather them all up. Gosh, they scatter. Where are you going, Lily? Where are you going? No, no, no, stick around. We're gonna go do chores together. I have to check on my clubhouse. Okay. I should take a minute to do that too. Let's check on the clubhouse. Mr. Brown, stick around. He's nowhere to be found. That rhymed, all of it. Nice. Take note, they have a state-of-the-art clubhouse. Where's it at? Treehouse right there. But they like this. So how'd it hold up in the rain yesterday? Good. I feel my pictures fell down. Uh-oh. Can you pick them up? Yeah. Is that your door? Yeah, it says welcome on it. I like it. Cardboard door. Hey, where's Gideon? There he is. All right, let's go while I have you all in sight. This is one of those mornings— I think it's been almost 2 weeks since we've rested with the injuries, with the travel last weekend. With everything that's going on. Lily, let's go! You don't sweat days like this too much though. You just put one foot in front of the other. Let Ryder through. Ryder's a little sickly this morning. She's behind all the rest of them, was laying down. It could be that somebody got to her and she's pregnant and gonna deliver, or she's sick. But we've done everything we can to have these sheep thrive. We've given them daily moves, we give them 16 different minerals, we give them cows to gobble up some of their parasites. Ryder, you're a good one. Time will tell. We'll see if you'll be able to kick this. Walking through here, look. That's some disgusting poop. My guess is that's her poop. Look, there's another one, but there's also normal poop. I'd be real alarmed if it was everybody. There's just one. Ryder just fell over like she's dizzy. Okay, she's back up. She's not dizzy. Huh, oh, she's peeing. Taking her temperature. Here, give me— hold the other side. She does not. Well, that's good. Yeah, that's not pregnancy. Is that vitamin C? That won't hurt anything.
No, it won't. She'll just pee it out if she don't need it.
Um, She's peeing a lot. She's peed 3 times.
I'm gonna go back and look. And where's her poop? You said—
yeah, that's her poop, I'm guessing. What do you think that is? I sort of feel like when I got walking pneumonia that time, I just— legs are so weak, but just one foot in front of the other. I just feel physically tired, but this is, uh Basic H, uh, agricultural grade soap, shackling. It's a dewormer, it's a maintenance. Do that once a month, half a cup to 50 gallons of water. Let's do the cows. Problem is we're getting higher and higher up the hill from the pump. And at some point it's not going to work. I hear some gurgling. Maybe, maybe that point— hope it's not today. Can you walk this line and make sure it's not kinked? First thing you move is water because it's the most important, and you get it over and it can be filling while you do the rest, and then you can check it before you leave. Any kinks? No, no kinks. Well, then we got problems. It's just taking a second. A second has been more like 10 minutes. Holler when that comes out. Actually, just put it— holler and put that in there. Got the pig net up. How's this doing, Bird? Good. We'll get some water here. Hear it? Look, she must be in heat. That's how you can tell the females are in heat. They get risky. Girl, I know it's a girl. None of this is going to work out because they're castrated. That's a girl and the males are castrated. The water stops running. It stopped running. It is off and on. That's why we're hiking this mountain. That's why we're putting a water catchment way on top of the mountain. It's A big project. But we're have crazy pressure down here, and it's not going to be from our. Well, it'd be from the creek, from the farm. Pig. Pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig.
So we just gave her an injection of B vitamins, and we gave her a drench of Epsom salts before this, and it looks like she she's doing a lot better.
She definitely doesn't have parasites. Look at the redness in her.
She doesn't have parasites. My best guess is that there's something in these paddocks preceding this that she's eaten. She was using the mineral program to try to soak up whatever it was that was bothering her. That's why she had the gray poop, because when we dug into the poop, like, the poop was green on the inside but just had like that clay outer, which would mean that she was, you know, taking in that.
Remember what I said earlier about being tired and just putting one foot in front of the other step by step, you know. I was committed to taking something up the mountain every single day, but I've been feeling tired. My heart rate has been feeling high, and I measured, and sure enough, like, it's going from like 60 to 100. I don't think it's anything like that too excited about. Don't remember if I took my water. I was gonna have this— oh, 1% every day, we're gonna climb that mountain. But I need to listen to my body. My heart rate is a little elevated. My 1% today is— where's that mountain— is actually taking care of myself, making sure I get my electrolytes in, make sure I get hydrated. So sometimes To take a big step forward, you gotta take a step back, so to speak, to rework the foundation.
