Our Biggest Compost Pile EVER + weaning sheep, sick pig and 100 baby chicks

Today we got to get the chickens out of the compost. They're cooped up right now. We got to get them out before there's a cage fight. Then we got to get literally tons of deep bedding out to see how big of a compost pile we can make. Let's see how valuable this is. Let's do some measurements. We've got to get that material out of there because a concrete saw is coming soon to finish our restoration of our pole barn. It was the first night weaning the lambs and separating the calf from the mom. Let's see how that held up because there's going to be a lot of pressure on the fence. Proud of Lily weight training. We're weight training family. The one number one thing you can do for longevity. Okay, we got to get these birds out. They're cooped up. Don't cage fight. Don't cage fight yet. Also want to get done with moving these guys from there. They're before the boys come so I can go see how the little lambs and the little, uh, calf did overnight. Not only do we need to get our bedding material out and get it composting, let's rebuild our soil, topsoil that was washed away. We can get all this, this finished bedding here— well, the unfinished bedding— we can pile up for composting. The finished bedding we can, um, put on the field now, and we can level this. Because right now, if you don't have your chicken run level, eventually the wood chips just ground out your fence, drag it down, take it back. It just looks terrible. Then we can clean up this rock wall and it could look nice. I don't have much time before the boys come out. They're supposed to be out any minute. Also, I don't hear any bleating, which is concerning to me. Why is that concerning? Well, does that mean they got to their mothers? We're needing to separate the little lambs from the mothers for two reasons. Well, the mothers We're running with Ike to keep Ike away from the little lambs. We're going to harvest them in the fall. We don't want them to get bred. Two, some of the mothers don't have that great a condition, and hopefully they're pregnant, so they need to put energy into making that baby. The little lambs that are here are well enough, old enough to be weaned. Let's free the birds. Jonah poked his head out. He said, do I still have to milk? I said, why? He said the calf got to her. How do you know? I looked out and saw it. Hopefully he's wrong because I said, are the little lambs over too? And they're not. Don't they be over too? How did a calf who's bigger than the lambs get over and they not? You guys ready to do this? Put the unfinished bedding on the pile, finished bedding in a pile to then go out to the field in the manure spreader, and then level it. Field dirt that's underneath, you know, you guys want to keep this, level it with this. You can go down about that low. There's something right about chickens on a compost, but there's also something right about chickens on pasture. Oh my gosh, let's go see the damage. Ah, they got Got over everybody. Well, wait, busted out. Maybe the little lambs didn't get over. No, they did. They're just out. No, they did get over. I'm gotten over, some didn't. All right, let's get those, those people back in to the back fence. We might have actually kept some of them separated. They might be the ones that have weaned themselves. Some of them weaned themselves, haven't they? No, those are the lambs that mamas are right there. Gonna put all the sheep together. Away from the cows for us to milk, and then we're gonna cut everybody out again. All the mamas, all the mamas, because I think they're all getting nursed. Hey, non-milkers over to next day's paddock. He-Man's feeling good. I would too if I was coming in, if I was a cow and coming into this. You're getting milked, honey, but all my friends are getting the ice cream bar. Okay, we're gonna do a little strawberry tonight. What have we done in the past? Well, last time we were near Lily's horse ring, so we just put him in the horse ring. Hey Henry, I realized we forgot to give Mom her gift yesterday. Should I go get it for you to give to her? He wanted to take a picture of him on his Jeep for Mom. You want to do it? You want to present it, Henry? You want me to? Okay, it's a picture of you. I'll put Yes, you're smiling so big. I love it. How can I help? Did you do it? Good job. So we got to get this mama over. Let's get Blaze over. You can probably lead him with that alfalfa. Don't, don't wait. Don't. Somebody's gonna get hurt. Let's just have Lily move him. Should we keep him one paddock away? Because we're gonna put the— we're gonna put the chickens there, so we're gonna keep that paddock up. You want to? He said no. You think? We'll go with it, but I feel like one fence away would help. I told Jonah we've got to change something or else we're insane. That's the definition of insanity, doing the same thing over again and expecting a different result. So He does want to put the sheep right next to him. Less stress because they're closer to each other. It's going to be more pressure on the fence, but maybe not if they are less stressed because they're closer to them. And we're gonna have sheep again. They give birth in the fall, we'll have sheep again early in the winter. So let's do this then. We'll put up a physical barrier for the calf and we'll see what that does. They're breaking through already. Let's see if it's even working. Yeah, it's hitting pretty hard too. What happened? We had to turn it off for one second. To get that other calf in. Yeah, just stand in front of— stand in front of them. Wow. You sure you don't want to put them in the back? I think there's more pressure because they can see the moms. There's too little separating them and their moms right here, so we need to put them in the other net. If they do get over, they got to get through two fences. Here it is, here it is. What's the plan, Jonah? Wait, the little lamb's right here. Okay, just got one over. I was failing to record, sorry. Okay, is there one more? It's that one. No. Okay. It's a deer. Let him out through there, it's fine. A little fast guy. There you go, let him out there. Now we got it easy. He'll want to get back in with the little guys. Oh, there's where it is. What? Now we're going to put the fence on. They know it's on. Quite a bit of milk. Being with the kid, yeah, having the calf on her. Everybody, let's go! Breakfast over. Come on, come on. And Mark's here. Let's go to learn how to fix some things. You know how to grow things, let's learn how to fix things. It's a nice gun. Yeah, it's brand new. This is part of our fixing journey. It's actually maintenance. Journey. And you can put our Eco Soap in there too, non-toxic. So instead of having to pay a crew to come and clean the machines, you guys can do it. I'm definitely torn. I want to go see them do this compost. How can we get cameras down there on you? Are you ready to grade? Yes, I am. Do you know how to start the time-lapse on a camera? I think so. See if you can go to time-lapse, man. If we could get him vlogging himself, that'd be a game changer. You were doing it. I want to get over here before he solves the problem. Tell me you already figured it out. All right, just there getting into it. Okay, we got one blinker back here, but— oh really? Yeah, we couldn't even get that yesterday. What'd you do to get one? I just plugged it in, tried it, and had one blinker. But you're right, you got a faint light on one, nothing on this one. Marker lights blinking. Yeah, but we're going to test with the multimeter. Let's see if we've got, uh, I've got the right blinker on. Let's see if I've got, uh, oh, which one it is. It should be blinking, testing to see if power is getting back here. How do you know which one's ground? It should be the black one. Oh yeah, there it is right there. So I've got power back here. Huh, we got power to this cord. It's not getting through to here. So is it the blinker? You're gonna take that one off to see if it's it? Yeah, I'm gonna take it off, see if we can get it since we know this. Yeah, yeah, it acts like it's a ground since those lights up there are blinking up with the 4-ways. It acts like it's a ground, not grounding out. Yes, there's a ground messed up somewhere. We're putting the light from that side that wasn't working over there. Does it work over here? Working over here, so it ain't the light. They're getting over, Henry! They're getting over, Gideon! Run around, turn that fence off! Turn the fence off quick! That's not going to work right here. It might have been hour and a half, but it's just the pressure is going to get worse and worse. Now Mark's working on her pressure washer. I'd really like to be seeing that too. We have to deal with this. One sheep was caught in it. I saw it, I saw it. Help me get them over. That means we have to try something different, so let's get them a paddock over. We can't repeat the same thing and expect a different result, so every time they get over, we have to change something up. Get in. Come on, you and I don't need to be so close. Here we go. There they go. Maybe just some distance. Now moms aren't right there, so they're— maybe they won't be as giddy up daring. And if you get over through this one, you still have another one to get through. Okay, if that— how? They just all got out. Where'd they get out? I guess we had Disconnected this to not power this whole thing. We didn't need it, so now we're back on it. If this doesn't work, we're gonna have to plug into the grid. I love the grid. That gold right there, we didn't get low as I'd hoped though here, huh? Yeah, that's gonna be so low. What you gonna do next? Like right here. Okay, and make all the way to there. All right, good deal. All right, Gideon and I are going to transform this rock wall. Look, that looks so nice where we already did that. Look at how much this has already broke down. It's about to be the biggest compost pile we've ever built. It's 32 feet that way, 16 feet across, probably about 2.5 feet deep. Gideon, I would like to do that, and he said that Pound Cake wasn't eating. That's not good. He's eating, but she's not. Here. Did just get bred, more than likely, but I don't think that's it. Could have been something she ate, right? I hope. I'm gonna get her some, uh, charcoal and apple cider vinegar. This is She's an important pig. She's getting older. She's our only girl pig. Yes, she's our only girl. We're gonna do a quarter apple cider vinegar in their 5 gallons of water. She's hopefully just got a little bug or something. Maybe she ate a little something weird. Maybe she's morning sick. I got my charcoal. Brassicas are jamming. The good thing about the permaculture farm, it's diverse. We always have problems. That is a problem with a diverse large homestead. You're always going to have problems, but for the most part, you're always going to have success. And having that diversity will help guarantee towards that. So having trouble with the pig, but the brassicas are jamming. They're going to be busting through this bug net before we know it. The cool thing is no work. We laid down this weed fabric, put the water under there. We're literally going to come back at harvest. Charcoal is nothing but minerals. The minerals left over. Can you gnaw on that? She knows what she needs. She's gnawing on that. I think anything toxic in there too could bind to that, I think, and it could pass through. Literally just a big green egg, 100% natural. Oak and hickory. You want the natural, you don't want any chemicals in it if the pigs are going to eat it. We've given her greens, apple cider vinegar, charcoal. Let's just hope— could have something to do with pregnancy, something she ate, could be a bug. You know, it's the body's natural response to fast when you're sick. I've had Abundance Plus members DM me inside the app so like having the same issues with their pigs. And this is the thing I advised, and luckily for them, their pig snapped out of it in a couple of days. Hopefully she will too. Carbon, the wood chips, the dry hay. Nitrogen, the cow manure. Plus air, us moving it out, the air to it. And then water. Should I clean this up? I don't want to. It's not as cool as making compost. We want farm to look nice. This is the biggest compost pile I've ever seen on this farm. What, I'm 6 feet, 8 feet maybe at the height, 30 feet long. That will go a long way to restore our land. Watching our machine. All right, looks so much better, right? I don't know if this is working because it's reading 40. This might be broke. Oh wait, there goes something. It's moving. Not heated up yet, of course. It'll take a couple days. And water— hopefully this rain stays, and because it would take a long time to hose this down. Now we could just put the hose on it and leave it. And we just got the call from the post office. Post office. We've got 100 birds coming. The problem is both of our breeders are taken up. Those layer chicks are getting big, turkeys are getting big. So we're going to use the turkeys. They got more room. We don't have much room for more deep bedding. We're getting full, but I guess we'll see how it does. It'll probably end up being about like this. Turkeys may be in here as long as the Cornish Cross— the turkey's gonna be in here 6 weeks. I'm gonna leave that one there for the Cornish Cross. It's already warmed up. Chicks are going to be cold and they're going to want to be getting warm, like 90, 95. The divider, it should be 4 foot by 4 foot, 4 foot to the rib. And then let's do one— needs to be shorter than that. This is pretty thin, but I think there's not gonna be a lot of pressure on it. That's 4 foot. You know, half this brooder is not gonna work for very long on sea monsters. They're gonna grow so fast. We'll give them a little more than half. Maybe we'll get the layer chicks out sooner than later, probably within a week. Last possible frost date is in a week. Move the turkeys over there and leave the sea monsters over here. Heat lamp for their food. They have a hover brooder to get under. Here you go, magic water, please. 1/4 cup honey, clove or 2 of garlic, minced or pressed, 2 tablespoons apple cider vinegar. Okay, are they alive? Yeah, they're alive. All right, there is no way they're gonna fit in that. Come in here and catch these layer chicks. Are they ready to go out? Put them over here. This evening, let's see if lambs are still in. Let's see if the sow pig is still alive and see if the chicks are still alive. It's quite the check we have this evening. Oh, and let's put up the calf while we're at it. Yeah, 2 paddocks away. Some little lambs got over. 4. We're gonna move all the sheep over, moms and babies, and then cut the moms out, bring them back over. First, let's check this mama pig. I did see her up and drinking a little bit earlier. Okay, this is a good sign. This is a good sign. All right, you talking? Well, let's hope you eat in the morning. Okay, hang in there, girl. She's found the problem, huh? You think they got out and went around and then there was a little bit of a gap right there? This may seem counterproductive that we're herding all the sheep over, but it's a lot easier to herd all the sheep over and then cut the mamas out as opposed— okay, but they're gonna want to be with the moms. Jonah, still got to get these two sheep. Uh-oh, the little sheep are excited. They busted the fence. They know this fence is off. Come on, nothing to see here. Come on, let's go. Oh shoot, I let a cow over. It's easy to get the cow back though. Harriet, you're looking good. Thankfully the mamas are, uh— here you go, cut her wide, cut her wide. There you go. I think the mamas are faster. Oh no. Will the sheep go by the steer? Yeah. All right, we did it. Okay, we gotta hold and get them over. You gotta get Honey over. I'm about to get so confused. Let's take Vanilla too. I'm glad I have a young 17-year-old. Come on, come on. No, we're not going. We're not doing this. We're not doing this. Calf's faster than mama. There you go. This is wild. It normally isn't like this. They get in a pattern after a bit. You got to train them at first though. Very hard to start doing calf separating a week, half a week. You got to get everybody trained in the new pattern. Are you serious? I'm trying to grab it. Go in front of it. Go in front of her. There you go. They just want their moms. They missed the turn. Where's the breach here? How'd they get out of this hole? Oh look, we're thinking they got out of this paddock, went around the middle paddock. I see it. And went through the opening over there. He's gonna go fix that. I'm gonna turn off the fence real quick. He'll fix it and I'll turn the fence back on. Okay, got it back on. He's got his water not far from mom. You can still see mom. She, she can still see mom. Babies too. I give it a 40% chance. What do you give it? All right, the reason I'm willing to go for it on such a small chance is the alternative is a pig panel, cat panel, physical barrier. Pain. I'm tired. 20 till 8. We're getting towards my bedtime. Check on the sea monsters. And all the other chicks. Okay, okay, you guys are monsters, I'm telling you. They gobbling down the water, crushing the feed. Okay, we're set up nice. Everybody's alive and separated. Let's hope that's the case tomorrow morning. Happy day.