In this informal farm vlog, the narrator (Speaker A) walks viewers through a series of on‑the‑farm crises and improvisations. The video opens with a failed turkey fence: a disconnected electrified wire allowed all the turkeys to escape, prompting a frantic search and a reflection on the rookie mistake. The focus then shifts to the pigs, whose waterer was knocked over and the plug missing, leaving ten large pigs thirsty. Using a broken hose, a 50‑gallon barrel, and a makeshift gravity‑driven siphon with a nipple waterer, the narrator rigs a temporary water system, testing it and noting its limitations. Interspersed are personal asides about back pain, the carnivore diet, and the emotional ups and downs of farm life. The vlog concludes with a discussion of the garlic harvest (planted in October, harvested in July), garden yields, and the challenges of chickens entering the garden, highlighting the balance between hard work and modest success. Throughout, the narrator reflects on problem‑solving, the trade‑offs of diet, and the satisfaction of seeing the improvised solutions hold up.
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When I was setting up the turkey fence yesterday, this is what I said: They're super easy to move, you can step right over them without turning the fence off, and the T-birds don't get out. T-birds don't get out! Yeah, not so much. This morning I woke up and all the turkeys were out. Looked out the window this morning and all the turkeys are out. All of them. I hope they're not all dead. I found 4. They were easily put in. Shoot, have I lost 16 turkeys? Okay, check the wood. I think I hear them. Nice! 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8. 10. It wasn't the fence's fault though. It was, it was human error. I saw the problem when I came out here. It's not even touching. This has to be to that. You see, the wires from the electricity source have to make it actually to the fence for it to work, and in this case at one of our shutoffs, the wire was actually disconnected, so that's not gonna work. I was freaked out. Beautiful. She would have been so disappointed, and I was so happy when we found them. It was really kind of a rookie mistake. Pigs knocked over their water and we're missing the plugs. You got water coming? Yes. So we're doing a 50-gallon barrel Temporary, but that 50-gallon barrel won't last long, not with you huge pigs, 10 of them. See, plug is missing times 2, and the hose isn't working up to here. I mean, you saw me feeding them some water. They're very thirsty, but the water has stopped. We're too high up and it's not flowing fast. They're distracted with feed. I'm forced to look for the plug for our 85-gallon water. We found one yesterday. We pushed our blue waterer out, and word on the street is they lost the nipple. I don't see a nipple. We can maybe rig it, the nipple, to a hose, to a T-post, to a tank outside of the fence. If we find that. We've got to find something because they're going to be really thirsty. Take this old hose, this broken hose. This is the idea. Will it fit in there? Ah, booey, it will not. It does not fit in there. I was hoping to fit this nipple water on there. Look how much it rained last night. They said it rained 3 inches last night, which we needed it. I don't know if we need it all at once. Okay, I see one over at the butchering. It's gonna be big enough. I'm gonna have to cut it, it's the problem. Shoot, I just ruined a good hose. I got no choice but to try to heat this up and see if it'll expand. It's working. Good news. We've got this filled up with water so that we can do a siphon. So the idea will be to put this end in the bottom of that, and as long as this nipple water is below the bottom, we should have gravity. A siphoning hose, a drinker hose, two tanks of water, filling up our reservoir. Had to park the truck way up there. We're hoping it's long enough that we don't have to attach another hose. We've got it in the bottom. Hey, does it work? Pretty good. So what if we drive a T-post, run the hose under, and that's their drinking water? I'm afraid this is gonna be a little Jerry. Somebody's gonna find it. There it is, there it is! That's when things break, they start fighting. I feel like we're gonna have to pull it back to where they can't bend that hose. All right, let's rinse this rock off. This is going to be our weight for our hose in the barrel. I might have did it. Yeah, that was perfect. I feel like we rigged up the pigs well enough with that nipple water to hose attachment to get us by, but we're definitely gonna have to reinforce that and improve that soon. Can you spin me? Sure. Dizzy yet?
No.
I want you to run and I'll let you down, okay? 1, 2, 3. You're pretty good. I'm very dizzy. Well, it's been an hour and a half. There's still people over here in line. It still seems— it's still working. I don't know if one nipple is going to be enough for 10 pigs, but it's definitely took the emergency off. Was this full? Was this full all the way down? So they have taken it down a few inches. We're training now. My back was sore. Maybe that was a fluke. We're gonna try again. I was super bummed out about how my back felt during this workout. I hadn't had back pain like that since like day 1 of this carnivore diet, and I was thinking, oh, the carnivore has done it, the carnivore has done it. And, uh, that was discouraging. Burgers every day. I actually like that part. Wouldn't mind some cheese. Another thing to think about surrounding this, this carnivore and then this back pain is, hey, it's kind of good and bad news. I mean, it's, it's bad news in the sense that the carnivore isn't going to heal that back pain completely. The good news is that the carnivore isn't going to heal that back completely, and I'm going to be freer to eat other things because that is maybe not necessarily what was affecting it. It is that time of the year, the garlic harvest. It's, it's always exciting because you plant garlic in October and you mulch it and you pretty much walk away. It's one of the easiest crops, but you have to wait a long time because it doesn't come up until June. We're a little late, July, and we're harvesting this stuff. We're gonna harvest the garlic here. Is it breaking off? Get the, uh, potato— get the fork. It's right there, Jonah. We've got the garlic. We're gonna set it up to cure. Are you happy with this harvest?
It's a lot my fault that it's not great because I didn't weed.
Yeah, yeah. Hey, it's a diminu— at some point there's a diminishing return.
Yeah, I'm a little bummed. I feel like this will maybe get us through the year.
I think you're having 80%. I think you have 80% of what it could have been. I was super thrilled with the harvest. I'm happy with 80% results in the garden. Rebecca, she mourns a death of one plant. How much more effort would you have had to put in to get that 100%? See what I'm saying?
But what I'm wondering is maybe I'm gonna use weed fabric mixture.
Okay, for garlic? Yeah. Interesting.
Part of the problem is this: your darn chickens got in there and scraped off my hay.
They're my chickens when they get in the garden, but when she made that cake for the Fourth of July, they're definitely her chickens. When you make that ice cream, yeah, they're definitely mine then. 100% from our land, my baby. Potatoes just harvested, beans just harvested, and the beef just harvested it just a couple months ago. How is it? Good. Was it worth it? Was it worth it, Mr. Henry? It's a lot of hard work. Look at my tooth. Nice.
