PIGS ESCAPING | Plan C

Cream separating day. 6 gallons and an eighth. I was gonna drive around and up and in. Because this is kind of hard to get over. But look, look, a bunch of them got out because the door swung open. I didn't— I guess just one of these was latched and it wasn't locked in place. I guess door running out. Hey, we got most of them. Yeah, Jonah and Josiah's friends, neighbors from out of town visiting. Y'all may remember Sam and John. Last year, come to visit their grandparents. You would be all over that, wouldn't you, buddy? This is exciting. Hey, who caught it? You caught it, my man.

Get Josiah!

What do they say? One boy, one brain. Two boys, half a brain. Five boys. Daddy, thanks guys. Just got our nets up. We're gonna milk early today. Crim's separating day. So 8, we got about 40 minutes. They want to move. It's been easier a little bit. I mean, it's best practice to move in the afternoon, but it has been a lot easier just to move, do everything in the morning. But we got a tricky move. We got to get the sheep from up there, down this little road, across the road into this lane, and down to their net. You got any ideas for that, Jonah?

We'll just use the quick fence to go from there around right there, and then we can put kids here, and then we'll just— they'll come down into the lane.

Yeah, we could also maybe swing that post, that post over like that, funnel them into that a little bit better, and maybe park Sally there. Do that. Okay. All right, let's go set these up and then come get them. Can you hold Teddy while I get the cows?

Can I? Oh yeah, I can't let him out because the cows might sit up on him.

Okay, yeah, you stay here with him.

Goes to here.

How do we get this across? This is not making it. Oh, okay, one of these goes across. Okay, I think I got the right one rigged up. That'll do. I mean, it's just a temporary, just so they don't go in there and they go in here. Don't think we're gonna have a problem with that though. Look at this. Look at this pasture. Look at this clover. Oh my gosh, that's what happens when you give it rest. You double your edibles and have your weeds in just a short amount of time because they can recover and the cows aren't eating them, eating them, eating them. They eat them, you move out, it recovers. It just so happens that like clever clover and edibles recover quicker than stuff like this. We kind of need a short hose right here to connect to our water source, to our tub. Oh no, what are we gonna do? Are you serious? All right, this is bad. This is bad. You guys are not staying in an electric fence. Shoot. Really, guys. He can't be getting in the garage. He'll find the feed and it'll be over.

Pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig. Come on. Pig, pig, pig, pig, pig.

They're getting out of a piglet. Fence. Hot fence.

Look, it's got out. Hope somebody put it in there, because we're all fine.

Hey, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig.

We might just need to put them in a stall to regroup. I don't know, though, John. If we put them. I'm thinking we could try one more thing, and that's feeding them twice a day instead of just once.

No.

Hey, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig. Hey, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big. Come on, here.

I give them a little taste. They're not interested in moving. All right. Come on, guys. Put our. No, I don't know if that's gonna work. That's not gonna work.

Big pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig.

Boy, they're not. They're not following us good either. Maybe, just maybe, this fence wasn't turned back on. I'm hoping that's it. Let me give you guys an idea. There's the house way over there. We're about halfway there. We gotta go on way up this road to their lot. They come a long way. Once we get in the woods, they get the idea and they start getting ahead of me. Oh, look. I was afraid this might happen when they get to a certain age. Shoot. I hear. I hear the fence ticking. I was hoping it was left off. Hey, Jonah, lift that up for me, please.

Big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big, big.

Hey guys, let's tighten this fence up. Anywhere it's lifting off the ground, let's get it down to the ground. I don't know what happened here, but I was afraid of this. I was afraid when pigs got to a certain age, they'd just roll this pig shaw, and that's what they've done. Let's opt out of the pig shaw and, and opt into the mobile pig shelter.

This could be the lamb shaw.

That's a possibility. All right, it's just too light for pigs. And too mobile, too easy to move. But I don't know if that's how they got out because it's not really knocked it over or anything. But anyway, you want to get that out? I'll go get the shelter. Oh, that was easy. Turns out my OG design mobile pig shelter is better. Good enough for 2 pigs. Just light enough to move but heavy enough that they don't move it around quite as bad.

That's all. That's all.

All right, here's the plan. Well, we moved out this. This may have caused it somehow to them be able to get out. We've made sure it's low everywhere. We have another fence that the very bottom rung is electrified. On this, the bottom one isn't electrified, and I'm thinking they might be putting their nose under there and getting under and just taking the hit. I hesitate to put them in a stall. I can deep bedding, but I just— I want— I got work to be done out here. I want them to do this. I want them to take this and turn it into this for us. See this grass pasture coming up? Much more edible for cows. So we're gonna try— I mean, instead of feeding them all at once, dividing that in half and feeding them twice a day, just maybe so they don't get so hungry. Just realized we ran off with the pigs and the fence is open to the cows. More than likely they're all up in the alfalfa. Okay, all is peaceful. Nobody's over here. Pig's got out back.

That's awful.

I know. The only thing I can hope is maybe if we feed them twice a day, they won't be as hungry.

But I don't know if it's even— it doesn't seem like they're about hunger.

I know.

Because they're just like out about exploring. Like, when— because it's not like you can— if you feed them, they stop immediately. They're just having fun. They're like just on an exploration.

They don't. It's just turned into their routine.

Like, and it's, yeah, and it's not like they are going off and like, because I noticed when they were go— like, when they go off, they come here. It's not like they're going and finding food elsewhere. Does that make sense?

They kind of found the garage today. They didn't find any food in there, but oh boy, as soon as that's— All right, so we're gonna feed them twice a day, maybe. Maybe we break out that net that has electrified on the bottom. We might need to do strands of electricity instead of a net. Net.

It's gonna be a lot hotter because we don't want to be too—

yeah, and we could adjust the height of it. Jonah's getting the cows out. Hey, what's the occasion? Nothing. All right, well, Mom's not quite ready for me for the, uh, cream separating. We usually, uh, go a little early on cream separating milking, so we're going to kick it back to our normal time. I'm going to help these boys put up these nets for the sheep. Now that's a sight— the elderberry bushes, the cows in the background on lush, lush grass getting fat and happy. All right, it's 9 o'clock. We got it set up. Uh, it'd be a shame not to be able to move those sheep. We'll go see where Rebecca is. If we've got 15 minutes, we can move those sheep. Hey, how are we doing?

We're doing good.

We're just waiting for it to heat up.

We got 15 more minutes, I'll put the sheep over. Or should I start milking?

Well, I'm not going to I'm not gonna start doing this until you're halfway done milking.

Okay, so I should start milking.

Hot outside.

I'll just start milking if you want to put the sheep over.

We— it'll keep. Once it heats up to 100, I just take it. All right, take it off.

Okay. The reason we're timing it so is because she heats up the cold milk to 100 degrees. Fresh milk comes out of Flossy at 100 degrees. That's what you need it to be to do cream separating. So you want to time that so we can just pour that milk directly in and not— doesn't need heating up. All right, we're getting the sheep down. Once we get them in the lane, I'm pretty confident. They're very calm sheep, but they— at first they're not going to know what we want, so let's direct them with some lane. Hey guys, can you get me something to put this up on? Uh, maybe a boy. John, you can hold this one up when it's time to move them.

There's an extra blue post over there.

Oh shoot, you know what this did though? It opened that up. We can't do that. Actually, look, there's a temporary line here. John can kind of hold this out over here. Or maybe we can get— hey, maybe we can cover it with the quick fence. Go to the other side of the road with it so you can actually put it in the ground. Thanks. Oh look, yeah, they're putting that tent line there. That's good. I put Sally there to kind of be a detour. All right, you think that will span all the way across, Jonah, to that walnut tree right there? Okay, a long way. Right here, we're good. Right here. Good. You got that attached somehow. Hey, Jonah, you're gonna lead, okay? Make sure they see you go down that bank, okay. That's the tricky spot. Perhaps Sam and John, if you guys will stand on the pavement, please. Josiah, we're probably gonna let the sheep go, and then you and I'll probably have to herd the cows. Maybe they'll go. Sheep.

Chip, Chip, chip, Chip, chip.

Here they come, here they come, here they come, Jonah! They're good sheep, so calm. Keep calling them, Jonah. All right, I might have to give them some pressure to go down the bank. Nope, they got it. Now these guys, they're not as, uh, ambitious to move, are you? You need a little help. Come on, we got better grass for you over there. Cows took off running. That's actually a good thing. I want to catch up so none of the sheep backtrack, because if sheep goes through— first sheep goes through and the other ones don't see that, they'll try to cut through the fence. Okay, no, they all made it. They all stayed together. Cows are definitely more laid back and curious. It's different. It's different to see how they— the different animals move. Come on, guys, get in there with the sheep. Come on, shoot! Oh no, oh no. Okay, Jonah, watch the sheep. Jonah, watch the sheep. You got that? I'll get him back in. All right, let's see. So he's weaned. That's why I'm in such a rush that he doesn't get to his mama. We're trying to wean him. Let's go in with everybody else. Come on, it's just the same over there. Look. Oh, why is he passing it? Come on, there you go. Look what I just passed by— lots and lots of blueberries. Kids, more snack options for you. Strawberries, blueberries, raspberries. All right, you ready for me?

Yes.

Okay, I'm on it.

Every day we do this, every day we film.

Every way we— every day we do it. All right, how's it going in here?

You know, it's going okay. I mean, everybody's still alive.

We're missing Gma, aren't we?

Yeah, but I heated the milk too much, so I basically just pasteurized our raw milk.

Oh, first time ever, right?

It's It wasn't pasteurized up to the— it didn't get up to pasteurization level.

What'd it get to?

I took it out at 130.

All right, and when is it technically not raw milk?

At 114 or something like that.

It was—

it's in—

it's below 118.

All right, so how high do they heat the milk in the store? Different. They do it differently.

Some go like they go up to 150 and then they keep it there for a sec. It It's how— it's either a low temperature for a long time or it's a high temperature. I don't really know that much because I've never pasteurized.

You've opted out. Yeah, say it, say I've opted out.

I've opted out of pasteurized milk. Boom. Um, it's still better than— I mean, it's still fresher, it's still better than what we get in the store. So gotta give grace, grace to myself. Don't get doing something while there's milk on the stove.

2 buckets of skim, mucho cream. We're having ice cream, and you're setting some cream aside for you, Rebecca?

Yeah, and I'm making, um, I'm making a batch of cultured cream.

Nice.

And then this will be my cream for— okay, cream.

Hey, did you know you had a lot of cream leftovers?

Yeah, that's what I'm making.

Okay, okay, good deal. We still got to do little animal chores. So come on, Gideon. Hey, come on, take some of that energy onto the chores. I mowed half the luchador field yesterday because they still got this whole area to go through, and this was about to mature, and so that'd be beyond desirable edibles for these guys. So cutting it in time so that by the time they get back up to the top, it'll be recovered and nice new grass for the luchadors. My man already moving them. We're moving them right there, bro. Yep, we're moving them over. So just keep it right there. Good man, getting them started. And that brings me to the question of the day: why do I call these guys Sea Monsters? C stands for the breed that they are. They are a hybrid breed. They're mixed. They are Cornish cross. C as in corner. Sierra's and Cross's monster, as in the ridiculously fast rate they grow. They'll be toe weight, 5 pounds, in our freezer in 58 days. Oh look, this is nice. Look at them puffing up. You guys are up from it. Look how much in just one day. Look how much they wear that out. No wonder they didn't like going behind the sheep, because that's about what it looks like after the sheep. They're gonna like this. I'm back. Ice cream's going good. You're making stuff. It's time to clean up. Look at this disaster. We got no G-ma, just us. This morning we had some leftover short ribs from last night. I cut up— I'm craving like steak and eggs, so that's gonna be a lot of it. Maybe some leftover Indian. We got some chicken and we'll do eggs, and we have some leftover veggies from the farm. Breakfast is served! Boy, we eating breakfast and lunch, uh, breakfast and lunch at the same time. Let's just call it brunch. And then, but we'll be eating on the porch. First meal and second meal of the day. It's nice. My friend Jason from Soda Land here. We're gonna do a little bit of afternoon chores together, basically just to warm up for this. You're into this now, aren't you? Yeah, I'm into it. You had your first round and you're hooked. Hooked. I went and bought a tub, get some ice going. I've been doing the last few days. Good. Okay, well, we're gonna do 55 for 5 today. We're gonna get there. I've never done 55 for 5 yet. Okay, I'm at 2 minutes. Well, I'm gonna sit in there with you. I'm gonna sit in there with you. All right, fresh water, Jason. That means we have about 20-ish minutes, 30 minutes to get these chores done. There should not be a problem. All right, I'll, I'll shovel it in, and you want to just throw the excess big rocks right there, maybe? All right, there we go. How much do you think this weighs, Jason? If that didn't get us sweating this wheel carrying this. Look how they eat all that grit, man. Like, we just filled up a 5-gallon bucket of grit for the last 2 weeks. We're probably down to 99, 98 sea monsters and 20 turkeys. Turkey's doing good. They're starting to eat a lot now. They were, they're so timid at first. There, that'll be gone in 2 days, best. All right, Jason, my pigs are still getting out, bud. So we are at Plan C, their D, I don't know. We're gonna try to feed them twice a day. They're there, they're still there, so that's good. Maybe we're gonna give them a little something to do, curb some appetite. Before they go getting busted out in the morning.

Big, big, big.

You're behaving yourself, keep it that way. They haven't moved their mobile shelter, Jason. They got to where they'd pushed the sheep shawl out of the pen. Wow, it's too mobile. We got good and sweaty, Jason. Is your back as sweaty as mine? Oh yeah, yeah, let's get a shot of my back. Can you tell? Yeah. Oh yeah, you touched it, man. That's low. No, watch. You see it splatter everywhere when he did that? It's ready. We got it down to 50. What's your record, Jason? How long you been in a cold plunge? Uh, 2 minutes. Okay, we're definitely gonna beat that today, if not go 55 for 5. Okay, so it's at least 50, 55. So, all right, on your mark, get set, go! Let's hit the timer. You're gonna have to show them how it's done, Gideon. Yeah, next. You got this! 1 minute left, that's it. 37 seconds actually. You got it, I got it, I got it, I got it, I got it. After what, 2 minutes? At a certain point you gotta, you gotta get to that, that mountain, and once you're there— 5, 4, 3, 2, 1. That's it, man.

Good job.

You're gonna feel good all day, aren't you? Show them how it's done. Get in. Show me. Get in. Drop in there, bud. Look at this. Got it. Nice. He concentrates. Good job, buddy. Okay, Sam and John, you're next. Wait, John, who can stay in the longest? John v. Sam.

Definitely John.

Wait, with that attitude? Yeah.

I don't mind this, actually.

You don't mind it? Okay, well, let's see. All right. 3, 2, 1.

It's cold.

How was it?

It's cold. Better than last time.

Y'all doing pretty good. This is not very entertaining.

I know.

They're doing better than we did.

I just did it.

I got out. Jonah's side's in all the way down to his shoulders. Good job.

It's all—

I'm going to go back in. Can I come back in? Go ahead.

I'll warm it up.

It's freezing. Ow, frostbite. I'll freeze my legs.

Nice.