This May be the Best Life Ever for a Chick

Oh my goodness, do you hear them? They are ready to get out. Let's hustle and get them out. Where are the turkey poults? Are they all dead? They're all alive. Yay!

They were getting their stuff.

They like the little brooder. Plenty of water, good and clean, plenty of food. Let's put it a little closer. Oh, they're out and about and running. How cute. Right next door to the turkeys, sea monsters. But we're having better luck this time. Not one has— well, we had one die in shipment, right?

No, none died in that one. One died, one of the turkeys.

Oh really? There's no sea monster died? Oh my gosh. Let's get our crates, Lily.

This is a choo choo train with a lot of cargo. Chickens.

Let's see if we can just let the mamas out, not the chicks. It won't be long before these chicks outgrow this pretty shawl, so we're gonna just go— why not put them out in the pasture now?

Papa, look at the egg!

Nice, you got a little bundle there. You want to put them inside? Does anybody know where Henry the cart is? Maybe we need a new name for Henry the cart because I don't think we would have named it that if we'd known we were gonna have a baby named Henry. Do you might know where Henry is? When I asked that, Lily said inside. I don't know what he is.

I have full—

you got that in there? Hey, do you have full battery on your Jeep? You could— you can move these chickens with your Jeep.

Yeah, I, I have, I have full battery.

Okay, there'll be no more chicks getting out of our front yard because we're taking them out. We could use Henry the cart for that. Since we got to go up there, let's find Henry the cart. There he is. I see him way over there on the other end. Thank you. Real quick, Garden of Peace. I know the beautiful one wants to plant this today. Why don't we go ahead and make that a little easier by getting all these weeds out of here for her? Won't take but a second. Good. It's already ahead of me getting the chicks down. You got more chicks than Henry? Well, wait, where did you take the Did you take the raised beds? Well, how come they're— I don't see them on this banister.

Because they're over there on that side of the banister.

Oh, they go right there though, where there's no containers. I'll take these weeds up and put those beds where they're supposed to go. Those container gardens. Josiah, where are these? Where are the container gardens? Mom's lettuce is coming in nice. Everything in these beds are jamming. You put them way down there next to the greenhouse. Is that where they're supposed to go?

Pretty sure they are, because that's where— that's where we got them from.

Oh, okay. Uh-oh, hang on, hang on, we're getting the A-frame out. It's hard to keep up with you, bro. Yeah, I wasn't gonna maybe put it— I was gonna maybe put the fence down a little before that reason, this rocky soil.

Hey, Gideon, you're gonna wear out your truck. Gideon, stop, stop, stop!

You're gonna, you're gonna make it worse.

Stop, stop, stop!

That's gonna strip it. Stop. It sounds like your battery's dying. Listen, if you keep riding it and it's not moving, you're gonna break it. I guess since we almost used this thing, that seems to be criteria enough to keep this thing. It's a pain in the butt though. That's why I came up with my Chickshaw design. Okay, pull it tight there at the bottom. Is that spike crooked? Now, now, rubber mallet that spike That'll do it. See, a rubber mallet is your best friend installing this fence on compact clay or rocky soil. Is that gonna make it before you go putting it in permanent?

Yeah, I laid it out so it would make sure.

All right, Josiah, can you help me push this? Looks like I'm gonna catch right there. Can you lift it, Josiah? Now lift that side. Let's get the Chickshaw 2.0 out of the way. Yeah, in front of the handle. Yeah, I remember seeing it in the road over there. Okay, let's see if we can't find that handle. Here's the pole. Yep, you got some pins?

Yep.

All right. I don't think this has either pin. So put the handle in. I'll put the handle in, you put the pins in. Go ahead, get in, show them how easy it is. How old are you? You don't know? He knows. I do too. I'm just trying to tell y'all he's 6. Okay, go. Look, that's what I'm talking about. Josiah, can you get us 3 crates to block them from getting out back here? I've been sleeping on a harder mattress but I haven't been able to sleep with the beautiful one, and it has been making my back feel a little better. I think that plus my workouts and fasting, but I'd like to get back in the bed. So could I go old school and just put a piece of plywood under my side mattress?

Here you guys, there you go.

I don't know if I'll eat that or not, but It'll compost if they don't. Hey, could I use this? My legs don't need it so much. This, it's wide but not long enough.

What would you use this for?

Put under my soft mattress to make it firmer. We got these two crates. We need one more, guys. Jonah got any in his tool room? Nope. Here's some new ones. We don't need to do our openings in them yet because they're not nearly of egg-laying age. Let's get the chickens in there. We might even coop them up. Hmm, I think— I don't know, similar enough to that one, but maybe we'll coop them up for a couple of hours. Let's get the crates up. When we get them up there, we'll get their food and water. Okay, we might actually make it to milking time in time. 30 minutes, how convenient. And water ready to go. Let's get our crates out. And let's put our supplies in. Grab that. Thank you. We're gonna go ahead and give them their water in here, and then after milking time, we're gonna let them out, and it'll be glorious. Two worlds going on. They've got electric fence posts. They've turned those into swords. I want to use them as a way to connect electricity to this fence. Their wonderland, my reality. There's so much in my world. Instead of getting frustrated, I guess I gotta get into their world a little bit. Oh, it got my arm! Oh, I've lost my arm! Oh gosh, I gotta do left hand. Gotta go left-handed. We gotta be careful. I lost my left arm. Oh no, no, got no arms. Gideon's the reigning champ. Can you get him?

Yeah, that's a small sword.

Gideon's a tough opponent. Oh my gosh. Oh, he got your leg. You gotta hop on one leg. Oh, Gideon, you got your arm. Oh, he got you, he got you. How about a clip from our newest episode, Rooted 4?

What I can remember having to do with my dad working growing up, what sticks in my mind mostly is firewood. He would saw it, we would go devil it, man, old school. You know, he would do this one thing. He would reach over and slap me on the leg hard, like, "We're ready to go, boy," something like that. But when we would get in town, it looked like, "What is everybody doing?" You know, nobody's in a pickup truck with a load full of firewood. And he'd say, it'd be Saturday, and he'd say, "We the only ones working today?" I still say that sometimes. That did bring up a sense of pride and a sense of, we're the hardest worker in the room here. You know, all my friends, that was when you could only watch cartoons on Saturday and on TV. And I hated it. I wanted so bad just to watch a cartoon one Saturday. And I would be able to go spend the night with friends, but he would pick me up Saturday morning.

That was the condition.

Friends could come to me because that's another worker.

I actually got to find out who my real friends were.

Were you coming for the foaler and fun on Friday night? Well, we're going to see if you're a real friend if you last Saturday hauling wood. Well, he made us work. But I think, you know, looking back on that now, it was special not only because we developed a work ethic to be able to do something even when we didn't want to, to accomplish something good, but that was quality time with him.

And I learned a nifty trick at Rory's at Homesteaders of America. We have our source electricity come out here to the grid. We got it on this blue post. Well, normally we just have to just put our reel down. The problem with doing that is this grass can have contact with the line. Well, this is what they did at Rory's. Boom! Because plastic doesn't conduct electricity. How's that? You ain't even paying attention. You'll see it in the vlog tomorrow. I was paying attention. I just I was showing off a little bit, but you weren't even paying attention. I was paying—

I was— I literally was watching, and then I looked over.

You were yawning that way. All right, we got alligator clips hooking it up from Premier 1. We got a clip there. Are you testing it? Oh, we should. Will you turn it on and we'll test it? Let me see the little boy. You little puppy dog outfit. Every, every week you got new outfits.

Well, now he's gonna have more because he's growing out of his little stuff.

Okay, you turn it on. Because you're swelling up. You're swelling up.

I'm growing. I'm growing.

He's having a good time out here. Oh, I hear it. I hear it. Let's test it. 7.4. Oh yeah, that'll keep him in.

I was laying in bed and I was like, is this really gonna be our last baby?

Yep.

Should I really— should I really— should we really not have another one?

You still have doubts, huh? Still not sure. See, already he's already sleeping pretty good and we're already like, I'm getting rid of all my—

I'm getting rid of all the this stuff.

That's why it's so sad.

And I'm like, should I get rid of it?

It's so hard, but it's so sad.

I'm like, should I get rid of my maternity clothes?

Because the next one is not going to sleep as good as him. There's no way.

I know, right?

That's what I thought too. I thought, gosh, we got to retire while we're on top. I know, it's hard to retire on top.

Well, no, what it is is that he's so precious and they're such a blessing.

I know. But they're worth it even if they don't sleep through.

They are.

Oh look, Arun's going to Wonderland.

I like it.

You weeded the bed for me.

Thanks. Oh yeah, let's get Mom's water hose so she can water her plants. Uh, glad I remembered. Where's her blue wand? Arun reminded me it was me who moved that one. Yes, that's right. I watered the tomatoes in the greenhouse yesterday. Yeah, there it is. Oh, you want to water here while we're here? Yeah, because I think it's so hard during the day. So dry. Okay. Oh good, it's on. Looks like the phone company's here working on Replacing that old pole. We're gonna let out these birds. Free the birds! Happy day! Chicks on grass. Yeah, we'll get—

we'll get both your feeders out, but we'll keep them close.

We'll get the water out and keep it close. They trained to the Pretty Shaw. This is similar, so pretty sure they'll go back up. I like that they're hanging out in there. I'm not gonna rush them. I want them to feel like, oh, this is comfortable, this is safe. This is nice and cool, and then they'll come back. Let's lock you guys on the tripod and watch this. That's a beautiful sight. They've got this clover, they got their feet. One thing I'm missing though, this is going to be a crow's delight, especially near those trees. And these little guys, crow or hawk, there's less predator pressure for these adult birds. Let's grab this goose and let's put him— her, her down with those little chicks. I like to put the goose out on the grass anyway. They eat so much grass. You'll be happier over here. Get this electrified. All right, happy birds.