What happened to my eye?!

The host deals with pink eye while running through morning farm chores: feeding animals, checking for ammonia in bedding, and assessing parasite load by looking at lambs' eye color. Then the crew builds a DIY mineral sled from cedar and decking, with step-by-step instructions for cutting, measuring, and assembly.
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It's— shot. Goop. Hot compress. You see that? Pink eye. And a cough. All right, Beck, suck it to me. Thank you, Violet, for the raw A2-A2 milk treatment. Does that actually help, Beck? Yeah, I read that it did. If you don't have breast milk, raw milk is The next best thing. Him and Milkus say 282? Yes. Oh, that's cool. This is very close to it. It's starting to look a little bit better. Can you move it by yourself? Yeah, with Gideon's help. Okay, let's show how easy it is. Good job, Gideon. You got it.
Yep, it's heavy.
You want me to help you? Yeah, a little wider. Can you let the posse out, Mr. Brown? Oh look, they're so anxious to get out now they don't even need the ramp. Put the ramp up, Mr. Brown.
Okay, maybe I'll help. It's too windy jumping out.
Do it gentle. There you go. How are the sea monsters doing this morning, Joey?
I already fed them, did their water.
Okay, let's check. I smell, I smell ammonia. Here.
What's ammonia?
Come here, come here and smell it. You'll smell it. Hey, you smell it? It's kind of real sharp, kind of alcoholy smell.
Yeah, what is that?
It's ammonia. It means they have too much litter on top of this shavings. We need to add more shavings. Hey, chores go on whether you're sick or not. Okay, ready?
How are you gonna get the shavings around without getting near no food?
We're gonna pull it all out and then put the shavings down. We should do the shavings every morning.
I put, I put the feed out, the chicks do 2 of them jumped out.
Really?
2? 1 jumped out.
How's Bear doing this morning? He's doing good. He's getting huge, isn't he?
Yeah, he's getting big.
Get up next to him.
Gideon, you want to ride him?
Jonah, he's gonna catch you, buddy.
Oh yeah.
Can you still control him?
Oh yeah, easy. He's not very strong. You can see his nubs of horns.
See, he's got horns coming in.
Tell me if he's not shaving them.
No, we're not gonna shave them. Oh boy, Stud Muffin's right there. That's where we need to get her in. You got a different idea, Jonah? Come on, Violet. Hey sweetie, good morning. Let's get you a baby. Let's get you your baby. Come on, I got it. Here, let it down, Jonah. There we go. Oh, you gotta give me some milk before I go? How's that look?
It's not a good look for you.
All right, well, that's what these are for. Who's going with me?
I'm not.
You going with me? We're gonna get stuff to build a mini sled. We're looking for cedar. Is that it? That is cedar. Grab 3 of those for right now, Jonah.
Okay.
We're looking at like a big guy there. Let's get some decking now. Okay, leave that here while we go see if we can't find the decking. I think I found it. No, that's roofing. Is that it? That is not it. Let's try outdoor. Just ask somebody. We couldn't be further away right now. We're as far away from that decking as you possibly can be.
Plastic decking.
Here it is.
It weighs— this one weighs so much.
That's probably what we need right here. All right, take it. There you go. Screws. Find an O-hook, Jonah. 4 of these.
What are those gonna do?
You're gonna hook it— you're gonna hook to it and pull it. They need a hardware carabiner. Come on, Jonah, we gotta get a screw. You think that'll hold the You think that'll hold the mineral feeder on there? Yeah, that might be a hair too long. Do you have one a bit longer, like an inch? You know, I think this is gonna be plenty. Oh, that's thicker.
That's thicker, but it won't work. I think the holes are humongous. They're like this big.
We gotta get a washer. You got a bit of a smaller washer than that? That's a little bit too big. Perfect. Get 6 of them. If we get this dog leash It's already got a cable on it, or we could buy two of those and then rig up our own cable. What do you want to do?
Rig up our own cable. I don't care.
That's a kit, so you can make it as long as you want. That's pretty cool. Let's just get the kit, Jonah.
Come.
Where's our cart?
Uh, I don't know.
We got everything, buddy. Let's go.
You missing your handkerchief?
Probably, yeah.
It's right there.
Back at the holler house where we belong. Let's make this come to life. Brown, can you grab this? I guess we don't need that. You will. Don't worry about it, we don't need it yet. Oh, you want to help carry this? Here, you grab that. Grab the bag. Grab the thing that's hanging off.
There you go.
Yep, pick it up.
Grab the bag.
Jonah, we need, uh, 72 inches. Let's do it too long though, it won't hurt if it like goes out sticks beyond, I'd rather trim it off later. So let's go 7. That's like— no, no, hold on.
Papa, that wisp did not shock you. It didn't shock you? No.
Put 2 boards down, Jenna. Spread them out. There you go. That's how one's gonna sit. We're gonna do a 45-degree angle for a— so this can be a sled, and then we would have a 2x2 going across supporting it crossways. That would happen about right here, so maybe we'd come back 2 inches. So let's make it 2 inches longer than 72 inches. Okay, but let's go get 70 on either side, so 4 inches, so 76. We got our 2 skids. Now I've done another thing. This. All we have to do is know the distance between that hole and that hole.
Done.
I stripped a 2x4, have a 2x2 now. I did it to 27.5 inches. Put the mineral sled back on here, Jenna.
Oh, it's perfect!
Holy smokes, that is perfect! For the centerpiece, goes from this piece all the way through this piece. Here, give me your tape. Let's say 2 inches. Let's send it back 2 inches, an inch and a half, 2 of them, 3 inches. How long is that in the first place? 76 inches. So minus— what did I say? 3 inches for the 2x2s, 4 inches because we're going 2 inches on either side. That's 7 out of 76 to work with. Yeah, 69. We had to take a break from the building. We had supper, and now we're gonna do chores. We gotta do chores, Mr. Brown.
Yeah, you got the elephant hook.
Don't take this, okay?
I don't want anybody to—
no, nobody will take that. We got Drew from Wax Acres here. Howdy, an old friend. Let's put the calf in. Look who's got Violet in here. Yeah, put her back where she was. Good girl. It's a beautiful sight, cows on new grass. Yeah, let's check on the lambs. By the way, the lambs are gonna be real happy tomorrow. We're gonna let them out in the pasture. How y'all doing? Look, they didn't run to the edge when I opened that door. Drink their water. Splash of apple cider vinegar in there. Oh gosh, look, they're not even going back there with me in there. Now Mom wants me to look in their eyes to hopefully see kind of red like that, right? If, if it's red, that means they don't have parasites. If it's dull, that means they do.
That sheep is like— I'm not—
it's like a light pink. Then we should probably do the trimming. Yeah, I mean, that one looks more pale than the first one. Yeah, they look pretty pale to me, but I don't know nothing.
Well, let's go and look.
They're healthy. I mean, they're eating, they're drinking. Yeah, it didn't look like our eyes.
Like, well, let's go. We can look at this.
They should have similar scalera, whatever that means. Oh, now he's pulling out big words. Now he's getting a vote. He pulled out a big word. All right, Drew, let's finish this mineral sled. Hey, should I stop working at 7 or should I just push through and get this done?
Push through.
Look at stud knocking.
That's a loose piece of grass.
You ready to do this, Drew? Yeah, let's do it. Oh my, it is done just like that. Look, we got, uh, we got decking on the bottom so it should easily slide. We've got O-hooks on either side. Eye hooks, those are eye hooks. We got carabiners attached to a cord so it can hook on either side. And Jonah pulled it.
We gotta move it in with the cows.
Tomorrow.
Me and your saw weed whack, and when we weed whack, we'll come weed whack a little trail for you.
Thank you. Thank you. We will, uh— oh, it'll also always be in the lane too, which is always mode. So I'll put minerals in it tomorrow and get it set up for them. Look, stud, you ready for this, stud? It's coming tomorrow.
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