What will Happen when I'm Gone?

Where are your shoes, Mr. Brown? Forgot the old barn. He should go get his own shoes, but I also want him to go with me on chores. That's a push, so I'm gonna help him out. Just then, yeah. Okay, all right, a couple big moves today. We got to move the pigs to New Forest, and we got to get these cows across the street. Hey, wrong direction, guys. The pigs are over here. Come on, where are you going? Come on, let's do this. Look at this till job. This is amazing. You guys are amazing. And behind them, we've planted seeds, pasture seeds, and put down organic straw. This will be beautiful pasture. This nice little nook that I have never tapped as a farmer on this land. I think cows were here over 20 years ago. But it's certainly what in the pasture it's gonna be. You set up the net. I realized we forgot their food. You want to go back with me to get their food? Get in. I'll be right back, guys. I'm back. I, uh, just want to give them a little bit while we set that up so we can turn it off and they won't be tinting it like they are. The rain helps in the tilling process. Winter helps too because it softens the ground. It's a great time. Beautiful pigs, beautiful pigs. Look at this brush we got the other day. You think we cleared? Gosh, we got us a beautiful paddock here. All right, you're gonna just have to overlap itself a little bit there. Okay, get a little bit of debris out here because yep, the pigs will till and nose and knock this debris right into it and right into the fence. Hey, we need to make this work. This needs to be able to connect. Jonah, let's pull this up and make it come all the way to the end so that we can remove that this fence. All right, this time we got the net right up to there. I like it. I think, I think with these nets— oh boy, we kind of got to hurry, they're starting to tease it and it's not on. Gideon, let me help you in just one second. Gideon's also calling me, he wants back over the fence. I think they're gonna go right over because this is a physical barrier too. Look at that, look at that, it worked beautifully! Okay, take them on, Jonah. Call them. Pig, Pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig, pig. You guys are beautiful. I love these guys. Eating our skin, eating our food scraps. We're gonna have pigs probably every day for the rest of my life. We used to just get feeder pigs, which we would just raise Them seasonally where we buy them at 2 months old, harvest them at 10. You know, that's easier than having a pig all year round. But we were like, what are we gonna do with all the skim? What are we gonna do with all this food scraps? You guys are worth it just for that, huh? You guys are all right. One exciting thing is, you guys know we're in the hunt for at least 2 more gilt female pigs that we're going to breed to become sows. Well, on our way to vacation, we're checking out another breeder that will have some early 2021. We hope to film that, and if it amounts to anything, we'll get, get that to you guys somehow in the future. With that said, We are taking a 2-week break from vlogging. There will be no vlogs. But you guys know what a vlog is. When I say a vlog, it's kind of like a daily journal. It's kind of like you're— like today you're following us, doing us a little bit of what we're— you're getting a little glimpse of what we did today. We won't be vlogging because we'll be gone, but I have pre-uploaded, premeditated extra content for you guys. Films. I did a tractor compilation video. For the kids. A tractor video for kids. Hopefully it's gonna be like an hour long of my compilation, just something for mom and dad to get the kids watching something for a little bit, give them a little break. We have a video on 3 guys who quit their job, uh, to farm. I've compiled that together. We have an over an hour long tour with Greg Judy at his farm. Oh, we have a 2020 tour of our farm, like 45 minutes. We will have a, uh, a compilation of our instant chicken garden, guys. The, the put the chickens on it, come back in 2 weeks, uh, build the garden, come back in 2 weeks, plant the garden— that whole process over time, that will be together in one video. So just know, over the next week and a half. It's a lot of repurposed. There's some stuff you haven't seen before, but just know it's not necessarily current, but it is going to be good useful stuff for you guys. I think you'll, I think you'll really enjoy it. And we'll come back to vlogging, I think, on the 10th with Jonah's birthday vlog, and then the 11th with our, our vacation video. So this is part of my strategy. You want to make it as easy as possible on the farm sitter. So we set up a new paddock the day before we leave, and they don't have to set up a whole paddock the whole time we're gone. Make sure the fences are hitting hot. They are. Make sure water gets filled up. Let's go do that now. You guys can, uh, tear down the old shed. We used to have that for, uh, we used to chicken butcher over here. We also used to run camps here. That got him moving. Get this open wider. Big move across the road. This is the first— this is the first not having gates here, just being able to go over wherever we want. We used to end there. We'd have to drive them through a lane all the way up and across the road, up behind the house. Used to be one of our biggest moves, just changing a few directions. It's like you've done this a million times. He's just walking right across, right where we want him to go. Thank you very much, stud. Oh, are you gonna be the hang up? Are you gonna go? Yep, you're gonna be the hang up. Come on, come on, let's go. Come on, let's go, let's go. There we go. Yeah, yeah, good girl, good girl. Well, look, there's the score. Totally forgot to get a shot of us milking. Sorry about that, guys. Pretty uneventful. Lily, let's get little Maple through. She knows the drill. She knows the drill. Lily, you just gotta open the gate. No, no, no, no, not sheep, not sheep. All right, well, maybe she doesn't know the drill. Okay, Lily, you go herd her. Try not to herd the sheep. There you go, there you go. I'll keep the sheep out of it. One thing we're gonna do to make Arun's life easier is put a collar on this guy. See, he tried yesterday. Yeah. Yeah, there we go. That's what it's gonna be. My battery died. We got the collar on her. It was so long, there was so much strap hanging off, we ended up zip tying, uh, the extra strap to the collar. This is her milk. A common question you guys are asking, uh, why are you even having a roon milker while you're gone? Why don't you just let the calves have it? Many, many answers to that. That's a great question. I understand the logic behind that. It's a great question. I guess in a pinch I could do that, but there's many things. One, if you don't demand the milk, they'll start producing less, and when we get back they would not be producing as much as they are now because us and the calf are currently demanding. Two, if, if for some reason the calf didn't get her all milked out, she could get mastitis. And these are, these are high-producing cows, so why is it so weird in that light right there? Let's switch you guys. These are high-producing cows, so it can happen. So generally they do come to a point where they produce more then the calf will drink and they could get mastitis. We still— we can cream separate when we get back, and that's skim milk for the pigs. So we're dependent on this milk not just to feed us but to feed our pigs. And another reason is Arun really likes milk too. Cow number 2, I'm gonna check her for mastitis. I thought that maybe she was breathing a little hard yesterday. I wonder if that one's got a little mastitis in it. Seems thicker. Jonas, you would— I feel like it's thicker. Yeah, look. I guess it does absorb it. It's just a little thicker, that's all. See if you put more in it. I guess it's all right. Okay, thank you, Miss Phyllis. Gosh, she gave like 2 gallons. At least 2, 2 to 2.5 gallons. It's been a while since she's done that. Here, you want to see it? Look at this. Gosh, wow, that's a giver. We're gonna have to bring the calves back in here today, across the street. Now that we got collars on both of them, there's a chance we can catch them in here, leash them either like that or put rope halters on and get them across. For breakfast this morning— brunch— We ran out of cheddar cheese. We had mozzarella cheese. I said, is that a thing? I asked Mr. Google Pants. Sure enough, it's a thing. I'm kind of excited to try this because mozzarella is super mild. I like a mild cheese. Wow, look at that. Here, come on kids. That's a thing. It's the afternoon. I know sometimes there can be some confusions because it was just the morning, the clip before, right? But we've done a lot. We've packed for our trip. Uh, guys, we want to get the rope hawkers, so now we're going to go do the calf separating. It's, it's, it's a bit of a difficulty to do this calf separating, and somebody said, well, why don't you just do it when, when, when Flossie's in the stanchion? Well, We— if we separated the calf out when Flossie was in the stanchion, the calf wouldn't get the milk all day. We like to give the calf milk all day. We only separate the calves late afternoon, evening, and then the milk builds up overnight. The cows are up there and behind the old farmhouse. They— the calves need to come down here to the sheep. If we can catch the calves and rope halter them, we, we might not need to herd the mamas over. And then try to herd them back out. Look, Flossy's already going up to her cow. Since little Maple's nursing, let's go ahead and see if we can't get Polly. Use your crook and then you don't have to get so close. There you go. No, grab her collar with it. Grab her, grab her leash, her collar. Yeah, you got her. Good job. Now hold steady, hold steady. We'll put a rope halter on her. Yeah, hold it steady. Oh, you're doing good. All right, come on, come on. Jenna's gonna go ahead and get her while she's nursing and being still. Here, you want me to do it, Jenna? Okay. There's Mama. We got calf over here. Are you gonna bellow all night? Is that a bad idea? Should we have just put a divider fence up? I think that's what I'm gonna have Arun do for tomorrow. That's a 2-day paddock, so I think they'll just— I'll just put up another net in there because she gets kind of crazy when we Got her out of the fence. Normally the fences are right next to each other, but this time we had to cross a road, so they can't be right next to each other. So it's just a little tricky. Okay, this is good. Calf's up and at them. Mom's right there. They have seen each other for a little bit. Phyllis was— or Flossie was kind of looking for her up there, but they've seen each other. I think it's gonna be all right. It's a happy ending. Guys, we're taking a break from vlogging, but we're still going to get you mucho shows all the rest of this week. Shows, some repurposing of old material, so don't be surprised if, if like everything's green again all of a sudden in my tour. And then I think next week we pick up with a birthday vlog Thursday and then an update vlog when we get home Friday. And then we'll be back to regular vlogs. So over the next couple of weeks, just enjoy the shows.