Time to get ready for very cold weather coming to the farmstead and for Christmas! Let’s do it! AND! Thank you so much for all the kind gifts and cards! We love you guys! xoxo
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I think of you sometimes when I'm out prepping for weather. I'm a little north, but I know you're out getting cold, wet, dirty, and tired, too. <3
Enjoyed another great video. Especially loved you calling the chickens & them running over there like you had starved them [which I am sure you never do. Really]. Mr Peaches is always ready to help with whatever you are doing. Such an unusual cat. Most couldn't be bothered. He is the kind of cat I would want.
My wife's idea of winter prep is to bury the house and most every thing sprouting from the frozen ground in something that blinks, twinkles or flashes…on a road that gets maybe a car passing by an hour.
I might have seen your papaw's Christmas scene. Especially if he and your mamaw played Mr & Mrs Claus. Then I remember them and their house, it was the most lit up and fun place to take my daughter. Simply beautiful, near by a Target store.
love all your videos. I've learned a lot from you. only one thing Annoying me is your beautiful cats collar. it's looking too small. I think he need a new collar.
if you have a dollar tree in you area. check out their buckets they are like yours with the wire handles except the have nylon ropes for handles i think i paid a dollar for mine i use then to plant my veggies in on the front porch. MERRY CHRISTMAS GOD BLESS
Love those hats!! And you looked awesome in one!!
Love this video! Love the videos you make when you take us out to the barns and your gardens. Merry Christmas and God Bless.
I love the way you talk to your animals. I hope your husband is doing better these days.
I'm soooo dreading the cold weather tomorrow and Saturday. Your cow cracks me up how she's always watching you. She needs her own youtube channel
Patara-Those Buff Orpington chickens are stunning. They look fantastic. Living on bugs and sunshine. Stay warm, it's going to be in the 40's here in Houston tomorrow. Blessings and Hugs from Texas
We love our heavy duty wagon like yours, too. Used it to haul to the chicken coop today, too. 🙂
It's better to put straw in the nest boxes & pine shavings on the floor because the shavings absorb the moisture better
why do you seperate your chickens? we have some early morning layers and noon layers and evening layer in the summer. when it gets cold are eving layer lay around3pm cause they go to bed at 4pm in the winter. and we got snow last night and it snowed all day. so they are up set. they don't like snow.. there so funny. take care stay warm
Hazel from North of Seattle.
What cool gifts! =)
We have a wagon like yours and love it. So useful!
Please please please film how you're making your Apple butter this time. 🙂
You can't crochet but can you knit or she?
having issues with freezing waterer also. I'm having to put hot water in there to melt. the girls come running to drink:) Oh yeah…that stake Christmas light show is so easy and looks really nice. comes on automatically when it's getting dark.
What is DE?
Lol, I laughed just hard at the I dip, you dip, we dip! It's funny how you are prepping for the cold at 16 degrees…we are around -10 right now and heading into 8-16 inches of snow expected for Friday into Saturday with temps dropping to -15. Filling up that furnace, deep bedding in the duck and guinea houses and throwing out feed for the deer, woodland birds and raccoons. It's gonna be a brisk one…sending you warmth and love from Wisconsin <3
i first started in 8×10 not insulated shed to live in i covered outside walls and porch which cut out cold winds love tarps
i keep my feed 31gal galvanized cans lined w contracter bags keeps out insects and critters out also keeps feed dry
i cant do the deep litter thing. yuk for me. I scoop it out chicken crap everyday in all 3 of my coops.
I still remember watering the horses in Nevada during the winter. A bucket of boiling water and a 2×4. I broke the ice with the board, and poured in the boiling water to melt the ice chunks and warm the water so they could drink.
How so I send you guys a Christmas card?
Hilarious! Thanks, I needed that. Blessings.
Oh, my, living on a farm and getting ready for winter! What a job! We lived in that other long state, north, joining yours and it got even colder there. We had none of the modern conveniences on our farm that you have on yours. We used a lot of the hay for chickens’ nests and for the other animals’ stalls. We had more chicks than any other farm critters…just the basics! We heated our home entirely with wood…Carrying wood inside never ended! Two fireplaces and a cook stove! (Merry Christmas in July! Yes, I recently found your channel, subscribed, and I’m still binge watching! Love it)!
By the way…did you ever hear of anyone feeding egg shells to the chicks who laid the eggs? I watch another video of a family who raise goats and chickens. They say the egg shells give the chickens calcium! Never hurts to try, perhaps!