Life AFTER Loss On The FARM!

Good morning guys, welcome to Saturday. If you look over there, Daisy literally glows. She glows. That's how white she is. So we've been in the process of cleaning out all of our barns the last couple of weeks or the last week. I washed this little bag and all of these brushes so that I could make a grooming bag just for the grandkids so they could have their own special stuff to learn on. Apparently it rained in the night and I think some of these I might have to retire. This is how I always clean these kind of brushes and pull out all the hair. Much better. I also do it to any soft brushes. Use the hoof pick. The girls used to really be in these curry combs and now they never use them anymore. It's so funny though, everyone has their own preference for brushes. The girls used to love these little curry combs and now they never even use them. Gabby loves these kind of hoof picks. I've never used this hoof pick before ever in my life except for to clean brushes. It's a hard brush but I feel like maybe it's on its last legs. I'm going to put it in there anyway and see, let them choose what they want to use. But yeah, nice, fresh, clean brush bag for the grandbabies. I've been cleaning all the buckets, all the brush bags, all the bags. There we go, another one clean. Another glorious day on the farm though. It's going to be a hot one but right now in the morning it's nice. And even though I have Saturday shopping to do, you don't always shop every Saturday. It's so fun. We buy groceries and necessities whenever we need them. Sam goes to the grocery store a lot during the week to be honest, every day. Saturday is for fun shopping and sometimes the girls wake up early and come with us and sometimes they don't. Gabby always comes with us, Sophie rarely comes with us. It's just how they're different. What's new with you? What's new in the zoo little Anya? Isn't she looking so cute? So today is Saturday shopping but when we get home, but when we get home it's the last day, it's the last weekend that I have to do stalls. I might actually do a refresher on a couple of the stalls but today, oh look at the chickens awake. She was broody for weeks. She's up now. But today I'm going to do this stall right here with these, give them a nice fresh shawl. It's going to suck because it's the worst stall. I saved the worst to last. I don't know why I did it but I did it. It's not going to be fun and I have to clean the geese every single day. I mean I clean all the stalls every single day but I mean I have to do like a big clean of the geese every day. That's how messy they are. It's not actually that they're messy, they just stink. Their poop stinks. Look at him. Listen to how cute he is. He's still lightening up in the back. All down his shoulders, you can't see in here but I think he's going to be gold and white but we're going to see. Wait and see. I feel like he came to this farm and was like, oh wait, everybody's white and now he's like a chameleon. Oh my gosh, the other goat is peeing all over himself. Are you ready to go outside mama? Get in there pudgy pig. And lastly, this bucket. So you know what's really funny about this? Every morning when I let the yearlings out, that's like all the goats we bought last year, I watch Posh come out and she comes running out and she looks around and she sees that all the other feeders are like crowded and she stops and she thinks about it for a minute and then she runs over here. So she always comes here first but over the course of a week or two weeks, I was able to see her thought process. Goats are not that smart. Like she doesn't just run out and run over here. She has to every single day run out, look around, stop, think for five minutes and then she comes over here. I don't know if you guys saw that, but the chicken was chasing the cat. So the chicken is back. She's not broody anymore. So we just said two days ago, let's get some little chicks and put them under the chicken so she feels like she hatched babies and we couldn't find any, otherwise we were going to do that. But now she's not broody anymore. So good thing we didn't do it. We'd be raising ourselves two little baby chicks. Wow. Everybody's doing so good on this new thing that I've been doing where I make everybody finish up their hay before I give them fresh hay. Everybody's doing really good and I'm doing it mostly right now because they can go out and eat the grass, which is what I want them to do. I want them to finish the hay that I put in the feeder and then go out and eat the grass. Eat little baby, eat. Sometimes they just, the little ones especially are not that smart. They just walk around and look around and they don't eat. But yeah, that's, did you see the three of them together? They're growing. This is the time where their needs kind of exceed, their demands kind of exceed the mama. Like she's being definitely run ragged. So all of our goats go through a stage at this stage in development before she starts to wean where they're a little bit thinner and she's not thin. She's just like a little bit, not the condition that she's usually in and they all go through it because, oh shoot, why did I leave that door open? Here I'll get her. She's looking for her mama. They're all looking for their mama. Hold on. All the mamas are in here and none of the mamas cared about that baby. See what I mean? They're not that smart. See, that mama, that yearling just pushed the babies off and that's why I feed them in different increments. Come on. Your mama's out here. Look how nice she's starting to look. Come on. Mama's here. Come on. Out you go. Come on. Mama's out here. Go find her. Who can tell me who her mama is? That's my Gemma, my favorite girl. Who's her mama? Gemma's pouring fresh water for the goats. Actually, her mama is not even outside yet. Her mama's about to go outside. I have to let everybody out. I always say this. I let them out. I let all the babies out first, the ones that need the most grain, and then I let the yearlings out and let them eat for five minutes. And then I let our senior girls, I let our senior girls out. In case anybody's still wondering, oh my gosh, this girl just tried to bite me. She didn't bite me. She acted like she was going to bite me. She jumped up and smashed her face into my hand. And that's what she does to all the other goats is a warning. Better do what I say or I'll bite you. You better not bite me. That's the mama of that white baby. It's Gemma's mama. But anyway, I'm proud to announce that this girl is finally, this little black cricket is finally a little bit thinner. She's just a little bit thinner. It's hard when they can eat the grass. I think this girl is going to run the geese. I can't wait to see how it happens. This is her first full day where she's outside feeling good again. Listen, I want to use that for a tripod. Can you get down? They just had a drink from their mama. Don't touch it. Go. Go away. Go. Unfortunately, I cannot put the camera up for you guys to see the others run out because these little guys want to eat the camera. She gets attacked by chickens and birds. Clearly, she's causing problems in this barn. I don't know if you can see, but Cricket's a little thinner. And there she is with her mama finally getting in the drink that she was wanting. See, by the time the big ones come out, there's hardly any grain left. All right, Posy Pig, are you ready? Look, he's bald now. She's like, oh, that's so annoying. All right. Here we go. The noisiest members of our family. Come on. Whoa. Oh. Come on. It takes them forever to get all the fresh water out, so they're running over there for a drink and it's not filled up yet. Wow. I can't believe that she's back in action. I missed her. Our little chicken. Problem we're finding with the geese is that this area right here where we put this water, there's dirt down there, and so they eat the dirt or they dig in the dirt, and then they drink this water, and so this water gets muddy. Down there, they drink that water, and there's no dirt, so all they do is use it to drink and clean their heads and their nose and all that stuff. So it stays clean, but this one's annoying because he gets really dirty every day. I got nothing. I got nothing for you guys. Hey, Crick, let's show them your nice new body. I don't know if you can tell, but she's on the down, on the downside, and she still has like a chunky udder, but it's not like an udder udder, so she's for sure not pregnant. Yep. Hi. Are you using Cricket? She's not even a mama yet. She's going to be a three-year-old for a fresh, if I ever get her bred. Oh my gosh. Listen. They just snuck up behind me and bit my shoe. I wonder, I wonder if people have used shoes in the past to hit them, and you can see why people would like want to shoo them away. Get it? Shoo them away? Listen. I know you're cute, but I don't really want to be friends anymore. I want your babies. And there she is drinking again. She's having all the milk. All right, so I'm just going to throw Hay out there, and I clean on Saturdays when we come home because we like to get ready and go and get our shopping done early and then get home. Hi, big guy. Don't touch me. I'm going shopping. I don't want to smell. Oh, this is where you guys hide out now? Hey? Oh, they're eating those. What are you eating? I hope you're not eating the cut grass. See? I don't know if you guys can see. He's turning white on the top. So out of all of our bucks, I told you guys the best bread was Oreo, but not anymore. The best bread is our gold boy. So I'm really excited to see how he turns out. His grandparents on his dad's side, his grandparents on his dad's side, oh, they are really nice looking goats. Really, really nice looking goats. And his grandma on his dad's side had six babies. She like made headlines for having six babies, even though it's not the record. Seven is the record. She still, she had six babies. We don't want any of that. And how many babies a goat has is determined by the mom, but potentially he has a baby inside him that he's going to pass on to one of our girls, probably Lola. Can't breed him to Lola. And maybe one of his babies will end up with six babies, but six babies is not on our radar. Three, three is my favorite number because they are the smallest to get out. There's no birth complications. Sometimes larger number multiples can get tangled up inside there, but we've had really good luck so far, but their size is small enough that the girls can get them out easy. The does can get them out easy. I just love triplets. Triplets are my favorite. I don't mind twins too, but they always are a little bit bigger and triplets are my favorite. But four, we had four last year. It was a nightmare. We sold one of the girls, which turned out to be the nicest looking goat out of all of our babies last year. And we sold her because she was crazy. She was a bottle baby and crazy and awful and hard to deal with. And then we regretted it. Anyways, we're going to go shopping and do our thing and I'll catch you guys back when we're back on the farm. We are home now and headed out to show Sophie something. All right, so I was cleaning out the chicken coop and I found something really weird. I didn't buy them. But what about for Mia? That's why I wanted chickens. I know. But do you think Mia would like these ones? So somebody asked me, begged me to take their chickens and this little gray one is just a backyard breed. Just a backyard mix. Isn't she cute? They're just so tiny. I know. So she's just a normal sized chicken and she's young. And then these guys are, are duckles. I don't know the whole thing. They're really cute though. You could put those ones underneath her in the stall. She's not broody anymore, man. She's feisty as heck. Anyway, they're really fun little Bantam breed. The duckles, D-U-C-C-L-E-S is I think how you say it, how you, how you write it. So the little guy in the back is a roo and he's just a little roo. He's never going to get to, he's going to get like this big. And then the little fawn one, a little blonde haired one is a girl. So somebody begged me and I mean begged me to take their chickens cause they couldn't have them anymore. And they hatched them and they're actually friendly. You can hold them and play with them. So are they going down to the goat barn? I don't know what I'm going to do. So cause if Mia can survive down there, these guys can't do. Is that what you want to do? So, so backstory, this coop has been pretty safe. The only thing that can get in here are rats. We don't have any rats right now. And then this summer, so we've had lots of chickens here this summer. We've lost a chicken here or there through the summer, free ranging, a fox has come onto our property and taken one at a time. We're old age cause we had some really old chickens. We've had some old chickens. So we have lost a few over the years, but we've never lost an entire flock before. But what happened a few, like a month ago, six weeks ago, is that a raccoon got in here by lifting this door up. So they were able to pull it up with their hands. You just got to catch them and they're friendly and you look like a barbed rock. Yeah. It's a barbed rock cross. It looks like a barbed rock cross. Yeah. She's going to be a normal chicken size. So anyways, it was devastating. Sylvia and I were traumatized for the longest time. So traumatized. It was awful. So when this person like asked me for days, take my chickens, take my chickens. And I was like, I can't, I can't. We're traumatized. Like we just can't. I tried to figure out how we could do it. Could we leave them in the chicken barn? And the thing is, is that without being behind like a locked in area, even in the chicken barn or even in the goat barn, they're still at risk. We have one wild chicken that runs the barn down there and she survived, but she's so mean nobody would try and kill her. These are just little things. So to fix the problem, Sam nailed these doors shut. There's two. So they won't be able to use those. I'm going to have to get a chicken tractor and bring them outside each day. But for now we have them. I'm praying. My friend is praying like never before has a raccoon ever broke in. They've never been able to break in before. Sophie doesn't believe it. She's checking. I don't trust them. I do. They've never been able to break in. It's like really good in here. It's just a fluke thing that happened and they got in and we have since removed four raccoons from our property. We still think there are more. She should get, yeah, and she should get even more, um, cute, like she should develop more spots and stuff. And he's just developing spots. So if you pick him up, open his wings, you can see he's starting to get some spots or at least that's what she told me. And another twist of fate, our incubator broke this year in winter during a, during a, like, uh, yeah, last year during like an ice storm and whoops, she gave me a little incubator. So it looks like we're back in the chicken business or not. I'm actually terrified. It's so Sophie about the chickens. Like just because it was so traumatizing and the hardest part is that when we're asleep and we don't hear anything, it's just the not knowing, the not knowing, like what's happening. It's just not knowing like somebody's struggling and afraid in the nighttime. That's what, that's what bothers me. I was wanting to check on them. I don't know if they can reach that water. The big guy can. Look at how cute the little ones are. I'll put a picture of what they're going to look like. I think I'm going to set this, I had it up on some stones. I think I'm just going to sit it on the ground and maybe put the water on these stones instead over here because it'll be lower. It's actually nice in the coop. It's lots of feathers. I tried raking them out. All right, that might work just to lower it a little bit for them. I can see that they really want the water. You guys, we love having chickens. We love it. Oh, she's, she's meanie. She's the leader for sure. I might actually get a bucket, like a big container and put them in the house for the first couple of nights till we see like if raccoons come in here, if they try and come in here, if they can get in here. I think that's what we're going to do. Where are you going? We're going to the goat barn. I'm coming with you. We're driving down to the goat barn. Had so much energy all week. Today I feel a little bit tired. Not like so tired, but I'm going to start the barn and do it tomorrow. We love driving by though. Oh, the, the goats are way down there eating, eating grass. I just love looking at the animals. Somebody in heat. Hey, somebody's in heat. You got to get out of the sun, little guy, little guy. He's big. He's nice. I'm going to have to get some more water for the geese. They already drank it all. Hi babies. Oh, a little Pippa. She's so cute and she's so shy and it's not, it's only because she does, oh my gosh, I forgot to bring a broom with me. Oh, here they come. They're like, you're here, you're here. Let's get some fresh water. Don't bite me. Today is loading up day. We brought a bunch of shavings. There's more than that for the stall for tomorrow. Oh my gosh. What the heck happened? They're like, they broke in. Oh, they're going to break everything. So this should be fun. Get out. Come on. Get out. All right. Come on. Out. Oh my gosh. They're just so cute. I just can't stand it. Sam actually locked them in their stall and somehow they broke out. Babies love that. Fresh water for the geese. I don't know a good place to put this because Sam puts it on this hill and it's the shoes she wants. How about right here? That's a perfect spot, although there's dirt underneath there. Don't you spill it. Oh, that's what happens to it. Get out of my face. Posey. That's what happens to their water. Get off of my feet. I'm about to be bit. Come on. Have a drink if you want it, but she just wants to spill it. That's all she wants to do. Oh, don't bite me. Oh my gosh. She's blowing bubbles. Help. Oh my gosh. I can't even. Oh my gosh. There's a goat on me. Just go away. Oh my gosh. It's a good thing I have some stomach muscles because I'm all awkward here. Oh my gosh. Yeah, she it's my shoes that he wants see He's actually biting my feet My gosh, I'm maybe get him some crocs of his own. All right, so All right, I'm getting out of here All right, well geese bites don't hurt that much to be honest This is why she sold them for sure. The goose bit my foot Somebody must have hit them with their shoe in the past Yeah Come on out you go. No wrong way Over here Here they come again, I literally got bit by a goose. Come on. Come on. Don't you go boy? Come on follow your friend There you go All right, so I am obsessed with him wait for me. I'm coming out with you Obsessed with him. You know that there are not very many buck shows, especially in Canada. No shows for bucks for bucks And that a buck He becomes famous based on how his daughters and his mother does do in the show or how they classify