Is Our Farm Ready for Winter? The Final Preparations!

Welcome to the 10 Acre Woods. Mark and Terry here on this cool morning, 10 degrees. So it was nice and warm yesterday. I actually put on shorts and I put shorts again. I thought it would be the same today, so I put shorts on. So the leaves are falling. A lot of them are down. It's coming. The cold weather is coming. And Tara has gotten the farm, I think, complete. Yeah. I think we've got everything ready. It's this time of year, it's like the mad rush to figure out when everything's done and if everything's done. And I think... Am I ready for two feet of snow? I think we've got it. Yeah. Yeah. And who knows when that's going to be. It's supposed to be, what is it, El Nino or El Mino? I don't know. It's the warmer one, whichever. I get the two children mixed up. The one you guys in the States are getting. Yeah. so this is Thanksgiving weekend for Canada I know our neighbors to the U.S. have it in November we have it a little earlier because of course it gets a little colder here we celebrate our harvest sooner okay feeding the ponies this will be a little bit better than last weekend I know I read the comments and the uh the field of view of those glasses camera camera glasses whatever you want to call them are uh it's really tight so did you get any mice you got one so it was kind of a roller coaster last weekend so if i do that again oh that's my height yeah it's your height it's not my height this is another one of things the things that tara has done to keep some snow out of the the walkway here so if I do the camera glasses again I will make sure I preview everything so it looks much better and more stabilized yeah well and I can understand yeah yeah there was a couple shots when you when you kissed Levi and when you kissed Charlie it was cute but definitely again a wider field of view is definitely needed for that okay going out coming up the rear and I'm gonna close the gate oh well yeah are they both okay Jordy just got out of bed yeah we were just talking yesterday about what we're gonna do with these two do we just leave them in there Or do we put them back in to the barn? The barn is warmer. It doesn't go below freezing Like how they're walking Like a winter they don't walk anyway So yeah, we'll have to monitor them figure out how how they do and put up another light in here So I got this one So this this will give us lots of light when we're in here Tiana does her evening feed and it can get pretty dark. So that's a little addition to that. Oh We have a project over down the road at our son's place They're just saw a stick on the floor or on the ground that Will work for that project We also got our lights all hooked up in here as well. So we hooked up our white Christmas lights we got all that sorted yesterday we put some new lights on the house so they look great so there's some Govee strip lights that introduce a little bit of color to the to the Christmas winter theme we can change them out to different colors Oh Charlie look at you are you sitting nicely yesterday it was Sonny and He was just hanging out just passed out in the middle of the yard. All right, just wait for it, buddy Yeah, I'm just getting some stuff. There we go. You gotta wait got the routine Posted a short yesterday of the pigeons doing their flyby So they're doing their morning Routine so nice to see them out flying around giving us a little aerial show. Oh the water Oh, yeah, water management. I see that. Well, we had a pipe that went across here We took that out to do a little bit more water management it seems so we've got ducklings everywhere now They've hit that age that they're all over the place We've got some here we've got another mom and a bunch of other ones back at the satellite or satellite, sorry, the solar, the solar panels, they're all out there. So they're growing up. They're getting bigger. Yeah. Keep them inside. Although they don't listen, they tend to go out. It looks like Petey and Piper started their nest, their winter nest. So that's where it's going to be this year, which isn't so bad because they, they made their nest over by the doorway last year. Mama's coming. You gotta wait. Yes, you have to wait. So impatient. Oh boy. Charlie's waiting impatiently. So yeah, inside with the chicken area, what are these plants? The main ones are mums, just for fun. chrysanthemums, okay. You can see kind of plucking at them. And then you've got some catnip in there as well. I've got a bunch in the garden and I have so much. But it's like our perennials gonna make it through winter, you never know right but if they're in here no I was looking sorry I looked and I was like why is it 139 degrees but there's a decimal 13.9 so we're also gonna try putting some catnip on the septic field before we cover it for the winter so that'll be the last step once we get snow in the forecast I think that's probably when they'll do they say to mow it down so the catnip is where so I see the mum oh along the edge might have to add some more I don't see any in there I i do see some sprouts look at this yeah i know i keep adding a little bit of water to it oh do you yeah just to spread it up there in here where oh i see it it's that one over there yeah it's the far one okay that's fun okay we got everything cut up everybody's got their preference turbo over here passing all the grapes he did eat that one though and that one okay he's he's getting a liking for it now he says well i guess this is all there is so i guess i have to eat the grapes now we've got a couple ducklings actually up in the uh the upper pond actually that's the other mum so that's the one that had four there are two there last week we saw three so did she lose another one or oh those ones are all going in did she lose another one or did it migrate and move off to the other clan this is one thing we have to do as well before winter sets in which we could do within the next week or two is pull the pump out and shut down the upper pond that'll drain down go on in kids mama's calling get the ones that play charlie got his vegetables he's a happy boy morning onyx tucker and then got out the other day and he had put it his head red spot he got out where oh they got all both sides the gate they busted the gate open again the gate the gate yeah the gate incident where are we done and we get a little bit more in here in the shelter than we normally do the duck door oh the duck door yeah like this is all ready to go well just closing off the end of the duck shelter once the snow comes or the ice rain which is huge when we have the days of the ice rain they'll all be closed in because that just gets that biting cold yeah right and then they'll still be allowed to go in and out as long as the pond is not frozen but when the pond starts to freeze then we'll close them in and I play it day by day right because if it happens to be a year of no snow then they could still go out and graze but not near the pond so i've got the electric fence ready to go if we need to you know and i'm just like so possibly putting up the temporary electric fence yeah just from here to the corner so they can still i'll see i play it by ear but as soon as the snow comes and there's nothing to eat out there they don't even come out so they might as well close up and then you know they're safe yeah yeah but They're gone by the end of the day. So that's probably Petey. There he is. So eat the favorite things Oh George, don't get eaten. Always eat the good stuff first, right scouting No, he walked by that one. No. Oh boy. Okay once he figures out there's nothing left. He'll probably eat that Over there. Yeah, so Tara's closed this area up. So this is gonna be we didn't use this in the past for chickens. I think we might have thrown a few roosters out there. So this is now their winter enclosure. This used to be, back a number of years ago, it was the two buildings. So they were rabbit hutches and this was the second and third building or second and third building that was put on the property. The first one being the chicken coop that we had. And this was the boy run and this was the girl run so or shelter and then what we did is we gave them each side for a run to have a little outdoor space and then as time goes on we make modifications so so now that'll be the roosters mainly Barry yeah well and I was thinking about that too putting the rabbits out into this shelter because we can throw hay in there and they can come out what we've done in the past is we've uh used snow brought snow in and just do a pile of snow and then they can that's what rabbits eat in the winter they just munch on some snow so no bugs today the last week has been horrible for bugs i don't know what it's like where you live but they tend to want to go towards the door because it's obviously warm there are two types of bugs let me just see if I can find oh there's one so if you can see that that is a a boxelder I believe it's called is there another one around we can get up and there's the other one is the the Asian ladybug right there on the top yeah they've just been all over the place and let's see boxelder there so they've just been all over there's toby got his little nest and oh i can see inside on the blinds there's actually an asian ladybug in there as well so they're all over and when we come in and out of the door we've got the blower the leaf blower So before we enter, we actually have to grab the leaf blower and blow all the bugs off the door. So who else is having this same problem? Okay, cat time. Can you guess the cat? This one is Nara and this one is Rhea. And then we have Nick and then Lucifer sleeping on the couch. Lucifer, yeah, getting some camera time. Oh, no, it's a Nara. The other ones must be downstairs or in sleeping with Sienna and Aurora Aurora Eros and Zoria and of course Rhea. I don't know Rhea's somewhere He's not he usually sleeps over in here and we have to you can see how dirty it is That's Rhea's drool We have to wash that regularly if we look at this one. This one isn't as bad He sleeps in there sometimes Well, we've got to clean up so the we just did the lights so this is the the Govee lights we put up Put up a couple box Oh the cat well, I'm seeing the clutter here So we've got a new dehydrator that Tara's going to use. I picked up a light. That's the same light that's out in the goose-duck area. So I picked up two because they were cheap. They were on sale. Tara's got her witch's brew pot for stainless steel. Maybe that's what you put candy in for Halloween. Yeah. And then random egg cartons. I did some drone footage at the beginning of the So that's my drone. I got to put away you got a fan. That's broken that I'm trying to fix I just yeah just life, right? So that's it for this video, hope you enjoyed it if you have any questions or anything Please put them down in the comment section We'd love to hear from all of you and we wish you all the best in the coming week and to all the Canadians out there yep happy Thanksgiving and we'll get to you Americans next month anyway take care have a wonderful week and we'll see you next time