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Great to see you back

Good stuff. Thanks.

I let them go because I thought that they would not spread. Four years ago, I had some. Now I have 10 acres of them. I don’t think it’s a good idea to let them go to seed.

Reminds me of the 18 months i spent at a CAFO farrowing operation. We castrated at about 7 to 14 days, unless it was a Meishan, which would have had a testicle removed and the other vasectomized. Meishan were our heat detectors. We bred AI.

Good idea with the electric wire around the coops! will see if I can add something similar to my coop, I was trying to come up with a way I can energize the coop, and your idea seems best! (probably the only way) Btw I hope those hoses you're using for the water are not PVC full of lead/phthalates/cadmium/etc... imo everyone should be using food grade hoses those transparent ones used for milking cows, or otherwise stainless steel tubing where possible (in my opinion).. Because I'm sure no one likes to drink water from a toxic hose like that, and yet everyone feeds their animals water with toxic hoses. (or water their plants/trees). Imo we need to avoid toxic materials as much as possible in order to minimize the risk for diseases, both in animals and plants/trees. Just one more way we can improve the system. Also be aware that particle board wood, and plywood have high levels of formaldehyde especially when they are new, probably because of the toxic glues they are using... something to avoid as much as possible! (everyone should use solid wood instead!)

Great family involvement! Excellent

Looks humane. Good work. Thanks for sharing!

Thanks for the video! I feel like I need to clip part of my newer pastures because they are getting overrun with box elder trees. What do you think about trees taking over? My livestock (sheep and cattle)do eat them a little bit, but I think I need some goats to put the hurt on them. I just don’t want goats anymore.

Walker "Did you think we would need an Excavator!" 😂

Hey Russ. Just a note on the geese, incase you ever want to let thrm free range. They can be very hard on saplings! My daughter used to let her geese free range until they got into my orchard area. I was less than pleased with what they did to my trees. I told my daughter we were have goose for supper if they got into the orchard again! Lol

Great job

Awesome video! Enjoy learning from you.

Nothing like a little farmer ingenuity. Great job saving a 100 bucks by making your own tools. Can’t believe how big your son has gotten!!! How is Emmy’s sheep flock making out. Thanks for sharing.

I've got about 25 acres that is overgrown with weeds, bushes and small trees after over two years of neglect. I've started burning some of it and brush hogging some. I noticed that weeds immediately grew up where I mowed (lots of goat weed) because the ground was left more bare from burning than mowing. When is the best time of year to burn and mow to restore the land to pasture? And should I follow up with seeding with grass seed or I was thinking about rolling out hay and letting cattle distribute the seeds from the hay?

Gotta L❤VE our PA dirt roads 😂🤪😉

Does the Subaru travel dirt roads much? My commute to work now includes a stretch of dirt road...I've had to change more wheel bearings in the last 5 years, than I have in the previous 20 years when I traveled all pavement.

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Do the cool season grasses, like orchard grass and fescue, still come in well in the fall after the summer grasses finish in this field? Thanks!

Didn’t need the first 5 minutes 🥱

Run Sheep behind the Cattle to control forage the Cattle find unpalatable. Consider installing a Screech Owl nest box. Owls eat rodents which host ticks.

What part of pa are you in? Im in slippery Rock i farm for a living crops and cattle. Im interested in owning saddle mules as well.

Good video Russ. Great to see you and Walker again. We have been dry south of you, pastures are a little weak this summer. Glad to hear you have been busy. Be safe out there, farmer rod

Clipping is something I definitely don’t want to spend the time, fuel consumption, or equipment on. What’s the point of grazing if we have to run machinery over it besides. Nice video!

No matter what the plants are called they still make oxygen and many are edible.

I call it morning glory and it and the milk weed were the only things that were green in my brome pasture last year from June-August during a drought. My cattle will eat the heads off of Canadian thistles but not musk or bull thistles. Do your cattle eat milkweed because in my class of about 40 students in college none of their cattle ate it?

How’s video quality? We got a new camera trying to get it dialed in.

We’re in our third season of converting row crop land into pasture via grazing, rolling out hay, and frost seeding some clover. One observation we’ve noticed in the conversion pastures is that the Goldenrod grows so tall before we get it grazed that it seems to be suppressing grasses and other shorter forages. After grazing the mostly Goldenrod growth, I clipped it at 9”, but much of the ground seems to lack roots in the ground and is fairly bare. (Some areas of the pasture had a thin mat of dead clover covering the ground.) Should we be clipping the Goldenrod before it gets so tall to let sun get to the lower vegetation if we lack enough cattle and sheep to keep it grazed lower, drill or broadcast some other seed (what seed and when, spring or fall), or ??? Help! Thank you!

What battery life are you getting?

Did you breed this cow too early? Perhaps she was too immature to accept the pain that goes with birthing a calf. As you said, giving the oxytocin a chance to step into the system. Its a lovely looking calf.

Im glad i found your channel. Great content and well put together.

Great pasture sir

Great solution

Sophia is so cute. Looks like the chicken tractors are working well.

You say you plant Silver King and yet, you keep saying the corn is open pollinated. Silver King is a hybrid SE sweet corn.

Great update on your garden it’s looking good 🇳🇿❤️

What are the results what did you find?

Fascinated with the Osage orange! Good o”ll monkey ball trees. When I was logging I cut an old fence line full of it and had it milled into boards to make pens in my barn. Every log I bucked I had to file my saw. Thanks for sharing. Looks awesome!

Awesome update! Thanks Russ!!

Great video thanks!

Russ your garden area is beautiful. Every thing look heathy and green. Great job.

OK Russ. How donyou keep cat out of those beds from wrapping all over in them? An also what will you do with those grafts that dint take? Give them through winter an see what they do come spring? Thanks. Keep up great work

Could you give us a list of trees we can plant that cows/sheep eat and which of those also provide shade for them?! Thank you! Greetings from Greece.

Thanks for the video! We grafted about 25 apple trees in 2020. In my short experience, we noticed 2 types of apple trees was easily grafted while other trees not so much. I think red delicious and Ohio Pippin.

When is a good time to graft trees in PA?

Osage orange are really neat fruit! We still see some in south eastern PA when we visit family and friends.

No garden is complete without planting okra. Since I’m not a big fan of carrots, I suggest ripping out the carrots and replacing them with okra. That’s a north Georgia thing. Excuse me.(Nawth Gawga)

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This is the kind of success Pete from a Few Acres Farm wishes he had with pigs. If he did not have bad luck he would have had no luck at all. They all look great, please keep us informed how they feed out and dress out.

Are these the pigs that were delivered by the couple from out west of you.

It seems your boy has grown into a man since the last time you posted friend. Great work!