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- čas přidán 23. 09. 2022
- Just another day on our off grid goat farm in central Portugal, Dad ploughs some fields ready for sowing seed to feed the goats before the rain comes.
We take down some shade netting now winter is here and we need to think of a better solution.
There's always jobs to do on a Portugal Homestead.
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Hi Alex and Molly..Very satisfying to see the land turned over,the grass growing, goats well and truly blocked out of the feed shed.
Molly still 💚🐈🕊
Thanks for your vid 😇💟💟💟 Love you guys. I like farm work working together with mother nature.
Nice to see that its slowly turning green again. As always a lot to do on the farm. Hopefully everything ok with molly's health. Thanks for the video!
Very naughty Fred😸! He looked quite pleased with himself 🤦🏻♀️. 😄
Glad the girls got to go to the cinema and shop a bit after Molly's follow up🙏🏼. Alex, praying for more volunteers to head your way 🤲🏼.
Molly...sending positive thoughts for a sensible solution to your medical challenges. 🙏🧡
Thank you!.. she will hopefully find out very soon...... just running on Portuguese time 🙂
Lovin' that rain on your plowed fields with seed just waiting to pop. Hope your tests bring good news Molly.
Thanks on both counts buddy👍
Hi all, A gammon and 2 labs, it was beans on toast for that evening. Stay safe and my thoughts and prayers are with yous all. Jobs build up even when it gets cooler. The list will get smaller. Hope you all had a good weekend. Stay safe, I enjoy all your videos.
HaHa i had labs as a kid..... always pinching food but to cute to get cross with them.
I think it is going to be a few years before the list will shrink but it is all ok as we enjoy it.
Have a great Sunday🙂
We would call him a Cane Toad 🌦🐸
So lovely to see the rain soon after you broadcasting the seed Alex ☔🙏🌧️💧. Hopefully you will have a good crop, fingers crossed for you 🌿🤞😊. Good luck Mollie with your GP appointment, I do hope all is okay 🤗❤️🤗
Thanks guys, i was hoping it might have rained again, if not in a day or so i will have to irrigate it.
As with most things out here they take time so poor Molly still doesn't know anything.
Have a great week 🙂
Good job on getting in the Sorghum Sudan grass, look around if you can get some Yellow Blossom Sweet Clover, or any reasonable priced clover, to help with nitrogen fixing, and inter plant the clover in about a month. The clover will extend your grazing period over winter as well as fertilizing your sorghum and giving excess nitrogen for next year.
Thanks Sean!
I will go look into it for sure!👍🙂
Another great video . All useful tips for us while we start our journey on preparing our land, from the shade netting to sowing so thank you very much. We even found an old goat bell yesterday while clearing the land 🐐. It's great to see a close bond between you all. Many happy returns to Sandra hope both you enjoyed the movie. I thought I parked next to your truck the other day in Castelo Branco but it was another family. Stay safe and best wishes to you all.
Glad you enjoyed it and it was of some use................ good luck on your journey💪🙂
Took a screenshot of the toad you saw, ran it through Google Lens. Came up Bufo Bufo (common toad). Not very exciting, but there you are.
Thanks investigator Junco!
There are some big ones out here but like you say he wasn't that exciting..... i wasnt kissing him to find out😂🙄
have the same problem with cats but we love them
Thanks for putting in effort for making this awesome video that gives me experience all the things you can do
our pleasure, thanks for the comment🙂
That cat is adorable
Keep up the good work. All the best to you!
Thanks, you too!
It's a pity yer can't store the tractor indoors.
Tell me about it!
I have never bought a new car in my life, i spend a fortune on a brand new tractor and it gets left outside for 8 years 🙄
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I have just watched this new video. Thanks for mentioning my comment from last video. You will have good news in the next one for sure. I loved that naughty look of your cat. He knew what he had done but he also knew his owner. She would not punish him. (I think it is a boy?) 🐈Love Filipa.
Thanks for asking Filipa!
Considering we found him sleeping in our barn and pretty wild even though he clearly has lived with people before the way he comes for cuddles..... we expected him to be worse but he is actually pretty good... and yes he is a boy 🙂
Excellent progress its always nice seeing the seed sown 👍 Lovely to see you briefly, Molly and mum, when we were looking round the village a week or so back and had stopped to enjoy the view of the barrage. Our quest is looking hopeful we may have found just the little Quinta we were searching for a little to the east of you and hope to start renovating by Christmas. We look forward to being able to be regular cheese customers 👌🤩
Was lovely to meet you too, although as you say very briefly!! Good luck with property purchase 🤞 next time you're this way let us know and I will make that cheese 🧀
@@mollyblake3627 And our best to you and the family. My fingers are crossed and lets see how we can help each other in the future. Looking forward to buying some cheese 😊
Thanks
Thank you so much ❤
Hi, new to your channel and enjoying it. Instead of purchasing a tin roof, build just the frame and cover it with the netting again.
Thanks for the tips!👍
All the best with your goat farming. Off grid back in the UK, here on 32 acres.. We have pigs here..
Thanks!... We had pigs before but no more as the goats give us enough work right now😂
@@FontedaPipaPortugueseFarmLife I can imagine. I have 2 goats and they really can be hooligans. Mine just free-range as it's impossible to keep them in anywhere for long. I have managed to barricade my market garden and protect the fruit trees thankfully, otherwise they would eat everything in site! 😀
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hi alex,going back to the conversation u had about the goats shade,could't just tie a rope to the telegraph pole and to the near tree trunk? abraço
Hi Carlos, i would but the tree is the wrong side of the pole..... just my luck😄
I think we need to make it a solid structure, will stop the wind pulling on it and keep that area dry.
Abraco
Why not have a wheelbarrow next to you while pulling out the sticks? Instead of creating extra walking backwards and forwards, so inefficiently?
I took the bucket off the tractor in the beginning of the video but i forgot i had the piles in the field or i would have just pushed them into a pile with the tractor.
I like the workout anyway🙂
32 acres is about 7 hectares?
It is 13 Hectares👍
@@FontedaPipaPortugueseFarmLife Clearly math isn't my strong point 😀
@@bluebean7001 ... haha...... your question even made me go and check online😂
That's just bad training. If your cat is allowed to sit on kitchen tables and counters, then you are just opening yourself up to cats knocking lids off slow cookers and stealing your food. In 30 year's of being a cat owner, I've never had any cat stealing my food.
Sorry. My experience and opinion. You did ask.
I'm my defense I was out doing goats and we didn't know he was in the house he is usually outside when we do goats. He is never allowed on the counters or tables.
@@mollyblake3627 defense accepted. Bad, naughty cat. Now you're aware of his bad trait. 👎
I keep the cat off the tables etc the dogs dont touch the tables or food.. but my dogs sleep with me, i wouldn't have it any other way.... they are family🙂