I see that area decorated with lots and lots of lights at Christmas throughout the whole property. Hollis giving hayrides through the homestead and Mrs. Nancy giving out hot chocolate and coffee. All to the glory of God. Have a blessed day.

@HollisNancysHomestead

4 жыл бұрын

Oh wow!

Not the last build!! You’ll need to build a special roost for the best platinum egg laying chicken of the week! She'll need a special feeder with grubs from the garden areas. I know you’ve got another build up your sleeve.😊 All of the builds are so awesome. I rewatch the videos to inspire me in my garden. 👍🏾 I feel so blessed being able to refer back to your detailed videos and drawings. Thank you for sharing your knowledge. 😇

The Lord has Amazingly blessed you both. Not only with everything you have but your health and strength and especially a godly marriage because you both give Him all the Glory and Praise! Hallelujah! 🙏 Glory to God! 🙌 Thank you and God bless you both 🤍🕊

When Hollis and Nancy walk into Lowes or Home Depot. Contractor service desk start to tremble in fear of running out of lumber... Thank guys for a great video, glad to hear your getting ready to start up farm! Your South Fl neighbor. Mac

@SouthernLatitudesFL

4 жыл бұрын

My husband joked that the lumber shortage in FL is because of Hollis. 😉😁 Hollis, he loves watching your build videos!

Outstanding job. Those chickens will be living the high life

OMG , I thought I was the last man to have and use a electric drill. The electric don't get turd and quit before the job is done Thanks you both

@HollisNancysHomestead

3 жыл бұрын

Exactly!

Can’t wait to see all the work you’ve done getting put to use!! It’s been a long haul but nows the time for it to pay off!! Can’t wait 👍🏼🤗

Excited for you guys to finally get your birds in the yard 👍👍

If those chickens aren't living at "The Ritz", Nobody is❗❗❗ Am at a loss for words. TYFS, Stay Safe and Well Mark and Rosa

Thanks for the care & sharing to every listener, GOD BLESS!

admire your hard and smart work in preparing for your harvest. Blessings always

It’s going to be very fun to watch your chicken adventure.

@HollisNancysHomestead

4 жыл бұрын

We are looking forward to sharing that with you🐓🐓🐓

Guy c, you really hit the nail on the head,people vote please.Hollis &Nancy,its a real pleasure to watch your video's.Hollis God has give a insight that is amazing.Thank you so much for sharing and God bless you both.

@HollisNancysHomestead

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks so much

Hi. I feel the roof is too high letting in a lot of sun to heat the water still . Consider adding shade cloth to help with that. Again shade cloth on 3 sides would dull the rain spatter. I get why the roof is so high for bending purposes, why don't you add a small framed out area to hold large sturdy metal feed storage container for a 30-50lb bag. Less walk to bring feed to metal feeder n get mobbed by birds on the way. Love your detail in building. Peace to you and yours

Keep the chickens healthy and happy and you're doing it right. Thank You Hollis & Nancy & Bing Bing.

Other people; *throws down an old plastic bin all caked up with rain* Hollis and nancy: Chicken Feeding palace build for bear! (as is everything else out there, haha)

Your girls are going to be very very happy to have such a great home. Blessing to you, Nancy and Bing Bing

@HollisNancysHomestead

4 жыл бұрын

I hope so!

those are gonna be some happy chickens hollis

Although my hanging feeder is under cover too, I ended up making a top for it out of sheet metal to keep the chickens from getting inside of it and blowing rains as well. I left slits on the lids sides (outside rim) so I can take the bail handle off and the lid to fill it. Your the best when it comes to homestead construction Hollis! I can't wait to see the chickens! Your going to have eggs coming out of your ears! Love y'all!

It has all come together very nicely. May you all enjoy every minute of it.

Good Afternoon here in Yuma, Arizona. Very nice structure and y'all will prosper with some happy chickens laying eggs and meat. Enjoy life and what it has to offer.

I want chickens!!

That is really nice, that what you call craftsmanship, you all really do great work and everything looks good and perfect, MAY GOD continually giving you strength you and NANCY are a great pair,

@HollisNancysHomestead

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you very much!

Great job Hollis and Nancy, those chickens should have it made in the shade. Thanks for sharing with us.

@HollisNancysHomestead

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

hope you getting the chickens soon love to watch you videos...god bless both of you...good sunday..

Good to see you, Hollis. Was looking away and petting the dog when I heard, "...and the turkeys...". Made me do a neck snap, haha. Growing turkeys too, eh?! Go ahead! You two keep safe.

I really love the bracing. Great idea.

@HollisNancysHomestead

4 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

Real cool ..Thank you for sharing

@HollisNancysHomestead

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

Thanks for sharing God Bless

@HollisNancysHomestead

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching

Bring on the chickens!!

Goodness, Hollis, how tall are your chicken? Feeder/waterer will get beat up when wind comes... sure you don't want to put in a cross member so our can shorten the chains? Also maybe look at adding a gutter and a platform for a water tank. Thank you for sharing, I do get a lot from your work.

I have really enjoyed watching your builds, but curious as to the height of feed and water build. Thank you for your sharing

Thank you.

@HollisNancysHomestead

3 жыл бұрын

Welcome!

I’m jealous, I would love to have enough property to have chickens like you have. I had chickens but was limited to five hens. I did get some great eggs.

@EdwardJ7130

4 жыл бұрын

When do you think you will start your gardens back up?

@josephjacobson5369

4 жыл бұрын

Ed I always have a garden. I have pumpkins, watermelon and tomatoes right now. I usually have corn as well, however, this year I wasn’t able to plant corn.

@HollisNancysHomestead

4 жыл бұрын

August 20th will begin releasing garden videos again

This was great and in great timing. I am in the planning stages for a open sided storage pergola that will give some sheltered storage my lumber. It will back to my 10x12 ToughShed. This gives me a better idea of how to build it. Thank you, Hollis, Nancy, Bing Bing and mystery dog(?).

@HollisNancysHomestead

4 жыл бұрын

Glad it was helpful!

Your place is looking beautiful. At first I thought you were going to put shade cloth at least half way down all around to keep the rain from blowing in the feed. You should consider a lid for the feed. The humidity alone will definitely cause issues. I've see people make feeders from 4 inch pvc pipe 3 ft tall with a removable cap. You are doing a great job on your property. Looking forward to seeing more videos...especially the gardening videos.

very nice

@HollisNancysHomestead

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks

I was wondering about the shade to keep the water cool. Does the sun hit the 2 containers. You sure do a great job with all your builds. It looked like Bing Bing had a friend come see him. God bless you and Nancy.

I love your builds! This week we are getting the timber and other materials to build your seeding station which will be dual purpose sun drying area for our produce. I would so love to share the photo of the finished product with you. Thank you and God Bless

@HollisNancysHomestead

4 жыл бұрын

Awesome! Thank you!

Chickens will eat wet feed quite nicely. The won’t like it if there is standing water though. You might want to consider adding rain water collection and use the water cups for clean automatic watering.

Was that your neighbor’s dog who came to visit Bing Bing?

@HollisNancysHomestead

4 жыл бұрын

Yes

Another stellar project completed! Y'all really do things the right way. I'm wondering if you are going to add rainwater catchment to the stand to use for the chooks. Continued blessings, daisy@MapleHill101

You may want to throw a scrap od chicken wire over the s hook on the feeder. They will be crapping in the feeder from the top. An unstable scrap of the wire hanging up there keeps them off and still easy to fill the feeder. Ask me how I know!! Looks great though!!

Hollis, I have the same feeders but starting to think I lose a lot to the rats. We had a ratter out but looking for options.

The area under the deck might be a hiding place for snakes. They like chicken eggs. You might need to make sure it is flush with the ground, where they can’t get under there.

I have a question. (First off, you seem to have some experience in construction? My background is architecture and I LOVE figuring out projects like this. However, I'm used to much larger scale and have some trouble when it comes to smaller things like chicken coops, lean to type structures, etc.) So that being said, my question is.... if I just want to make a small place for my free ranger birds in my backyard and maybe put it right beside my coop, do I really need to sink 4x4 posts in the ground? I will ultimately only have 6 female English Buff Orpingtons and 1 male English Buff Orpington that free range once I'm done downsizing my flock. But I'll also have 2 RIR females, and 5 American Buff Orpingtons that will be relegated to a coop and run since they are capable of flying over the neighbors fence. I'll probably try to come up with something similar for both (one in the run and one outside of the coop for my large breed free rangers) but on a much smaller scale. Also curious if you are located in a humid climate like I am? I am so worried about food molding here in southeastern NC so I have the troublesome task of checking their feeders nightly which is a pain in the tookus. LOL! Edit: Sorry, I commented before finishing the video. Now I'm curious how this works with wind driven rain? Eastern NC gets lots of wind driven rain and we have to battle with hurricane season also. I'm wondering if using a similar wire reinforcement method like you did and then adding a sturdy, greenhouse type of shield on the three sides that would expect to receive the most rain (with some tiny holes in it to avoid it getting ripped) would work. So sorry so long. I'm a thinker. LOL!

Who was Bing Bing’s friend he ran over to see?

@HollisNancysHomestead

4 жыл бұрын

That is our neighbors dog “Scoot”. He and Bing Bing chase rabbits together all the time. They are best friends🐶

with that high of a roof what keeps the rain from blowing in?

@HollisNancysHomestead

4 жыл бұрын

I haven’t had a problem for the last year unless it is a severe thunderstorm with winds over 30 MPH

OK...now that you've completed this area. Are there things that you would have done differently in the chicken area? Lots of projects. I would imagine that there are one or two things that you would have tweaked, added or eliminated?

Chickens dont like standing water...unless: they are Silkies!! lol Our Silkies think they are ducks and love getting into mud puddles and where the hose is running and dig dig dig and get their feathered feet all gross & muddy.

Where are you guys licated?

NANCY DO YOU BY CHANCE FERMENT CABBAGE AND IF YOU DO COULD YOU SHARE YOUR RECIPE

Can’t take it anymore!! Where are the gardening videos?😭

@HollisNancysHomestead

4 жыл бұрын

Stay calm, August 20th

@moshrefn

4 жыл бұрын

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I think you did a very good job. But this is Florida and we have something called horizontal rain from time to time. With that high roof and no sides I believe your chicken feed will get wet during a hard storm. I hope for your sake it does not.

@HollisNancysHomestead

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing, we only put out enough for the day when it suppose to rain a lot. We also can put some food in the coop but we like it better outside to keep the coop cleaner. :-)

Don't you have problems with other birds wanting to take the chicken feed?

Why did you pick FL? Your garden in VA was really producing product! I hope all of your farm produce works . I'm in CT and biggest problems here are with squirrels tearing up the garden. Heading south myself Really enjoy your videos learning quite a bit Good Luck to you Nancy and Bing

@HollisNancysHomestead

4 жыл бұрын

We moved to Florida to be near all the family and our Grandkids❤️

@EdwardJ7130

4 жыл бұрын

@@HollisNancysHomestead Ed 1 second ago When do you think you will start your gardens back up?