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I think I'd be renaming Dusty to "dinner".
@douglaskerr6813
5 ай бұрын
Guess who coming to dinner? Dusty the guest of dis honor
@Fellgla
5 ай бұрын
I thought he was the one on the grill. Lol
@TomBiggerstaff-gn1ws
5 ай бұрын
Rooster and dumplings
@Bessie1021
5 ай бұрын
That's the same thing that I was thinking!!!
If you flip the sheep back on their rump so their sitting upright, they become more docile.
Kudos to Rebecca for communicating with the rooster in a language he can understand
Absolutely hilarious Rebekah challenging the rooster and it’s great her driving the tractor! I love you Evan, but she’s just awesome. 😂❤
@user-jv4qk6un7q
5 ай бұрын
I spit my roast out...😂
Thanks for sharing the bad with the good. It's what makes your channel real. 👍
Your to hard on yourself, I think you did a great job.
Way to show the reality of animals. One is always mean to you and one is always busting out of a fence or gate 😂👍👍
As bad as your day was, I received a pick-me-up when I heard the Redwing Blackbird singing in the background. It is my favorite harbinger of Spring.
Hope Rebekah is okay. You two are a joy to watch. God bless
Evan past on the other side of the Barn to clean the barn yard just put a new gates .
As a city boy, I like watching the events on your farm. A gutter on the back of that barn would certainly be a big help. Keep up the good work, the farm looks better every day!
@--_DJ_--
5 ай бұрын
@@harrygalley8217 He reads enough to comment on them in the videos. Not replying is different than not reading.
get that fence out of the way so you can move around behind the barn. Cut in some runoff ditches to get the water away from that area. It's holding too much water in that spot.
Oh man that looked like one heck of a day. Glad you got it all sorted in the end
Sorry you guys had a bad day. Tomorrow is a new day. Thank you for sharing your day on the farm. Have a great rest of your week.
We have had sheep for close to 35 years , and the best advice I can give you is , yes, build a narrow alley for working them , and until you do ( I never have got ours done ) wear the slickest pants possible when working or moving etc, because they will definitely take a knee out , ask us how we know!! We have gophers mice , voles , etc , so we worm several times a year, but I've not heard of the test on the eyes , on goats I have. Better quit spoiling Mia !
Good luck with that knee Rebecca.
You know that rooster Dusty would make a mighty fine BBQ chicken on your grill. Handling the sheep is easier if you grab their front legs and put them on their buts back legs raised slightly off the ground.
@--_DJ_--
5 ай бұрын
Like a sheep wheelbarrow?
@stephaniewilson3955
5 ай бұрын
Check out sheep-shearing if you want to see what is meant.
Hi..... Evan and Rebecca thanks you for showing your video homestead bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋👍👍👍
Just a thought but if you drop the fence by the back of the barn so that you could come up hill at the muck instead of sideways at it you would have much better luck. Then when you have cut out a couple feet in depth buy about 60 yards of bony bank run gravel to replace the muck with. Then, put-up the gutters you would have a much better outcome next time. Side hilling on rubber-tired equipment just does not work as you are well aware by now. Love what you do and Rebecca doing the chicken dance with Rooster Cogburn is priceless. JeffinMaine.
You mean you are putting the roster on the grill, Evan😊 you are a nice person ❤
Really enjoy your channel! Couldn’t help but laugh when the rooster jumped you! Thanks for sharing!
We got some action today ! I hope Rebekah"s knee is ok. Take Care ! I LOVE YOU GUYS !!!!!!!
7:19 onwards some of the screen shots of Mrs. Rebekkah acting the rooster is very funny! Her expressions of the roost are so apt and good to watch! LOL
My saying is you only have good days and better days and hopefully yours goes better
This old Vietnam vet watches several farm videos. I like yours and Farmer Tyler Ranch best of all. (I watch about 12 farming channels.)
Oh my, that was not a fun time. I hope you don't have any lasting injuries to that knee Rebekah, that was quite a hit. I hope you are able to put a large gutter with down spouts on each end before the rainy days of spring, Evan. This is something you have been wanting to do for the past few years. I'm sure it isn't cheap, but will be well worth it in the end. Y'all have a Blessed day.
Awesome job Rebekah. Tough seeing you limping after that hit. just goes to show why you don’t get around to the other things like the roof on the firewood shed. Good job just getting through the issues the day gave you.
Good stuff Evan! That’s life! Doing well ❤😂
Enjoy your videos! Thanks for sharing!😂
You guys are absolute troopers! Anything that goes haywire, you two always handle it. I would bet a bad day on the farm is better than a good day most anywhere else. Great ribs and you can't go wrong with Sweet Baby Rays.!!
Some days all you want to do is sit down to a platter of ribs and call it good. What a team.
That old roaster is funny. He is such a mucho man!
The animals can feel your confedence or lack of ! But you all do a great job go relax 😂❤
Greetings. Wildest action yet. No ''gentleman farmer'' video.
Another very entertaining episode
Hay Evan exiting video always nice to see you interact with your animals but this video was awesome funny how your wife was ready to fight your rooster you guy's make a great team thank you for sharing blessings to you and your family
I've learned an important lesson from this video. When your day doesn't go right ... eat a massive rack of awesome smoked BBQ ribs that night. 🤪
So, here is an idea for you. The fence that is down hill of the bank barn is in your way.. If you could move it further down hill then you could use the tractors facing up hill. Not only would that be more comfortable for you and the tractor but the barn would act as a back stop while loading the bucket. Seems like a winning ticket to me. But you'll have to assess what that would do to that pasture.
I hope Rebeccas knee is ok ,poor baby I feel your pain. 😢
Love the honesty often doesn’t happen
Thanks for sharing with us Evan and Rebecca, hope you heal fast from the knee getting hurt. Looks like it might be close to a Lamb and Chicken Beef stew if they don't settle down, can't have them running over you like that. You got a lot of good compost out of the barnyard. It will wash off the road and driveway the first rain you have. Stay safe and keep having fun. Hope those ribs were as good as they looked, lots of good meat there. Fred.
We missed the wildest, dang! I have to admit watching you wrestle sheep is more fun than watching pulling fence posts. Enjoyed both.
Lots of excitement in that video! Thanks for sharing.
Hope Rebecca is ok. Love the cooking part!
Must say, that Rebecca's way seemed to work. Hope her knee improves quickly. We had leghorn chickens on my dad's farm and one rooster decided he was king of the hill one too many times. He would always attack at a bad time and finally my dad had had it. He ended up kicking him and the rooster did it again. So he kicked him again. After that he left us alone, but he always walked a little lopsided from then on. I don't suggest hurting them, but it was really funny to see him stay away from us.
I completely understand my friend. My wife and I have 18 goats, and doing shots, and famancha check, and hooves, well, sometimes it’s a rough day. But then I think back to city living, and my bad days on the farm, are still better than most good days in the city. God bless you all, and keep these videos coming.
I great video to show your viewers that owning animals isn’t for the faint of heart, it’s a lot of work
We never miss your show! Missed you at the farm machinery show but there was so many people we never got a glimpse! Really Love you guys.
LOL, when Rusty the Rooster attacked you, and you then showed the BBQ at the beginning, I thought it would be a picture of him.
That was a great rodeo. Hopefully Maya will calm down after her first calf, but she is great entertainment. Sure be handy to have a gate at the other end of the barnyard to make it a drive thru
You need to watch Sandi Brock. Make sure you watch shearing day with Charlie he really knows how to maneuver the sheep to your advantage. Sandi really knows how to move the sheep easily, she is very gentle and slow. I love her calmness. You will always have an occasional moment with any animal. Mia needs some manners, goodness. You all be careful with that one.
Oh my gosh those ribs good so yummy, enjoy 😊
This is a great and real program. Thank you!
Yep, definitely have those days. Sure is nice to see the warmer weather. Stay safe guys!
When you cut away from the rooster to the grill I thought for sure it was going to be chicken instead of ribs. 😂 Looks like you had a fire in your compost pile-I noticed the posts were charred.
Hey guys. Watched ya from the beginning. Love what ya are doing and my wife and I are jealous. Keep up the great work.
Evan I would try and use the sub-soiler running east and west down through the gates to the lower pasture, to give the water a place to go.
I really enjoy watching you two
Rebecca i hope u heal by the time this video is out.
Rebecca, cowboyed up and took 1 for the farm. Congratulations
Hope Rebecca gets better soon Love your videos thank you
Good shows 👌
Good morning from the UK. Just wanted to say that I really enjoy your vids. Been following since you were getting ready to move to the new property. I love the fact that you show the bloopers and “fails” as well as all of your successes. I especially like Rebecca suggesting that the rooster thought she may be crazy for scratching at him 😂❤
Glad you show the bad with the good. I have had days like that. I love when I go to leave the house for something I had planned that I am looking forward to and see a cow having a calf or a cow out, (and any other named problems) and there goes your plans for the evening.
In your intro we saw Dusty attack and the next shot was the smoker. Ya fooled me. I thought for sure you were cooking chicken. Years ago we had a rooster named Two-Points. He got his name when my wife would go down to feed. He'd charge and my wife would kick him and holler 2 points when she made good contact.
Job well done!!!!!!
Hi, I saw you working your sheep. My family has sheep in Virginia and we take a sheep panel or a kettle panel and we have slowly bent it to make a large you so you can then take it, tie it to one wall and then push a couple sheep or one sheep into a corner to do your vet care Also sometimes needed is something like a hog panel or piece of plywood to protect yourself they can jump and kick
Yes buddy but that bird ( chicken) in the oven mate god bless thanks for sharing your experience with us mate.
I loved Rebekah's "Chicken Fight Dance"!
Good evening guys this video of the aggressive rooster brings back fond memories of my youth , dam buzzard attacted me doing evening chores told my dad about the issue and he went to check out the situation . Well let me put it this way, lol don't attack a veteran rooster lost dad won ,lol stew for supper next evening . Thanks for the videos i enjoy them all cheers from alberta be safe
Hey. Love your videos. I have watched them all. Been watching for years. The place has improved so much. Looks awesome. I know it's hard but I sure would love what you have created. Be proud. Cook the rooster. He isn't gonna get nicer. LOL Oh, would love a tour with the comparison from what it was to what it is now. Take care and keep filming! Mike
thats a great rooster dance lol
You learn to look back and laugh at those days. You definitely need a handling/turnover crate for the sheep. Will make things alot easier. Thanks for the video. All the best 🇬🇧.
Dusty is hilarious! The new comic relief, if you don't eat him. And, those wood pellet grills are awesome...if you have pellets. I have a Traeger, and I love that I can set a temp and just walk away...if I have pellets. Also, did I see a bottle of Sweet Baby Ray's???
Went visited hiddin creek homestead very interesting
Well as long as the ribs were good it was good day!
Rebekah and Evan. My turn to tell you both what you NEED. An acre large building, at least, to put in all the STUFF people say you need plus a very large loan to pay for all that stuff you NEED. I think you both are doing great, as most farmers, sticking only to what is necessary to purchase so to make the farm more self-contained. People who like to throw $ away need to buy a boat. I know that one day you both will like to retire from the 'day jobs' and spend full time on your wonderful Ranch-Farm. With advice I take, from the wise, the good that helps and ignore the rest. You know there's always people who tells us what we should do but it's just an opinion & many have never seen a farm. I loved this action-packed video, I laughed throughout it. 🐓 Greeting from North Carolina.
I hope you get the barnyard figured out. It's easy to understand how frustrating it is. Maybe a gutter company can come up with something used that will get rain water off the yard so it can dry out. Hope R's knee is good. At least she's a nurse and knows what's best for it. 👍👍👍
Just take your bucket and shovel it in and move it that will clean your yard I notice sometimes Pete has to do that . I think it looks fine just kind of messy job I love the way your farm is looking GREAT !
Your lambing should be interesting rookies and I say this kindness 😊
I couldn't believe how much taller Josh is than you after seeing his video! I will feel better on March 7th after getting a shot of cortisone in my left knee which has bothered me for almost a month waiting to get in to the doctors office.
Hey Evan Rebecca love your videos got a suggestion you're all the time going to auctions and stuff look for a old style Army trailer are some Farm trailer that you can hook behind the other tractor then you can park the trailer in the big tractor right outside the gate dumping in there and then take it and unload it somewhere else, because sometimes you can find them old Army trailers or Farm trailers for a couple hundred bucks
At least dinner worked out ok. Enjoy the ribs.
Never really worked with sheep, but I have cattle, pigs, chickens, horses goats and rabbits. It's hard to deal with any animal without an effective way to restrain their movement. I know this from first hand, a lot of years ago that's how I started, didn't take long to realize how unsafe it was. Anyways, like what you did there, I hope you have a nice Friday.
You can put a cuple of layer of woodchip where the sheep is! You have all the machine and wood to doi't on! Thats keep the ground more dry and it's gonna be eaiser to clean up!and it be a good compost!
That back section behind the barn slopes away from the barn. Why is it flooding near the barn? I'll tell you. All that old bedding you keep putting down is holding the water in place. Take all the hay out and leave it out so the soil can dry up. Grade it away from the barn and your problem is solved!
You got done what you needed too!!!
I have a dozen goats, not sheep. All but the biggest has horns. I just finished making an upgrade in my goat barn. A feed trough that keeps the goats on one side and me safe on the other side while I feed. No more getting horns in the leg or almost tripping over them! I need a handling system, too. I know where I want it, but I need to cut back a hill side and put in a retaining wall. A handling system makes things much easier, and safer!
There is always tomorrow Evan. Chill out bro with a beer and delicious ribs 👍
I have used waste lime as a base in the barnyard it will be solid if packed and makes it easier to cleanup manure
Welcome to life.
I've had more than my share of "bad days" when it comes to completing tasks. One of the biggest frustrations for me is when I go to use a piece of equipment, and I have to work on it for an hour just to get it going. I guess it's just a part of farming/homesteading. I hope that Rebekah's knee is alright and she feels better quick.
Evan if you were to use the dump wagon to haul the manure out then you wouldn’t drop any on the driveway. You could park it by the gate! If you open the Grapple up the tilt it forward push into the pile then close it and tilt back. You’ll see you will pick up a lot more! 4:48Plus that Roster will not get better! That’s his demeanor and he won’t change that. Dinner is next step or give him back
You might try digging a pond and use all the fill to level the fill up to the back of that structure that gets muddy and filled with straw and hay and manure. Fill up to the level and slope it gradually out. And install gutters to keep roof water from being a problem. Just an idea.
Intro was hilarious. Attacked by the rooster, next frame is meat on a barbeque. Sadly it wasn't the rooster. 🤣🤣 I think you need to do Rebekah's trick Evan. Hold him down for a while. 😂I know it was a frustrating day for both of you, but it sure was entertaining to watch. Except when Rebekah got hurt.
Ill take that bird ! Great feathers for tying flies!
Did you know roosters make the best dumplings ..? I hope your knee isn’t hurt to bad, Rebecca.love you guys.
My Cockerel did the same he tasted really nice 😁
Dusty and roast potatoes sounds great.
Hi Evin, Tell the rooster "Rebekkah is my Chic...!" and he will back off for sure!