The Day We Became A Homestead
If you are thinking about starting your own off grid homestead, why not check out our website: theoffgridfamily.co.uk where you can find lots of info to help you live a more self-sufficient, sustainable, off grid lifestyle.
This video shows the build up to and arrival of our chickens, which we hatched from eggs that we ordered online. These hens and cockerels will form a big part of our off grid homestead, and we can't wait to share the journey with you, so (if you haven't already) please hit the subscribe button.
Thanks for watching!
Fraser, Rachael, Grace and Albie
The Off Grid Family 🌳
#offgridlivinguk #offgridhomesteaduk #livelifeonyourownterms
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Im not welling up honest graces excitement proves this life style is the best 💯
@The_OffGridFamily
Жыл бұрын
She was so excited ❤️ it was a really special weekend 😊
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@The_OffGridFamily
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for watching, and Happy Easter 🐣😊👍
I'm 54 now and when I was 6 my dad helped me do the same and I can remember that day like it was yesterday the excitement and joy of seeing those chicks hatch was amazing.
@The_OffGridFamily
Жыл бұрын
🤩 We hope Grace will remember it too. We really enjoyed the process, especially seeing as it happened to coincide with the Easter weekend. We would definitely do it again 😊
I’m going really enjoy watching your journey. I live in a house but love the simplicity of van life-ing. I’m a mother of 4 and although 2 at university and the other 2 at home studying the dream to travel in a van isn’t still practical for us all yet.the idea of off grid is really appealing for me. I don’t have social media and this is my occasional hit so thank you for sharing x
@The_OffGridFamily
9 ай бұрын
Thanks for watching our videos ☺️ It’s great to hear you’re enjoying watching our journey. It has its ups and downs as you will have seen 😆 Van life really appeals to us too, although we don’t feel it’s the right time for us either. Our children are too small and if we opened the van door they’d just disappear 😂 so for now we stick to being in one place ☺️
That brought back some great memories. Bring on the goats...
@The_OffGridFamily
Жыл бұрын
Not sure about goats yet 😳😂 We will get these to adulthood first 😁 Have you kept goats before?
@ianoftheglen
Жыл бұрын
@@The_OffGridFamily Yes, many years ago.
@The_OffGridFamily
Жыл бұрын
👍 Were they fairly straight forward to look after?
@ianoftheglen
Жыл бұрын
@@The_OffGridFamily Generally yes. They can be escape artists and have their moments, but they are fun and the milk is great. Enjoy the chicks.
We used to have ten hens and a cockerel - blimey we couldn’t keep up with the eggs lol. We’ve now got two girls and have just rescued a Serama Cockerel called Robert, who is hilarious. Our two grandchildren love him and love picking him up for cuddles. One of our neighbours is not keen - but they can always move I guess 🫣
@The_OffGridFamily
Жыл бұрын
That’s great news about the amount of eggs. We got 14 in the end, although we have no idea how many are hens 🙈 We might not be getting any eggs at all 😂
@Boney1963
Жыл бұрын
@@The_OffGridFamily looking forward to watching your journey. Enjoy!!!! Paul and Kay Bone 🥰
@The_OffGridFamily
Жыл бұрын
Thank you 😊👍
Shared ❤
@The_OffGridFamily
Жыл бұрын
Thanks for your support 🤩
Wow! How amazing to see and hear Grace’s excitement. You both should be very proud of everything that you achieve 👍👏😊 Thank you for allowing us into your lives
@The_OffGridFamily
Жыл бұрын
Thank you 😊 She was so excited, and still is 🤩🐣 It’s a pleasure to share what we get up to. Thanks for watching and coming along for the ride! 👍😊
@happyglampers9053
Жыл бұрын
@@The_OffGridFamily ❤️
How exciting! I can't wait to get off grid and go through these milestones x
@The_OffGridFamily
Жыл бұрын
It’s been a long time coming, but it’s been worth the wait 🐣🤩
@jamesbond4981
Жыл бұрын
@@The_OffGridFamily I've decided to really double down and get saving, life isn't getting easier, and I'm looking at ireland to move to and start a whole new life, but getting chickens is such a mile stone, amd they are very productive, I have in my head chickens and a couple.of small pigs to do the donkey work of clearing and fertilising areas of land
@The_OffGridFamily
Жыл бұрын
That sounds really exciting. Wishing you all the best with your plans 👍 We were saying the other day that chickens bring so many benefits beyond the eggs and meat that they would surely be beneficial to anyone, even if they’re vegan or vegetarian 😊 We hope ours will have a really good life and in return provide us with lots of eggs! We are planning another video which will go into more detail about the process of incubation etc. Hopefully that will be useful 👍😊
Grace was so excited, how wonderful and so cute. Love the new look of the logo and page.
@The_OffGridFamily
Жыл бұрын
She was so excited. She told every single person we saw over the weekend that we have chicks, including all the strangers! 😂 Thanks for the positive feedback on the changes we’ve made to the channel 😊👍
Ar magical time
@The_OffGridFamily
Жыл бұрын
It was a great experience 😊
Great video, hope it all goes well.
@The_OffGridFamily
Жыл бұрын
Thank you 😊 We are really pleased you enjoyed it. We will post an update on how things are going soon 👍🐣
Could you share how you found your plot? Is it as easy as just looking for land! I've googled till blue. It's always planning permission which means you can't live off grid😢 Google search isn't being honest I believe!! Happy Easter guys, owning chooks is ❤
@The_OffGridFamily
Жыл бұрын
From what we’ve heard you’re certainly not the only person struggling with this at the moment 😩 I’m afraid our answer isn’t very helpful, in that Fraser bought the land 17 years ago as a yard for his tree surgery business. It was in the local paper. We really hope you find something soon 🤞
@ASmileAdayful
Жыл бұрын
@@The_OffGridFamily what's meant to be I guess😒. Good luck guys keep going, no price on freedom 👍🍀