After years spent in corporate jobs, we finally decided to begin investing in ourselves and make steady moves towards our dream of homesteading. We used the inspiration of others who have come before us like Joel Salatin to "start where you are" and homestead on our small semi-suburban property. We are a couple who seek to return to the legacy homesteading traditions that made this country great.
Our long-term goal is to transition from corporate jobs into a small business providing wholesome food choices to our communities and to teach our children entrepreneurial skills that will prepare them for the future. As we move in that direction, we'd love to bring you along on our journey!
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You could use a paper plate or round piece of paper, fold it twice to get the places you want to drill, or whatever. I’m no good at math and as a quilter…this is the method I use. Still watching but adding machine ta-e folded in half or fourths measures around things.
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Why is his cage so small mime are free roam it kills me to see this wth man no wonder he is biting u
Well... it must really blow your mind that we eat those rabbits as food for our family and our dogs. You also clearly didn't read any of the other comments or the information in the description of the video. These rabbits are on pasture during the day in tractors and then put in hutches like this at night to protect them from predators like wolves, coyotes, and foxes. Your rabbits are pets... ours are food.
Thank you for this, we just fixed our babies beak.
That is so wonderful! I'm really glad this video helped you. It's a bit of a daunting task the first time you do it, but all in all... not too difficult. If you liked the video, please give it a like and check out some of our other videos. We'd love to have you subscribe to our channel!
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I thought you had music in the background but it was the machine hahaha
Haha.... yes... it does have kind of a rhythmic sound to it, so I could absolutely see how you might have mistaken it for music at first.
Thanks for watching!! If you are interested in the milker we use, we've dropped the link below to Amazon or you can use the KZread link in the video above. You may have to cut and paste the link below into your browser because KZread doesn't like links in shorts any longer. Link - amzn.to/4bKoeXP
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Last time they were here in ohio..I ATE SOME..and have to say..fried with no head,legs or wings? You do know what your missing..how do you know if you don't try it?????
Now that is right up there with the old Fear Factor show. I'm not sure we're ready to go there just yet, but the chickens were lined up for them!
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If you guys like this video, you can watch the related video at the bottom of the video to see how we made these tractors. Don't forget to subscribe!
this was so helpful for parents have been needing a video like this!!!
Awesome! We're so glad it helped!!! What do you think was the most useful part?
ANY BENEFIT TO MULTIPLE TRAPS IN DIFFERENT LOCATIONS?
Thanks for the question! Frankly, I'd say there is. If you don't check the trap often, the water (if you're making it a lethal trap) can stink and that will keep other mice from taking the bait. If you have multiple traps, it helps keep it going longer without having to dump the water and start over again. Also, some mice won't like the look of a setup for whatever reason and multiple traps gives you the opportunity to set it up a little differently so the mice might be more interested in it.
Any suggestions for hardware cloth? The tiny squares...
Hey @jacknixon496! Thanks for the question! I'd probably need to know a bit more about how you're using the hardware cloth. If you check out one of our other videos on making our chicken or rabbit tractors, you'll see that we use hardware cloth on all of those. However, we've not typically tried to connect the hardware cloth in those scenarios. What we've historically done is create an overlap of 4-5 inches where the two sections of hardware cloth come together and then staple them down on the wooden frame of the tractor. If you're making some type of freestanding fence with hardware cloth and need to connect the two rolls, that's a little less common. I would suggest using the small diameter wire that the rolls are typically secured with. You can then "weave" or "sew" the two sections together by overlapping the sections by about 4-5 inches threading the wire through the squares. Alternately, if you're looking for something that is faster but maybe not as strong, you could also use zip ties on the overlapping sections. The problem with this method is that it relies on the strength of the wire in the single cells where the tie wraps are vs. where the wire lacing would use the strength of the full rows of cells. Hopefully that helps get you started! Please don't forget to give our video a thumbs up to help us out and consider subscribing to our channel!
We hope this video helps you guys if you're splicing two pieces of woven wire fence. When we first learned how to connect fencing, we couldn't find anyone near us who had done it before so we kind of learned it ourselves. Hopefully this saves you guys some time and energy learning it for yourselves. If you liked the video, don't forget to give it a "thumbs up" and also subscribe if you haven't. Also, we're always grateful when you guys share on your social media! Drop a comment if you have other ways of doing your fence!
Subscribed! My family is in the process of beginning a homestead. Thanks for the video!
We put some up but they dont go into them they keep going into the frame... how do you start them or attract them to the box?
Try putting a small stick into the hole in the wood that you have your trap near. That can force them to try to find another hole and your trap is right there...
Or if you can get your hands on a already dead bee and put that in the container. Should help attract them.
Yea, don’t build things outta wood that bees and bugs like to nest in. Siberian Larch is similar to cedar for natural wood repellent in the insect world.
Well.. unfortunately we don't have any evergreen varieties like Cedar or Siberian Larch around here. It's mostly Pines, Maple, Sweet Gum, Oak, and Holly trees. This trap is a great for places that don't have access to those types of wood. Another thing you can do is burn the wood like the Japanese Sugi Ban (Yakisugi) and that works great to repel the bugs.
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Very helpful, thanks! We have a chicken at least as long your girl's was. We will try this soon.
Thank you for the kind words! We hope it helps you when you're trimming your hen's beak. It's easy to miss long beaks like this if you've got quite a few chickens in your flock. If you liked the video, please give it a "thumbs up" and also consider subscribing to our channel and check out some of our other homesteading videos. Good luck!
Is the trash can plastic food-safe?
Hey...thanks for the question! Please give the video a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe if you like our content! Believe it or not, the Rubbermaid Brute cans are considered food grade safe. The National Sanitation Foundation (NSF as it's more commonly known today) has a listing of food safe storage containers, and you can find the Brute cans listed below as NSF/ANSI 2 certified. info.nsf.org/Certified/Food/Listings.asp?Company=40000&Standard=002
@@purposedrivenhomestead thank you
Hi there, new subscriber here. This is my first visit to your channel and I heard about you from Pinball Preparedness today. I am growing comfrey for the first time this year even though I don't have any amimals except the family dog. I had no idea just how deep the roots grow on comfrey plants and how high in protein it is, amazing! I'll have to look on my seed packet to see what variety I'm growing and I have no idea if these produce seeds or not. Thanks for making this video. 😊
That's wonderful to hear! Welcome to the channel, and thanks for subscribing! How did you hear about us from Pinball Preparedness? Was it one of his recent videos or something else? I'd love to reach out and thank him for the shout out! Even if you don't have any animals that would eat the comfrey, the fertilizer value alone is well worth it for your plants. As a nutrient miner, comfrey is a great addition. Just make sure it's the right kind like we mentioned in the video. Otherwise you might find the comfrey spreading a bit more than you'd like. Please share our channel with others!
I've read that the management time of chickens, which I maintained as a boy, is far higher than rabbits. What is your experience with this? Regards, TH
Thanks for the comment and question! The answer depends on a few things, but primarily on living conditions. We have our chickens on pasture with our milk cows, so with the exception of picking up eggs, the effort is no different than any other animal. Making sure they have food and water... etc. We keep our rabbits on pasture as well... so we feed them very little "feed" as they are able to graze for most of their food. However, we keep them in rabbit tractors for protection and those tractors have to be moved (by hand) each day. In that case... the chickens are less maintenance than the rabbits. However, the scenarios and goals matter. If you're raising the animals for meat, I could argue that rabbits convert better to body mass than chickens and are less effort to actually produce offspring. So there's a lot of factors in here that I can't answer without knowing more about your specific questions and goals. We have an article on the topic below. Hope this helps! purposedrivenhomestead.com/2022/03/09/5-reasons-rabbits-are-better-than-chickens-for-backyard-homesteading/
How did you remove the metal burs?
Thanks for the comment and great question! They sell "deburring tools" like the one I've linked below. amzn.to/3whW5Ia If you're on a budget, you can also use and strong flat metal edge like the back of a heavy duty knife. You don't want to use the blade edge, but instead you want the thick back edge that has a 90 degree angle on it (essentially a square edge). The flat square edge will flatten out and break off those burs if you work it enough. The reality is that a burring tool will work much better though, so I'd recommend using the tool designed for it. It's not very expensive to pick one up and they will last you nearly forever and the tips are replaceable if the edge ever gets nicked up. If you liked the video, please give it a "thumbs up" and consider subscribing to our channel! Thanks again!
No good put your home away from the tree.
What does that mean?
What are the dimensions?
What dimensions are you looking for?
@@purposedrivenhomestead sorry, of your wood stand.
@@LetsProblemSolve I didn't include the stand info in our video but it was about 3 feet deep, about 8 feet long. I chose the length so that I could have 3 water barrels and then also add a solar pump system later. I still need to do the solar pump part... but I have the room for when I choose to. The height of the stand will all depend on the slope of your ground and how high you want your water spigot to be. I suggest something about waist height for you. Hope that helps! If you enjoyed the video, please give it a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe and share!
You destroyed trees not good for the enviromment sad
Clearly... you didn't watch the video. If you had, you would have observed that it's not our land to make the choice. It belongs to the family and everything goes to a vote and logging was what the family wanted to do. It's also what the forestry service recommended to prevent a wildfire situation.
Thanks for watching! Don't forget to stay until the 8:50 mark to see the trap in action. We used a night vision trail camera and it's pretty cool.
Awesome! With pet stores no longer selling live feeder rats .. I should set something like this up for my snakes food!!
We had planned on selling quail and quail eggs for reptile feeding before we left the Midwest. No market here, but the zoo would have been a good candidate to sell for their animals and was on our list to check into had we stayed. Doing this a a live trap would absolutely work there. Much better for feeding your snake than using rats because mice can't really do any damage to your snake where a rat can.
Polyface-style multi-species mob stock grazing, chicken/rabbit tractors, permaculture water management, food forestry, Steve Solomon-style remineralization, biochar/terra preta & bokashi composting are what will save America,bsave agriculture, and save the coming generations...keep doing the LORD's work my friend. #ViaConDios
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Oh yeah that is long, she really hid that from you. She does look very thin and her feathers look ruffled so she is probably not so properly nourished, I am sure she is all fixed up by now. ❤
She wasn't overly thin, but we got her fixed up and the beak trimmed nicely. Don't forget to subscribe if you like our content!
Ugh! Jealous and yet so happy for you!!😊
Thank you! Yes, it was a long time coming but we are so blessed to have them. It's been a big benefit to our little homestead already! Fresh milk, butter, cheese, sour cream, yogurt, and buttermilk.
@@purposedrivenhomestead now you're just rubbing it in 😂😂
Fencing by yourself can be a real challenge. We hope this helps and we'd love to hear your fencing hacks! Drop us a comment and share! Don't forget to like the video and subscribe!
Great video
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Drop a comment if you have a dairy cow of your own! We'd love to know what kind!
It’s good to hear they’re now available commercially. I made 6 traps out of some scraps of 4x4’s and pint jars. I trap about a pint every year. So I don’t think I’m hurting the population any. Just the ones that want to live in my house.
Yes... the commercial ones are pretty straightforward, but I'd like to make some of our own to see the difference in performance. I would think you could make them considerably cheaper but not sure if they would work as well. Hey if you like our content, don't forget to give the video a thumbs up (helps us a ton) and consider subscribing to our channel!
My cat eats these things
So do our chickens when we give them the ones from the traps!
Badass. Thanx!
Glad you liked it! Hopefully it gives you some ideas on how to make one yourself. If you liked the video, please give it a thumbs up and consider subscribing if you like our other content!
@@purposedrivenhomestead You got it!
Great idea! Be sure to ask if the animal feed has been sprayed with roundup or grazon. These chemicals are sprayed onto hay ans grain fields and do come out in manure and affect the garden.
Hey there... thanks for the comment! We actually called that exact thing out in the video description, but I know it's a lot harder to see the description in "shorts" vs long form videos. We're definitely on the same page as you! I pasted the description below that's on the video, but you can see that the farm doesn't spray the hay and doesn't offer medication services (so no antibiotics or other things in the manure either). THANKFULLY! Have you seen the price of Black Kow at your local hardware store?? 😳 Wow, you can spend some money just on soil for your garden beds! Each bag of Black Kow is $6.48 at our local store. We saved a TON of money and instead had several dump trucks of horse manure delivered to our home. We only paid for the cost of the delivery because the horse farm wanted to get rid of the manure. It was a win, win for all of us! The farm doesn't spray any of the hay and they don't offer medication services, so horses that they board must be antibiotic free during the time they are boarding.
I opened my front door yesterday there was a fat Carpenter Bee sticking out of a deep hole it had made in the door! Ugh
Oh man... that's horrible! Hopefully you can patch that up and give it a paint job so it's not visible. Those bees are such a problem with buildings.
Hey everyone! Drop a comment and let us know if you have another way that you get manure or compost for your garden!
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Awesome new addition to the homestead!!! How many stings went out that day??
Haha! 😄 No stings that day luckily! They weren't happy about the shaking though! Lol
I'm gonna do this some time! But the $$$! When I was a child my father had bees, we never stood in front of the hive! Always behind or to the side.
Well eventually we want to hopefully have enough hives that we can sell a little to people in the community. Nothing big, just a way to have one more thing to add. Pastured poultry is the first thing to get off the ground.
Those are the males. The Queens hardly come out. They eat through paint too. You have to pretreat your wood with insecticides like Premethrin.
We don't use insecticides on our homestead, but we've found that using the Shou Sugi Ban method of charring the wood works really well for preserving while not using any chemicals. The bees leave it alone.
I used Premethrin and it seems like it doesn’t work. Did I add to much water 💧?
Yes... its like a clown car for chickens when the solar door opens. Lol. If you want to know what solar door we use, check out the related video below the short.
Spa day for this chicken, lol. Thank you for the upload. Very helpful 👍
Haha... It really was! I decided to not include the mud mask and hot stone therapy for the chicken's back in the video. LOL. Hey if you like our content, don't forget to like the video and consider subscribing!
Subscribed & liked as soon as I saw this video 😊👍
Favorite way? Cold pizza for breakfast. Never gets old. (Sorry, you asked).
Are you making the pizza from scratch at home? We do that all the time. We make fresh pizza dough in large batches where we make 4 pizzas worth of dough and then we'll freeze 2 of them and cook two of them. WAY better than store bought pizza!
@@purposedrivenhomestead night and day difference between homemade pizza, restaurant made, and store bought. One of the keys we've found is using lots of olive oil in the dough.
As I always say, teamwork makes the dream work!
I say that all the time too! That's one of my favorite sayings. Another one of my favorites that I say to our children as they are learning to read is.... "First thing you do... is learn to read. Then you read to learn."
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Thank you so much! Also well done for almost reaching 100 likes in this video!! ❤
We hope it helps you and thank you so much for the kind words! Maybe we can make it over 100 likes on this! You can also make your own trap with a mason jar and a piece of scrap 4x4 post. You need to drill holes in the post similar to how the trap in the video is set up... but it's very possible. Then glue the mason jar lid to the post with a hole cut in it for the bees to get in and a piece of PVC sticking down in the jar so the exit isn't obvious to them. Again, you'd basically be copying the one in the video.
How do you account for overflow
Hey... thanks for the comment and question! Fairly early in the video we talk about the diverter system we use and the fact that our platform has settled. There's a lot of detail in that section about the overflow. In short, if you set up the diverter correctly, then there is no overflow. The tops of the trashcans should sit above the diverter exit on the downspout, so when the trashcan water level reaches even with the diverter, the water will drain back into the downspout and won't overflow. It's quite elegant and simple actually. Go back and watch that section of the video again and it should help expand on what I just shared..
Work smarter not harder!!!!!!😂
Haha... Exactly!!! We didn't have a tractor that could do this stretching, so this worked out so well!