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Elbon Mill Farm
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I’m Kalyn, and I run Elbon Mill Farm. We are a small sustainably minded family farm located in the beautiful hills of Buckhannon, WV. We raise Rex rabbits, Cayuga ducks, meat pigs, Zombie Aflockalypser chickens, and whatever crops interest me each year.
Much like everything else I do, these videos will be me winging it as I do random things around the farm. I’m always doing new projects and I have a tendency to just jump in and try things and cross my fingers that they work! Some of these projects will be successful, more will be failures, but I’m gonna have fun doing them all no matter how they turn out!
You can also find us at our Elbon Mill Farm Facebook page, on Instagram (Elbon_Mill_Farm) and at our website (www.elbonmillfarm.com).
Thanks y’all!!
Much like everything else I do, these videos will be me winging it as I do random things around the farm. I’m always doing new projects and I have a tendency to just jump in and try things and cross my fingers that they work! Some of these projects will be successful, more will be failures, but I’m gonna have fun doing them all no matter how they turn out!
You can also find us at our Elbon Mill Farm Facebook page, on Instagram (Elbon_Mill_Farm) and at our website (www.elbonmillfarm.com).
Thanks y’all!!
Getting the Kubota Out of the Woods
Quick video using the Mahindra to get the Kubota out of the woods after a sketchy UNPLANNED trip over the hill.
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Do Chickens Like GrubTerra Treats? Black Soldier Fly Larvae Review
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Testing to see what my chickens think of the GrubTerra Black Soldier Fly Larvae! Treats like these dried grubs can be used for training, enrichment, or just to spoil your feathered babies! GrubTerra also offers live larvae for your reptilian friends. Head over to www.grubterra.com and use the discount code GRUB10 to save 10% and get them for your own chickens (or reptiles)!
Chicks in the Mail
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I unexpectedly received hatchery chicks in the mail. This is what I do to give them the best possible start after the stress of shipping.
Garden Planning and Bonus Seed Discount
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Now is a good time to order your seeds for next year's garden, whether you're just planning based on what worked or didn't in this year's garden, or if you're a prepper looking to stock up on some heirloom seeds "just in case". Use discount code PREPNOW at marysheirloomseeds.com?aff=44 to receive 10% off new seed orders of $15 or more between 8/20/21 and 8/29/21.
Lowe's SpringFest-Garden To Go-Growing In a Bucket
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Using Lowe's Garden To Go kit to make compact, easy to move planters. These are perfect for gardeners with small growing spaces, or renters who can't do something more permanent.
Starting a Deep Litter Coop and Why Ducks Mess It Up
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Deep litter method in a coop is when you allow the poultry to break down the bedding in the coop, and simply add more bedding materials as needed. It allows you to do fewer cleanouts and the material is light and fluffy and able to be spread on gardens.
Saving Baby Bunnies-Watch this BEFORE you breed rabbits!
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First time mother rabbits don’t always build good nests to kindle their babies in. In the event you come across cold and “dead” kits this is a method to try to revive them. Baby rabbits aren’t truly dead until they’re warm and dead. In this video I managed to revive 3 of babies, however those 3 did pass the next morning. Sorry the video is a bit all over the place but when trying to save lives,...
Testing Flytraps-Which Tractor Supply flytrap works the best?
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I have a serious fly problem in my critter room, so I tested the flytraps my local Tractor Supply Company store carries.
Flesh Eating Beetles! Starting a Dermestid Beetle Colony to Clean Bones and Skulls
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Editing to Add: I forgot to mention I don’t have a heat source in with them yet because it’s summer and they’re in a hot garage. As soon as the weather starts to cool I will be adding a heat source to keep them active and healthy. Setting up a fishtank to house a colony of dermestid beetles to clean the flesh from bones. Link to purchase the larvae: www.rainbowmealworms.net/dermestid-beetle-lar...
New Toy! Using The Little Egg Scrubber
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We got an egg washer! They’re a little pricey, but worth it if you’re washing a lot of eggs. The eggs get good and clean, and my time standing at the sink washing is cut way down! Check them out! ⬇️ www.thelittleeggscrubber.com/
The Good, The Bad, & The Ugly Garden Challenge
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Super fun UA-cam garden challenge! Sharing the good, bad, and ugly in our gardens and more importantly...growing our homestead community! Original Challenge Video CJM Farms- ua-cam.com/video/O2T33rMX6ts/v-deo.html My Challenger Little Bits of Heaven Homestead- ua-cam.com/video/0cTioKcUz7Q/v-deo.html My Shoutouts Kiska’s Homestead- Coming Soon!! Moo’s and More- Moos-N-More-115069546...
Keeping It Real! When things go to crap on the farm!
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An honest look at how quickly things can go to Hell in a handbasket! Enjoy my most recent disasters, and hopefully they’ll make you feel better about any messes you may have. 💁🏻♀️
Worm Factory 360 Setup
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Setting up my new worm composting bins, with a guest appearance by farm dogs Chudo and Rowdy! Affiliate link to the worm bin I ordered. amzn.to/2XWIL8r
Dandelion Fritters
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Deep fried dandelion blossoms! Turns out they are amazing! ❤️
Annoying Weed...or Foraged Dinner? Harvesting Whole Dandelions
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Annoying Weed...or Foraged Dinner? Harvesting Whole Dandelions
What Killed My Pig? Basic Piglet Necropsy
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What Killed My Pig? Basic Piglet Necropsy
Starting Seeds in Coconut Coir Seed Pods
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Starting Seeds in Coconut Coir Seed Pods
Homemade Fruity Pebbles Hand Sanitizer Gel...Kinda
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Homemade Fruity Pebbles Hand Sanitizer Gel...Kinda
Washing and Sanitizing Hatching Eggs
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Washing and Sanitizing Hatching Eggs
Why Inbreeding Is OK and Dealing With Rabbit Molt
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Why Inbreeding Is OK and Dealing With Rabbit Molt
Cheap DIY Copper Patina Succulent Pots
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Cheap DIY Copper Patina Succulent Pots
Saving and Dividing Discount Houseplants
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Saving and Dividing Discount Houseplants
Where do you find the thing you are putting the clean eggs to dry on?
One step was missed... supported breastfeeding was supposed to follow ... they probably died due to lack of food
Wow never knew you could do that if some don’t make it … thanks for showing that many people don’t know about this 😢 poor baby’s but so happy you mange to save some ❤
You cold rather use hair drier from some distances like normally I do when winter times babies come out from the nest.
I got mine 4 days ago. Doing daily updates on the little buggers. Thanks for showing us how to keep them going. ❤
sorry if its odd to compliment someone via a 2 month old comment on a flesh eating beetle video XD but YOU ARE SO STUNNING !
@@moldy_tshirt heh, thank you
I do some crafty stuff with bones! ❤ #vultureculture
Where did you get your drying racks?
I didn’t breed rabbits
What about predators? Dont they try to dig in?
My colony was in my garage, so nothing was able to get to them.
I was just watching a video that suggested Listerine mixed half and half with water for quail eggs. I hatch my quail eggs as is til now, but trying to find a better yield for next time, good info!
I’ve never heard the listerine before! But it makes sense.
You will only get bugs & knots frit flies when you are too wet and it turns anaerobic.
If your fan doesn't come on until it's 80 that's too hot. Thats borderline death.
They need more water!
rabbit given birth 7 days over but one baby growing properly remaining rabbits r healthy but that 1 rabbit 7 days over but same size only some hair grown n today didnt drink milk plz help what should i do reply fast I'm fully scarey about that
Hydrogen peroxide is a fantastic disinfectant especially when youre disinfecting fragile things. It’s my go to disinfectant when doing tissue culture. With tissue culture, it’s vital to completely sterilize plant tissue without killing the plant tissue. Peroxide has always proven to be the least invasive but in my experience, also the most effective.
Yes! I use it for mold on bulbs and seedlings too 😊
Even in the wild, per few acres, ALL wild rabbits are inbred. Rabbits have very small area of their whole entire lives, and they dont get to buy a train ticket to a different area. So - within an any given area, they are ALL related. The ones with wrong recesive genes simply dont make it. Become food for others. Only the best survive long enough to breed. Thanks for the grooming lesson. Advice- work with wet hands but have a bucket ready for quick rinses- works for me.
Hey I hope somebody sees this quit because I have some baby rabbits too.And they got cold and I warmed them up now.They're warm and there is no blood pulling in their hands like that.Lady was showing their little hands are pink.Just like the pink skin, his is Gray.Just like a real light pink.But they're not moving.They're not doing anything
I’m sorry 😕 If they’re warm and still not moving then they’ve passed. The blood pooling doesn’t always easily show. But if they don’t come back once they’re warm then they’re not going to. It’s only if they’re still cold that there’s a chance that they might not be dead yet.
my bunny gave birth, only 1 is reddish... While the three are tiny and bluish and not drinking their mama's milk... Are they going to survive...
It’s hard to tell just based on your comment. Baby rabbits can be different colors at birth depending on what color they will be when they grow up. And mama rabbits only feed their babies once or twice per day, so they may be feeding them and you’re not seeing it. Unfed babies are skinny and wrinkly.
I wish i saw this earlier😢
You never want to wash eggs that you hope to hatch. If you wash the bloom off of them they will not hatch. BTW Great video THANKS
Thanks I still really like the Little Egg Scrubber! I actually do wash and sanitize my hatching eggs too. However, currently I do them by hand. I’ve got a video on how I do that too 😊
Great video. I just sanitized my eggs using this method and placed them in the Little Giant Incubator. We'll see......... 21 days!!!!!! thx!
Good luck!! Let me know how your hatch goes 😊
Unbelievable...people don:t know we should all stay far away from ama zon
Is it same for broody hen or it's alright to not clean the egges with a broody hen?
No. Eggs left under a broody hen are exposed to bacteria unlike eggs hatched in a sterile incubator. So they need to keep the bloom or cuticle as a protective barrier to bacteria. This only works for eggs in sterile environments.
@@ElbonMillFarm is there any whatsapp group i could join bout chikens ?
Le uova non devono essere immerse dentro. l'acqua.essendo porose assorbono i Batteri!!!
When they pee on you they are bonded to you. Js
Damn I saved 3/4 but I thought the last one was froze it was 3 Days ago it’s probably to late 😢
Great information 😊
So sad. God bless all of those baby rabbits (kits).
Until warm and dead? Please assist. One of the bunnies was found cold and struggling to breath. Decided to keep close to the oven while rubbing it. Little movements and struggled to breathe. Got warm but stopped moving and couldn't hear any heart beat thought it had gotten warmer.
Once they’re warm, if they’re still not moving then they’ve passed. 😔 Usually blood will start to pool in their toenails or other spots on their bodies.
@@ElbonMillFarm thank you so much. I've spent almost an hour trying to resuscitate it yesterday, until I had to accept that it was gone. We are left with 3/4 6-days old kits. Decided to pull them into the house for nursing until they are strong to survive in the hutch outside. We've been getting heavy rain lately.
I’m sorry you lost the one, I hope the rest do well ❤️
@@ElbonMillFarm I hope so too, it will be better once they mature. Thank you so much.
You’re very welcome!
Glad your husband was ok
Me too! It definitely could’ve been worse!
very good video
When the maggots show up, just make some soapy water and put some of that in there, and it will smother the maggots
I had the same scenario 2 days ago. All kits had empty bellies, so I brought the doe in as well. By morning, the survivors all had full bellies from nursing. I transitioned the group to a shed the next night. Then this morning I moved the group back to the doe's cage/nest.
We just lost our first litter and I tried your techniques. If I found them sooner I’m sure they would’ve survived. She had a pretty good nest with fur and used that and a blanket vs the box I had for her. We had a cold snap so I think it was that because the day before she was feeding them and they were crying and jumping around:( hard to tell with it being her first though because some were pushed out of the near and she was just taking care of one. How long after the loss do you breed again? I have other rabbits but I want to give her another chance after her loss. And also, do you bring them indoors when it’s colder? Or use a heat lamp? Thanks
Sorry about your loss 🙁Depending on why I bred her in the first place, I will often breed again just a couple days after she loses the litter if she’s interested. I don’t normally bring them inside during the winter. If I know I have does due during a super cold snap, like less than 20F, I may bring her into an unheated building until after she kindles just to be sure they don’t freeze before she finishes giving birth. But I’ll move them back out once she’s done and they’re warm and fed.
i love eat rabbits and kill rabbits
They just needed a little mood lighting and a little Marvin Gaye…. Let’s Get It On!
How funny is it that I blew the hair away while watching this video. And my face itches now too! Lol
By the way I have 10 laying hens and 1 rooster all White Leghorn. My incubator is one of those yellow ones that turns the eggs for you and I think it holds 120 chicken eggs...but I plan to just try with about 40 or 50 eggs since we have already collected enough eggs for eating. I too am looking forward to your response.
So what I do is store hatching eggs in a cool room of my house, point side down, and I shift the eggs multiple times per day until I’m ready to incubate. Because I hatch a large number of eggs, I actually use two of the electric egg turners that you put in styrofoam hatchers. That way I don’t have to shift the eggs manually. Back when I didn’t have as many eggs though, I would put the eggs in an egg carton, point side down, and raise one end of the carton with a book or something. Then I would come move the book to the other end. And again before bed I would shift it back. Then the next morning I would start the process over by shifting to the opposite side. By doing an odd number of shifts during the day, you are alternating which end of the carton is raised each night. I hatch weekly normally so all my eggs are 7 days old or less. If however I was holding eggs for more than a week for hatching, I would keep them no more than 10 days to ensure they’re fresh and have the highest likelihood of hatching.
@@ElbonMillFarm Thank you. My first attempt last year was such a dismal failure that I didn't dare try it again...I had 1 dozen eggs and only 3 hatched...2 males and 1 female. Hopefully this time is better. I would be thrilled with a 50% hatch rate.
@@elliottspence7929 good luck!! Hope you get a great hatchrate this time.
@@ElbonMillFarm Just a quick update...it is now day #14. I started with 54 eggs in the incubator. I candled them just a few minutes ago. Out of 54 eggs, 53 were showing development, 1 not fertilized. 4 days from now I will remove from egg turner trays and put them into lockdown. Here's hoping for the best.
@@elliottspence7929 that’s awesome!! I hope you have a great hatch!
OK I just pulled a bunch of eggs this morning and I am going to wash them and use peroxide. So what kind of environment do you store the eggs while you're waiting to fill up the incubator? Can I store them in a room type environment or is it better to put them in the sanitized incubator even though I am not starting for at least a few more days. Appreciate the knowledge you are sharing here.
I feel like crying
Sexy farm girl... love the vids...
What state you from?
What are cataracts or the cataract breeding
Weve has had troubles in the past for like the colder season breeding and my dad he knows what hes doing cuz him and his siblings did the breeding and everyting when they where kids and so he knows what hes doing but sometines we have to look it up if he cant remember what they did
So refreshing to see an actual real life vid, not some airy fairy "we livin the dream" thing by wanna be's. I've travelled through Asia a lot, chickens everywhere, and not an anti biotic/tick/whatever, treatment in sight. I run a "heritage" breed, I made the mistake of going to a "poultry show" ye gods those things wouldn't last 5 min's at my place, Sure I lose the odd one to eagles (usually the rooster defending his girls) and every now and then one gets sick (and dies, with no trip to the vet) survival of the fittest. Harsh? depends on your point of view. Mine are old school multi purpose, lay quite a few eggs (not a heap) and have enough meat to make a good roast chook (not a big lump of breast meat) but the flavour is what chicken used to taste like. I love it, the kids complain about the lack of white tasteless "breast" that they are accustomed to, ahh such is life.
Yeah I don’t have the patience to baby the birds.😊 I regularly remind myself “we don’t breed for stupid or weak” and try to always let nature take its course.
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great video! Thank you for making!!!
I just burried my baby bunny and now i am scared that the bunny wasn't death. PLEASE HELP?
Thank you for the information. What percent of Hydrogen peroxide do you think works best? Is 3% low?
Yeah, I just get the normal peroxide from the store. I do know the poultry studies were done with a higher percentage, but I just grab what’s easiest for me. 😊
wow, got to try this for the wifey, she would love it. Thanks for sharing