LIVESTOCK BARN TOUR - LaLa Farm's Goat and Chicken Barn
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- Опубліковано 9 гру 2019
- TITLE: LIVESTOCK BARN TOUR - LaLa Farm's Goat and Chicken Barn. One of the first buildings we built on the LaLa Farm homestead was the livestock barn. Our barn shelters our Kiko meat goat herd and and most of our laying hens. In Florida, we needed an open air barn to ensure proper ventilation due to high heat and humidity for most of the year. This barn perfectly meets the needs of our livestock and our family both both a shelter and a work area to tend to the animals on our homestead. If you like the video, please give it a thumbs up, subscribe, and mash the notification bell to make sure you receive updates in the future as new videos are released from LaLa Farm.
The LaLa Farm channel is an informational and educational - how to - DIY - channel that follows the day to day activities happening around LaLa Farm. LaLa Farm is a small, family owned farm located just south of the Florida - Georgia line in Glen Saint Mary, FL (Northeast Florida). We focus on producing small scale marketable farm products, while moving toward food self-sufficiency for our own family. We breed Registered Kiko, Boer, and Nubian goats for market and meat. We raise our own poultry for meat and eggs. We grow seasonal fruits and vegetables and maintain a colony of bees for honey and pollination of our plants. The goal of our UA-cam channel is to educate and share with our customers, followers, and anyone else interested in the homesteading or small farm lifestyle - our approach to managing the little slice of paradise we call LaLa Farm. Our channel, just like the farm, is truly a family endeavor. On any given week, you may see videos from any number of our family members depending upon the topic being discussed. Each of our family members has unique interests and skills that they bring to our farm. We would love to have you join us - the Robinson family - on our self-sufficiency and homesteading journey by subscribing to our channel.
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OUR JOURNEY TO THE HOMESTEAD:
LaLa and I (Rick) grew up in a small agricultural region of New York State. LaLa was raised in a dairy farming family and I grew up in a small town. LaLa and I were high school sweethearts, who married in our late teens - and have now been married for over 30 years. We moved to Jacksonville, FL in the mid 1980’s, after being stationed there while serving in the U.S. Navy as an Interior Communications Electrician (I fixed phones). The plan was for LaLa to be a stay at home mom. In the early 90’s I was injured while serving on active duty and I was abruptly discharged from military service. By this time, we had two young children, and it never seemed like there was enough time in the day. LaLa went to work - I went to college - and we somehow found enough time for each other and our family. We always dreamed of having a small farm to raise our kids and our own food. For nearly 20 years, we lived in the city and watched as the city encroached in upon us and grew up around us. In the early 2000’s we moved from Jacksonville, FL to an adjacent and more rural area of Baker County, FL. We eventually found the perfect piece of land to realize our dream of owning our own farm, and in 2015, this dream became a reality - a reality that is today - The LaLa Farm.
Wow! This is NICE!
Thank you so much for stopping by and watching. - Rick
Super great video!! ❤ Absolutely loved it!! 😁 Thanks for sharing ✅🌹My Friend!!💯👍!!
I have Cane Corsos as guardian dogs! My male is named Bruno LoL
So great with such a superb structure
Fantastic setup, thanks for all the ideas.
Heck yeah
Super nice set up!
Barn goals! awesome
Barn barn, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Barn barn, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Barn barn, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo, doo.
Barn barn!🥰
Thanx for sharing 😊😊😊
Super awesome video! Thanks for sharing!😜
Thanks so much for stopping by and watching. - Rick
nice! love your organization and set up!
A very good barn for Florida weather
Thanks!! We try to keep our livestock structures as open as possible to provided good airflow. This design works really well for us. Thanks for watching. - Rick
Very nice barn design. And the equipment are well thought out for barns.
Thank you very much!
thank you for sharing the design considerations, with respect to aerodynamics with respect to seasons or typhoons and airspeeds that will hit the structures during calamities.
Loving the barn set up!
Thank you so much for stopping by and watching . A lot of thought went into this barn. After two years, there is not much we would change. We are really happy with it. - Rick
Sir i like you english, you pronunciation is much clear to understand and speed accuracy is awesome.... 😀
Good looking barn
That would be nice to have !!
Thanks!!! A lot of research and planning went into the design and build. We wanted something that was multi-functional and flexible. I think we achieved that goal with this design.
We are getting ready to build our barn, and where we are we will have to have it closed in but. I might want something like this for my goat pasture. Well done sir!! Looks really nice, and easy to clean and very efficient!! I love it!!!
Thank you so much for stopping by and visiting. This design is completely adaptable for being closed in - it works great for goats to move them around. Makes goat wrangling pretty easy. We did an update on the barn as well in early 2020 - here is the link to the update video --ua-cam.com/video/IsEAs4ZyNwY/v-deo.html - Rick
Awesome setup
Thank you so much for stopping by and watching. I can tell you that after 3 years, there is nothing I would have changed in this build. I can rarely say that about other builds. 🤣🤣 - Rick
Wow nice build well thought out
Nobody has every accused me of under planning any build. Thank you so much for stopping by and watching. - Rick
This is the dream. The fully open walls wouldn't work as well in the area I'm comfortable farming but they look nice, and I love your layouts and species diversification!
Awesome setup. Its definitely hurricane strong
Yeah, Nothing is taking that thing out. Even my kids, kids, kids should see this barn lol
-Little Rick
Awesome barn tour
Thanks for stopping by and watching. A lot of planning went into this barn. After now using it for a couple of years, we are really happy with it. - Rick
I have barn envy. I don't have a need for a barn but I still want one. Love your set up. We're trying to get our out buildings and such more cohesive but it's slow going. Thank you for sharing with us 💚
Thank you so much. A lot of thought went into that design and build out and it has worked really well for how we operate our farm. Thanks so much for the feedback. - Rick
Good job very practical
Thanks!! For some reason I didn't see this on my feed until this morning - makes no sense. So thanks for stopping by and commenting. - Rick
Looks amazing
Thank you so much - and thanks for visiting the farm!!
@@TheLaLaFarm i want a barn in 10 years bc im moving out
What a beautiful barn. I need to make one just like that
Thank you so much. A lot of thought went into that design and build out and it has worked really well for how we operate our farm. Thanks so much for the feedback. - Rick
Dang nice!
Thank you!!! For some reason I didn't see this on my feed until this morning - makes no sense. So thanks for stopping by and commenting. - Rick
Very nice 👍
Thank you! Cheers!
That seemed to be a lot of work, but very rewarding and long term!
I was a lot of work, but it has been very functional to control the flow of our goats within the barn!!! Thanks for stopping by and watching. - Rick
Nice barn. Good video
Thank you. I watched a lot of UA-cam barn videos to research what I liked and didn't like. It is very functional for our purposes.
Pretty plan pretty barn
For some reason I didn't see this on my feed until this morning - makes no sense. So thanks for stopping by and commenting. - Rick
Nice
Thank you so much for visiting and commenting. - Rick
Nice Barn!
Thank you so much for stopping by and watching!! - Rick
Great set up. I am still designing and figuring it all out. I must admit I am a bit jealous 👍🏼🐐🤠
Its taken most of the last year to get it to where it is now. All I have left is to run the electric for lighting and outlets and it will be complete. But now that it is cooler, the electric will have to wait because I have cross fencing to do in the new buck pen and doe paddocks. No rest for the weary.
The LaLa Farm I know the feeling. Currently fencing and adding buck pen as well.
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Awesome barn! Would work here in Brisbane Australia...
For some reason I didn't see this on my feed until this morning - makes no sense. So thanks for stopping by and commenting. - Rick
Nice barn man! I subbed to follow along!
Thanks a ton!! My whole family tells me I overbuild everything. The barn is often their prime example of this. I on the other hand - research everything - design it on paper - then try to build something that is functional and built to last. The barn is super flexible in terms of how we configure it for what we are doing during a particular time of the year. Right now, it is pretty wide open like in the thumbnail so my granddaughter can work with her goats for our annual county fair. Come winter, it will be filled with hay. Thanks for stopping by and visiting the farm.
Beautiful pole barn! Do you plan on installing a rain water collection system in the future? With that roof, you could have an easy, effective, efficient watering system for the animals. Thank you for sharing your process with us!
Thank you for stopping by and watching. I use water catchment for the chickens, but have plummed water for the goats as the our automatic waterers operate off of pressurized lines. Great question!! - Rick
@@TheLaLaFarm do you have your barn floor plan thanks planning to copy your barn
Love the gate latchs we live in canada we don't have them here
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Just a suggestion. I would have the hay off of the concrete because concrete will draw a certain amount of moisture that will mold the hay on the bottom layer.
Right you are sir. In fact we have searched high and low for plastic pallets and now have about 10 of them that we move around to stack the hay on. Thanks for watching.
@@TheLaLaFarm I watched the video and I enjoyed the barn set up even though I don't have goats, I do have chickens and I have thought about venturing out with a few other things but I'm unsure as of yet what it may be at the moment. I know a little more about cattle than I do about goats and I've had some hogs before but perhaps in time, I'll know more about what I'd like to invest in.
Very cool! We have Nigerians which must be easier to handle...just a little sweet feed. Looks like a lot of thought went into the system!
Thank you so much for stopping by and watching. Lala would like to get a few Nigerians next year. Currently, we have about 30 Kiko goats that we sell to the market and to other breeders. - Rick
The LaLa Farm We love our Nigerians! We sampled milk from a few dairy breeds and we love the goat milk and cheese from our goats. We did not visit any farms with Kiko's though. Nigerians are not very meaty and would not do very well at market, as you probably know. Thank you so much for visiting our channel! We appreciate it!
Hi Rick, I watched a couple of your videos on TV yesterday and came back to comment. That is quite a barn. I noticed the triple lag bolts right away and thought maybe it was to combat hurricanes. Very nice, well thought out build. Lots of hard work. How long have you lived there?
I overbuild everything! We do get high winds, but the biggest issue I was anticipating was a 180 pound goat headbutting the walls. The have broken 3 welded gates - one of which was bent in half. The walls however have not budged. For about 5 months - you could not find a 5" anywhere in town or at the closes Home Depot. 😁 We bought the land 5 years ago, and it been a series of projects ever since. We moved onto the property 3 years ago. This winters projects are to build 10 more raised beds; finished my covered garden work space; and build a 3rd chicken coop for breeding pairs; and of course - some goat cross fencing. All of these projects are impractical during the heat of the summer - its just too darn hot. Thanks for watching Roland. - Rick
@@TheLaLaFarm 180lbs and still bend a gate? Wow! I wouldn't want him to take a run at me.
@@GettingItDoneNorthOf7 none of those gates were bent by bucks - every time - it was does in heat.
Felicidades Señor
Una pregunta usted tiene esos diseños en planos con sus medidas de todo la infraestructura?
Si lo tuviera me interesaría saber si lo pudiera vender
Am I the only one that has goats that eat wood because mine gnaw on any wood they can get to. It appears you have the wood on the outside of the panels and fencing so they can't get to it. Been years and I've never given my goats minerals, just goat feed and pasture, so maybe I need to start, but never had a problem with any types of sicknesses in 3 or 4 years.
Great structure! you mind sharing your design sketch?
Thank you so much for visiting the channel and commenting. I would not mind at all - problem - I no longer have the sketch. It was on a piece of notepaper with tons of notes, but after the build was done, it got tossed. Again, thanks for stopping by!! - Rick
Do you have the plans for it, and how much does it cost? Just wondering because I am looking to build something similar to this :)
We dont have plans for the barn - I just drew it out on paper and built it. The main pole barn we had built at a cost of about $5,000. The concrete floor was $2,500. The additional interior for the stalls, walls, and hardware was about another $3,000. So we have about $11,000 in the barn.
Can you share the drawings, it is such a good plan.
who did you buy the pole barn from
@@louiecortinas2958 I believe in the 1st comment he said he built it. So I'm assuming he didn't buy a kit. He just measured it out, got the materials, and built it himself.
Hello. Does the hay go bad (moisture) if you have it laying on cement? Wondering if having the hay on pallets first would keep it lasting fresh longer ?
You know - that is a great question - we have not had that issue, but have since raised the hay onto plastic pallets to avoid moisture from getting under it. We did lose a few bails, but this doesn't seem to be a problem any longer. Thanks for stopping by.
Do you have mats or wood under your hay that’s stacked in the barn on the cement.?..
There are rubber horse pads under the concrete. Thanks for stopping and watching.- Rick
@@TheLaLaFarm you mean under hay bales.?.. I told a friend that the hay gets ruined if you stack it on cement..She didn’t believe me..I’ll stop by more . I enjoyed watching..
@@catherinegrace6406 Yes - I meant under the hay bales. Sorry. Hay that is stacked directly on concrete will tend to pull moisture into the bale from the concrete. So when this video was done, we used horse pads under the hay stack. We have since found some plastic pallets that we stack the hay on now - which is far better. The plastic pallet is completely inert, really sturdy, and does not interact with the hay in any way. The pallet also allows for airflow beneath the hay bales which helps to keep them dry. - Rick
Hi what not give napier. I send you the napier if you need. To plant. Planting napier is very easy.
Never heard of Napier, but I checked it out - that would work well here. I am considering buying some.
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Awesome barn ! Check out my greenhouse. I built with unistrut.
Thank you much for stopping by and watching. - Rick
What the size of your farm? Do you use Artificial Insermination service in your dairy farm?
Good morning and thank you for stopping by and watching. Our total farm property is 20 acres. We do not do dairy goats, only meat goats. We presently have about 55 goats, but will be thinning that heard down for summer to no more than 30 does, 4 bucks, and 2 wethers. We do not currently do AI as we have not had a need to and we cull very hard each year to only bring our strongest animals into each successive breeding year. - Rick
How big is the área for your animals?
This barn covers animals on 7 acres.
Very nice Barn
Sir what Breed of chickens you have ?
Do you make any money from it for living?
We sell our Kiko goats for meat and and higher end stock for breading programs around the Southeast United States.
Very informative thank you for the input of information best regards from Jamaica. You have motivate me to make video as well If you like you can check my channel I am also talking mainly about goat,sheep and rabbit. Thanks
Just remember you move to Florida keep low tax republicans in office sense you like our state so much. Keep Democrats out.
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Very nice barn design. And the equipment are well thought out for barns.
Thank you very much!