Bella, you deserve top marks for the way you look after your responsibilities on the farm…you are smart, and hungry to learn…and you pay attention…your parents are so fortunate to have a daughter like you…Merry Christmas to you and all your family🎄🧑🎄🤶❤️🇨🇦
Bella has done a great job creating shelters for her animals and mastering homestead skills. You’ve really developed the farm and buildings. Silas is becoming proficient in so many areas too from music to wood splitting! All the kids learn so much more about life from homesteading and homeschooling…but I repeat myself.
SO ITS OFFICIAL we are a homeschool family, i contemplated pulling my son from kindergarten for weeks now, and i finally just bit the biscuit and did it! he won't return after christmas break! I'm so excited, thought id share my news
@@chrystalzap kindergarten is mostly reading and writing. Sounds like you got yourself a smart kiddo. 😁 homeschooling is definitely better for him. He can reach his full potential. Schools got screwed up when they started that no kid left behind crap. Now they are actually making kid's dumber. I worked for our school district and witnessed just how slow these kids are now. It's actually quite painful to see.
@@minnamae25 not only that, but as you said before, there is no curriculum. All schools teach kids are for math is how to use a calculator. You could ask a fifth grader from a public school to do 10 times 2 and they'd need a calculator. It might not be that way for all schools but quite a bit. I find that to be absolutely rediculus!
It so so amazing to see how far your homestead has come in just the past few years! Thanks for sharing, I always learn so much about homesteading from your videos!
Yes I have heard that it is very difficult to successfully raise the baby turkeys from other farms. I liked the farm tour today. Bella is so knowledgeable about the animals.
We lost our prize breeder from bloat. We had gone away for the weekend and came home to her dead. We used breed Galloway cows but not belted. They were great mamas. Could not get near the calf for weeks. We switched to alpacas after a few years and loved them. They were the easiest animals we ever owned. Only need to shear them once a year and they would protect the other animals we had. They are very intelligent and affectionate creatures.
Absolutely appreciate the share, lovely seeing all the animals and listening to Bella and you converse on what is what. Boys are great helpers with wood prepping as well. Enjoy your weekend
I enjoyed seeing a tour of the farm. So many accidents happen with machinery. Safety first. Also with wood stoves, fires can happen so quickly. I have done a lot of research of historic papers and such accidents happened all the time - even adults getting cut or arms stuck in machinery. One girl literally was scalped from getting her hair caught. Watch for long sleeves or hair getting tangled in machines. Keep the chimney cleaned. The song Stand up for Jesus was written after the man had his arm caught in a machine. My own daughter had her leg cut with a circular saw. Her dad had his fingers cut off abs sewn back on when he was just a toddler from his dad’s saw.
We just experienced bloat with our Jersey girl, CeCe. It was so scary and I was so afraid we would lose her. We could not get a hose down her throat, so we had to puncture her rumen. Over the next five hours, I held a metal straw in the hole to keep releasing gas. We have since purchased a trochar. She survived and is doing great. This happened about three or so weeks ago. We also gave her baking soda as soon as we saw she was bloated, but it was just so hard to get it down her throat. The puncture saved her life. So sorry to hear about your Fern. It happens so quickly!
Enjoyed this video, seeing all the animals etc. Bella is so knowledgeable about the animals and doing a great job taking care of them. That's interesting info about tukeys. We were never successful raising any as they always died.
Ahhhh, chickens sleeping and pooping in the nesting boxes, same problem over here 🙋♀️. Thankfully we have 2 decent size coops. We ended up keeping one side for nesting and the other side for roosting. My son just goes out an hour before dark and shuts the nesting side up. They are starting to see now that they can't sleep on that side now. Poop here in the winter is awful. Freezing cold and cleaning is difficult. Warmer temperatures next week so our son should be able to clean it up. I suggested Turkey's to my husband. We like the meat better. I love this video, Bella has good ideas and she's extremely mature for her age. Love watching her work with the animals. Seems like those pigs are easier to breed, babies galore. I'm not sure of the breed but friends of ours had tried breeding their pigs, they are HUGE pigs and they just weren't successful. Local farmer told them they needed to vaccinate their pigs and also help the male mount the female. They just didn't want to vaccinate, they wanted pigs to be as organic as they could. These little pigs that you have seem to be a little easier to raise and breed. Definitely try to get these for our farming homestead. Soon we will be filling our barn up with animals.
Definitely get you on the poop problem. We have a town house / row house, so there are neighbors both sides of us. One of them has a gigantic pigeon coop that is over 2M high and so peeps over our dividing wall. We had to make that wall higher because the neighbor was looking straight into my bedroom! Anyway, it's a stubborn (& terrible) neighbor and the city actually forbade a coop of that size for a regular townhouse, but he appealed the decision. Everyone hates this coop. In any other area: why not, but in this area where we live? Nope. Anyway, back to the poop subject. Our neighbor has to scrape the wood daily and clean said coop. You can hear him 5 houses down scraping the wood. Understand your chicken coop predicament.
Julie Bella looks like Jason so beautiful I really enjoy watching Julie and Jason and your whole beautiful Family Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 🎆🎈 🎅🎄🤶🙏🏻✝️☮️
WOW‼️ THIS WAS SO INTERESTING TO WATCH! I LEARNED SO MUCH FROM YOU BOTH! AND WOW BELLA YOU ARE SO SO KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT FARM LIFE/HOMESTEADING AND LIVESTOCK ‼️ YOU ALSO HAVE SOME FANTASTIC INVENTIVE IDEAS TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF THE LIVESTOCK AND FARM/HOMESTEAD IN GENERAL. EVEN GROWNUPS CAN LEARN ALOT FROM YOU…. ACTUALLY YOU ARE PRETTY MUCH ALMOST A GROWNUP NOW. IM SUPER IMPRESSED WITH YOU AND THE FAMILY AS A WHOLE…. YOU ALL HAVE REALLY DOVE HEAD FIRST INTO HOMESTEADING AND ITS PAYING OFF. SENDING LOVE AND PRAYERS FOR A HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR FOR ALL OF YOU AND YOUR PETS AND LIVESTOCK. THE ONLY ONE I MISSED SEEING AN UPDATE ON IS YOUR CAT 🐈 WONDERING HOW SHE/HE IS DOING AND IF YOU HAVE MORE THAN ONE CAT NOW ? 👨🌾👩🌾🏡🐇🐝🐄🐖🐓🦃🐕🐈🙏🏻♥️
Aww thanks Kelly! We think she’s an amazing girl too 😄 Yes we do still have our cat. She is a bit antisocial (does NOT like dogs!) and keeps to herself for the most part but she is a good mouser and always sticks around the farm.
It’s me with another question for Bella, I am so impressed with your methods in caring for the chickens, why are the rabbits not running around. I have friends that also allow them in their houses and use cat litter for them (inside)
Love seeing all your animals! The turkeys little gobbles are cute! That’s great that you’re heating with wood going to save you lots of money this winter! It’s snowing and going to be -7F late tonight early tomorrow Brrr!
Wow that all looks so great! What a good job 👏 And Bella knows so much about everything. She’s a real hard worker. Loved to see this all. Thanks. Wishing you all a merry Christmas and a very happy new year 🎉 greatings from The Netherlands 🇳🇱
there is one thing for bloat in any animal if you catch it in time you can do. my one dairy goat I stupidly gave to much grain to and she wasn't use to the grain as she didn't come from a very good farm she bloated and was down within 20 minutes after eating the grain. Well I ran into the house and grabbed my Dr Pepper and shoved 1/2 of the can down her throat it took her an hour to feel better and be walking on her own it also gave her the runs but she survived. we didn't have an Emergency vet in are area at the time it was all by appointments and no vets on call.
Have you looked into Dexter cattle? I don't know much about them, but learned a little from Sweet Briar Farm's videos. They seem to be a pretty versatile and small breed.
Are these rabbits good pets? Also how exactly do you “process” all your animals? I know how it’s done on a big factory farm but I’ve no idea about the ways of a homestead x
there was a lot of topics crammed into this video. I think you could have made at least 5 different videos. Your Costco vids are somewhat interesting, but all of us shop, but not all of us farm. The whys and hows of farming are great. I always marvel at the way you and Jason use child power to get tasks done.
@@chantellesimmons1064 nope, my first born was lazier than a pet coon. The summer before her senior year of school (she was homeschooled) my husband threw a bunch of applications at her and told her to fill them out, she's not allowed to lay around all summer, she's getting a job. So she did, and thankfully that job gave her a taste of what it's like to be responsible and make her own money. Now, she 19, and after all those year's of fighting with her to get off her lazy butt and help, she's actually a hard worker.
Questo video mi piace molto siete fantastici e simpatici vi adoro vi seguo sempre
Bella, you deserve top marks for the way you look after your responsibilities on the farm…you are smart, and hungry to learn…and you pay attention…your parents are so fortunate to have a daughter like you…Merry Christmas to you and all your family🎄🧑🎄🤶❤️🇨🇦
Bella has done a great job creating shelters for her animals and mastering homestead skills. You’ve really developed the farm and buildings. Silas is becoming proficient in so many areas too from music to wood splitting! All the kids learn so much more about life from homesteading and homeschooling…but I repeat myself.
SO ITS OFFICIAL we are a homeschool family, i contemplated pulling my son from kindergarten for weeks now, and i finally just bit the biscuit and did it! he won't return after christmas break! I'm so excited, thought id share my news
You go mama :-)
Definitely a good choice. School ruined my kid's and the curriculum they are taught is really bad now. Somewhat demonic. Good job Mamma!!!!
@@minnamae25 there was No curriculum, my son begged his kindergarten teacher to give him math worksheets, she never did, so he complained everyday
@@chrystalzap kindergarten is mostly reading and writing. Sounds like you got yourself a smart kiddo. 😁 homeschooling is definitely better for him. He can reach his full potential. Schools got screwed up when they started that no kid left behind crap. Now they are actually making kid's dumber. I worked for our school district and witnessed just how slow these kids are now. It's actually quite painful to see.
@@minnamae25 not only that, but as you said before, there is no curriculum. All schools teach kids are for math is how to use a calculator. You could ask a fifth grader from a public school to do 10 times 2 and they'd need a calculator. It might not be that way for all schools but quite a bit. I find that to be absolutely rediculus!
Y'all have a pretty sharp and clever girl! She is highly impressive.Thank you both for sharing!👍👍
It so so amazing to see how far your homestead has come in just the past few years! Thanks for sharing, I always learn so much about homesteading from your videos!
Yes I have heard that it is very difficult to successfully raise the baby turkeys from other farms. I liked the farm tour today. Bella is so knowledgeable about the animals.
The kids all work hard keeping the farm and house going. Of course they have two amazing teachers.
We lost our prize breeder from bloat. We had gone away for the weekend and came home to her dead. We used breed Galloway cows but not belted. They were great mamas. Could not get near the calf for weeks. We switched to alpacas after a few years and loved them. They were the easiest animals we ever owned. Only need to shear them once a year and they would protect the other animals we had. They are very intelligent and affectionate creatures.
Absolutely appreciate the share, lovely seeing all the animals and listening to Bella and you converse on what is what.
Boys are great helpers with wood prepping as well. Enjoy your weekend
I’m watching you two giving us a tour ( Bella & Julie) you girls are real knowledgeable farmers 🥰
I enjoyed seeing a tour of the farm.
So many accidents happen with machinery. Safety first. Also with wood stoves, fires can happen so quickly. I have done a lot of research of historic papers and such accidents happened all the time - even adults getting cut or arms stuck in machinery. One girl literally was scalped from getting her hair caught.
Watch for long sleeves or hair getting tangled in machines. Keep the chimney cleaned.
The song Stand up for Jesus was written after the man had his arm caught in a machine.
My own daughter had her leg cut with a circular saw. Her dad had his fingers cut off abs sewn back on when he was just a toddler from his dad’s saw.
Bella is so smart
We just experienced bloat with our Jersey girl, CeCe. It was so scary and I was so afraid we would lose her. We could not get a hose down her throat, so we had to puncture her rumen. Over the next five hours, I held a metal straw in the hole to keep releasing gas. We have since purchased a trochar. She survived and is doing great. This happened about three or so weeks ago. We also gave her baking soda as soon as we saw she was bloated, but it was just so hard to get it down her throat. The puncture saved her life. So sorry to hear about your Fern. It happens so quickly!
Thanks for the tour of your farmyard .I did not realize you had that many animals.❤❤👍
I see Leo ‘s touch in this video 😉…
Enjoyed this video, seeing all the animals etc. Bella is so knowledgeable about the animals and doing a great job taking care of them. That's interesting info about tukeys. We were never successful raising any as they always died.
Ahhhh, chickens sleeping and pooping in the nesting boxes, same problem over here 🙋♀️. Thankfully we have 2 decent size coops. We ended up keeping one side for nesting and the other side for roosting. My son just goes out an hour before dark and shuts the nesting side up. They are starting to see now that they can't sleep on that side now. Poop here in the winter is awful. Freezing cold and cleaning is difficult. Warmer temperatures next week so our son should be able to clean it up. I suggested Turkey's to my husband. We like the meat better.
I love this video, Bella has good ideas and she's extremely mature for her age. Love watching her work with the animals.
Seems like those pigs are easier to breed, babies galore. I'm not sure of the breed but friends of ours had tried breeding their pigs, they are HUGE pigs and they just weren't successful. Local farmer told them they needed to vaccinate their pigs and also help the male mount the female. They just didn't want to vaccinate, they wanted pigs to be as organic as they could. These little pigs that you have seem to be a little easier to raise and breed. Definitely try to get these for our farming homestead. Soon we will be filling our barn up with animals.
Busy farmlife❣️I grew up on a farm in MS. Lots of great memories!
It’s a great life!
Bella does all the work, let her do the video.
Definitely get you on the poop problem. We have a town house / row house, so there are neighbors both sides of us. One of them has a gigantic pigeon coop that is over 2M high and so peeps over our dividing wall. We had to make that wall higher because the neighbor was looking straight into my bedroom! Anyway, it's a stubborn (& terrible) neighbor and the city actually forbade a coop of that size for a regular townhouse, but he appealed the decision. Everyone hates this coop. In any other area: why not, but in this area where we live? Nope. Anyway, back to the poop subject. Our neighbor has to scrape the wood daily and clean said coop. You can hear him 5 houses down scraping the wood. Understand your chicken coop predicament.
I've been watching your family journey since you lived in the city, your family has done an awesome job building your homestead and farm!
Thanks for the tour. I really enjoyed it.
Julie Bella looks like Jason so beautiful I really enjoy watching Julie and Jason and your whole beautiful Family Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 🎆🎈 🎅🎄🤶🙏🏻✝️☮️
WOW‼️ THIS WAS SO INTERESTING TO WATCH! I LEARNED SO MUCH FROM YOU BOTH! AND WOW BELLA YOU ARE SO SO KNOWLEDGEABLE ABOUT FARM LIFE/HOMESTEADING AND LIVESTOCK ‼️ YOU ALSO HAVE SOME FANTASTIC INVENTIVE IDEAS TO IMPROVE THE LIVES OF THE LIVESTOCK AND FARM/HOMESTEAD IN GENERAL. EVEN GROWNUPS CAN LEARN ALOT FROM YOU…. ACTUALLY YOU ARE PRETTY MUCH ALMOST A GROWNUP NOW. IM SUPER IMPRESSED WITH YOU AND THE FAMILY AS A WHOLE…. YOU ALL HAVE REALLY DOVE HEAD FIRST INTO HOMESTEADING AND ITS PAYING OFF. SENDING LOVE AND PRAYERS FOR A HAPPY AND HEALTHY NEW YEAR FOR ALL OF YOU AND YOUR PETS AND LIVESTOCK. THE ONLY ONE I MISSED SEEING AN UPDATE ON IS YOUR CAT 🐈 WONDERING HOW SHE/HE IS DOING AND IF YOU HAVE MORE THAN ONE CAT NOW ? 👨🌾👩🌾🏡🐇🐝🐄🐖🐓🦃🐕🐈🙏🏻♥️
Aww thanks Kelly! We think she’s an amazing girl too 😄 Yes we do still have our cat. She is a bit antisocial (does NOT like dogs!) and keeps to herself for the most part but she is a good mouser and always sticks around the farm.
It’s me with another question for Bella, I am so impressed with your methods in caring for the chickens, why are the rabbits not running around. I have friends that also allow them in their houses and use cat litter for them (inside)
Enjoy your video
Merry Christmas to all of you. 🎄🎄🎄😊😊😊
Gosh I think I'm going to have to go back to a no meat diet😅 ,, those pigs are so cute
Love seeing all your animals! The turkeys little gobbles are cute! That’s great that you’re heating with wood going to save you lots of money this winter! It’s snowing and going to be -7F late tonight early tomorrow Brrr!
Wow that all looks so great! What a good job 👏 And Bella knows so much about everything. She’s a real hard worker. Loved to see this all. Thanks. Wishing you all a merry Christmas and a very happy new year 🎉 greatings from The Netherlands 🇳🇱
Thanks, for sharing. We do some of the same farming on a larger scale were in WI.
there is one thing for bloat in any animal if you catch it in time you can do. my one dairy goat I stupidly gave to much grain to and she wasn't use to the grain as she didn't come from a very good farm she bloated and was down within 20 minutes after eating the grain. Well I ran into the house and grabbed my Dr Pepper and shoved 1/2 of the can down her throat it took her an hour to feel better and be walking on her own it also gave her the runs but she survived. we didn't have an Emergency vet in are area at the time it was all by appointments and no vets on call.
Wow!
Thanks for the tour!!
Bella is so awesome.
Beautiful
Have you looked into Dexter cattle? I don't know much about them, but learned a little from Sweet Briar Farm's videos. They seem to be a pretty versatile and small breed.
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How do you keep the bunny's from freezing?
Are these rabbits good pets? Also how exactly do you “process” all your animals? I know how it’s done on a big factory farm but I’ve no idea about the ways of a homestead x
there was a lot of topics crammed into this video. I think you could have made at least 5 different videos. Your Costco vids are somewhat interesting, but all of us shop, but not all of us farm. The whys and hows of farming are great. I always marvel at the way you and Jason use child power to get tasks done.
What is the secret to having a daughter that is such a hard worker?
I think that is the case for many first born daughters. ❤️
@@chantellesimmons1064 nope, my first born was lazier than a pet coon. The summer before her senior year of school (she was homeschooled) my husband threw a bunch of applications at her and told her to fill them out, she's not allowed to lay around all summer, she's getting a job. So she did, and thankfully that job gave her a taste of what it's like to be responsible and make her own money. Now, she 19, and after all those year's of fighting with her to get off her lazy butt and help, she's actually a hard worker.