Our BIGGEST MISTAKE On The Homestead (so far)
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- If we could go back three and a half years ago and change one thing on our homestead, it would be fencing! In today's vlog we share why fencing is so important on the homestead and what fencing we would recommend after years of stress from not having the right fencing.
If you homestead, what is your favorite kind of fencing?
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I just appreciate how humble you are about your mistakes. It helps to learn from others. 👍👍
Fencing has definitely been the biggest investment on our homestead! We learned that lesson on our last homestead. Congrats on hitting 1000 subs! It's great to see all of our channels growing. Every channel has something different to offer the community.
Thanks much. Blessings to you guys.
72,000 subs now, woot
You are protecting your investment. That is what you do, if you live on a great homestead. We live in a small town and have a small backyard garden. And even there the fencing is verry important.
So I am still watching every video the second time. And to give everything a 👍. I am happy to help you this way because I live in the Netherland/Europe so to buy something from the shop is not profit for you because of postage costs to us.
G'D BLESS and for now Shabbat Shalom! from Inge Noordam
Thank you so much for your kindness and support by watching our videos Inge! Love and blessings to you.❤
Wow!! What a lot of work homestead life looks like! Your family is lovely, but it certainly looks like you guys have your work cut out for you. Very interesting to see what you do all day, and how hard it is on the old western front. Kind of like going back in time 300 years, but with the internet. Glad you are able to show us all how your different life is. Not sure it's for me, but I do enjoy viewing it from afar. Good luck to y'all!
Great channel.
Congrats on a THOUSAND SUBS.
What a beautiful family... Y'all are blessed!
Thank you TexasPrepper2! We have learned so much from you and appreciate all the time you have put into your videos. Blessings to you! - Carrie
Fencing is always a challenge, especially on a tight budget. Thanks for sharing.
Yes, we are hoping the horse fencing, a little at a time, will eventually make our lives a bit more peaceful. Thanks for watching!
We had to fence and cross fence two hundred acres. We saved money by using dial-a-trade, craigslist, facebook groups and auctions. Just because you don't spend a lot of money doesn't mean you can't build good fences. We cut a lot of the corner posts off our own property and salvaged telephone poles. Our place was so rocky that most of the corner post holes had to be dug with a rock bar but once they are in they are in three feet deep and tamped hard they don't move.
So true. Good job 👍
I think the fencing could be seen as a spiritual metaphor. You have the best fencing in your spiritual home for your kids =you have created a life where the materialism and self centered-ness of the modern world is kept out. You are teaching your kids to give instead of take, living with a full heart as you say, and keeping out the billions of distractions that clog the arteries of our souls nowadays. True respect and admiration to you both, because this is what truly matters and God will send help for the physical fencing problem.
That is exactly what I believe. Thank you
good fences make good neighbors, now you know. :) Definitely horse fencing and yes it does cost more, but like you said it pays for itself in other ways. Love your channel.
Hi, this is Brooke, Im signed in under my husbands account. :) We live in Ash Grove MO!! I just found your channel and I have been so encouraged by your sweet family. God bless you!
Welcome! So glad you found us. May He bless you as well! - Carrie
I have the same problem with chicken poop in places I don't want it. Free ranging is great and all, but I'm thinking I'm going to have to put an end to that unfortunately. I didn't want to have to do it, but I'm not seeing any other way at the moment. All the chickens LOVE my side porch. It's either fence that porch in, or fence them in.
Sometimes you just have to do it. We hear you 👍
With all the challenges you family still loves & works together. what a wonderful blessing. You can't buy happy! Best thing I've found to get rid of the chicken / goose poo around the house and parking area - concrete - has been a snow shovel that was purchased at Walmart the end of winter for $2.00. Would probably work well for chicken poop if cleaned out often. Your fencing issues I understand all too well and suffered great losses because of wild animals going over the tops of pens/coop areas. So frustrating to go out to check on the chickens to find them dead from a skunk, racoon or yes even hawks and the meat wasted. May GOD continue to bless you.
Good idea. Thank you
Dang you guys are tough even the kids I do everything but not as much as you guys ,you guys rock
Congratulations on 1 K subscribers!
Thank you! You all are awesome!!
Wow! A real roots video!! I think most folks never give fencing a thought, especially chicken fencing...those critters can find their way out where you do want them and INTO, where you DON’T!! Yep!! I’m wondering....would a good quality weed wacker make things easier? I see them a lot on Craigslist and most often they don’t run BUT, just need the carb cleaned an fuel line filter (most often in the gas tank) replaced or cleaned. Hang tough Smyth family!!! You’re doin it!!
So true. Thank you very much 👍
You both life so beautiful!
You are so kind. Have a joyful day!
You are on top now keep moving forward lol God Bless as always
Thank you very much.
I wonder how the moveable electric will do here. We are in Arizona mountains. Soft sandy dirt and not a lot of grass
Sounds like the electric fencing would work well for you.
Totally agree the number of gardens ruined because of fencing. Coats more long run to use cheap but ao much uofront for good fencing. Pellets look really cool.
You got it.
You do the best you can with what you have, where your at. Upgrade as. Necessity and finances dictate. 1K yeah!
Thanks for sharing your encouragement Ron. Yes, we are so excited to have made it to 1 K and beyond! Have a great weekend. - Carrie
Good fencing is a very NEIGHBORLY thing to do if you have livestock. Bad fencing lets your cattle run wild, which endangers your neighbors, their livelihood, and their investment.
Hey Smyth Family! We did a video the other day and in part of it discussed some of our favorite channels and you guys were one. We've really enjoyed your vids. I had mentioned in our vid we would put a link below in the description write up to these channels we mentioned but then figured I should get the ok from the owners. So if you would rather we not link to you in that vid please let me know and we will take it off the discription. Thanks for the great content you are sharing. God bless! The Winans
Thank you so much. Yes please do share about us as much as you want. Thanks again. Blessings to you.
Saw your house tour and then lost your channel. But Family Heritage Living promoted your channel yesterday and now I'm subbed. If you live to be my age fencing will be something you will always be working on. LOL What feels like a big mistake today will become tomorrows learning curve. Just do the best you can and strive for better in the future.
Thank you. Yes, onward and upward, step by step. Thanks for joining us on the journey.
Hi smyth family, I’m so glad I found out about you cause in the future me and husband and some of our children want to live off grid.!! I grew up living life of grid and I really miss it,also by watching how you do things will help us greatly 🙂
We are really glad you found us. 👍
You got a new subscriber! Found your channel for the first time today.
Welcome to the journey. Let us know what you think :)
So far its looking good :)
Good video guys 😘
Precious Precious Baby
Absolutely correct. Hated chasing critters to get them back into pen or keeping others out.
Your cow reminds me of a goat. Full set of horns and able to jump through an 8×12 inch window pane.
Why do we always get the odd ducks. Lol.
Cows that think they are deer, chickens that think half dog (I'm family pet go where I want to) and soar like an eagle.
While the rest of us hang with the turkeys. Lol.
You are on the right track. Choose your animals and fencing well. Don't have the time to do it right. But you have the time to do it twice or three times. Learned after decades. Work smarter not harder.
If flying is an issue with chickens, clipping is an option. Always a case by case scenario depending on predator and range.
Best of luck and God bless.
Thanks for the advice Bill. We appreciate hearing from people like you who have so much experience. We are getting new fencing for the chickens tomorrow! Hopefully we can get it up soon and have our patio back!!
in the 70s I milked goats. we had wonderful fence posts(that are still sturdy ) and barbed wire. note barbed wire isn't enough to keep in cows or goats so we put up electric fence. well the goats learnd how to get out. ... so ultimately fencing was the main reason I gave up on goats. about 5 years ago my niece stay with me and she bought two goats I built a barn fixed the fence and now I have three yard ornament goats. this year I have been letting them run loose they ate all my flowers but I didn't even care I like my goats and I'm happy that I can lock them in when I need to. they have done a pretty good job on the weeds but 5 acres is more than they can handle. so next year we are going to raise at least two pigs to " stir the land"
Love the way you phrased that, "stir the land". We need more land stirring here at our place, but need the right fencing first.
I live in NW Arkansas in the river valley area. We grow rocks where we currently live. It is awful so I feel your pain. We bought l0 areas down the road to build when the pile of rocks sales and there is no rocks . We are having to be frugal w fencing. It makes for lots of work but all we both can do is the best we can.
Yes, we do the best we can with what we have and then just take a deep breath and smile. Hope the land without rocks works out great for you! Blessings - Carrie
Love ur videos thanks for sharing God bless
So glad to hear. May He bless you as well!
I admire your challenge to live on a homestead debt free with 8 children. Statistically I do not see when the children get older you will be able to stay that way, and all sleep in one room, but I do hope it works out for you.
Thanks for sharing Christine. We only have 6 children at this point and our three oldest are already making plans to build their own homes on our land. So if all goes well, as the younger children get older, the older children will be moving into their own places. We'll see how it all works out, but for now, we are cozy and happy in our tiny house.
We have been so blessed by your videos, we pray Abba Father keeps blessing you all abundantly and all those who watch your videos
We are a family who live in ireland and we are growing our food and we just got 13 chickens :) praise YaH our Heavenly Father for His Son Y'shua
We are blessed to be following His commandments as a lamp to our feet and a light to our path
We saw you wearing tzitzits and it blessed our hearts as we see you have been led to walk as our Messiah
bless you
Your brother and family in Y'shua from Ireland sending our love to you all
Great video. So, how high will you build the horse fencing fence? Will it be the same height everywhere? I'm mostly interested in goat fencing. Thanks again.
The horse fence we got is 5'. Any lower and it won't hold chickens. This fencing should hold any animal. Thank you for joining us on the journey.
The best electric fence is a permanent one it’s a bitch putting in fence posts in rockybgr9und but it has to be done
You know it.
I'm sure you've heard about clipping your chicken's wings. It's not hard, doesn't take much time and it doesn't hurt them.
Yes thank you very much.
Great information on fencing! Thank you. You are living a 4H program... in real time! I have one question (unrelated): are your older children adjusting well with the changes from urban to farm life? Do they have free time to roam? I can see your littles are happy but am wondering about the older ones. Did you go through what they call the "honeymoon" period while adjusting?
Thanks for the encouragement! Our older children haven't experienced much urban life that they can remember. We have lived in small towns most of their lives. As with anything new, there was a honeymoon period in the beginning. The first year on our land was full of new places to explore, new people to meet, and new experiences of many kinds. Now, our three older boys spend much of their time helping with chores and projects, and homeschooling, but they get plenty of free time to ride bikes, do archery, hike up the creek, do handicrafts, blacksmith, etc. They are also gaining interest in vlogging and may start to do more vlogs on our channel in the future. Hope that answers you questions. Have a great weekend! - Carrie
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KEEP ON GRINDING.
THERE'S ALLWAYS CLIPPING THERE WINGS. LET'S SEE THEM FECKERS FLY AWAY THEN. 😀
Hey guys, just found your vlog so excited to find someone who lives so close! I live in Stockton, Mo! I've really been dreaming of living like you guys do!! You are an amazing family and I can't wait to see more!! God bless you!
Thank you so much. A BIG WELCOME to the journey! We are very happy to have you. Blessing back to you.
What are the dimensions of your cabin? 20x 24?
20 X 20 right now. The add-on will be about 16 X 17
@@1000sofroots I am really enjoying seeing how you make the space work for your family. My hobby is designing floorplans, and I LOVE designing homes for families! Can't wait to see the progress and finished space on the addition. Blessings from Minnesota!
Fencing and the buildings coops or stalls if you want to protect your animals from preditors and getting out!
So true 👍
Sorry you have the fencing blues. Sometimes here in New Hampshire, we can pick up decent used fencing. Are you able to put out a request through the Farm Bureau or similar organizations, like Young Farmers of America? Not sure what you have for a farming network in your area. We have a Concord, NH Farmer's Market Bulletin to sell and place want ads. Also grain store bulletin boards, etc. or Craig's List. Good to voice your fencing needs on UTUBE as well. We like to trade and barter to save money / old school rural in our area. Our Herefords do sometimes get out. We move fence a lot on 350 acres. Are your geese Pilgrim geese? Nice breed. I raised American Standard Toulouse and loved them! I used to wet hatch in a 400 egg Sears redwood incubator with 98% hatch rate. Lots of fun! Getting stressed means that you care...will look for your Q&A section.
Thank you very much. Yes they are Pilgrim geese. We really like them.
Just subscribed, I'm working my way to getting where your at, poor fencing or not :)
A BIG WELCOME to you. Enjoy the journey :-) Thank you for joining us.
Using the pallets for fencing is a cool idea. But I know it depends on what you're fencing in.
Sometimes you just use what you have :-)
This is a COMMON mistake. Yes, horse fence will keep MOST livestock in. The only ones it won't keep in is baby chicks. But if you set up a small area specifically for mama hens and their babies, then you should be good.
Thanks for sharing your thoughts. We hope to build some little "nurseries" for mama hens and chicks. It's going to take some time to invest in the horse fencing, but we hope it will be worth it. Blessings - Carrie
Think about a pateron account and link products you use to amazon for extra 💰
We almost have a donate button up on our blog. It is through Paypal. They take less of a cut from you. We do have Amazon links up now. Thank you very much.
I admire you and your family...
Beautiful people ,,, please give up dates on your 7th child .. May God Bless you Darling xo you all ..
Cheryl from Australia
Poorvfencing always comes back and bites you somehow you have to figure out how to building by yourself your fences make your garden and fruit trees to be safe from your animals one thing I learnt is the best type of fencing is electric as everything respects hot wires even pigs
Very true.
Nothing in life is a fail. Everything is an opportunity to learn. The more fails the more opportunities. The secret to success is not to quit but to change. You guys just keep going and you will make it just fine.
Thank you for the encouragement 👨🏻🌾
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1K!
Thanks for noticing!
You should get some horses.
My son Nathan really wants horses. We will see.
your yard is really gowned up to much for your chiildren
It gets crazy
Some cows just jump
Please, please get your blackberry bushes out of your garden. Will take over and you will have a nightmare.
We did it. They are out
why does your wife look like she's from the 1800's and you wear fancy t-shirts??
She actually likes to wear plain cloths. Almost all of my clothing that I wear has been given to me. I wear what I have and my wife wears what she has. Thank you for asking.