Putting in the Barn Floor, Turkeys Arrive, Goats and Sheep!
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I like how Pete makes the effort to tuck in his shirt and put on a belt. We appreciate the attention to detail!
As a person who has a sheep content channel, I completely agree to why you won’t. I live in Oklahoma where the sheep market is a lot better and more profitable
Your channel is like a cool drink of water to me and I needed it today worse than usual
Hi Pete I like the way those cows follow you they all stay in a perfect line they don’t even stop to investigate you are a good herdsman i Remember going out to retrieve the cows for milking man sometimes you got a good work out chasing those milkers around thanks for the memories as Bob Hope would say enjoy your channel have a great day
Thanks for the grilling lesson at the end! Nothing compares to the taste of good steaks grilled right!😊
It's like I can smell them cooking and mmm, just imagine the taste 😊
Being a relatively new viewer, I've been rolling back through previous videos, only around 40 so far. 😀It's great to see how your farm has been progressing through the years. I my wife loves watching with me sometimes. We have the opportunity to run a 30 acre farm I grew up on. Your channel is very helpful in finding a direction with our new venture. I have a lot to learn that I just didn't pay attention to when I was a kid. Thanks for all you do.
40? There are decaffeinated brands that are just as tasty.
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It always puts a smile on my face, when Pete uploads!
Me too!
Mannn houdy! He just gets better and better.
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Pete and Hillary, I am addicted to your videos, can't get enough. Thank you very much!
I lived in the Caribbean for many years and goat was the most popular and most expensive meat. Not for tourists, but for indigents.
Wow Pete, rib eyes are an all time favorite and those sure look delicious. Once again entertaining and educational.
Good morning Pete and Hillary always look forward to your videos you're almost like a cow Whisperer hopefully the turkeys will do good this summer
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Thanks for the info about sheep and goats. you make a lot of good points!
Hi Pete, I cook my tenderloins whole the same way and they are perfect pink and so delicious for slicing. I cooked professionally for years and you always remind me of some great techniques on various cuts. Farming, food, and Tractors! It doesn't get better! Kudos to you and Hillary for such wonderful content.. Take care and stay cool.
You mentioned rats what do you do for rat and mouse control?
You are 1000% right about goats. I felt like my full time job was to prevent their deaths
I always told people who suggested I get goats, that having a goat is like having a permanent mischievous puppy prone to injury. I love goats, just as long as they belong to someone else...
We had goats when I was growing up and my full time job was trying to not kill them. They would get out of their fence and would eat everything but what you wanted them to eat. I had an engine that I was going to rebuild and my brother's goats got to it and ate the tarp off it, then they ate the wires and hoses off it. By the time I found out about it, water had gotten into it and ruined the engine when it froze. They would also get out and jump on my car. The only way I like a goats is cooked and ready to eat!!!!
what about 1 goat, not for profit, but as one who eat your weeds down in your horse pasture and be your buddy.
@@BLYFACTOR goats hate to be alone, so like Lays you can’t have just one 😂😂
I find dairy goats so easy to raise. My two and others I’ve had are set it and forget it animals. I just feed them once a day. I don’t vaccinate, etc and never have sick animals. The only reason I lost goats in the past was because of a dog attack.
13k views in a hour - Pete you got the whole coffee crew here!! Stay cool and watch for storms. Thanks for the video!
Pete don't know if you realize how much your videos make me happy and it's not an easy thing to do
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If you want to raise rocks, get sheep and goats. They will destroy your ground cover by eating even the roots and then erosion washes off your topsoil and there you go, ROCKs!
Sounds like you have too high a stock rate…zero issues if done correctly.
I just love those cows! They’re adorable
Maybe you should do an episode on gravel and dirt types? The different kinds that are useful for projects on the home/farm, or something like that. You seem to know a lot about it and it looks like you enjoy the topic!
Most evident is the common sense that you display on your channel. Because every one who watches learns how to do it right. Without the hype. Absolutely fabulous.
Love your videos. Thank you for always making me smile and laugh, especially these days. 😊 Have you given thought to creating a class to teach others how to do what you do? I feel like I always learn something from your videos and would like to learn more.
When you do the taste test on the steaks it is important that it's the kids steak that you test......I tell the kids I'm checking to make sure it's not poisonous for them.
Pete do you have any suggestions for eliminating rats without poison? My chicken coop is actually an old milk house next to the rubble of a collapsed barn and the rats come out of the rubble to take eggs and chicken feed. The “coop” is open during the day and I’ll see rats in there almost every evening when I shut the coop for the night. They scatter like, well, rats lol.
Mini Dachshunds are great at this task, killer instincts, fearless, successful.
@@StampedClay Or any of the terriers.
Love this channel. Pete has said so many times about product costs and demand for his produce, he was going to expand his pig operation with a view to upping quality and easing workload and his subsequent change of direction is fully explained and understandable. He has also said many times that Chickens and eggs are the bread and butter of the farm, he has also said that the chickens are more labour intensive. Has Pete thought about increasing his poultry production with some emphasis on easing that workload. For example having modular grazing pens with simple gates to move the chickens along a run of pens. watching him at the market he seems to regularly sell out quickly on poultry. No criticisms of his operation in any way whatsoever just an observation.
If the price of farmland is anything like Canada it is unaffordable.
Good way to start the day . Great video . Nice to see everyone.
Pete is making me want to be a Farmer. Raise my own food and bring it to Market. I don’t trust our Food Supply anymore. Thanks for always keeping it real with us Pete. ❤️🤝
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Your correct, if you cannot raise your own meat and veggies buy from a local farmer.
Now THAT is an excellent dad joke!! Never heard that one before 😂
Another masterpiece you two! About goats... I hope someday you'll see what my Granddad told me. He bought the 132 acres I grew up on in 1950. Logged it, built the barn that still stands there, fenced it and turned in pigs and goats to clear it. Pre-coyotes of course. He told me one day solemnly," Kirk, there's only one way to keep a goat from jumping the fence. You put him up a board so he can walk over!😂😂😂
You can say that again and again and..........
I once saw a goat standing on the top of a fence post. There was nothing attached to the post yet and it was 5 feet tall. It had to jump at least 5 feet and land on the top of a 6 inch diameter post. I told my brother that the only way he was going to keep his goats in his new fence was to make them think that he was trying to keep them out.
@@danielbutler578 Hahaha! My grandfather did get some nervous ( fainting) goats when I was growing up. Poor things, I think they hated to see me coming!
"Open Mike night", LOL, it took me a second ! good one.
GrillCooking tip always welcome 😋
Saw some wild turkey pults on the way to work this morning. Momma and her nuggets. Lol
We enjoy your show! A little. Love seeing you two working together, it's what more marriages sure need!!
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I always wonder why people raise sheep and goats. Unless there's a market readily available they turn into difficult lawn ornaments. Good chat.
Now I'm hungry. The steaks looked perfect.
It warms my heart to listen to the cows 🐄
Looks great Pete, enjoyed the show for over 2 years. That IH- 560 might be a great project for a paint job this winter. I believe it will look fantastic.Just a suggestion ! Fred
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I look forward to seeing your designs. Congratulations on your journey forward
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Something so cool about knowing the whole process that goes into raising your Dexters and seeing the end of the cycle when you get to enjoy a nice steak! Thanks for another great video :)
Good video Pete, thanks for the cooking tips.
Thanks for a great video. Will be watching this during the winter too. Great videography-feel the warmth of the fields with the slight haze. Will try your method of cooking ribeye at home tonight. Love the poults but love them more Thanksgiving Day! LOL Item 4 one of our favorites when I was designing for construction. Hope you, Hillary and family and livestock have a great day.
I love your videos. Patty and Tulip are a hoot.
Pete. Love to watch your show and especially when you cook but I have one request- would you please clean the lid to your grill. I know you will have to do it more than once to keep it clean but it would jus look so much better. Thanks so much. Barb
Open Mike night!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂!!!!! BTW, I love that reverse sear technique on the Weber Kettle - I'm going to try that. I've always done the sear method, but your steaks look sooo good I'm trying it that way tonight.
Long as they didn’t do a mike drop he might survive. 😂😂😂😂
Sheep and goat!! Sounds like some kind of two-headed chimera! Across the pond, similar latitude, the landscape dominated by cattle and sheep, no goats to speak of (small herds for cheese). Many many sheep out in the fields, and particularly up in the highlands where other animals are less suited. They stay out all winter. Lamb is still a popular meat to eat here, but have been aware for quite a while that it's not so in the US (is it in Canada?). The market for wool has sadly dropped off the map.
Were you joking when you said most popular meat worldwide was goat? It's pork (36%), then chicken (similar), then beef (24%) then lamb/goat (5%)
Good tips on the Poults, I wonder why that is to withhold the feed initially?
Yeah, there's cattle folk and there's sheep folk. Two different breed of people.
Raise what sells! Wow! What a concept.
Bella Barthurst from the Guardian news company in England wrote a great piece on the knackermen of England (the render truck drivers) and she interviewed and rode along with one of them, Ian Carswell, back in 2021. It's a great read if you have the time and stomach for it. Just Google "Guardian" and "Knackerman" (advanced warning: some graphic images and descriptions included).
She asked Carswell about raising sheep and wrote the following,
"His view of sheep (“Keel over if you so much as look at them the wrong way”) is not a minority one. Among those who manage the less hardy lowland sheep breeds, the general view is that a sheep’s main aim once in the world is to get out of it as fast as possible. They fight or they get scab or bluetongue or rinderpest or they overheat or they eat the wrong grass or they find the one rusty nail in a clean field or they get stressed by horses or dogs or a change in the weather, or they eat yew or they get infected cuts after shearing or they abort their own lambs or they’ve got too much of one mineral but not enough of another. As a farming friend puts it: “If a sheep could, it’d die twice.”"
I think your assessment of raising sheep is a good one, Pete.
I have just finished making a big stock pot full of chicken and vegetable soup to freeze,its winter in Australia and nothing beats a big bowl of home made soup to warm you up on a cold day.❤️
It's so refreshing watching the 'Extras' in the field belly aching, they obviously enjoy the grass you pay them with.
Pete - are you concerned with ticks in the fields ?
I know you don’t always read these comments, Pete, but I just wanted to say that Steak looked absolutely incredible! I live the wrong side of ‘The Pond’, but I would have loved the opportunity to buy some meat from you and cook it in the manner you have shown. Another excellent video. Thank you both.
Why don't you put an automatic door opener? That way you don't have to come out there everyday
I love the releasing of the hens every morning!
Always enjoy the chores and what is going on a round the farm. Those cows sure do like to 'talk' to you Pete! Great video!!
6 cylinder sounds so much better than 4.
I love the releasing of the hens every morning!. It always puts a smile on my face, when Pete uploads!.
Thanks for an awesome video Pete, you are the best!!!
Pete, you are a mind reader. I remembered you went over cooking grass fed beef before. I was going to go looking for that video today. No need now. Thanks!
we raise goats in the woods, to help clear...we use electric fence that is not even on a charger..they are well trained
Hahaha!!! Made me giggle right out of the gate - the captions interpret the chickens to be saying exactly that - "hahaha"! UA-cam continues to aspire to the height of silly translations. Chuckling chickens, bwahahaha!! I love it! ♥
One thing I've noticed, if Pete says he's going to do it, HES GOING TO DO IT
Raise what sells, great word to share
A friend raised goats. Her heard of about 30 would thin itself by 1/3 over 2 years. She became accustomed to escorting a diseased goat way out into the woods. She would hold a 22 up against the head while holding the head with the left hand. She became so accustomed to this procedure that one day her left hand was a little too close and fortunately only got powder burns. She became more cautious. Within a couple years she got out of the goat business because accounting was quite lucrative enough.
Hi Pete, I know a few videos back you mentioned that you're coming to some event I believe it was in Rantoul IL in August I was wondering when that was so I could mark it on my calendar cuz I would love to come n meet you. I'm from Central Illinois so it's pretty close for me or if you will post on a video closer to the date stating details n stuff like that.
I’m curious if you will do anything to keep bulls from seeing the cows ready for slaughter you put in the pin across from where they will be in the upper barn 😊
Boy oh boy them steaks do look good I can smell them all the way over here in Phoenix. The farm is looking great wise move on the barn expansion. My wife and I enjoy your videos Pete it’s good to see you and Hilary breaking the sweat.
We all could take a lesson from the way you approach life. Reason, common sense, focus, internal and external happiness.
Could you talk more about the impressive increase in weight your steers had with open grazing compared to mob grazing. Mob grazing is so popular these days but I have never seen a comparison in the return in weight of the finished product
I now have a craving for some medium rare. Thanks Pete and Hil for the video.I Enjoy the" what you do's" on your farm
Oh Pete, making me hungry and I just ate breakfast. Guess its going to be JAFAF steaks for dinner tonight. Thanks Pete! Going to try your methods on the charcoal grill tonight. Thanks for sharing.
This video is going to be a good video today
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Sheep and goats are good for dry places where there is poor pasture. They are raised for meat and milk to make cheese. Its a different thing all together.
When ever you let your chickens out I always think of the Theam from the Benny Hill show, just seams right!
Another awesome video. Love how you show your full day of work. Thank you for the grilling tips. I have learned so much. When you pay good money for steaks you need to know how to cook them. Hilary has such a great smile hanging out with the poultry!
Hi Pete, I sent you some University of Texas T-shirts for you and your wife. I was wondering if you received them love watching your show.
Hi Pete, I love your tractor rebuilding. I've been considering a International 886 with a loader. I've always had Fords, do you have any advice?
That shot of the 2 bulls just staring at the camera got a good laugh out of me. :)
As always great tips. I learn something new each time I watch Pete's videos. The thing I learned today is tips on raisings turkeys. Thanks so much.
Hey pete, whats the best way to support you and your channel?
Watching the videos is plenty of support. Thank you.
Another great video Pete and Hillary. and this time even Gray got into the act! great! glad to see you getting things done on the pole barn you wanted to do. I think the base you got planned will work out fine. its amazing what that cloth will provide in many ways. Ok on the turkeys. tis that time of the season isn't it. And those steaks look great. An a common mistake a lot of viewers probably make in Searing meat. is that it is to "Seal" the meat juices in" on the contrary. the whole purpose of the searing is to produce the Maillard Effect. rearranging the amino acids. and sugars to produce a fantastic flavor unto its own. Like you Pete I season the meat and then gor tor the sear early then slow cook it to my liking / heat. Even a roast done in the oven or crock pot should be seared before going into the Pool! so to speak makes a world of difference. the only problem is I LOVE STEAKS!!! and every time to cook one on camera I sit here and drool like a big dog!! ha ha I can taste that steak all the way over here in Hancock MA. Thanks for another great video as always you made this old mans' day! thanks for sharing. God speed. ECF
we always put ply in the corners to make them curved so they couldnt pile in the corners
Roll Tide, Pete!! We down here in Alabama are quite partial to that school!!
I would tend to follow Pete into the house with those steaks. Yum. A little glass of red wine would go well with that evening meal. Country living at it's best.
Pete, you were only missing an ice-cold beer with those steaks.
This is the time of year the corn 🌽 grows quickly...
Pete's a real farmer who happens to youtube. He's so practical.
Best joke hahaha. Love your videos. Do you have a veggie harden too ? Would love to see it
Very interesting and fun to watch for this city girl. Steaks look DELICIOUS.
You make very entertaining videos. Thank you.
Hi Pete, it’s been a while since I’ve commented but my feedback is very much the same. Keep up the positivity and authentic lifestyle you put forth in your content.
Vince from Syracuse.
Your cattle obey and follow better than a bunch of kids I know....and, no, I'm not talking about baby goats! BTW, I'm from Iowa and we have a fairly large population of milking goats around here on Amish farms. Most goes to milk and cheese.
That sheep info was really good. I am horrified about your slaughter prices on sheep. We are in Kentucky and there is a demand for grass lamb. And the USDA requirements are difficult.
Thank you for the answer as I was one of those annoying sheep questions😁
Thanks for the cooking tip. Certainly will give it a try.
Those steaks look great. I bet you are happy to get that barn floor in..
Thanks for going over your cooking method!
Pete- I never comment but thank you for making such wholesomely beneficial content.
Hearing you speak calms my soul.
I always enjoy watching your videos.. I love your philosophy of life too!!
Baby Shaun's mom in Nashville raises a dairy goat army and sells milk (no dwarf goats here!). You are in an area of the country that has some of the least parasite challenges (we are not), but you are not a goat farmer. You like your level of involvement and your lifestyle and you know your craft and you're already set up. Keeping a goat army entails daily handling and tampering and a touch of science. Also 4-6 strands of hotter 'an hail electric. Also, goats will not eat seedheads. Nope. They eat tall brush at the field corners, then alfalfa, clover, and lush grass. Nothing yellow. Nothing dead. Nothing dry. Nothing old. Never mold or compacted hay or they will get listeria and die. We've gotten our pasture to the point if the goats get loose in the barnyard they will try to "escape" back into their pasture so pressure on the fence can be low but if you don't have a sharp hold on goat husbandry they are not profitable and will annoy you and die. Also, you WILL need an LGD team (not a goat/sheep killing donkey) and that's a whole other can of worms. Stupid coyotes. Stupid, boopid LGD teens. Stick to cows. Goat, milk, and hard cheese are yummy though.
That extremely satisfying look on your face of Yummy has SOLD me . The buying and preparing of " grass fed beef 🥩 " is going to be My move at next time I buy some Steaks 🥩