hello everybody welcome back to our
channel
we're going to take you through a day in
the life of our homestead
many people think that we do nothing on
a daily basis
because we live out in the middle of
nowhere
some people understand the lifestyle um
we got many things on the go just for
today uh
kimberly's got a busy day so i'll let
her explain her day
yeah so uh we were up this morning um
we've done our workouts already you can
see behind us we have breakfast this is
smoothie
uh we usually have smoothie or like
bacon and eggs something healthy
um so we usually have like a house
project that we do
uh every day there's usually something
that's got to get done
uh for today our house project is uh
cleaning out the the basement
uh our little area for the chickens we
have our chickens coming in tomorrow
super stoked for that yeah we're really
excited um because it is still cold
outside and because it's still
uh you know plus five plus six outside
um and that's warmer temperatures
and there's still two and a half feet of
snow we can't have the chickens outside
so we have to keep them inside for the
first month a month and a half yes plus
they're not full-grown chickens they're
going to be just pullets they're going
to be 18
to 20 weeks old so they won't be
full-grown chickens either so another
reason we've got to keep them inside
here
yeah so today our project uh in the
basement uh we're going to clean out
their little spot there make sure that
we've got the bedding down we've got a
heat lamp down there
uh make sure everything's ready so that
when they come in tomorrow their new
home is ready for them
um so that's our little house project
for today i'm not quite sure how long
that's going to take it shouldn't take
too long maybe a couple hours well she's
got plenty of lessons today so
while she's doing the lessons i'm going
to be outside bringing in the
wood shavings i'm going to go and hunt
down the heat lamp get a thermometer
also because we're going to maintain
temperature
uh we went out to town this past weekend
so
we have a pile of cardboard and things
we're going to throw to the burn barrel
so while she's doing that i'm going to
be outside hustling doing that
stuff yeah thursday is one of my busiest
days i've got five students today so
that means five hours of teaching
um and then once that's done i have to
start about 10 30 or so
once that's done then i'll start making
dinner and getting things ready to go
make sure things stay clean in here
and of course you know those little
things that pop up andre may need my
help with something
for the most part he's pretty
independent outside sometimes you might
need to hold something or keep him
company or whatever so
yeah that's that's how that goes it's
the moral support right
but that's our day today
all right now that kimberly's inside uh
doing her lessons i
had to fire up the generator uh just to
get our
batteries charged a little bit we've had
a couple days of uh
cloudy weather didn't really get them up
to where we needed
and now what i'm gonna do is uh take all
this garbage like
we were saying we went out to town this
weekend
and uh we picked up quite a bit of
things as you can see so all this
cardboard needs to get
uh burnt because we don't have uh
recycling around here we just burn all
our paper all our cardboard
uh so i'm gonna get the utv
bring it up to as close as i can park it
up
uh and get this all packed up
what do you see roxy what is it what do
you see
so we're gonna get that i'll show you
where the burn barrel is get that fired
up
around the homestead we like to work
smarter not harder
i'm back for a cold start
all right load it up
now we gotta go
you know the best thing is to do is put
it in gear
full speed neutral you're not gonna get
too far
some of the garbage here has been
already ripped up
and whatnot we throw our
eggshells and whatnot like that and when
i was gone for a couple days
last week kimberly mentioned that the
dogs were losing it the one night
and uh the next morning she came out
here and saw some tracks and
uh went on to the good old google there
and
found out that we had a wolverine
tearing up our garbage
and then the night after that she
actually saw it herself
so uh one thing you do with uh
your garbage you always got to keep it
covered and get it burnt
as quick as possible because you're
going to start drawing in some animals
all right looks like uh we're gonna get
some uh
a good burn going on here now while i'm
doing this
off to my right here i got a bunch of
wood
shavings that i picked up obviously i
had some critters
uh get in there while i had it stored
because i haven't had a chance to put it
in the uh
in the chicken coop so i'm gonna grab
one of those bales
toss it in here and then uh take it up
to the front of the house
that's what we're gonna use as the
bedding for the uh
chickens in the basement when uh we
clear out the little box that we got set
up for them
yeah you can tell something's been in
but it looks like it's only that one bag
so not a big deal
call that burn barrel there is uh
going gonna head up to the chicken coop
here
grab the uh heat lamp
see if we got a thermometer in there if
not this here's the one i got from
inside
bingo that's what i'm looking for
so
i take the whole thing to change perfect
because then i can adjust the
height on it i'm not sure if it works
but the bulb doesn't look very dope but
i'll give her a try when we're inside
i'll be back in here in about a
week or so cleaning the rest of this out
so this door here a little quick little
story about this
um not the uh
previous owners but the ones before that
they had a uh
a bear on this one here ripped the whole
door right off
took five chickens
here this is how deep this is just fell
in there but that being said
it's nice that the house is just right
there that way
if i do ever hear the dogs barking and
is something by the chicken coop i can
see it right from the front door or the
back door should i say
once all that snow is melted
so let's take this heat lamp over
i didn't see a thermometer in there so
i'll just use the one that's uh
that's inside we got a couple of them
anyways
all right well i was about to uh get
some wood but
the ball's called and she said she's
done her first lesson
and so she's got an hour in between
let's get the
chicken stuff set up so here we go
i'm gonna bring this up in here she's
laughing look at her there's a boss
herself
oh i got it thank you all right let's go
downstairs
uh hey if you want to grab that orange
bucket from uh
under yeah the home depot one
so that's what we're gonna clean out in
here we're gonna put all our 12 chickens
in here
we got some good sunlight i'll hang a
heat lamp down
yeah you can come in you can come in
we've got uh molly made services over
here
she's going to be cleaning up the uh bin
here
all it is just wood shavings grab the
dust pan
and a broom and just kind of scoop it up
into this bucket here
and what we're going to do is just toss
it right into the uh wood burning
stove while i uh make a mess any more
than we need to
so well she's taking care of that and
kind of keeping you guys entertained
i'm gonna go upstairs grab the um the
sawdust or sorry the wood shavings the
heat lamp
and uh i guess i got a chain already up
here
we can hang the heat lamp down for the
chicks i like it a little bit more
centered but
we'll see what we get
all right
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quick second to explain to you guys what
this is actually used for
uh what we will be using for when there
aren't chickens in it uh so you can see
there's a window here and we have this
box it's probably about two and a half
feet deep uh and what we would use it
for that's to the outside
we would bring wood around once it's cut
or from the wood shed if that's where
it's from
we would bring wood around and dump it
in here that way you have a dumping
ground for the wood
uh that we would then stack the basement
with so that once the winter comes
we have wood in the basement and we
don't continually have to go outside
uh to keep getting it so andre is
outside uh dealing with the generator
and uh what i have here um i just wanted
to take a second to show you guys uh
supplies that we have um to uh
facilitate our chickens or our bullets
when they come in
um so one thing that's really important
obviously you have to feed them
this right here is our feeder it's small
right now
we will gradually as they get older and
graduate to outside we'll get bigger
ones
and a little bit of different shape but
for right now this is what we were going
to use
we are going to use to to feed them when
they when they come in tomorrow
this right here this is really cool this
is your water
uh our water feeder here so it has
something that you can hang so we can
either hang it or we can set it on the
ground
because they're small we're going to
leave it on the ground in their actual
box that they've got
and how this works it's got a little
latch here
and it comes up okay so water gets
poured in here and it's gravity fed into
there
into their little uh the little ring
around here
we're going to just clean out the feeder
and the water trough as well
so that everything is is clean for them
but this is what we're going to use
for the water so that they've got water
there
and then this goes back on what's really
cool about this
um is that it's got a little rubber
gasket on it that actually helps to
uh not it it controls the flow of the
water so there's not too much water
but it's just a steady stream which is
really convenient so that we don't have
to be babysitting them all the time as
to if they have water or not
this right here is our lamp uh right now
it doesn't look like much because it's
not on
uh you can see we do have a cord here so
we're gonna have to plug it in andrew is
gonna grab an extension cord and we'll
do that
uh this is in for their their little
heat source here
and we're gonna hang that directly over
their box so that they uh they have
their heat source
um one thing about pullets they have to
be kept at a higher temperature than
normal
um chicks is a little bit different but
for pulitz uh you have to have them
between
70 and 75 degrees fahrenheit which is
between 21 and 23 degrees celsius
so your average home that we usually
keep our house at about 22 degrees
so that's perfect for them that's not a
problem um as they get older with each
week of age you can drop the temperature
about five degrees
we're going to kind of play around with
that and see how how the temperature
does in here with them uh it's all trial
and error this is our first year doing
this
so we'll see we'll see what happens i
think i have an idea
yeah if this thing moves which it does
let me just slide it out a little bit
and hang that off this
and then i can sit directly center sure
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do you want to do that now before i
finish no you can finish that now and
then
what i'll do is i'll run the heat lamp
here first i want to
oh yeah this will work out perfect
that's awesome all right keep that out
of your way for now
all right next we're going to pop put in
the wood shavings here
get a good bed in there
then there's tank hey tank
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there's roxy's in here too oh we got
my supervisors here
everybody needs a good supervisor
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all right let's see what we got in here
now
all right uh i think that's good
what should i go sit in there and test
it out see if it's good for the chickens
or what
sure you could if you wanted to
see if it's cozy enough all right let's
toss in
all right i'm sure kimberly went over
the feed and the watering jug
uh for you guys the feeds coming in
tomorrow so we're going to get some
chick starter in here
and then we're going to transition them
over to their regular feed
that's a little too high
and we'll try it out like that that
looks uh
relatively close for what we needed
there we go so we'll see how that works
out
and now the moment of truth for this
heat lamp
and
oh we have great success
all right now the only thing that we're
missing in here is the
um the thermometer
to read the temperature but we know that
it's all working in here
now we just got to go pick up the chicks
okay we forgot about uh taking our uh
camera yesterday when we're picking up
our neighbor or not
picking up our neighbor but picking up
our chicks uh seven miles down the road
let's get some lights over here and uh
we have them all set up in our home
so here's a little view of them
so yeah as you can see they're
feeding they're drinking water kimberly
thinks they're really cute it's her
first time she's ever seen uh
i do chickens were that small uh we
didn't make a mistake we did think we
were getting 18 weeks
uh week old uh chicks but we ended up
getting day old chicks so
puts our egg production back a little
bit but no big deal
this is they should start laying by
august at the end of august or september
end of august september yeah key right
now is to
keep the temperature in here at uh 30
degrees so
that's why we got the little contraption
going on in here
this way it just retains the heat a
little bit better and
we got them on uh what's the feed that
it's called starter feed
starter feed and then we also put
vitamins in their water as well
just to give them that boost seems like
uh
they're doing very well in there they're
eating a lot and uh pooping a lot by the
looks of it
so yeah we'll give you guys an update in
uh in a week or so when
uh they do some growing the dogs really
are well
these are tank is really interested in
them
so yeah thanks for joining us on our uh
video here on our
daily lives and uh we'll be back on the
next one
in the next update yep see ya
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