hi I'm Mike and today we do things a little bit differently as we heard some
animals with the drone but not the ones you think and we move our pigs to their
new apartment on the project list on our Wyoming Life
back when my father-in-law Gilbert was around he cared about two things the
cows and the cats he was a huge fan of the cats in fact later in his life they
became the one thing he knew that he could take care of as illness slowed him
down he couldn't work with the cows anymore but the cats they were always
waiting for him every day when he came to visit the ranch the more I think of
it the more he may have been onto something not cats in particular but the
importance of under other animals out on the ranch the ranch is not just cows
alone as many people who would love to see me work cattle every single week
would probably be somewhat disappointed to find that a ranch is made up of
hundreds of different parts and all have to work together to keep the ranch going
from chickens to pigs yeah even cats we're all part of a bigger picture so
let me introduce this little girl this is well this girl was found in the barn
abandoned here a couple weeks ago she's a friendly little thing and grace was
quick to name her Sara turns out though my mommy
Sara is a boy so it's become misters Sara I'd like to think that the bigger
the animal the more important they are but even these little guys have their
jobs to do and just like us it's right behind us this is the project list a
place where jobs that need done around here get put up on the board it shrinks
and it grows and sometimes the jobs are a little odd like the last one good
Aaron added last night as the temperature drops in the
snowfalls these geese are out wandering around errand skis and all summer long
they've had their run of the ranch from this I'm guessing the air and he wants
the chickens back or the geese back in the chicken house for winter where we
can keep track of them it's not as simple to sows they're hard to catch and
they're even harder the herd but we're gonna do our best first we have to find
them the drone will come in handy for this a phantom3 from DJI so let's Don
the sunglasses is the snow reflects everything out there and get to work
flying the drone isn't as hard as it looks and with my phone I can monitor
and see the picture that the drone sees as it flies around we head out into the
pasture where the geese have been hanging out for the last well pretty
much all summer long and we started looking for them all the while we get to
stay close to home I really haven't used the drone for that much
search-and-rescue around the ranch but it seems like a great testing ground
although we don't find a thing as we head over to taking a look at another
hay field they've been known to hang out in we can stop by and take a gander at
bubbles still hanging out in his Corral enjoying a few extra days on the ranch
due to weather he's still not very happy about being separated from the other
bowls but food helps heading out in the hay field we get a glimpse at our
targets and like a heat-seeking missile we lock on now today is already weird
enough so let's add to it and see if we can guide these four geese into the
chicken house with only the drone never had to do this before in fact it ranks
about an eighth on my weird crap meter but what the heck let's give it a go the
chicken house isn't too far away but who knows how these guys are going to react
oddly enough it works pretty well and the crowd goes wild
chalk that one up to dumb luck the next stop is the Pigpen where the pigs are
patiently waiting to be moved into their new stall and some fresh digs for the
last few months the pigs have been living in one stall together now is
they're getting bigger it's getting more and more cramped in there and with
winter here they need we need to move them away from their water and make sure
that they have a dry place to bed down pigs and water always means a mess and
soon we'll be building our winter watering system but for right now we're
gonna open up the stall next to them so they have a nice clean dry place to
sleep keeping food and water on the other side for now
soon their food will move into this side to making the other side an accessible
and easily cleaned bathroom pigs are crazy and fun animals although
realistically they're kind of a pain these guys are gonna get cold and
because of that we're gonna put in some straw for them to bed down in for bail
should cover the ground pretty well and with temperatures dropping down into the
20s for the next few nights they're sure gonna appreciate the cover
with that done then it's time to let him in a sheet of lumber currently closes
them off on this side but as they're banging at the door they know they want
in and when the door comes down here they come
happier and a bunch of pigs and well a clean stone
next up is to clean the old stall and move the feeders but for now I'm going
to cut you loose I have a new group of hunters coming out
here in a few minutes actually and I have to give them the dime tour before
they head out you've still got time to get it entered in to win my summer hat a
Stetson straw hat size seven and a quarter so check out the description for
the link to get yourself entered there aaron has a new video coming out on
Thursday and keep an eye on our social media as Aaron and I will both be
appearing on XM radio on Wednesday afternoon an interview with Julie rose
will be posting at the time and the channel for that which it'll be airing
on probably Wednesday morning I'm guessing I'm out of here but I will see
you again until then have a great week and thanks for joining us in our Wyoming
life