last day of school!!!!
that was yesterday the last day of school and today is the first day of
summer vacation hi I'm Mike this is Mackenzie and grace and Lincoln - behind
you and Lincoln is behind me and today the kids wanted to show you how their
summer vacation is gonna shape up right here on the ranch I mean start out shape
up start out their chores what they need to do on a daily basis and how it helps
them grow as little people does it help you grow yeah sure okay it's all coming
up today on our why oming life
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ranch life and escape the ordinary now there are a few things that make me feel
incredibly lucky and the biggest thing and right there at the top of that list
is my family and one of the greatest rewards for me is being able to share a
lifestyle that many dream of but very few get to actually live I know I didn't
as a kid but our kids get an opportunity to learn and experience in a way that I
think is so different than it can't not be good can't not be good I think that's
I think that makes sense both Aaron and I decided long ago that our kids we
brought up on the ranch obviously and living here comes with chores the
younger kids get away with less but McKenzie has now moved from second grade
into third grade and she has once and she has needs and she has goals and some
of those she has to earn so this summer she's taken the lead on a number of new
projects for her and today she wanted to take you along with my help along with
her as she takes care of her morning chores and usually in tow is her younger
sister and her brother in fact here they come right now
let's start making some balls first thing on today's agenda is moving the
bottle calves back out of the barn and into the outside Corral's the worst of
the weather is behind us we do have some rain on the way but we'll deal with that
later but now we just want to get them out of the barn and outside the quickest
and the fastest way to get that done is with feeding and this morning as we make
some bottles we're going to use those to move the cows over the past few weeks
Mackenzie has really taken ownership of our bottle cows she has been out to feed
them every morning usually before school and every night before bed now with
summer vacations we just step it up a
notch and with bottles made it's now time to
move the cows the bottles now we just have to see the cats but first we got to
move the mouse here from the barn into this Corral let's go get them
we are gonna open this gate maybe
first thing to do inside the barn is to close any escape routes and this big red
door is a big one and then it's time to set the calves free
we're McKenzie quickly learns how pushy a camp can be and wall McKenzie
distracts Rudolph grace and heads in to get jellybean who follows along like a
good little calf but it's not long before McKenzie herself is in trouble
but that's a problem that's easily solved with just another bottle and with
the calves moved back outside it's time for the kids to move on to their next
project
our next tour will be to take care of the chicks and don't forget about the
Ducks my dad built this long ago because we put the baby chickens in the chicken
coop then they docked out a lie in a fire started so my dad thought we might
have somewhere safer for this chick so you built this little chicken coop for
chicks
no chick so far they're growing feathers on their wings they're down is growing
out their feet has sharp talons to grab food yeah and when they hatch there's an
egg to that help them crack out of the shell sure it's painted they still have
a lot to down yeah I don't see any further damage not only do they have to
refill their food they also have to wash clean and sanitize their water every
single day while they do that and refill the water it's up to Lincoln to keep an
eye on all the chickens and make sure there's no escapees
now our next chores to go get eggs from the mixture and from the big chicken
coop let's go
eggs are the one thing that the kids have been doing on the ranch for the
last couple of years and recently they've actually taken over the egg
business and have been selling eggs to put money in their own pocket that has
been a good thing we've had a lot less broken eggs since they figured out that
each one means a few extra cents for them and it's Mackenzie who washes and
packages the eggs today she's using the little egg scrubber a great tool to
quickly wash eggs with as little disturbance as possible I'll put a link
in the description and you can check it out for yourselves taking care of the
egg business has been a great way to show the kids how the ranch produces and
the importance of farm-fresh products it also gives them a sense of ownership and
something they can really be proud of as most of our neighbors know when
Mackenzie calls and lets them know that they need eggs
it's may 25th right so people can know when we wash it and collect it now we go
put it in the fridge till somebody buy
so that's the end of morning chores for these two Lincoln gave up on us and away
somewhere but do you guys like doing chores however on the ranch especially
the calves especially with the calves what do you think is the best part about
doing the chores making cat bottles for the cat making bottles for the calves
I'm gonna ask you a really hard question okay this is a grown-up question what do
you think that you learn by doing chores to learn how to do some how to do some
chores how to do the chores yeah do you think you learn responsibility mm-hmm do
you think that you learn how to save some money because you get paid from
your eggs right yeah how much money do you make from your eggs we get 25 cents
25 cents for a dozen eggs and you put that money away what are you saving up
for what are you saving up for you wanna help report all right and grace do you
like doing the chores too of course you do he's just lot more
quiet thanks for coming along with us today as we took the kids out first day
of summer vacation and got them we app chores to do this afternoon too don't we
Wow we have to feed the cows again which feed the calves again because they're
always hungry right got to make them your fort
and we got a weird we're gonna make them a little bit of a shelter today we're
gonna do that too so that they can get
yep exactly we're gonna do that a little bit later on today but that's it for us
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