can you see him right here and here and here and here and here and here and here
like it everywhere those are little baby apple tree seedlings as I've told you
guys in other videos last of all I spread a whole bunch of apple pulp from
making hard cider out in this little space here and I was hoping that I would
eventually get some wild apple trees sprouts going and as I'm looking at it
right now it's looking pretty darn good I mean
yeah there's some weeds popping up here and there and some grasses popping up
but overall you can really see it there are some apple seedlings definitely
sprouting here right there so far it looks like my apple tree seedling
experiment is looking like a success I say though I'm tuckered today I got up
really early this morning and I decided that today was the day that I was gonna
clean out the duck house
release
we do a deep litter bedding method here at our farm so that means you know we
have a dirt floor on our duck house and we pile straw and hay on top of their
poop so just kind of builds up over time I started keeping them there in like
late September early October and they have been going to town I haven't really
cleaned it out I did a little bit of cleaning out early on but most of that
bedding has been in there for several months and I decided today was the day
to try to clear it out I'm gonna ultimately take all that bedding and use
it as mulch and compost for my trees so it's got a really good use I really
needed to let it sit outside and compost a little bit more and by turning it and
giving it some more oxygen and letting the rain fall on it it'll do all those
things for naturally so today was the day to do that
look how deep that compost is that is six months of duck betting that is a
foot of compost look at that great the 12 inch mark huh a foot of compost I
only had about two hours to work on the farm before I had to leave and go do
other things but I got a fair amount done in that period of time it was
actually a lot more than I thought it would be no work went a lot faster than
it did I just sort of popped on my headphones and listened to a podcast and
just went to work it was kind of nice by the way guys don't forget the gold Shaw
farm podcast is available be sure to check it out
link down below I mean unearthing the duck compost like that it's kind of
funny it feels like the memories of the winter just sort of coming up you know I
found random things like an old ceramic egg that had gone missing I actually
found one egg that was laid that I hadn't found that somehow got covered up
in bedding and was just ancient and petrified and disgusting as far as stuff
that I had to do I you know I ended up going on my friend cherish's live stream
the southern Mama's coffee break I wanted to do setting but you have got
like a whole new set of how to make not make money for you and become a business
I think a lot of people out there fall into this trap of saying oh yeah I know
I'm gonna have some land and I want to get some you know sheep or some chickens
or whatever and I'll sell some of it but you'll use some of it to make food for
us and it'll all work itself out but if you're just kind of taking that attitude
I think it's actually tough to be successful so you think Daenerys no I
think I think it's gonna be somebody completely unexpected in uninspiring
that you're just gonna be like really like Gendry is the guy like why errantly
I was their first male guest ever it was a lot of fun I we had a really good
conversation I'll leave a link for that down below too after that I ended up
going to our local preschool and visiting the kids so the kids at our
local preschool I gave them a bunch of our duck eggs
Alliance duck egg so that they could put in an incubator and you know have as a
class project that they could hatch him and so I came into the class and talked
to them about our Ducks and showed them pictures and I brought a whole bunch of
feathers and eggs and other things for them to play with we had a good time it
was a lot of fun and apparently in a couple weeks we're gonna have some
ducklings because apparently once they hatch them they don't know what to do
with them so they're just gonna give it back to me and I'll just introduce them
into the flock to that I went off farm to go do some work a little bit more
lucrative work than farming unfortunately but once that was done I
ended up here at the farm and I finished the job of clearing out the compost so
you can see in here it's pretty much entirely mucked out there's little
strands here in there but I'm not trying to make this place spotless but it's
incredible how much waste material we pulled out of here today and I say we
the Royal we you know the editorial sometimes you got
to just dig in and do it the work right it's kind of remarkable to see the place
just kind of nearly empty I didn't totally empty it out because of a couple
reasons one that's a lot of work that's probably unnecessary and two you
actually I think want to inoculate the new litter bedding that you're putting
in with the old compost apparently that's good for composting and so I left
a little bit of trace elements on the floor but then I just ended up spreading
a whole bunch of fresh hay on there so that you know as I brought the ducks in
tonight they would have some fresh bedding hopefully the next time I have
to clean this out is to turn this into like a storage shed and I've already
moved the Ducks into their new house and at the end of the day this is what my
compost Mountain looks like you can see there is a very good deal of it plenty
of it a lot of its broken down a lot of it has a bit of a ways to go so what I'm
gonna do here is just leave this stuff here and let it do its thing I'm hoping
it doesn't attract any predators or any sort of problems like that I'm sure
there will be rodents that want to try to pick through it luckily we have the
two furry centuries kind of doing their job or hopefully doing their job and
tackling that I will say they've been on the prowl a lot more
almost on a daily basis they are bringing us various rodent carcasses
Pablo that's what I call earning your keep buddy good job we cut down how much
we feed the barn cats this time of year right now it's just like a tiny tiny bit
not nearly enough to sustain a cat so they're actually getting most of their
diet as a wild diet
speaking of barn cats she got one do you see that she's been vicious nice job
sweetheart
so so as I was saying I'm not too worried about the rodents because I got
this killing machine on my hands so I think she's going to do a great job
that was ridiculously good timing you know I know people are gonna probably
write comments like oh dude that was totally staged but no it wasn't I was
just hanging out here in the pasture with the barn cats and bam
good work little so yeah so this is what my six months worth of duck compost
looks like now it's getting to be about dark so I guess it's time for me to
bring the quack in in would you look at that you get to enjoy some nice fresh
clean bedding and some food