Kid goats go outside, Birdhouse camera has a first sighting

Hey, come on, kids. We're going to go outside. Oh, your mom's out there. Yeah. Yeah. No. No. Mommy. Mommy's outside. Yeah. Go outside. [Music] Mark here. My wife Tara. And welcome to the 10acre woods. Terra can't see anything. Terra can't see anything. Well, I can kind of see. Yeah, it's uh You always want the leaves. You always want the light behind the camera. Leaves. Yes. Everything is starting to bud. Another week, everything should be green. Yeah. So, these are the maple trees that we uh You never planted here, right? Nope. They just uh they just grew because of all the all the maple trees around that we have all down the driveway. But then we decided because of the shade. Yeah. Well, afternoon shade anyway. Yeah. Not morning shade. Morning Tucker. busy busy eating. Okay, our birdhouse over here that I built with a camera in it. So, uh we did get some action last week and uh here is the video from that action. So, a couple weeks ago, I did a video on these bird feeders with the camera built in, and we also got some action on this. Check this out. So, the first one, the bird, uh, did a little checking. We kind of thought we knew what it was and then we had it confirmed. It's a starling. So starings are invasive species in North America. Apparently they were brought to Canada because they wanted all the birds from Shakespeare to be in to come over to the new land. Uh and of course nowadays we know that if you bring other animals and parasites uh that work well in those areas, they don't necessarily work in uh in in other areas uh because they push out other native species, destroy nests. So in that video, of course, he was trying to he she was trying to get in uh probably to destroy the nest. So, um, it's a good idea that we change the size of the hole from 2 in to inch and a quarter. Although, there's no bird that's nested in there anyway. Not yet. But, we'll keep an eye. Uh, the second one, the feeder. So, that's Danny the squirrel. Uh, he uh she Sorry, it's Danny with an I. She came out a couple years ago. Uh, somebody brought her from the city. She was injured, wasn't she? Or they found her. They found her as a baby. They found her as a baby, hand raised her, found out it was too much and brought her out here. So, she's often found running around. And that was just a a cute find. So, we have our waters hooked up. So, these are now all automated. Cleaned them out. Got them all uh prepped and ready. The heaters have been pulled out. And as you can see here, uh we have them hooked up to our our water distribution area. So, this one here is for the sink, which is right here. Uh, and then this one goes to the bird area. Uh, this one here goes around to the uh the shelter area. And then, of course, this one here is hooked up to uh the pony's water. So, we've got all of our water on. One less thing we have to worry about. Uh, so in here we've got a muscoi that's been building a nest. Oh, and there she is there. So she is she is sitting. Hello there. How are you? You have babies? You have eggs? Yeah. Okay. Well, we'll check on on you again. All right. So, everybody's out of here. Uh, this is an area that we will have to clean out. It's going to be barn and shelter cleaning out time in the next uh next few weeks anyway. And out in the [Applause] yard. Well, good morning. Mama's bringing out some grains. Oh, and all heads are going to turn. There we [Applause] go. Now, the grains are mainly for the birds. Spread out very fine so that uh everybody gets a chance to It's kind of like a a morning Easter hunt, I guess you could say. Look for the grain. Find the grain. Find it, Tinker. Find it. And she's like, "No, I want the [Music] [Applause] source." Turtles. Oh, yes. You said that yesterday. Yeah. Terrace saw a turtle that was in the pond. [Applause] It was in the pond. Yeah, it was just on the edge. Go Tinker. So, one project that we need to do, and I think we're going to start it this weekend or today, is the lighthouse. So, the lighthouse I built a few years ago, cuz of course you've got a pond, you need to have a lighthouse. But if you notice, there are issues. So, I you know, I put this little railing on here and the chain to make it cute. Uh I think what I'll do is we'll rebuild it, but we're not going to put this base on to hold the water. Uh also up here, I didn't install any kind of caulking on here. So, water just got in, soaked into this wood. Of course, there's mushrooms growing on it. Uh so uh it's designed in such a way that we can uh pull out some of the plexiglass, one of the panels and unscrew it from the base, remove that whole thing, and then we'll rebuild it. And I think what I'm going to do is instead of painting the top, we've got shingles. So I think I'm going to put some shingles on the top and remake that. So hopefully by next weekend, we should have uh a new lighthouse or a new top to the lighthouse. Anyway, we'll see how the uh the building goes. We'll do it during the week, paint it. Uh maybe it'll be 2 weeks before we get it all finished up the way we like it. But uh that is going to be an a project. So, this is the other water that I hooked up. Uh same uh little spring. So, it's a little spring 2800. Um and the hose goes underneath and kind of comes up. We got so many hoses. I just figured, well, let's just use a hose. I've got a lot of plumbing pipe as well I could have used, but this worked in a pinch. And it runs over and of course runs around the corner to where that hookup is. And here we go. Can't wait to get outside. Says, "Where's your babies?" Says, "Ah, the babies can fend for themselves." Now, here comes Holly. Come on, Holly. Yeah. Yeah. Looking for food. There might be something, right? Go on out and the babies. I can hear [Music] them. Come on out, [Music] kids. Ma, where are you going? Ma, no, that's not your mom. That's Tucker. Yep. Go outside. [Music] Oh, we're just waking up from our nap. Oh, and having a [Music] pee. So, this one this one is doing wonderfully. So, um, excellent. Both ears are up. Uh, lot more energy. Um, she just had a little little rough start. You can see she is smaller. So, quite a bit smaller. But, uh, but she's doing really good. Hey, come on, kids. We're going to go outside. Oh, your mom's out there. Yeah. Yeah. No. No. Mommy. Mommy's outside. Yeah. Go outside. The mom's like, "We're out." Yeah. Yeah. The moms are like, "The kids will find us. We can hear them. Uh, we'll just play. We'll just play, won't you? All right. Come on, kids. Let's go out. Come on out. No, no, no, no. You're not jumping out. Come on. This way. This way. Go on. Go on. Out you go. Out you go. Out you go. There. Someone's got the idea. Come on. Come on. There we go. There we go. Yep. Your mom's out here. Yep. Keep on going. Keep on going out. Out you go. Well, there we go. Mom, it's been so long. We missed you. And of course Holly, she's over there. She's like, "Yeah, the kids are fine." And there's Toby barking at probably Charlie. I don't even know where to Oh, Toby's over there barking at Charlie cuz that's what dogs do. They like to bark at the pigs. Okay, we're good. We're out. Oh, I just felt somebody come. Oh, that was Tucker. ran into the back of me. I think he had a little a little zooi. Yeah, warmer weather. And uh everybody's all excited. Stop it. What are you doing? That's your brother. They're so cute to watch. Sit out here and just I'm thinking about doing like a time lapse of the day. Whoa. [Music] King of the castle. We got lots of things for them to jump on. [Music] [Music] Is that Sheldon? There we go. That's the plang we were missing last weekend from these two. Sounds like we have two geese on the pond that are just leaving. Yeah, just flew over the house. Yeah, they often stop in. Okay, in here we only have one peacock left. So, we had uh the breeding pair. Yeah, the uh the two of them, the breeding pair headed out last week, was it? Yesterday. Or yesterday? Yeah. Okay. Yesterday. Um somebody who was just totally loves his birds. Uh I've known him for a few years. Well, many many many years cuz Tiana was about five or six when she got quail from them. Oh, is this the one that does that? We get some birds every so often from them. Nope. That's Patrick. That's a different one. That's a different one. No, this his whole barn is dedicated to birds and just he just loves them. He's got two farms and he sets them up and so the kids have always wanted to keep up. Okay. He uh he took the Yeah. the breeding pair which is good because then they're not fighting. Yeah. Uh well, in the Avery that we took down last year for the solar, uh these guys would have been in this smaller area until we built something back up. So, this gives this male a little bit more breathing room. And uh it's uh it'll give us a little bit more time to to get things built up. Yeah, I put Onyx in here. Uh she's Yeah, you said she was a little off. She was a little off yesterday. I'm not sure if it was heat related. Okay. She's eating now, which is good. It's cooler in here. Yeah. Um I mean, she's she's she's she has been getting stuck in corners a lot more lately. Well, that's something she's always done, but Yeah. But so, you know, she may just be having a hiccup. She has those every once in a while. Um so, I'll give her She looks stiff in the back end. If you recall, hey. Yeah, I know. Quiet over there. If you recall, she when she came in, she had some major back end issues. Yes. And she's the way she's standing, her feet are slightly forward, so she's stiff. So, I'll give her some pain. Uh she just she just looks like if my arthritis was bad, that's what it would remind me of. Yeah. Onyx came in a number of years ago. Um, we figured she fell off the back of a truck tossed or tossed. She had so many back end issues. The black sheep of the family, but she was found on the side of the highway just at kind of in the middle of nowhere. No other farms around. She she couldn't have really made it that far because her size. Yeah. So, somebody brought her in here and she's always always been a little special, a little slow. So, and very messed up in the back end, but she kind of got over, but I know. And how old is she now? Four. I want to say four or five. Yeah. Yeah. So, I'll give you some pain meds. I understand the arthritic issues could be pretty bad. Everybody has little times where they need a little something extra, right, Onyx? Yeah. Okay. Um, so Penny's babies. Uh, so we saw them last weekend and we've still got this one down here sitting. So she didn't really go anywhere when I stepped over and she's not going to now. Uh, but here we are. Wh Penny. and her babies. So, six of them, all six of them are still good. They're inside with no predators. So, that's good because that's a that's a big issue when uh especially, you know, like those ducks, the muscoi outside. Uh when she hatches them, she's going to take them out onto the pond and we will lose some of them to predators. Uh crows tend to be the biggest um biggest predator concern especially for for little animals. So we try to keep them keep them as contained as possible. And these guys being um you know kind of a sarama cross. So this is a a sarama which is probably who the dad is. And so they're going to be small. Oh, and then the other nest that was in the corner. Oh, right in that back corner. Yeah. A kindergarten teacher uh contacted and wanted to incubate buy eggs to incubate for her classroom. Oh, okay. So, uh I didn't they didn't charge her. Um I just said when they're born they can come back. And she's like, "Are you really?" Oh. Cuz they don't never know what to do with them when they're hatched. So I said, "Yeah, you take that nest." Nobody's sitting on them. We know they're fertile. Oh, boy. Oh, star bed. And then they can come back after. Okay. So, she's going to hatch them out. She has an incubator. Yeah. Oh, good. Good. And we've done that a number of times in the past. Yeah. I give them the eggs. I give them the feed for the So, it's no cost. So, it's no cost to the teachers, right, to educate the kids on something they need to know. Wonderful. Yeah. So, uh, and then I mean then they get hatched. Yeah. Then they come back and 90% of the time you end up with more roosters than Yeah. than him. Oh, speaking of roosters. I know. I love my roosters. Well, it's just they can be so noisy. You can't have a conversation. Well, that's Tank Junior. Or you have to know when to stop your You brought Tank Junior in because he was getting beat up. Yeah. Ah, he's just, you know, it's the strangest thing. Like, look at the size of this rooster. Like, he is he's massive, but he gets beat up by the smallest of birds. It's kind of like Lucifer the cat inside the house. He's the largest cat of the nine black cats we have. And the girls just pick on him and swat him if if he looks at them. If he looks at them strange, right? So Tank Jr. is kind of the same thing. He's a big rooster. He looks like he can hold his own, but no, he's just a big baby. Canola. Canola. canola that gives you the uh omega what is it three six mega six some some kind of omega omega six oh and uh so this uh goat stand that we built and of course I talked about this I think it was last weekend uh so it works great and everything uh we talked about this being way too big she cut out each half didn't really measure it and divide it in half to figure out what the end hole would be, but it's too big. So, I went and picked up one of those pool noodles, and I think that's going to shrink it down, and it's going to give a little bit of uh comfort to the uh to that. So, I meant to bring that out this morning, but I'll have to grab that, cut it in half, and then split it and figure out how we're going to Junior was pooping all mount it. Yeah, that's the problem with having birds run loose in the main area of the barn. You have large poops. Yeah, large poops. He's like, "But I got to go when I got to go." All right. So, there we go. There's the update in the barn here. Oh, uh, the rabbits. No, I missed. Oh, no babies. Okay, so this one. No, look right here. She is. Okay, so you guys are all our followers. You know, we contained her away from all males. Period. Babies were removed. No chance of getting locked up. Like, what do we name her? Houdini. Yeah. Right. I came out to this yesterday morning. Yeah. And I was, "Oh my Oh, no. No. No. She's pulling hair and it's like there's no babies. Hang on a second. What is going on here? There's no babies. And we only ever had many, many, many years ago, we had a hermaphrodity, a hermaphrodite rabbit, and we couldn't figure out how she was getting pregnant. It was the weirdest thing. Anyways, she better not have babies. Yeah. Because if that's the case, because rabbits you can't fix. Like Yeah. The anesthetic. The anesthetic. It's 50/50. They can go in there. And she's such a beautifully friendly rabbit. So So I'm hoping it's weather related. Well, and she's just Yeah, she's going through the motions. Who knows? I have never seen a rabbit pull hair unless they're having babies. Well, that's it. So that happened yesterday, right? Yesterday she pulled her hair. So, we're going to keep an eye on her and she doesn't feel fat. Yeah. No, she's been locked up and away from any boys other than her her babies which were removed which were removed 8 weeks and they cannot physically breed until they're 3 months which is 12 weeks. Yeah. So, yeah, there's no there's no way. So, and that's the absolute earliest. So, there's no not a chance. There's not a chance that she was impregnated by a rabbit. We'll keep an eye on you. [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] So, it's the afternoon. Uh, that was our open farm. So, we had uh probably had a dozen families that came out and saw the animals. Uh, had a great time. Beautiful weather for it. It's gotten a little bit windy as you can see the air blowing through my hair. Uh but yeah, uh other than that, no, it's uh it's nice. It's beautiful. And the kids met lots of people. These ones, you're keeping them out of the sun, aren't you? Yeah. Yeah. So, they met lots of uh lots of people. Where is We're missing one. Where's the other one? Here's the other one here lying in the sun. What are you doing? Oh, it's so nice outside. Yeah. Oh, do you have a fun time today? Playing with everybody. Tucker's in the shade. Look at the willow tree. Willow trees are really starting to come out. So, that's good. Going to get some shade in here. And you'll notice the lighthouse doesn't have a top to it. So, we uh we took that off today. Took it inside. There's a fair amount of rot, but over the week, we will uh get that fixed up. And all the other goats, they've uh kind of been staying in this area. They haven't really been going out back. Uh but then they haven't really needed to because the uh the growth hasn't hasn't taken off yet. So that time lapse was made with a uh real link camera. So if you've been watching us for a while, you know that I capture footage with a security camera called Real Link, which they uh they're uh one of our sponsors or we're an affiliate with them. Uh if you are interested in a Real Link camera, I'll put the link down in the description. They are a great camera. That's the camera that's actually in the birdhouse is a real link doorbell camera. Uh the camera I took the time lapse with I can't say anything with about yet because it is a new release camera they sent me early and I think uh its release is the uh 17th of June. So stay tuned for that. Yeah, that wind has really kicked up a notch. Anyway, that is it for this video. I hope you enjoyed it. Uh, I hope to see you again in the next video and wishing you all the best in the coming week and have a wonderful one. Bye. [Music]