Bird Nesting in Custom Birdhouse - Lots of Action on the Farm

[Music] [Applause] Mark here and welcome to the 10acre woods. Uh that is the rabbit that we've been trying to capture for the last uh two weeks now. I think it was we're calling it well Houdini's son I guess. Guess we're going over this way. So, we are going to uh feed the ponies this morning. Marlene's coming with her veggie treats for the animals. I have to grab my wagon. And Terra has to grab her wagon. So, uh while she's doing that Oh, bird. Okay. So, I just scared her out. And what it is is we have had a visitor to our tree. So, I got a notification yesterday and there was a uh there was action uh happening and we had a bird. It looks like a tree uh tree swallow. Uh my understanding is the barn swallow has a forked tail and the and the tree swallow does not. So, it has all the markings and everything. Uh she was bringing in all of her uh nesting material. And today I set up a camera to get an outside shot to see what was happening and I found her coming in uh bringing her nesting material. And then another bird came. So I'm assuming that is the male and he's just kind of checking in to see what is uh what's going on and you know doing a final inspection of the home. I'm not quite sure. All right. Here's Terra here. And I don't know if you can see, there's a haze. So, we've still got some smoke that is coming in from the north. So, Oh, yeah. Locked up. Yeah, it's coming in from the north uh the northeast of our location up in the uh the cottage country area. So, we're still dealing with that. So, something happened last night that was um pretty funny. We were watching uh a movie and Tiana I don't know she just caught something outside and she's what is Tucker doing? So what had happened was there was a wild rabbit that got in to Tucker's pen here. Tucker. Well, now your mouth's full. Oh, there's the rest of the crew. Uh, so there was a rabbit that um that got into this pen and started running around. I don't know if the rabbit was having a good time, but Tucker sure was. So, he was chasing the rabbit around, bouncing, and the other two were just kind of watching. And Onyx as well, wherever she is, it looks like she's inside, but they were just watching and going, "What the heck is going on here? What are you doing?" So, here is the clip from last [Music] night. Heat. Heat. Heat. Heat. [Music] They they all had their feet done yesterday. Oh, right. Yes, we had the fer out. I proudly adjusted my energy and caught Ash as not caught her nicely harnessed her up cuz we've probably said it before, but when Tara goes out there when I go out there, I have that I'm going to get you because I got things to do. So, I go out with a higher energy and I can't catch Astrid. And usually meadows tricky for me because she knows and uh yesterday Tiana was at work. So I didn't have a choice. So I came Tiana's best advice was release all the energy before you go in. So I and uh I caught her pretty easy. I was like all right. She I have a puck full of treats but you know Yeah. You've been working on her over the last couple weeks giving her treats. Yeah. So, but uh we were looking out here this morning and um Levi and Meadow were standing there and Astrid was just kind of lying relaxing and it just seemed so peaceful and they have uh cemented dog barking. Yeah. Cemented the herd. Yeah. Toby's uh It's cuz Charlie Well, it's cuz Charlie's out now. So, Charlie wandered out. Charlie, he heard us and he's like, "Okay, he's going to come over." And of course, Toby, as soon as he sees Charlie, he just runs back and forth and he's like, "I'm going to get you. Back up. Away from the gate." Yeah. Come on back, Charlie. Yeah. Yeah, I know. Don't whine about it, but Terra's got to get in with the wagon. Oh, Charlie. He's like, "Okay, fine. There. Now what?" I'm just trying to get you out of the way to bring the food in. Toby, no. It's annoying. Yeah, it's annoying. Toby, has anybody ever told you that? Yes, we have many times. All right, there we go. Last night with the Tucker bouncing around. Yeah, I showed that. So, it was uh was pretty hilarious. And I went back on the the camera I have sitting right over there that happens to be facing out here cuz I sometimes move it around. Hi, Charlie. So, it was uh it was perfect. Look at this. A smorggas. What is he? Yeah, he's Yeah, I know. He's like, "Come on, mom. Give me the food." No, he want rub right now. He doesn't know what he wants. Give me grain. Yeah. Yeah. And then Tucker actually went up on here. So, this is primarily the goats use it, but uh Tucker was up here last night. So, he was full of something. Full of energy. Something. Hi, Shimmer. Holly. Where's your kids? She's like somewhere. Yeah. Says I'm eating. They obviously don't need anything. Patunia's got her kids here. Hi, kids. How we doing this morning? You guys run around and play from time to time, too. Look at those little horns. The little boys got these little nubs just kind of sticking out. So, the girl, not quite yet. We don't dehorn our goats. Uh there's been a lot of uh talk about that. It's one of those subjects that come up and and people are like, "You should and you shouldn't." And we don't do it because number one, they're great handles. So, if you're ever going to be working with the animal, they're a great handle. Uh our animals are friendly. Maybe if you have goats that you're raising for for meat and aren't handled very much, then that can be an issue. Um, but then again, if you're in that situation, you don't necessarily have little kids around them. The the big thing I hear is safety. So, people are talking about safety. They they want to make sure that, you know, they're not going to injure their children or them or possibly each other, but we've never had any issues with that. They also work as a heat sink because they go down into the skull and they will radiate some heat um cooling cooling their brain cavity down in uh in hotter weather. Now, if you burn them off when they're young, you can get what's called scurs, which is if you don't get all of them, especially with the boys, cuz as you can see, his are coming in sooner than hers. And usually the males have a wider base on them. So sometimes when burning them, you don't get all of it. And then what happens is they get these scurs where it actually comes out and can grow all wonky and actually curl around and grow into the head. So there's just so many problems. We've been doing this for over two decades. We've never had to remove or dehorn them. And it's just not something we do. We're used to it this way. Um, they use them for scratching. The only time we've ever had a head butter was that little uh ram lamb. And of course, you can't stop them because you can't grab onto them. Well, yeah, but lambs had no horns. Lambs, it's their head that's just solid. But had he had horns, you could have held the horn. You could have held the horn. Yeah. But without horns, you can't you can't hold you can't and you can't teach them respect. Like with Billy and Carl, right? Like when they get carried away, you take their horns, you pin them to the ground. Now that's enough. Yeah. Right. And then they would stop. So in the beginning, like when you get around, it's a teaching tool because they have you gain respect when you know how to deal with the horns. Well, and also with Carl, he would play around it, but he would never actually hit you. He would just kind of rear up and he would be more playful. And we've never had any like we're we're open to the public. Uh you know weekends during the summer we we have people around and and we've never had an issue. Sheldon's the only one because he squirrels. Well yeah he kind of he turns his head quickly so if there's a child don't bounce around. He can knock somebody over. We always give the warning that this is his head space. Yeah. Stay out of his head space because he turns quickly. Right. Yeah. But it's not a a head but also when he's not listening and he's being a little Sheldon. Yeah. You can grab a hold of him. Not the tip, but the base. Yeah. Yeah. All right. Here's one of Holly's kids. So this is the This is the runt. This is the Kata. Yeah. This is the girl. Yeah. Uh so names. So I haven't talked about names. Yeah. Oh, she's good weight. So Katya Katy over here. Come over here in the sun so we can actually see you. This is You haven't talked about names at all. No, I haven't. Okay. So this is Katya. Katya. Katya. K. K. Katya. And her brother is Liam. Liam, which is over there. They were named after uh a transgender a boy named Liam who transgendered into Katya. So their m their mom was here visiting and uh unfortunately Katya took her own life uh as a transgender woman and so we renamed Katya and Liam after Liam who transgendered to Katya. I hope that all made sense and flowed easy. Yeah, sounds good. So they are in memory Yeah. of uh Katya. Yeah. And this person has been following us for many years. She's been out on the far farm a few times and she came out uh just a few weeks back. Yeah. Yeah. So just to share and get some peace and so Liam and Katya. Liam and Katya. And Katya was the runt that was had a very difficult time. She had a very weird heart uh beat. And uh we were a little worried about her, which is why we named her Katya in case we lost Katya. Liam would be there and there'd always be a you know a soul kind of association. Yeah. Yeah. Association. But Katya is doing great. Hey. And she's a snuggler. Was that Sheldon? She's a snuggler. Charlie, are you waiting for What's that on your nose? You've got a feather on your nose. Uh Charlie. Yes. All right. Good. Okay. I see that Marlene has now arrived. Arrived. Okay. I'll take it away. So, let's go. Uh, let's go do some treats. All right. Throw it over to distract them. Are you going in, Marlene? No, you're just going to throw him over. Yeah. Stay away from Turbo. That might be that might be a good uh a good idea. Turbo's already bruised me last week. Trying to get someone there to pick her. Yeah, she saers. Oh, apples for the pigs. Yep. Yeah. So, the sun sun shade sale. So, that's going to be uh nice today. Well, in the next few days, all weekend. So, it's uh positioned in such a way that we're getting the current shade over here, but as the sun transitions over, uh it's going to be a nice shady area. So, that tree there that's lasted years is pretty much done now. I don't think it's coming back. So, we'll have to cut that down. Currently, it's holding up one of the points of the uh sun shade. You have to show them my I I finished cleaning out the outside of the rabbit hole. Oh, yeah. Actually, I haven't seen that cuz you did that during the week. Yeah. Okay. Terra's got the grains. Oh, Charlie's picking up picking up what he can. I think Sheldon just runs through it like a kid in a sprinkler. I know. It's like look at this cuz he doesn't he doesn't really do much other than just run around. Difference, Sheldon. Yeah. No, it looks like he's filling out nicely. Sheldon. So, onyx. Yes, I will get yours. Charlie. Sheldon. Yeah, he's not paying attention. Marlene's over with the tree. He loves this tree. But now he's only doing he's doing his own thing, right, Tucker? No, he doesn't see the leaves. Not yet. No, he Sheldon's got too much going on. Sheldon. Sheldon. Sheldon, come get some lead. Oh, there we go. Now he Now he sees Oh, he doesn't. I thought Yeah. Okay. He does. He does. He just squirreled there for a minute. Oh boy. No. That's He's got other things to do. He's going around. That was good. Did you get some leaves? He's too excited. Yeah. Yeah. No, too excited. [Music] There you go. Oh, yeah. That's it. He'll eat it. That's it. It's empty now. Oh, here comes the No. No. Sit. Sit your bum. Sit your bum. Good boy. Wait. No. Here it comes. The apples. He's like, "Hey, I sat down. Uh oh. Where's Sheldon? Sheldon. Sheldon. Oh, these are the treats. Sorry. The the food. The food. Sheldon. Sheldon, come over here. Come, Sheldon. Oh, squirrel. He's like, I'm busy. Mom, [Music] right here. Mama. Mama. Mama. Mama. Mama. I know, but you just took too long cuz now everybody's here. Yeah. On side. Oh jeez. Nope. Come here, Tucker. Tucker, come here. Oh, he's Tucker's coming around that side. Okay. It usually goes a lot smoother than this. Yeah. Well, there's just so much. Here's more. So much excitement. [Music] So, all he's getting that was just Yeah. We went over this last week and you're giving alalfa pellets. Yeah. Like a rabbit. Rabbit food essentially. And grain. He likes it. Yeah, but he doesn't get grain because he's a boy goat. Oh, right. Um, so then you don't want them to have too much uh grains. Yeah. So grain you can get uh stones, urinary stones. Stones. So too many grains uh you can develop urinary. Yeah. Yeah. But he's filling out nicely with just the extra. And of course Onyx again. So did which you can't see, but she was thin as well. So, she's on. Yeah, we'll see a little bit more in a couple weeks when we haven't heard back from the uh the date yet. The trimmer, have we? No. The sheerer. No, it's empty. Yeah. So, once we have the date, she got kind of does uh scheduling where she does farms in certain areas. So, she's got an idea, but she doesn't have any kind of exact date. It also depends on her home farm and lamming. Yes. Yeah. Exactly. Right. So you you don't like and I get it cuz she's coming far enough that she stays away from home to do us. She's not at home. So her lamming has to be done before. And of course that's always a Yeah. You never know a window. So yeah. Hi. Okay. Treats were inside. We've got the uh the melons going to the chickens. Now something interesting. Last weekend we we showed you this rabbit. So a continental giant rabbit 9 weeks old. Well, I guess 10 weeks old now. But um we said huckleberry or strawberry. We said strawberry and then we found out it was actually huckleberry, but u you guys called him berry, which it works. It works for sure. So yeah, huckleberry, also known as berry. Uh so he's doing good. He's very quisitive. I've been coming in and um petting him. You know, you want to try to keep that interaction uh for the imprintings because he's going to be a big rabbit. He's going to be he's going to be a hit. We're going to eventually put him outside. Um but um we're waiting on that for now. Now, our little Houdini black intact female, we've moved her back into this area here. She was in a smaller cage. Uh we did um rehome the other rabbits, the mother and father from the litter. Of course, we've still got that rabbit running around outside. So, if we do catch that little rabbit, hopefully we can catch it at one point. Uh that one will go over and join the other ones. Uh, and then we've got these two here, which these ones I think uh they're also going to go outside because this is a fixed female. Uh, and I think a fixed male, right? Pete and Beverly. Yeah, Pete's fixed. Yeah. Um, so that is that. And then we've got what's the duck's name? I keep forgetting. Prince. Prince. Right. So, Prince, he's going to go outside as well. He is a call duck. He's been just kind of hanging out here with everybody. Uh, and then this area is all cleared out. This is where the little rabbits were, uh, previously. Uh, and then Penny in the back, of course, I showed you her and her little ones, uh, which are starting to get a little bit larger, so just getting they're just getting some [Laughter] blueberries. What are you guys looking for? Did you get your treats? Okay, the rabbit area. So, Terra was out here and did some cleaning during the week. Look at that. It is cleared all out. The shelters are all So, we're going to put the rabbits back out in these areas. We've got the We'll see. Yeah, the male and the female runs wall. That far wall still has to come down so there's air flow through. Yes, the uh the poly on there. So, cuz it can get quite hot in the uh in the summertime. We did put of course the metal on the roof here last year. The uh so we still have to we still have to clear out uh those areas in there. But this is a good a good head start. Yeah. Well, cuz there's some trees that have to come down here. If I'm putting the Avery in here. I want these big guys. That big one for sure cuz that could actually crush a building. Yeah, that's a massive Yeah, that's a massive tree. That one right there. The ones that are close need to come down. Yeah. So, we're uh Look at Oh my gosh, look at the plums over here. We've still got the plan to uh move the building, the old greenhouse, which we'll go over and check out in a minute. Uh move it over into this area. These are Saskatoon. Saskatoon. Yeah. All the flowers are coming out with the uh the wild plums in Saskatoon and and all of that. So yeah. So it's now Sunday morning, a beautiful Sunday morning. No wind. Uh very little smoke, so that's good. Uh yesterday was quite busy. We had our open farm and then we had goat yoga. So we had about 23 25 people show up for goat yoga. Uh everybody had a good time. spent an hour with the animals doing a little bit of yoga, doing a little bit of petting of the animals. Usually the yoga lasts a little bit at the beginning and then you see a bunch of people just sitting on their on their mats petting. So, it was a good evening. Wonderful evening for that. Then they uh got to go out and check out all the animals here on the farm. Uh and we are now in the garden today. So, we're going to give an update on the garden. Uh there's been a lot going on here. Terra's been planting a few things out here as well. And of course, we are removing the pool that hasn't been used really in a few years since the kids have gotten a little bit older. Past few years, I've been going in and just basically cleaning the pool. Uh Terra says she's going to start her gardening videos, so we'll have to wait for that. So, here is what is left and what we have to do. So, of course, the deck went all the way out. And then, of course, uh the pool was in the center of it. So, here we go. We've got it dismantled. Uh this is going to be the new edge. And then once we pull this out, we're going to run the deck straight across here. Uh maybe have some steps that come down. And then this will be some garden area. Uh that over there was the old greenhouse that Terra just really didn't use that much. uh her plans were to to start growing, you know, early spring, but uh she decided that she's just going to wait until this time of year after May long weekend and then just plant regularly as uh as she did in the rest of the garden. I ordered soil from a young guy 12 years old or 12 I think he's 12 uh who was selling soil which I love entrepreneurs so imported that and then uh saw the marshmallow the cone flour and then this is all catnip we seeded that last year so these are all catnip you can see the little catnips coming up and uh get them well when you have nine black cats you need the nip oh look there's something special in there. It looks like a cucumber or something or pumpkin or something. It's probably a chipmunk. Yeah, chipmunk puts something. Then we have our echanas which are really good for the animals. So I have four different varieties of echania uh that I harvest and use as medicine. Right. Uh this is all carrots. So that's all seated uh that was seated last year. So look, there's the carrots coming up. Oh, that was last year. Catnip. Did you do some this year? I did extras, but this was all seated last year. Oh, okay. And from I left a couple to let go to seed, right? Okay. And then seeded it. And then uh uh rhubarb, of course, oregano's huge. And the hascaps should be it was all flower. Yeah. So, it's all started. Yeah. So, there was tons of flowers on there. Yeah. So, those are those are a really nice treat. Honey berry hascap. It's like a uh really strong blueberry. Yeah, really strong. Sour blueberry. Well, it depends on when you harvest it. They're really good. The asparagus is massive. Yeah, we've been uh we've been feasting on the asparagus. It doesn't Oh, all spring. Yeah. It doesn't It doesn't get to the house. Yeah. Between us and the rabbits. Yeah. Which one? And it's taken a few years. That's for snacking. Thank you. Right. Look at the size of that thing. I know. Yeah. And this is this has been what we've been getting out of the garden regularly this time. Daily asparagus. Yeah. Yeah. Uh this side's kind of this is all the flowers from last year. Sorry, I squirreled. I'm waiting for grapes to come back here. Yeah, these trees we got to get in the ground. We were going to get them in the ground last year. Yeah, there's a few more of the willow. We've got to get them. They're in the ground. Get them. Yeah. Yeah, I know. Oh, I think I checked them last year when I took that last willow out and it's rooted into the ground already. Oh, look. We got some bearded irises or the irises blooming. Different colors of those raspberries. No, they didn't do uh what was that? Five years, I think. Yeah, they're starting to get a little They're jumping. So, I'm going to let them go here. Oh, yeah. Which this should grow up nicely. And then uh wait for my colored irises to see what Yeah. Terra didn't do much with the garden last year, so it it looks a little Well, it's just weeding, but it's getting there. We knew change was coming, right? Yeah. So, this building here, this is the old greenhouse. So, we're going to uh it's all disassembled. It's just in pieces now. So, now we just have to get it over there and then we'll move it over to the animal area. So, it was about 10 years ago that I had a rhubarb plant go to seed and I've supplied anybody who wants rhubarb with rhubarb plants and I seed them and seeds and there were giveaways and blah blah blah. I ran out. The year I run out, it goes to flower. Yeah. So, that's going to grow up into a large stock. Yeah. And we have enough rhubarb that we can let that grow up and then I'll harvest and then share more rhubarb. Okay. Well, that's it for this video. Um, the extra footage that I had of the Real Link cameras, uh, I thought I would just mention that we are an affiliate. If you are interested in Real Link security cameras or security cameras in general, uh, check out the link. I'll put it in the description. Uh, any purchases there does come back and help us here on the farm. And, uh, until next video, have a wonderful week and enjoy the sun if it is sunny in your area. And we hope to see you next week. Take care. Bye. [Music]