Rainy Day on the Farm

[Music] Mark and Tara here and welcome to the rainy 10acre woods. So, it's been raining all night. Supposed to rain all day and uh it's uh good timing because uh Terra went and put up all of the uh winter shelter hoarding yesterday. Not all of it, but most of it. A lot of it. So you can see here our swale across the driveway to the low area there. So this is where the water is all coming off uh the buildings and from the farm. This area here it's jumping from drop to drop. Uh the barbecue area will get closed in in the next couple weeks. That's where we store items. And the cool weather is upon us. Okay, into dryness. Okay, turn on everything here. There we go. Okay, grab eggs. Uh, eggs. I don't see any in there. Oh, a mouse. Yes, chickens eat mice. And then they'll chase each other for it. The circle of life. Hey, another one. Is there another one? Yeah. Uh, chickens are actually pretty good mousers. And we do have nine black cats in the house, but um if a mouse gets into here, the uh the chickens, they they do they do their their mousing. Okay, so eggs. Of course, there's not going to be any eggs in there. These little the little ones. Why? Actually, there's like there's usually some Well, I guess the there's a couple adults in here, is there? They'll be small eggs, won't they? What are you doing? Uh, let's see here. Yeah. No, nothing. And these uh wood chips that we did uh seem to be working well. We'll uh we'll know more at the end of the winter in the spring. What happens there? But oh, I see an egg. Not down below here, but up in here. So, there's one. Oh, two. One in the shadows. Okay. All right. There we go. Couple eggs there. Oh, they're still going after that mouse or the two. That'll keep them busy. Good exercise chasing each other around. So, can we get this ready? Um, Brussels sprouts over there. They're not crazy about the Brussels sprouts, but some of them No, Brussels sprouts are gone, but it's broccoli. Oh, is that Oh, that's broccoli over there. Okay. Apples and grapes. Ah, okay. I just saw the green bags. Okay, so the eggs. Yeah, some of them get a little dirty. These ones are pretty pretty clean. So, there's our treat. The trick is going to be giving them their treats without making them both dry. Yes. So, this is going to be different. We want to keep them inside so they don't get wet. So, uh, this will be a new challenge for the day. It'll be crazy. It'll be crazy. Yeah. It'll be Oh, another mouse. Another one. Oh, wow. I guess they're all coming in because of coming in for the the cold. Oh, the rooster got that one. They'll take it away from us. The girls will force it away. Big and slow. Let him have his day. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. The white one got it. He's left mouseless. [Music] Okay. Don't go outside. I'll throw it in here. All right. So, it is quite dark on this rainy day. [Applause] Of course, the geese I'll throw out. The geese are out playing actually. I can probably shut the door. Yeah. So, this is the setup for the winter. So, Terra went and put up Polly. Uh she left this open cuz there is a gate here. So, we allow them to go in and out. Once it starts to get cold, then we'll close that gate off. And then these guys will stay in here. [Music] We may the mamas and kids. Well, they may stay over here. Uh, and then move them over in the spring. But, uh, we'll see how space how space goes. So, in the past years, what's happened is, uh, Pey and Piper, our pigs, good timing, tend to make a nest right here, and they block off that door. So if we want to use it, we have to actually dig it out. So Terra built up the bottom here. So the door is actually a little bit higher in anticipation for that. Oh, Charlie. What are you guys doing? Yeah. [Music] [Applause] Well, that makes it quiet. Oh yeah, you had to ruin it, didn't you, Willow? JJ, you're uh you're learning from turbo, aren't you? She's like, I know what that's where the food comes from. I don't want it all in your bowl. It's supposed to rain all day like this, too, eh? Yeah. Until about 5:00 p.m., so they say. So, so it's a day in rainy day on the farm. I'll give you lots. Don't worry. And Carol, is everybody in? It looks Yeah, I don't think there's any anybody outside. [Music] Other than the geese, ducks. [Applause] [Laughter] went out in the rain, got Barry cuz he was out in his little area. So, he's now inside. We're going to just keep this gate closed cuz of course there's still mouse trap zone over here. And this is going to be his little area uh for his feed. He's just checking everything out. What's going on? What's happening? real wet. Yeah. And this is probably going to be where he sleeps. Yeah, cuz he's uh there are some cozy corners. It's hard to see back here, but there is some uh areas in here that he can kind of get into and and hang out. Okay, that's need to up my lighting in some areas. I was just telling Tara, you know, how dark it is out in that shelter. It's not bad for when you're out there. Of course, not filming, but um I'll have to do some post uh exposure settings cuz it's quite dark back there and winter's coming, so there's going to be a little bit more of that for sure. Oh, maybe that's a good spot to sleep. He's just exploring, checking things out. It's coming down harder. Okay. [Applause] And then we can now see how our eaves trough is working. Oh, the ponies are excited. Okay. [Applause] Oh, what are you doing, Meadow? [Applause] Find your spots. So, that's the eaves trough that I put up. And as you can see, there's nothing pouring off the end, which is great. So, it's still muddy in this area, which that's kind of where all the land It's the lower area. Well, technically this is the lower area, but this is kind of all part of it. And just water management, trying to uh keep everything as uh as less mucky as possible. So, nobody's in the far building. Oh, Terra's gone around to the opening on the other side that we can Yeah. Go inside. There we go. There's nobody in that far building. No. Yeah. So, who do we got? Uh, we've got uh, of course, Levi and Meadow and RJ. So, it looks like Shorty and Astrid. Oh, no. That's Astrid's bum. I thought that was Shorty's. Is he in there? Yeah. All right, it's just a rainy day. So, Terra put up uh Polly here as well. And of course along this I'm not sure if I showed you this last weekend. I think I probably did because it was up before the eaves went up. And I did show you the eaves frost. So, the drain pipe comes down and then goes across that part of the building and dumps out in that back corner. Of course, there's a trench in the back there as well. Move over. So, just trying to get the water out as much as possible. All right. So, this is the other area here. So, um geese can all come in here. Yeah. And of course, we put the metal up last year, I think it was. Yeah. That front roof. That front roof was I only half did it. So, that's all straight. I did the lights. Yeah. And then I'll start the poly. And then that'll all be cozy in here. Yeah. Around the front. We'll close that off. And then uh here as well. Poly on there. And then this is the winter duck. The winter uh hideway. I think it's getting stronger that rain. Yeah, I know. I know you boys don't like to rain. Well, one of them went back out. Brave the elements. So, we've got all the water foul out there. Oh, there he is over there. Yeah, I think he's coming back. He says, "Well, everybody else is out there. What's the big deal?" Oh, yeah. Their water fowl. Come on in. You're going to get wet. You're already wet. Wet rooster. Oh, you're a little wet, nasty. Oh. Oh, yeah. Third one. I always forget how many roosters there are. Then of course we've got the hens. This is the hen run out here. I can see there's a hen right there. Yeah, she likes it up there. Ah, the scobby found it. Okay, we're back in the house. Nice and dry. Time for a nice warm or hot coffee and uh look out the window and watch the rain fall. thankful that we have a house to be in. So, so that's it for this video on this rainy day here at the 10acre woods. Uh hope you enjoyed this little slice of uh of raininess like we did. Uh and we hope to see you next week. Take care and have a wonderful week. Bye. [Music]