Our Night Routine As 17-and-15 Year old Farmers - PREPARING for 22° Degree Weather ❄️

As farmers, our night routine is a lot busier than your average teenager, because by the time five o'clock p.m. rolls around, for us the day isn't even close to being over. Tonight we've got plenty to get done and prepare the farm for this cold, cold weather moving through, so please come tag along with us for our farm night routine Okay it is currently four o'clock. We are about to get in the tractor and take a load of shavings up to the barn right there. Yes. Now if you guys notice in this video we will not be feeding all the animals because some of them only get fed once a day, like the pigs only get fed once a day, the chickens only get fed once a day, the horses only get fed once a day, etc. Okay, we're cold. It is very cold out right now. It is gonna get to 27 tonight. 27 degrees. It'll probably feel like 22, but we'll see. Let's get started. Let's go. Life wouldn't be a dream. Let's open the shop door for her. Oh, it's warm in here. All right, let's open the door and move around. Oh, you're so cute. We had to get the baby. He's my favorite. We're gonna head over to the barn with this bag of shavings, and we're gonna go through the gate that's right there. Now I think there are cows in the mountain, so we're gonna have to let four of them out, and the babies, I think. Yeah, it's really muddy out, by the way, because it has been raining for a day, and then it rained a couple days ago before that, so we've got mud and cold weather, as y'all can see. We gotta let the girls out, Maddie. I know, in the mud. We're gonna be in the barn, though. Come on, girls. Come on. Come on. Come on, girls. Oh, shorty. Come on, girls. Come on. Come on. Come on. Thank you. Is that everybody? That's what we got so far right now. Very beautiful sunset. It is very muddy out, which I don't like. I do not think I will be able to get up this hill, but we will see. We're good. We're good. There you go. If you drive a caboda up here, they're all just for you, okay? Now, I have noticed we didn't really tell you guys why we are bringing these shavings in the barn. The reason is because we don't leave our dairy cows out in under, like, 35 degree weather. So, it's gonna be like 27. We're bringing all the girls up, putting them all in the stalls, but we gotta get the stalls ready first. First things first. Let's get started. So, I'm gonna go start putting shavings into all of these stalls, and Devon's gonna go put the blanket on Dove. But also, spoiler, we have started bucket training her, so she is off the bottle. She is gonna drink out of the bucket tonight, so I will show you guys how we do that, but yeah. Right now, it's pretty cold, and she needs her sweater. Okay, we're done. Got it on. She's crazy. All right, we got dad in here. Dad, what are you doing? Well, I am hanging a thermostat because the temperatures differ from in here than they do outside, so we want to know what the temperature is inside the barn. Okay. Compared to what's going outside the barn. Supposed to drop really cold tonight, and we just want to see how insulated this barn really is. All right. She'll be all right. Good deal. Where are you getting me? Okay, so we got two stalls done so far. We got two more, but the big stall is gonna need a little extra of shavings. Right. And I'm gonna start putting hay into this stall. Okay. Sure, let's go. Pass it around. No, I can do a little more. We also have to go out and do the heifer barn as well. What are you doing? He says, rub my belly, please. Okay, I'll rub your belly. Hay in the stalls, check. Shavings in the stalls, almost check, because we got to do the birding stall over there. Now, then we got to do waters, which we already dumped maples today, so they shouldn't be dirty, and the heifer barn, and that's it. Until we bring the cows in to be milked. Yes. Yeah, that girl. Rocky, you gotta get out, buddy. Yeah, I gotta move it. Did you have the rabbit defrosters? I did. I'll put them in. Shut the window. Mom got the cow's feed ready down at the shop, and I believe she's getting the milk cart ready, so we are all good on that. It is now 5 54, so it's basically six o'clock. And we got out here at four something. 4 20. Where's the bottom? I can't do it. I can't do it. Okay, you guys, heifer barn is done. That was quick, because there wasn't much to do. So, we're going to go inside. We're going to take a break, and we are going to come back out. Yes. We are going to milk the cows. So, milk the cows, feed the baby, all that good stuff. I am Thor. Okay, Thor. All right, y'all, the chickens are not closed yet, and this is our sister's job. We're looking at you, Sammy. Yes, Sam. Thank you. We're out here. We're gonna close them for her. Reluctantly. Everybody is nice and tucked in. We're staying warm. Yeah. We fight. We fight the coldness. Say amen. Oh, she's got a bald patch. Amen. Let's see how everybody in here are doing. Oh, everyone's warm. Good night, you guys. Now, we're gonna go up and warm up. Yes. Let's go. Where are you going? Come out, my Oompa Loompa. What do we got, Maddie? Some hot vegetable soup. Well, not vegetable, because there's meat in it, but... Along with the cornbread and the soup, we have somebody sleeping in the house for the night. Daddy wore butts. Daddy, hi. Hi. Hi. Hi. All right, we're gonna eat our dinner. No. You're serious? 8.5. We've had better. You know what's really good? Those things she makes in the fajitas. We found this poor little kitten. He's so cold. Wandering. She wants to kick him out. Okay, so he can't be in here, because he'll go in the rafters, and he'll knock dust down, and it'll get all over our clean milk cart, which cannot get dirty. Yeah, but he's cold. I don't care. You're not allowed to do those things. All right, we are going to set up the milk cart, and we are going to get these cows in milk, and then put them in their stalls. You guys asked for a barn kitty. You got one. Who's that? He says, hey ladies. Shorty want a kitty? Shorty want a kitty? Shorty don't want no kitty. All right, we got all the girls waiting. Come on, girls. That bell. Come on, girls. All right. Oh, that's all of them. Good job, girls. Don't let Flo in though. Don't. Don't. Close it. There you go. Good job, ladies. I know. All right, we got to get the heifers in first. Come on, girls. Okay. Elias and Luna in. I am milking Luna, and Maddie, who are you milking? I am milking Elias. Okay. All right, so what we are going to do is we're going to strip these cows out, and then we're going to stick them in their stalls, and get our next two in here. Don't hit your hips, girl. All right, so we're getting ready for the next two cows. Let's go. Favorite, slow down. Come on, Flo. Come on. Come on. Come on. There you go. Oh, she's going to steal her feed. That's all right. Yep, let's do that. Okay, guys, we are going to get the baby's bucket ready to feed her, Miss Dove, and we're going to pour that in right now. I'm going to go feed her. Maddie's going to spray the cows, and she's going to start. Luckily, we'll do a quick change. Ready? Oh, my gosh. My hands are cold. These are actually, these keep your hands warm under, like, regular gloves. Like, your hands will just stay warm with these. I wonder why. I don't know. They, like, trap your body heat or something. That's really cool. Like, my hands never freeze, even, like, snow. I wear these under my gloves. This baby. I will return to milk my cow. You better. What was that? I said, you better. I stepped away for two seconds to get my camera stand, and Shorty drank the baby's milk. Shorty! Can horses have milk at this age? That is the first time I have ever seen one of our horses drink the calf's milk. He's got it all over his face. We got our second thing of milk right here. We're going to feed it to the now upset calf that just watched a horse drink her milk. So, basically, what I do is I put my hand kind of in her mouth, where she's sucking me like this. Y'all can kind of see that. She's being crazy. Where she's sucking me like that, and I put her head in it where she drinks the milk and doesn't drown herself. Now, this is a process, so we do have to take it nice and slowly. So, right now, while I am bucket training the baby, Maddie is putting JB up, our only beef cow that we have. She's actually leaving in January, but she's putting him up in the holding pen right now, and she's feeding him. This is what they don't show you. She's crazy. All right, you guys. Maddie got done with Maple. She put her in her stall. I just got done with Faber. I am packing up the cart right now so that when they're all in, we can just go and head up and filter milk. That's where we are so far. All right, Faber. You've been a peanut butter jazz sandwich. Slow down, sister. Now, to come in the barn and go in the stalls, they're not forced. I'll tell you that. So, I'm going to head up to the house. Madison is going to sweep and fill the stalls with more hay. I'm going to be at the house filtering the milk, and then I'm going to come back out and help Madison finish. All right. Now, I am out here filling both cow trough and horse trough for shorting, and to keep them warm, we use these handy-dandy heaters for our waters. There will be a link in the description below for these trough heaters because they have been the best trough heaters we have used so far. Go get yourself one, y'all. It'll save you the trouble of breaking ice in the wintertime. Yeah, I made it. Okay, so now that we have Elias in the rotation, I am going to measure the milk for you guys once again. My measuring stick. All right. Guys, looks like we got eight gallons for tonight. So, eight gallons of milk, that sounds about right. Good night. Good night, all the pretty heifers. Night, night. Got these two sharing hay, and then we got these two over here in the birding stall. All right. Good night, Elias. All right, you guys. The last thing that we have to do is go out and give the pigs a little bit more straw, and I have to roll up a hose out there so it doesn't freeze. So, we're going to run out there and do that, but overall, I just saw a mouse run by. Oh, my goodness. That was funny. Some nighttime snuggles. Oh, I see two eyes. Good night, Jay. Good night. Hi, bud. Hi. Night, night. And I did want to mention that we bring all of our vehicles into the garage or the shop down there when it starts getting this cold of weather, just so the engines stay warm and stuff, because it's just going to cause more problems when things aren't working. So, all right. Now, we're going to go bring this out, and we're going to go get the pigs some straw. Okay. As you guys can see, we've got our other side-by-side and our two four-wheelers in here, and we are bringing all of the meat chickens in at night, just because it is so cold out, you guys. I am going to grab just a flake of straw, because that is all I need for these piglets, because I know they needed it today, but I just really never got to it. Maybe three flakes. Yeah. You look cold. I can't feel my fingers. We just added heated water bottles, you guys, for the winter, but they need some straw, so I'm going to give it to them. Here. I'm your getaway driver. Oh, well, you'd be good at that. All right, you guys. This is the end of tonight's video. Yes. Today. We're cold and tired, and yeah, this was just... We are glad we could walk you guys through a night routine on the farm with us. Yes. As sisters, there's definitely a lot of chaos. Oh, yeah. If you like this video, which we really hope you did, make sure you like, comment, and subscribe. We will see you guys. 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