Baby Donkeys Meet For the First Time

Hey come here. Every time I turn on a camera that rooster crows no matter what. Every time. We're gonna walk to the barn and the roosters are gonna crow 75 times while we're down here. So what's up guys it's Daniel and DJ from Arms Family Homestead. Can you believe how much two baby donkeys has got DJ involved in this channel? Actually it was just one baby that got you involved. The second baby's here now and I feel like every chance I get I can break out the camera and video DJ. She's always at the barn and she's not usually down here a lot with me. Like she'll come down here sneak down here during the day or something but having to come down here four times a day to feed the baby puts you in the barn a lot. So the wind's blowing like crazy. Welcome to Oklahoma where the wind comes sweeping down the hills. It's not really the plains here but anyways it's feeding time for Phoebe the bottle baby and I got some really cool footage to show you from yesterday we were down here. So we're gonna feed her real quick and I'll tell you what I'm talking about. What are you so excited about Earl? You want to go see Phoebe too? Hey what's up babe? Yeah for sure. I have no idea. Earl would you get out of here? I have no idea why this chicken's decided she needs to lay her eggs right next to this bear but she's been doing it every day. Something's uh. You got a little friend. What is it? That is not where the milk comes from there sis. What is it? Oh are you hungry huh? Are you hungry girl? Here back up. There you go. That hen is just pretending like nobody sees her. Every dog has walked over there and smelled that chicken and she hasn't moved a muscle. Somebody's been rolling around out here. Giving me the side eye. So yesterday when we came down here we decided it was time for Phoebe. I didn't see it. I think I got it on camera. Earl watch out for that hen she'll get you. I think I got that on camera. He walked over there and sniffed over and she struck it him like a snake. Oh my gosh. Anyways yesterday we decided it was time for Phoebe to meet Freedom's baby. Yes. Made me a little nervous at first. Are we for sure on a name yet or still? I guess we'll roll with what you want. Okay. So we're still sticking with Phoebe. Phoebe. Phoebe and Phoebe I guess. Yeah. I'm not excited about Phoebe. Unless somebody changes your mind. Yeah. So there was hey there was a comment on a video. Someone said liberty to go with freedom. Yeah. It's freedom liberty and justice for all. Then we'd have to name a male justice eventually. Freedom liberty and justice. That is kind of cute. So I mean maybe Phoebe unless you decide to change it. Oh there's another dog. Gemma go smell that chicken. Anyways yesterday we decided that Phoebe needed to formally meet her other friend. Yes. And it was too funny. It was. I was nervous. I wasn't sure what uh freedom was gonna do. So but yeah it was super sweet. Come here. Be ready to help me. You're kind of backed in a corner. I am. Hey look at all this loving. What is it Phoebe? I mean freedom. Okay got too many if words already huh? Oh she's getting her butt toward me. Hey girl. What are you coming to me for? Why do y'all look so scared over here in the corner? We're just I'm just a little nervous. You should be nervous. Her her butt's coming toward you. Nah. She's been nice to me lately. Okay oh baby's jumping. Haven't you freedom? Back up mom. Back up mama. That makes me feel better. Hey chill. I can't. Chill. Yeah. If hey the gate will open if you have a problem. I'm just gonna fall backwards. There's a barn behind you. All right freedom we'll be back. The babies are gonna have a little alone play time. Turn around and go that way you little. You know what I was thinking about saying. Here here here here girls. Go this way. There's a go this way. There's freedom. Well not freedom. There's open area down here. Need to move that chair out of the way. It's like an obstacle course. Oh slow down. Somebody's gonna get hurt here. We don't have that much room to roam. This is good for Phoebe. She needs some interaction. Yeah. All right go the other way. It's a race. You're gonna lose. It's a race. Hurry. You're losing. Here she comes. Oh you gotta go back. Go get her. Go get her. What do you want? Let's see her. You all right over there freedom? No but it's good for her feet. It's good for her legs. Oh you little bucker. Look at me. Hey you ready? One two three. Why don't you go play with that hand some more Earl. That was fun. It was fun. Go play. So hey this is supposed to be about the baby donkey not you. So stay down Earl. So as you can see the two baby donkeys got to play together for the first time yesterday. It was actually pretty fun to watch because the newest the other baby with freedom over there is actually bigger than this one. And you can tell just her her muscle structure and her bone structure. She gets around a lot better already and she's only just a few days old. Gosh Earl. You do you need some attention buddy. And but you can see that it was really good for Phoebe to have a play partner. I think we should probably put them together quite often because it gets her active and moving around and her legs are improving tremendously. I feel like she's getting a lot more strength in her back legs. She definitely still craves attention so it's good to have a play partner for her. But I think she's getting around a lot better. Earl and Bella want to be in the mix here. She's definitely putting a lot more weight on her legs when she moves and having somebody to run and jump and buck and play with probably only helps that you know. She was doing a bunch of it this morning when I came out to feed. Just running and she did not want to climb in my lap this morning. She was she was in play mode. Hey Phoebe follow mom. Come on Phoebe. We'll go see your friend. You want to go see her? Oh you got all kinds of dogs in the way. She's like hey I don't want to compete with them. Here go that way. Did you see that? Yeah I did but I didn't get it on video. She came running to you. Here oh there we go. Here go over there. I almost said go to sister but that's not your sister. Hey hey we're going that way. Come on. Come on girl. You can get out. There you go. Come on. It's all right I freed them. We're not going far. You can still see them. Come on here. She said I don't want to. That's a big step. I'm trying to help her. Have you ever met Isaac? Isaac's sitting right over there. You want to go meet him? Hey it's okay baby. Isn't it crazy that the one that's like a week old is bigger than the one that's like what four weeks old? Yes. I knew freedom was gonna have a big baby but man she had a really big one. I don't think they want to play out here. She just threw in the face. I missed it. You did. Hey you need to be nice to her. Yeah be nice to Phoebe. I think Isaac wants in on the game. Look at him over there. Look watch. Oh my gosh how cute is that? Phoebe. She's not having it. Phoebe's like my forehead hurts. That's a big jump. You can do it. Hey what's the matter? You come over here for some loving. Oh look she buried her head. Dang it. What does she mean to you Phoebe? I mean Phoebe. I don't know about this Phoebe. I told you. Look here she comes. Phoebe come here. Come here. She's just playing. Hey whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa we're going to the play area. Come on. Come on. Trying to kick us. Did you see that? Yeah. She's trying to kick me. Come on. Go play. Come on. What's up buddy? Trying to give everybody a good sniff. Hey looky there. Look who came for a visit. Hey Steve. This is not much of a uh not a very good setup I've got going on here but it works temporarily. I do want to redo all of this underneath the barn. So here's what I'm thinking while I've got you guys here. Let me zoom out a little bit. It uh I don't know if makes perfect sense but I want to keep my loadout chute over there so I can't take up all of my space but I'm thinking about putting some like horse stall type things back here. No we are not getting horses. No. Not horse stalls. Actually four horses. You seem very close to me. I'm zoomed out. Oh okay. But just think of a horse stall concept and maybe two or three across here so it's 21 feet from from that square tubing to that square tubing. Just three different two or three different pin areas so we have like a stall under here and then go out about I'm thinking 16 feet because these panels when you buy panels they're 16 feet. Just my thoughts are it would give us a really good place to if we had um you know show cabs or if we had the kids had a sheep that they were showing or even if I build it to where it'll hold chickens or whatever birds you know. The reason I'm thinking like a horse stall area is you've used lumber used boards like two by twelves or two by tens and uh have a solid structure inside that goes out into an outdoor pin. 21 feet across here if we did three of them that's seven feet wide each. I think that's plenty big enough or we could do one big one and two small ones. I don't know. Just an idea here. What's the matter freedom? We're not hurting your baby. You want back in there with mama? I feel like mine's more playful than yours. I feel like they're both mine. Uh well you can feel that way all you want. I'm claiming I'm claiming the new one. At least today for this game because she's more playful huh? Aren't you more playful? I feel like yesterday Phoebe was a lot more playful. Well all right I say we put uh Fifi or Liberty or Justice for All or whatever we're gonna name her. I know I can't decide. Let her back with her mom. I think Phoebe just wants a nap. She's not that sun's got her over here. I think's what it is. Is the sun warming you up girl? I don't understand why this other one's here. Come here. Come here. I think she got out here in the sun and got sleepy because we just gave her a bottle. Oh you trying to knock me over? What do you think Bella? All right let's let her back in with her mom. Okay playtime's over girl. Hey go back in there with mom. Come on. Come on. Come on. She came up. Come on. Mom wants to see you. She's getting worried. Here. Come on. Come on. Come on. She's like protesting. I'm not doing it. I'm not doing it. Do you want me to come get her? Yeah sure. Well I was trying to keep freedom in. Okay come on. Oh here we go. Y'all don't turn very well. No she's got the reverse on. Go. There you go. So all I had to do all along was start a mini donkey farm if I wanted you to hang out at the barn with me right? Yep I guess. I can't believe the goats didn't work. The goats? It only took me 12 years to learn. They started at first. It worked. That's what we started with. Yeah it's been an evolving process. So some people are really confused. They're like why would you guys want uh a bunch of baby mini donkeys on your farm when you could just be like everybody else and just get a bunch of cows? Cows just aren't that fun and they're huge and they're going to hear you back there. I'm not I'm not talking I don't want to talk bad about your cows you've already got. Oh I was I thought you were talking about something like a different herd. Yeah I was I was I was just making a joke because they don't know how well they show up. There's three of them right back there listening to you. But here's the thing the the mini donkey world had no idea how valuable these things were. We started off with two baby mini donkeys. No we started off with two grown mini donkeys. Freedom and Steve over there. And when we got them what two years ago they were free. They were free. Now these things are very pricey. So in theory we could start a cow-calf operation and have 15 mama cows and sell 15 calves a year you get whatever auction price brings. Or we could have a bunch of donkeys that are so cute and pretty much sell them for whatever you want to sell them for. Yes. Anywhere from a thousand to five thousand dollars for some of them. Yeah it's crazy. Like we she just kicked her mom I heard it kicked her right in the chest. Like we literally saw people selling babies just like Phoebe down there who's hiding for over five thousand dollars. You're not going to get that on a normal cow-calf operation. Nope. So DJ keeps trying to talk me into more donkeys. Yeah I am. I'm like hey you got alpacas you got mini herefords you got your donkeys. We're a diversified herd around here. We are and we do need to get on the alpaca thing pretty quick. Yeah we're going to find us another male alpaca pretty soon. Yeah. But we're not getting rid of Rufus. I want to reiterate we are not getting rid of Rufus he will stay around. Yes. But he is sterile so we do need to find another male. Look at Bella this is too funny. Oh she's perfect. What's the matter Bella you look like an inmate a little prisoner can't get them into play. So dang you got tall. Anyways I feel like I'm just rambling but mini donkeys that whole idea has been very good for us and people like the content and who wouldn't love a teeny tiny little donkey. Well right now it feels like everybody wants a teeny tiny little donkey because I think if we had a hundred of them we could sell them all. Yes I agree. Maybe that was a problem. Yeah she just wasn't finished eating. So since uh you're still here you got any eggs under there I can have? Are you mean? Are you a mean man? Thank you. Appreciate the eggs. I guess she's not the only one laying next to the bear. Nope. So there's your baby donkey update for the day. You guys seem to love baby donkeys. The only reason we're we're going to keep doing as much donkey content as we can while they're little because when they're teeny tiny like that they're so much fun and it's so different this time with Freedom and her baby. Like when Freedom had her first baby with us we didn't put her up in a stall like she is right now. So anytime I got anywhere near her or her baby she would try to kick the snot out of me and did multiple times. She would not let us anywhere near that baby and having her in this stall for a few days now it's been really good because she's getting much more accustomed to us coming in there with the baby and the baby like loves attention. She'll run right up to us and want to I mean like she will literally run up and just want you to pet her and love on her and stuff. So we'll probably turn Freedom out in a few days into the goat pen. So we'll see how that goes but as of right now Freedom lets us get in the pen, touch the baby, pet the baby. She still doesn't like us petting her but she'll come eat treats out of her hand and stuff like that. So it's been it's been really good I feel like. Yeah. So we'll see how it goes and we'll let keep introducing the two babies together and letting them play together. We're still not comfortable putting Phoebe in with Freedom unsupervised because I just don't know how she's going to react. A lot of people have asked if we could graft basically graft Phoebe on to Freedom and let her nurse and stuff and I'm not comfortable with trying that. No. So we're going to continue bottle feeding her but eventually we'll get to where we can turn Freedom out and her baby and let Phoebe out with them and they can all be their own little herd separate from Steve and they're not you know we can't put Steve in with the babies right now. So I don't know it's cool. It is. A little donkey ranch. A little donkey ranch. You know we always called ourselves for years the donkey poodle ranch. Yeah. And we had the donkeys and we had the alpacas but the name came from the alpacas but I wish we had some baby alpacas. I know. I wish we did. I wish we would have. But anyways guys that's all we've got for today. Thanks for watching. Hope you enjoyed it. Y'all have a great day and as always we'll see y'all in the next video.