NO SNOW in November?! Something's Different on the Farm! VLOG #672

Mark and Tara here and welcome to the Ten Acre Woods. Still no snow, that is great. We haven't had any snow this year, which is unusual for this season, this time of year. I did take a look at some footage from previous years, like the past five, six years, and it's been kind of hit and miss. But we've always had snow and it's gone. There has been some nice... Yeah, yeah. There was maybe a couple flurries that hit at some point. But 2021, I was in a t-shirt, so. I'll be later today. Yeah, yeah, hopefully. Well, it's supposed to be 11 degrees today, so that'll be nice. Here's a little montage of the last few years, so you can get an idea of what we've had for weather. Mark and Tara here, and welcome to the Ten Acre Woods. Mark and Tara here, and welcome to the Ten Acre Woods. Mark and Tara here, and welcome to the Ten Acre Woods. Welcome to the Ten Acre Woods. Mark here, my daughter Tiana. And my wife Tara. Mark here and welcome to the Ten Acre Woods. First things first, we need to get the ponies some water. Good morning JD. Good morning. Eh, not too bad. So this is kind of normal. We do have this heater on, the one for the goats. We haven't turned on quite yet. The forecast is showing in two weeks the same temperature as today, which is 11 degrees Celsius. So yeah, we'll take it. We will take it, we also have to, we were discussing this morning about covering our septic field. So this is the first year we're not using straw. We are going to, well we purchased some actually construction blankets which are very similar to something on the market for an insulated tarp for specifically for septic fields. So we'll see when we put that on. Yeah and rain, we haven't really gotten much precipitation. I guess that's the big factor. We've had some cool nights and we did have a bunch of rain in the last couple, last week or two. So what we did is we put these guys in here and I think the Tara was talking about maybe switching a few things around and we've got the area in here where the hay is being stored. Possibly rearranging that even. Are you done? No I did that backwards. Yeah I was gonna say. Well because they were out and then they were in. They've been doing weird things lately. Instead of the ponies going out into that area. Oh Levi, stop it. Food aggression. It's your daughter. Water. We'll get you some more bales. So we've kind of switched it up to put these guys in here. Especially with the rain that we were having. So Tiana was out here a couple days. Midweek I want to say. And we had gotten a whole bunch of rain. So this area in here does get trampled quite a bit and she put some hay in that building and walked across and she lost her boot in the mud. Not her boot, her shoe. Well her shoe, yeah. So I said to her, I said, well why aren't you wearing rubber boots? And she's like, well I don't know, they're itchy or they're uncomfortable. Hey! I'm going to put my shoe back on. I gotta go. I gotta pee. I gotta get my shoe. My foot is going to be disgusting at the end of this. God! Duh! I need the shoe! Looks like we have a female and a male. Male's the bigger one on the right. Female's on the far one. Not sure why they came in. Ha ha! To ask Tara. Oh! She can hear me. Duh! They couldn't keep them over the winter. Okay. So it is... Oh, I'm going to forget the names. It was Duck Dan that brought them to us. Duck Dan. And, uh... You're getting dripped on. Oh, there's condensation and frost. I'm wondering why I'm getting dripped on. Okay, well, we'll have to remember the names. Tiana knows the names. They're totally sick with these. So, Pekin ducks. Thanks. Yeah. Morning, Piper. Sure. This is another mucky area. Hi, Turbo. Oh, okay, yeah. Psych. He says, you've got no food. Yeah, so this is another kind of muddy area. We kind of fought with this a few times Because we've got our trench over here and we had it try to flow into there boys roosters But what had happened was we had some water that actually flowed back up into here one year. So We kind of rearranged it again and we're trying to flow it over that way, but it's just a high traffic area Good morning, Coco. Good morning So you can see how much water is on the pond. Normally, you know, it doesn't get to an overflow point of here. So it's just all the rain that we've had in the past week. And if it was colder, it would have been snow. So yeah, we've been lucky that way, but inevitable. It'll come. So something I've learned on YouTube lately is there's a hidden feature that I just found. Thank you very much. Apparently this happened about seven months ago. I watched a video, it was about seven months ago, and it's a new feature called Hype. So you can actually hype a video. And I was looking through my analytics, and I was wondering, what is this Hype? So I looked into it. You can actually go in, you get three hypes. or hype credits or whatever you want to call it every week and you can go and you can hype a video a video that is between you know one and seven days old so a young video and it's good for creators from 500 subscribers up to 500 000 subscribers and every hype gives different points depending on how many subscribers they have so if you have less subscribers You get more hype points per credit, kind of thing, if that makes sense. So, I went on that. And what you do is, I don't know if you can do this on the computer, but on your mobile device, you, right below the video, there is a little comment section, and you just swipe over, and there's this little hype. So, if you like these videos, click on that little hype, and let's see if we can... Hype up the video! So it just puts the content in front of more people if If our... the algorithm for YouTube sees that people are hyping it. So every hype right now, we've got 57,000 subscribers so they're worth 440 hype points per credit. Sheldon! Uh Sheldon had uh or Tara had Sheldon's age confused. She was thinking he was he was like 10, 11 years old but he's only like seven. So that's the other good thing about creating content, weekly content. He acts 10 really. I think he acts like two. He'll never grow up that Sheldon. So, you know, going back and looking at the previous years and when, and Facebook's good for that too. You can go on your Facebook page and you can do a search for Sheldon and it shows him as a little baby. He was so cute as a little baby. There was one time where we had goat yoga and he had on this little tie and he was walking around, just not a care in the world and just a cute little boy. All right, so grain has been given. I missed that here because I was talking about hyping videos and Tara has also thrown out some vegetables as well and looks like she's got some more vegetables. What is... oh everything's leaking. Yeah, see it was cool overnight and yeah I guess I'll have to look at sealing the... it's dripping in but it's also dripping past it. Ah A little bit of work to do, I guess. Always work to do on the farm. What do you got? Blackberries and corn for the chickens today. And they've got their little winter house here. So we're trying something a little different this year. They'll go in and then the roosters, we'll get ducks to come here. Right, yeah. Some more, some more switching around. Yeah, then these, sorry. Yeah, we even threw the idea of possibly even bringing the ponies in this area. But, yeah, lots of ideas. Oh, you know, it's not insulated or anything, but it's cozy in here. It's also nicer to have the... Hi, Bronwyn, she's come so far. Yeah, well, if you have food, she comes further. She reminds me of tear inside. Yeah. You know, it's... If you have food, right, Bronwyn? Yeah. It's also nicer to have them inside because the fruits and veggies are in there. Right, yeah. It's come winter. I don't have to do it all out here. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr Yeah, they're here. Oh, yeah, there you go. Cucumber. Oh, good. Oh, no, no, no, no, no, no. She doesn't like zucchini, I guess. You ever thickening up there? She still reminds me of grandma. Not my finger. Just eat it. You guys don't like zucchini? You know what I mean? Give it to Petey or Charlie. Ha, ha, ha, ha. Yeah, just throw it out there. Oh, yeah, yeah. Yeah, see, he ate it. Oh, yeah, he ate it. Petey eats everything. Hi, Turbo. It's terrible! You got banana in your belly. Look at his little index. Turbo, Turbo, you got something on your hip? Yeah, you got something on your hip? He's like, I'm good. He says, it's muddy over there. I don't want to walk through that mud. There, eat that. Oh, there we go. See, you got food hanging off you and you didn't even know it. Yeah, going in. Coco is definitely the leader now. You think? Yeah, I've been watching them go in and out. So she's the leader out there. And because Petunia is with her injury, she's kind of stepped back, or she would be. But everybody looks good going into winter, other than ages. Yeah, you've got some younger ones and some older ones. Well, yeah, so Coco, which is right there, she's one of the older ones, along with Petunia. Where is Petunia? I think Petunia is there. Hi Bronwyn. Are you still looking? Are you still looking for something? Yeah. I haven't heard from Charlie this morning. I guess he got his treats early. Grapes, yeah he's uh grapes, bananas, he's working at it. Right, another new rooster. So this one came in I think last weekend. A nice orange, orange rooster. Good looking bird. So people just, especially this time of year, people have chickens. Maybe they hatch them out, or maybe they get them, and then they don't have any winter shelters for them. Which, for chickens, is pretty easy. The main concern is just their eggs freezing. Of course, the hens, not the roosters. And water freezing, that can be a challenge. But, yeah, chickens can handle minus 40 without anything. As long as they're... Out of the elements and off the snow. Um, this rooster, is there a name? Guinness, right, after the beer. Guinness. Place that Tank and Tank Jr. are from. Okay. Oh, boy. Lettuce. Ha, ha, ha, ha. No nutritional value. Well, that's romaine. Yeah, but... Romaine's better than iceberg. Fun food. Well, and some of them, you know, some of them don't like cocoa. She's getting very, oh she's eating it, okay. She's getting very picky in her old age. Aren't we all? Yeah. It's the crunch they like coming. Well this is what the geese like. Yes. Geese love lettuce. Should I throw it in the water so we don't forget it? Do you like sound division? Yeah, all the crunching. All you can hear is crunching. Yeah, Petey. Let's get his own little, look at the birds. They're all like, why don't we get any of that, he says. Yes, it does. I'll put that in your bucket for tomorrow. All right, you two. In your bowls, the most annoying thing on the farm, is getting to pick up their bowls and then coming out the next feeding. They're not there. The most annoying thing. It's funny because Tiana will come in and be like, you didn't pick up the bowls. Or I'll come out in the morning, I'll be like, you didn't pick up the bowls. It doesn't happen all the time, but you do notice when it does happen. Look at that. Now they're eating together. I think Levi was just hangry. Were you hangry, Levi? Well, his ears were pinning back. Now he's going in to see what did they leave. Did they leave any good stuff? Yeah, see, there's a pile over there. And we put a pile here, which they finished, and yeah, then they're all going and eating at that one. That's a good one. Did you get anything, Levi? Nothing in there for you? Hey, nothing in there? Yeah, hi. Okay, we're going to smash this pumpkin. It's now late afternoon. The sun's getting lower on the horizon. Still didn't get to the temperature we were supposed to get to today. I think I was supposed to get to 11 or 12. I think I saw 7. I figured we'd do it out here so we can prepare for it. Smashed out. All right, call them. What's that? No, there isn't. Come on, kids. Come and get it. That one's pretty dense. You should see them. Well, I heard, yeah, I heard them call back. You should see them come around here. Oh, there's the birds. Words. Ha ha. Some movement over there. There they are. Joey and Jazz are leading the way. Pumpkins. So we usually get pumpkins from the nursery that, uh, yeah, we're not this year because they actually sold, sold most of them. So they only had a few gourds left, which was fine because we do have a lot of fruits and vegetables. So we were questioning where we had the room to put all the pumpkins. So it, uh, it all worked out. So yeah, we were mentioning there's not a lot of seeds and the seeds are the ones that are the deworming. So they're great for deworming. But all in all, they like the taste of pumpkins. Actually, there's quite a few seeds in that one. You can see them all sit on the side. Oh, is it good? Oh, boy. So they should clear most of this up. Do you not want any pumpkins? Do you? Do you not want any pumpkins? Okay, well, you just hang out with your herd then. Oh, cocoa. Good. Did we find something you like? Because you're always... Looking at us when we have the vegetables, I guess maybe pumpkins are her favorite. I have no idea where Tara went. She was like right here. She disappeared on me. Anyway, that is it for this video. Hope you enjoyed it. If you remember to hype the video, give it a hype and we'll check next week to see how many hypes we get, how many points we get. Anyway, until then, I wish you all the best this coming week and we hope to see you next time here at the 10 Acre Woods. Take care.