A Long Hot Summer on the Farm | Piglets | Garlic

[@samanthasteen350]

I'm so glad u put Bubbles back with her mama and siblings ❤❤❤❤❤

[@carolinepetersen1452]

Those piglets are soooo cute! Best wishes from northern Illinois.

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

oh yeah I can't believe how cute they are.

[@BerthaRamsey-e9o]

You have a beautiful farm. You and wife take very good care of animals. They are very healthy ❤

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

😁

[@jennygodfrey7711]

What a cutest of the baby pigs 🐖 🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖🐖

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Yeah the piglets are one of the cutest farm babies 🐽

[@kallioacreshomestead]

Hi Chad...Piggies are doing great! Yes we hang our garlic too, works best for us with good results. Those bugs on your potatoes are the younger Colorado potatoes beetle! Need to pick off and kill. Diatomaceous earth works good on them too.

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Thanks for that, I figured as much but though one of you guys would know to be sure. They’re only on a few pls rd so I’ll get em before they multiply. 👌

[@kallioacreshomestead]

@@HiddenSpringFarm ....check under the leaves for orange eggs and squish them!

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

@@kallioacreshomestead got it 👍

[@RJH_LIL]

Morning Chad. Geez your baby animals are growing up fast.

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Oh yes incredibly fast, the piglets are so strong and solid like small stones 😆

[@meenha1976]

That is precious, u helped the butterfly ❤❤❤❤

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

☺️

[@ZippedUpKitz]

That single white rabbit in the pen with that big old pot bellied pig just cracks me up…

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

They get along too the only bad thing is the pig sometimes put his snout on the rabbits fur and makes him all dirty.

[@ZippedUpKitz]

@@HiddenSpringFarm might watch that pig though… pigs are omnivores and will eat ANYTHING… I’ve seen them kill critters that got into their pens and eat them… one of our males got hold of a opossum and had a very bloody snack… it was not pretty at all…

[@Wicked_urban_garden]

Try some wood chips or mulch or hay in Bobby and the rabbits stall. It should help with the smell

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

i will do that, I have some wood chips too. Thanks.

[@naegwut]

Now that's a gardening hat!

[@akw0523]

I love ❤Bubbles❤😻

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

She’s so fluffy and makes cute little noises that doesn’t even sound like a cat 😆

[@cozyhomemakingvibes]

Morning! Kiddo will be excited to watch this when he gets up. 🐖 🐓 🐈‍⬛ he’s my big farm helper, and this channel really is his fave. I would imagine a lot of kids like watching about your farm. Thanks for sharing all your hard work! You could be inspiring future farmers!❤

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Never thought I could be such an inspiration but it’s a nice effect of all this KZbin work. Feels good.

[@tracyforbes9960]

The piglets are getting soooooo big. They grow so fast. Love your channel. Greetings from Scotland. Tx

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

They’re like double the size in just two weeks. Too fast I’d like to enjoy them longer. Thanks so much ♥️

[@carolinemarshall4860]

It makes me so happy to see all those beautiful piggies doing so good ❤❤❤

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

😁

[@VintageStylebyJo]

Hello the piglets are growing fast❤ The kids enjoy the animals🥰. Maggie seems like a sweetheart, she gets along with all the animals😊🤗They look like beetles. We use a spray bottle with cedar oil or tea tree oil with a couple drops of dish soap. It’s best to spray when it’s cloudy with no rain for a couple of days. The beetles love our tomato and cucumber plants ☹️

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

I though maybe young beetles too but some other viewers here say it’s potato bugs. I took them off already anyway, hopefully they don’t come back.

[@jennifersutton3115]

Hi 👋 the piggies are so adorable 🐖

[@LynnBoergermann]

Garlic scapes r good to eat too

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

@@LynnBoergermann is this how you cook them also? Or you have a different way? Garlic Scapes & Shrimp Stir Fry Recipe #shorts kzbin.infoUeoyYFgezt8?feature=share

[@topnotchpainters8805]

Good job chad piglets looks good 👍

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Right on!

[@kiranmikuyt9338]

Those bugs are larves of the Colorado Potato Beetles. I just copied that: Controlling Colorado Potato Beetles You can get rid of Colorado potato beetles, although you’ll need some patience. Start in the spring, before you plant, by removing nightshade, ground cherry and other weeds in the Solanaceae family from the garden. The beetles eat these while they’re waiting for tomatoes, potatoes and peppers. If you have a small garden, you can try handpicking the pests and drowning them in a pail of soapy water. At the same time, inspect the undersides of leaves regularly and remove any eggs. You’ll have to be vigilant with this, especially if you live in an area where potatoes are a commercial crop. The Colorado potato beetle’s a flier and can move into a garden from other backyards or fields. Hope that helps, and I love your videos btw

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

It does help thanks so much for all this good info 👍

[@crystalakers9817]

Here in Tennessee we call them potato bugs. Also love the pigs. They are so cute.

[@colly1952]

Instead of puting the black thing between your rows, you should plant your plant in it. You burn small holes in a and put your little plant in the hole. Then you get practically no weeds. Check out Cog Hill farm and try to find where he does his garden . He's a really good gardener.

[@paulhall1239]

Im so happy I came across your channel it's the best channel on KZbin ❤

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Oh man, I appreciate you saying that 🍻

[@leonafaryna7617]

Oh Geez those piglets are something else 🍉🐷🐷🐷🐽🐷🐷🐽🐷 I used to see Monarch butterflies all the time when I was younger, but can’t remember the last one seen around here. We’re sitting pretty at between 23-27C and loving it so much that I am afraid to jinx anything by speaking up when things are going so well. Sweet sweet Bubbles is loving your touch and she is a beauty! So happy to see her enjoying touch!

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

I leave all the milkweed around the pasture to help the monarchs, hopefully it’s working. Bubbles is doing well and becoming more comfortable with me.

[@akw0523]

Are u gonna eat those little piggies? 🥺

[@robertfaber6796]

Try turning a few of the ducks into the garden, just long enough to deal with the bugs.

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Yes!!! Garden ducks 🦆

[@kiddobee3610]

Bubbles is looking GREAT, slow and steady progress! Good job👍🏽👍🏽 The pigs are really cute, bet the guests love to watch them caper about.

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Yeah the piglets were the highlight for the guests. Little by little I’m getting there with Bubbles 🫧

[@TheCajunHomestead]

The Bacon seeds are looking great.

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

🥓

[@dougwotton1046]

Without a shadow of a doubt, piglets are one of the cutest looking creatures on this planet! Good luck with them. 🙏❤️🐷

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

I feel so lucky to have this experience. The cute little piggie oinks puts it over the top for me 😝

[@StuWright]

"bloody weeds" "bobs your uncle" you are sounding english in this one !

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Haha 🤪 Right on 🤙

[@HELENGodLoves]

I love seeing Chicago!!! That's the one I call with socks and the wider white stripe! LoL 🐷

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

LOL

[@donnahummel5765]

Darling does a wonderful job in the garden. Looks amazing. Love ❤ all ur babies.

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Yes she’s been doing great thanks. She’s a happier gardener too without so many weeds.

[@yeagerxp]

In Chad's video short I commented that Chad had half a green thumb and was a sprout, Remy his darling is the green giant because she is the one with green thumbs and fingers 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@kayvelazquez4618]

I love this long farm vlogs chad thank you.... you are such a hard working man... ❤

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Thanks a million ♥️

[@doriskuhberger8559]

Hello Chad. Yes, the piglets are growing very fast. Love the idea of the water for the pigs. You did good. I have seen this water feder before. I think it is a very clever idea. Well done. Pebbles is doing really good. You are doing a good job with her. Lots of Love to you all. ❤❤❤❤ Doris, Penrith 🇦🇺🦘

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Thanks, it’s always so much fun with lots of babies around.

[@eyesea123]

I do have an uncle Bob lol. Love your videos and wish I could come stay and play with the piggies!

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Haha it’s hard to get anything done around here I spend so much time with them 🐽

[@evelynrogers7145]

There getting so big. And fun to watch them

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

And it’s so surprising to me how quick they can run already, very strong. And their bodies aren’t soft and squishy like puppies or kittens, they are so solid like rocks.

[@micah06v8]

That made my heart so happy to see bubbles letting you pet her! Great job! Keep it up

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

She’s doing well, the other cats are hissing a bit but that’s normal.

[@manub6556]

Hi Chad😊 Du bist so ein toller Tüftler(Erfinder)😊❤ Toll wie all die Tiere sich am Hof machen💪😍

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Aww thanks so much, so kind of you 😊

[@barefootminis]

The black pigment on the bill if developed is due to hormones. It is a disqualification in bantam calls for show but not for breeding. If they are hatched that way it disqualifies them but they can develop it over time. Enjoying your videos with my sweetie in order (even though I skipped around).

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

At first I thought it was caked on mud but then after seeing it on permanent I was like oh. I think someone said it in the comments too. Funny thing is they are the offspring of the khaki Campbell’s which are brown 🧐 Very cool.

[@barefootminis]

@@HiddenSpringFarm They are so cool. We think so too. Love every video you make!

[@AprilOceanBlue]

Pigs love to wallow! His instincts are telling him to knock over the water so he can create some nice mud to roll around in. Maybe a concrete pool would fill his need to wallow but also not be as tricky to clean as mud? (Wallowing helps them keep mosquitos and other biting bugs at bay, and also cools them down in summer months.)

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Very true, once I build him access to outside he can have a mud pit 😆

[@OZARKMEL]

Do those pigs ever get outdoors or are they always caged in the barn.....

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

The piglets are less than 12 days old, so the Mama has been indoors since the birth. I’ll be letting them out soon though promise. Bobby next door has no door yet to the outside I still have to bust a hole in the barn.

[@sweathogstickerpicker]

Your rooster is funny!

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

😁

[@NewSummitInc]

Greetings from Phoenix az, Chad! Thanks for a view of the piggies. They are growing fast! Stay cool.

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Oh boy I’m sure Arizona is super hot. We heard in the news peoples shoes were melting 😆

[@TheCajunHomestead]

I am one of those Southern fellas here in zone 9A/9B SW Louisiana dealing with some warm weather, high humidity which makes it tolerable . I remember summers like this as kid growing up here. That pvc will be the weakest link, if Billie lays on it , it breaks well no water but a nice Hog Waller.

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Yeah I gotta keep an eye on that pvc…so far so good.

[@yeagerxp]

So you are swamped with work? slow down the meat chickens growth, feed them some grass and weeds so you can catch your breath and plan their harvest date. the weeds and the grass from the garlic patch can start the process, less protein and more grass, they won't die.Nice garlic crop. Piggies doing great, stop scaring them they will develop a nervous condition 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Bubbles doing great as well, city slicker becomes cat psychologist😁 Your garden is looking marvellous. Well done. 👍👍👍Thank you for sharing. Take care of yourselves, 🇨🇦

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Haha I can’t even Remember how old they are I’d have to look it up. If I had to grab a piglet I’d have a hard time they’re so quick and Billie gets mad at me. I picked up a piglet and she growled like a grizzly 🐻

[@carolinemarshall4860]

Billie obviously trusts you a lot to let you near her babies ❤

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Yeah Billie and I are tight, but if I pick up a piglet she sounds like a grizzly bear ready to eat me 😆

[@Mysongsamp]

Morning Chad the piglets are so cute.

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

♥️

[@clyderiddle6850]

Hello from PI. Those look like potato bugs...I would use 7 dust. Its an insecticide.

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

They ate two plants pretty good but I plucked them off with pliers.

[@struykfamilyfarm9587]

To tell the gender of most duck breeds you look at their tail feathers. Male ducks have a few curly feathers in their tails. Females have all straught feathers. This trick does not work for muscovey ducks since they are not a normal duck breed.

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

yes it's one of the few ways to tell the difference, their sound and colours also. But the curly tail doesn't appear until late teens, trying to differentiate at a younger age is tough but if one has a good ear can hear the two different noises they make.

[@cohomesource]

If someone didn't chimed in I think those bugs on the potatoes are ladybird beetles

[@Mysongsamp]

Chad here in Tampa, Florida temperature 87 and with humidity feels like 110

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Wowsers!!!

[@kayvelazquez4618]

Why dont u put the lonley rabbit with the other rabbits?... so is bobby the dad to the piglets?

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Yes Bobby is the piglets Dad. The rabbit needed to be separated cause he’s a boy…a while back I had 4 boys together and they fight, two died and I separated this guy to that pen before Bobby was separated. Nobody wants boy rabbits sadly.

[@donnahummel5765]

Pigs have to lay in water to cool off. They do not sweat

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Yeah they love to wallow.

[@cozyhomemakingvibes]

I think they REALLY like mud. It cools them and also acts as a sort of sunblock. 🐖😂

[@judymckinney7984]

Can you put the rabbit with the cats.

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

I wouldn’t just cause when I let the cats out I’d have to always be sure the rabbit don’t get out then when the cats come back…

[@th1sd1dnthapp3n]

According to google image search, might be Colorado Potato beetle 😬says you can pick off by hand or use a vacuum, and its best to put em all in soapy substance to kill. So sorry and hope things turn out alright!

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Thank u, that’s exactly what I did with the soapy water, but I used pliers 😂

[@lacybryant7670]

QUESTION What is the plan for the pigs? Bobby and Billy will overrun you with piglets And when will the piglets get slop?

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Quick answer is I’ll be trying to sell most of them. I’m thinking at this point I’ll keep 1 girl with Billie and 1 boy with Bobby. Bobby & Billie will be kept separate unless we’re breeding. If by slop you mean real food the general guideline is for them to be fully weaned at 8 weeks but these guys are already trying to get Mamas food and nibble on fruits here and there. They still need to be on milk mostly for now though.

[@lacybryant7670]

@@HiddenSpringFarm Slop is watered down feed. I watch a guy on yt Just a few a acres. He grows pigs out for meat though.

[@judymckinney7984]

What is the temperature there? It seams to be really hot.

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Yeah it’s pretty warm around 30c

[@stanleykeith6969]

Chad those little piggies are getting big. Also Chad check this out, Lumber Capital Log Yard (lumbercapitallogyard) great video on cutting logs on a sawmill.

[@JohnDoe-np3zk]

I wonder if my dog would like a piglet for lunch.

[@robin9913]

Female ducks quack really loud and males can't - they make quiet noises.

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Yeah the drakes make more of a grunting sound 🦆 That’s one of the ways you can distinguish their sex from a young age by the sound they make.

[@robin9913]

@@HiddenSpringFarm It is the best way according to all the duck sights I have checked (also - I have two female Pekins). So - maybe you can tell whether or not your two 'white' ducks are male and female that way. I'm betting that they have some sort of recessive gene(s) that causes them to be more white than normal for that breed.

[@waddleinnhomestead]

The dark bill is from hormones. I have a pekin and a pekin x khaki that are both pure white. When the 2 girls started to lay eggs they got little dark green spots on them and over time my oldest one is fully black bill now and her daughter is about half Black abc half orange It’s not from getting it dirty I did think that too at first I did some research and found out some do this with hormone change and the more they laid eggs the darker it gets As for the khaki Campbells they were created from mallard , Rouen and runner ducks. If any of them came from lines of broken purebred the white gene could come back My pekin mom and Khaki dad had chocolate ( all girls ) and black ( all boys ) The girls look khaki the boys look more mallard as adults The son got mom and she had white babies again along with some chocolate and some black Hope this makes sense on how you got white

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Very cool I thought for sure it was mud caked on, no wonder it won’t come off 😂 it’ll be interesting to see what I can hatch from them.

[@waddleinnhomestead]

@@HiddenSpringFarm I can’t wait to see Congrats on the piglets. They are looking great. Thank you for sharing your life with us I enjoy watching your videos I did a big pumpkin patch this year so I can feed the ducks and goose through the winter with extra treats

[@thecooler7235]

You need to buy feed in BULK. It will Dave you alot of money..

[@jamesboucher638]

looks like the ducks are both female there is no curled feather on the tails that the males have

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

That’s the thing, one did have the sexy tail back in the spring.

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

I just checked the flock and all the drakes no longer have the curly tail I guess it faded after breeding season, same as their colours not as vibrant. Their heads start out green in the spring, now they’re just dark brown.

[@nikkistump3480]

Tater bugs

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Thanks🙏

[@Ricenoodles80]

Are you going to eat the pigs??

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

No plans at this point. I’ll be selling them, but saying that if I don’t sell them all I definitely can’t keep all of them.

[@AnonUser18]

Its a potato bug, remove them before they lay their eggs

[@HiddenSpringFarm]

Thanks a million, super helpful 👌