Beautiful day on the Homestead | Flock sizes are about to decrease | Electric Fence Charger Troubles

[@bevnelson3678]

Awesome. Rebekah it’s good to see how all the animal respond to you.

[@dmark6699]

The Chickens look well fed.

[@bonniedunkin-brady9358]

It's the perfect comfortable weather..

[@tidelovinyankee1368]

"Freezer camp"; how unique. I love it.

[@Tomhohenadel]

Good morning Evan and Rebecca. Beautiful Sunday morning.

[@jae878]

Duck eggs are delicious! Great for baking too. Thx for sharing.

[@ladythunderbird1483]

I forgot to say…did you see how quick Tom turkey’s offspring ran away when the steers were coming? Pretty funny stuff on the farm today… fat chickens and fast turkeys, hungry steers and pigs are pigs 🐷 Great stuff you two thanks.

[@hubertwebb9869]

The fence charger looks like it is turned 90* away from the sun. I suggest you use a tester and see how many amps are coming out of the charger and how many watts are coming out of the battery. ls there a cleaner that cleans off the white from solar panels.❤❤❤❤

[@kevinwittstruck8764]

The pond looks great

[@karenprice5839]

The flies are abundant on your farm. I love fireball.

[@marydanen5220]

I love watching you guys with your animal's❤ God bless.

[@kellyjoyce2399]

Those turkeys are so cool, I can't wait to retire and get a few acres in central fla. Turkeys and chickens, maybe some peacocks for me. Oh yeah, and grow some hay. Great job you two.🦃👍

[@robertahubbell9038]

The turkeys are beautiful.

[@jamesmoore1743]

Evan here is a suggestion for your solar panels might need to be cleaned with a light buffing compound along with drill and a buffing pad just like car headlights

[@stephaniewilson3955]

You might want to joint those chickens. They take up less room in Freezer Camp and it is so handy when you want to do a barbeque to pull out a pack of legs or whatever-you-need.

[@swanbranch]

We really enjoyed touring around looking at the animals today. You give us so many great ideas as we continue to work toward moving to our property. Thanks!

[@edithsavoy7156]

The tall grass surrounding the fence charger at 15:25 is probably shorting it out.

[@margaretbedwell3211]

Thanks for sharing this last time to see the chickens. Your farm looks so neat and the animals so healthy. Love watching the steers get their fruit treat right from the tree. Not many steers get that kind of treatment. Happy steers tasty meat. Love watching the ducks on the pond with their little wiggle to get going. Thanks again and have a blessed day.

[@veroniquefretz1334]

those chickens have coccidiosis

[@joerodrigues3816]

So happy you are back all the best to you all Joe love always

[@stehan1422]

Hey Evan, not sure if you watch Cross Timbers Bison KZbin channel. You had a spray that you would put a spray on the steers to try and help with the fly issues but you said it would only last a day or so to give them some relief. The Bison are on a ranch in Oklahoma, and the rancher puts a few bags of food grade diatomaceous earth (powder, looks like dry plaster) spread on the ground where the Bison lay down and says it deters flies from landing on the Bison. He also uses a spray that he makes up that have a small amount of diesel fuel in the spray. Not sure what the entire mix is but he has a pretty good herd size and he sprays them all with whatever the combo spray has in it. Just a suggestion for the food grade diatomaceous earth spread out where they down, maybe it will help yours too. Thanks for the channel love the content!

[@mimicolvin3200]

You have an amazing farm. Everything is so organized. Those chickens are huge, they can barely walk. Some look like they weigh around 8 pounds. Rebekah is so loving with the animals and they know it. The pigs are growing. Thanks for sharing the tour of the farm. Evan, you an Rebekah are awesome homesteaders and you work well together. I love your blogs. Bye for now.

[@letartcircuitrider118]

Such an amazing video, you and Rebecca do such a great job and caring for the animals. Thank you for showing around.Thank you

[@teenagefarmer]

all the animals look great. thanks for the update and the great video.

[@olddawgdreaming5715]

Fantastic looking around there Evan and Rebecca, you two are having a lot of fun getting things ready to harvest and providing love and care all the way to the table. Thanks for sharing with us, it is so much fun watching you all around there. Fred.

[@hankfacer7098]

The Turkeys are going to help you send them off to Freezer Camp, just love that term The view of the Lake & Ducks was very restful

[@cathiwim]

Rebecca, I’ve found that if i was on my cycle, the bucks thought i was in heat, so had to take a buggy whip or something to keep them well mannered. I still had to keep an eye on them, even off cycle.

[@Bessie1021]

You are better than me. If an animal harms me, they will have to go! Love your videos. Keep it up please!

[@catgirl8845]

I love those turkeys! There beautiful ❤

[@jerrywoodlee2345]

The pond looks so much better.

[@melissaallen4796]

Thank you for sharing the last video of some of the turkeys and of all the chickens. You should put "....going off to freezer camp" on a t-shirt. Also, thank you for providing an additional link showing the departure of the chickens. I know the process but do not want to see it. Best to you both from West Virginia.

[@tommymcburnett6974]

i really enjoy yalls you tube channel, i watch it on tv all the time, first time watching on the computer. have a good day doing the chicken freezer camp.

[@robertpayne2717]

I worked construction and we made the change to solar powered message and arrow boards. Most of the problems occurred when batteries 🔋 got old and the other problem was mainly during winter months cold and shorter days especially if weather was cloudy or I think that technology hasn't produced the ability to use UV light efficient enough

[@SwampyAcresHomestead]

New here thanks for sharing have a great day

[@Flowing23]

👍great to see all the animals

[@rogerr1296]

I know that no relationship is without its share of troubles (and I know about being in trouble, I'm married to a red head too...lol) but it's pretty cool that you guys seem to share the same amount of passion and interest in what you are doing.

[@Pigpen1202]

If I can’t trust an animal it can’t stay on my farm. It is to easy to get hurt. We have horses and cows and sheep

[@bay9876]

Clean the solar panel with tooth paste or 5000-grit wet sandpaper. Taillight recovered the same issue for loss of clarity and how to polish up to clear.

[@lyndayon7207]

Evan you could try some Turtle wax to buff off the haze.

[@thomaslapp6029]

Yes this time of year is beautiful. The leaves are just now changing to their gorgeous colors here in northern New York.

[@pswanberg1]

Get some headlight cleaner and it should restore the solar panel.

[@CountryViewAcres]

the solar panel is plastic and doesn't seem to be the same as a headlight. The plastic is flaking at the surface and very coarse. Feels like sandpaper.

[@jukeman57]

You might try wiping down the solar panel on the fence changer with Armor All.

[@Dan-qy1rg]

All of your animals are looking good from the meat chickens getting huge and the turkeys as well to the steers. Those persimmons are favored by my cattle here, we only have one now that will take them out or our hand, like her mom did. Your place is looking real nice, good job on it. Loved the video, thanks for sharing, have a wonderful week.

[@workhardlivefree3818]

Pond looks fabulous! Those Cornish cross look to be the size we ran last year... Some of them wouldn't fit in the cone. This year we're only running 7 weeks instead of 8

[@toddcaskey9984]

Put the solar controller under the panel to protect from rain

[@joannak4640]

These are my favorite kind of videos ❤️ I really wish you WOULD do a new video on your processing. I'm sure you are a lot better at it than a few years ago. Since you are breeding the goats again, maybe if you have any boys this time you could try raising them for meat 👍 Have a fantastic week

[@CountryViewAcres]

that reminds me. I just added the Link in the description to the chicken processing video.

[@joannak4640]

@@CountryViewAcres 😂😂😂

[@sandratalbert9578]

Thanks again for not showing processing for freezer camp. Hard to see those beautiful Tom turkeys go, but understand food production was original goal. But they truly are beautiful birds.

[@danielheartsill4269]

I see on some of the videos people are having very good luck with the panels from Harbor Freight. The panels are larger and they say the larger panels do a great job.

[@stephencudaback4548]

Reel good video love it looking good on the weather over alsome the animals all look so good love from steve c from state Oregon 👏

[@juantransportador]

HELLO from las Vegas Nevada

[@robineggblue-bp3rq]

My family owns commercial chicken farms, and yep, those chickens are ready for the freezer. They grow so much in just two weeks. Big as turkeys some of them.

[@rogerl5102]

Always enjoy y’all’s videos, been watching for a while now. Didn’t realize until today that I hadn’t subscribed. I’d always hit liked…oh well. So real and to the point with your content.

[@villaridge]

very nice video. But you forgot to mention "My pond, look. no green" lol

[@toddcaskey9984]

Sometimes I give it a good charge with the electric outlet to give it a boost

[@jonathanbuck6526]

You can test the panel output with your voltmeter Evan.

[@colint]

Test the solar panel voltage when the system is fully connected. It might be 20volts when not connected but unable to supply any current when connected which will make the voltage sag. A flat battery is almost certainly caused by lack of charge, you just need to work out if it's the panel or the controller.

[@harlonlantz4094]

Evan you and Rebecca ROCK.

[@jakeschisler7525]

It's been pretty warm here in south central Missouri and it is cooler in the mornings, next week is suppose to be in the high 70's and mid week only highs in the 60's. No rain period to add to the drought

[@stephensaasen8589]

Fireball eating the persimmons from the tree reminds me of an Angus bull we once had. He was pretty tame. Mom and dad made sure to hand raise him from a calf so he would be friendly to humans and easier to handle. Anyhow, we had this pear tree out in one of the pastures and one thing he liked to do once the pears were ready was sit under the tree - and I mean literally sit like a dog on his hind end- and reach up to eat as many pears and foliage off that tree he could.

[@johnzink3309]

Thx again

[@toy4sam2000]

I have the same fence charger. I replaced battery and used some of that car headlight polish on solar panel. That fixed it.

[@martybertrand5119]

I keep a spare battery for my chicken fence and swap them out. Keep other on the charger

[@nathanrobinson7715]

God bless farmers and nurses. For without a nurse to help us in the hospital we'd be in trouble. And without farmers what would we eat. I know you're not a farmer to sell things but what you do is essential.

[@dennisfontalbert7090]

CLEAN THE CHARGER SCREEN WITH VERY FINE STEEL WOOL

[@paulmonk7820]

Never thought of this before, but try pulling the chicken tractor onto a tarp, canvas, or platform to move it easily. Won't have to worry about hurting them.

[@neilschipper3741]

Yum.. now I am hungry for some good old-fashioned persimmon pudding

[@rastayouth32]

I’m from Moab. Love the hat.

[@funnyfarmdad9997]

HEY, I get my meat birds from Meyer Hatchery too. It’s only about an hour away from my homestead so I just drive up and pick them up.

[@toddcaskey9984]

I want to see your processing room

[@magnoliagrovehomestead]

My premier solar charger did the same thing. I used a headlight cleaning kit to remove the haze. It was the only thing that would clean it off. Also replaced the battery, it’s still not getting as hot as it used too. So, I switched to my AC charger and I run lines to each area.

[@holtonjackson3324]

I love this channel, every video is entertaining and educational. It almost feels like a PBS television program. I am always curious why they have goats, what is the advantage? They don't milk the goats, they don't eat goats, they don't use the goats to manage vegetation, they don't use the goats to provide companionship for animals like horses. If Evan and Rebecca see this I would love to learn about your purpose for the goats.

[@CountryViewAcres]

They are Rebekah's pets. She sells the babies to help cover the costs of having the goats as pets. Basically Rebekah wanted to raise goats when we moved to the country. And we still have them.

[@walterchapman2884]

Evan tell Rebecca my wife is going to be upset if she doesn't wear the cap she sent her that said Dog Mom. Those chicken pluckers are amazing!

[@Sword-Shield]

🐕 dogs 🐕 say Yummyummm chicken 🐔 feet. 👍💯🤣✌

[@OutWithTheWildThings]

If you haven’t already, on your netting, there is sometimes a strand of the hot wire that slips off the fiberglass pole and grounds out on the metal stake that goes into the ground, check to see if any of those strands slipped off onto the stakes. That happened to me and killed it’s shock Also, premier sent us a new solar panel as they claimed some of their panels had a bad coating on them. Hope this helps

[@juantransportador]

GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY GOD BLESS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

[@leol1682]

Love animals farms Big or small .

[@JERRY-xb6vy]

Helo Evan I know how frugal you are when buying equipment but I saw another KZbinr taking about growth on his pond. What he suggested was to use something I think he called Barley Hay to get ride of the duckweed etc.

[@treksevestro]

Evan I recommend you never put a battery on earth or concrete as I have found it flattens the battery/ I use a piece of wood as its base.

[@davidzimmerman3787]

The best luck I've had using outdoor fence chargers like what you're having trouble with is I would take a 55 gallon barrel and cut one end out of it lay it on its side and put everything inside the barrel other than the solar panel of course. That way everything always stays dry. Best of luck to you and I enjoy your videos although I have absolutely no idea why you raise goats? I'd like to know what you do with them that makes it worth your time and effort to raise them? I look forward to hearing your answer to that question

[@bobcliff2890]

Try using deep cycle batteries on your electric fence

[@deannamarie4149]

The pond looks fantastic! Are the turkeys the type that sit a nest?

[@dianelinden]

a light sanding and clear paint should clear up the solar panel and increase the charge rate... if its not charging enough what do u have to lose?

[@danbentsen]

Good watch

[@johnzink3309]

Thx

[@jeanielipskey1272]

Try to take a little time to enjoy all that you have!

[@crae1972]

12:14 had me for a second broke out the headphones

[@StainedToaster]

Nothing beats duck egg noodles. Might be something to think about. You wouldn’t regret it.

[@stevestormssr5492]

I'm sitting here watching your video. I wouldn't go in that goat pen without a cattle prod. All that tall grass along your electric fencescould very well be grounding out your line. That grass should be kept low to eliminate the possibility. That one panel could be OK I occasionally clean, polish and ceramic coat the screen on my yard lights to help them work better. You can't make them clear again, but they can work better!

[@lorineidtinytoadplot744]

Its so worth it to have plugged in charger, main charger you can tap into all over the property. unless the power goes out lol

[@johnathonneal603]

Evan how come you don't use the pond to irrigate the hay field?

[@cajunnathan4586]

Whats your thought about building a shed over one of the old Gain bin cement pads to utilize the foundation? Its your farm, your call, but Im curious?

[@EC4400]

What a wonderful tour Evan thanks for taking us along. I agree your lake is just beautiful. Perfect time of the year.

[@loganh6736]

The two cows don’t know there fate the third slow one to the feeder and excepting your love knows what happens from the hand that feeds them.

[@pekinknollfarms9235]

The ol’ farms looking good. Glade to see farms like yours being restored back to what they should be. Those chickens are going to be nice this winter.good thing you have the freezer space. We use the same hatchery and ours turned out to be good and healthy Can’t wait to see how they weigh out.

[@mariakhalidofficiala5863]

Nice 👍

[@williamwhite882]

You've got a nice place there but it's a lot of work keeping it up. When you both get older, then what? Worth thinking and planning about. On a different subject, how's the pond and fish doing?

[@terrycastor8299]

Those are definitely some big birds. Roasting size for sure. Chicken and dumplings, here we come!😋 This is the hard part of animal husbandry if one loves animals, but if they weren't to be raised for food they would have no purpose and would never exist in the first place. Enjoy them while they are here and be thankful for them later. Good video. Good info on the solar chargers. Maybe the charger needs to be in an enclosure as well?

[@kentshrader6616]

Have ya'll thought of having bee hives??

[@chickinnfarmer]

Great video 😁👍

[@terrybowser7279]

Duck eggs are great if you make homemade noodles

[@waderue]

i think the solar panel is shoot and you need a new one