Can I Be Honest? It's Trash.

Sean gets ready for chicks, seed starts, and land clearing projects.
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[@ceceliaweeks896]

Isn't it amazing how quickly one can get things done with a helper!? 😂 That bit with Henry was priceless! This is why a stay-at-home parent never seems to get things done!

[@TheModernYeoman]

So true!

[@cherylskiles8524]

Watching you "getting things done " with the "help" of little toddler Henry was priceless!!!

[@lisawilson7889]

You gave me quite a few good chuckles taking about an hour to do a five-minute job filling up your seed trays with your helper! ❤

[@DinSF]

Sean, have the chickens spend some time in the garden to dig and scratch up everything before you cover everything with cardboard boxes. You will get several things done having the chickens do the work for you. Besides their fertilizer, they will clean and scratch up and eat all the green for you, and you will have less to do😊

[@colleenrobison4070]

They’ll eat bug eggs too.

[@heatherkennedy9973]

you would need hardware cloth on the walls and maybethe ceiling to keep out the critters that like to eat chickens--just a thought :)

[@TheModernYeoman]

Most definitely! Actually have been doing that this week!

[@carlapierle8623]

Hahaha! That beginning with little Henry was gold! I like your idea of putting your Bresse chickens in the barn and the pigs out in the pasture. Pigs are pretty hardy as long as they have shelter and some straw to bury in. My advice on a roost is whatever is easiest - lol. I liked someone's suggestion of putting your adult chickens in the garden area for them to scratch around, fertilize and eat bugs until you're ready to start working on it. Have a great week!

[@Lisa.Carroll]

Henry is a big helper......he will keep the farm busy this year. LOL

[@carolcalf2032]

Great to see little Henry so much fun trying to plant seeds lol

[@deborahberkey4294]

I had a great laugh watching Henry keeping you on your toes. 😂✌🏻❤️🙏🏻

[@answatkins4677]

Very busy little man. So cute. Blessings.

[@annie.a.]

Watching yeobubba 'helping' you was so stinkin' adorable!! He is very busy lol The yeostead is looking so good you guys are doing a great job.

[@lisapalmer3803]

You are getting exercise running after Henry! I think separate run off north barn for bresse birds good idea. I would probably leave old hay feeder alone and put roost off it or elsewhere. Good work Dad on pasture.

[@lorineidtinytoadplot744]

My dad always said teach them young and they will always remember lol Thank god we never had electric fence

[@AmanAngel126]

A chain linked fenced play area for Henry would be a multipurpose and long lasting investment. Good to see things working out in your new working situation. Take care

[@trinapellegrino621]

🙋🏼‍♀️🕊. So cute at his tender age , he wants to help daddy. All he needs is a planter box and some soil. Blessings to your family. 💞🕊💞🕊💞🕊🍀🍀

[@AZJH8374]

You & the Kramers need to get together for a dinner party. That would be a great vid!! I'd love to hear what you talk about. Love your channel yo! Many prayers 🙏🏻 for your family. 🙏🏻 Nurse Judi in Scottsdale AZ and Eucharistic Minister 🙏🏻 ❤

[@margaretbedwell3211]

Loved this video, Sean. Henry is such an active little boy. I just had to laugh at him with those planting trays....handing them to you or running off with them. Isn't it fun to keep up with a toddler whose found his legs can make him go fast. Seeing him running to the driveway, I thought...yep off to nanna Jana. LOL. Good plans you have going Sean, things will be definitely busy for the next couple of months. Y'all have a Blessed day.

[@TheModernYeoman]

You are spot on! He was running straight for Nana Jana's house! 😂

[@bhavens9149]

Might also consider putting a second fence, not electrified, a bit outside the pig fence no matter where you have them so that a feisty little one can't accidentally touch the hot fence. So glad to see a video today!

[@TheModernYeoman]

That's a great idea -- thank you!

[@islandgardener158]

Nate and Katie’s big old grey barn is falling down, you might ask what they are going to do with the wood, you might be able to fix your barn.

[@caseymarion2494]

Shame they don't seem interested in re-using some of the extensive materials they have available, repurposing some of this lumber to construct a couple more substantial structures for their animals - the sheep in particular, but also a solid coop for their free-range chickens, geese, etc. even replacing some of the scattered assortment of tarps & too tiny hobby-type cages. Seems like so much excess expense, very chaotic, inefficient & requiring an inordinate amt of time to manage on a daily basis.

[@rebeccazody1278]

Most of our gardens look like that! Great video. Excited for new chickens and land clearing.

[@bhavens9149]

I like a suscovitch Chicken Tractor for meat chickens, we all have our own preferences. :) not gonna knock someone else's preference on that.

[@sharonparker2262]

Love Henry ❤. He was helping Dad plant😂😂😂. Yeah, no electric fences near toddlers. Way too fast. I know, I have a 3 year old grandbaby who's a track star already!!!! I don't know about barns, I'm a city girl. Good luck with all your plans.

[@wadeschwartz6281]

Kune kune s would be fine starting in the woods with that hoop house structure. Agreed put the meat chickens in the old pig stall to start and see how it goes . Ultimately creating sections on the other side enclosed area would allow different ages to be separated. Henry is hilarious! Great fun , living the dream . 🙂

[@t-faith3153]

The "weeds in garden, what I think I see kind looks like chick weed." My chicken love it.

[@zoeshorthouse7913]

It can also be used to make a salve for itchy skin.

[@evalinawarne1337]

Strauss Ball. The first song you played. I so enjoyed listening to it. It brought back old memories of going to the "STRAUSS BALL" In Detroit with my parents and a high group of German people dancing the waltz all night long. I was only 10 y/o my first time. It was just like in the older movies. All dressed up dancing to this song. Thank you for my memories. I ALWAYS love your music selection. I'm thankful you have a part time job. Plus full time on the homestead. Great ideas you have. Sheep or goats also would clean up your yard. Cedar wood is my favorite. Hope you build with it. Frank n Beans. I remember so well when they first came. Thank you and GOD BLESS YOU and your family ❤️❤️❤️ SE MICHIGAN 🙏🙏🙏

[@polgarauk5606]

Ahhh toddlers definitely keep you fit 😂😂 Sounds like some good plans 😊 So glad the job is working out so far. Your dad is a demon worker 😂

[@49nfs]

The oil in the cedar chips is harmful for the chicks and chickens. Really enjoy your videos. Love seeing Henry grow. Started watching before he was born. Time flies.😊

[@anthonyanderson2880]

Depending on how many breast chickens you are getting, I reckon you only have to nail a couple of lengths of timber across a corner and you have your perch. Chooks just like to roost as high as they can on a perch thick enough so that their feet are stretched out a little and not clenched all night around a perch that’s too thin. I think a hanging perch will get in the way than one nailed about a foot out from the wall will suit them….and you when it comes to cleaning out the stall. Hope for a nice sunny day when you can get stuck into the veggie patches without having to rug up. We are enjoying 38C here in north west Western Australia.

[@SuziesCornerInLove]

Now I see one benefit for homesteaders carry their young on their backs.

[@Mary-yu3sn]

raised bed's +less fighting weeds and where you have a lot of wood ready and can use trees you take down to build beds

[@Julie-bq6iz]

Central Illinois is under a wind advisory today-up to 40 mph gusts! 😯

[@AZJH8374]

Love the music!❤❤❤

[@dwaynerobinson7629]

I would suggest not completely clearing the land. Cattle need a wind break in the winter. Plant a few cedars around the perimiter to help break down the wind from your predominate direction. Here, about forty miles south of you, the wind comes primarily out of the south/southwest. Up there, closer to the mountains, and the river- it might be different. Include the wind break in their pasture. It'll also give you a natural suggestion where they've calved if you plan to calve your heifers. They are naturally going to opt for a place where that little one will be better hidden. It may save you from losing a calf to coyotes and such as well since you'll know where she naturally chose to calve. The barn. Here's a shot to make a little money. South of you in Loudon, there's a lumber yard that specializes in selling antique/barn wood. Not sure how they obtain it but it might be worth checking into to see if they buy. Lay down a new seal piece and drill holes through. You wanna mark the location on the concrete so they'll line up. Fill the holes with epoxy Drive the bolts through the board into the epoxy. Snug up the nutc to the seal, this will give you an air gap to keep water from pooling on it and seeping under it. Cut the boards up high enough to offer some good pieces to the lumber yard or cut off the bad end and sell it yourself. I think they get $5 a board foot at the lumber yard. Sell it cheaper to get it sold and money in your pocket OR save the scraps for upcoming projects. Visit a SAWMILL and price out the replacement lumber you need. You'll get better wood than at the store. Now One thing you're seeing and probably realize. Farm life is about getting it done. Done trumps looks, every time. Them that wanna throw off on things about looking terrible, never have had to make it work. Around here, we deal with a LOT of predators. Raccoons, Bobcat, coyote, red wolves, bear, wild dogs, panthers aka mtn lion, usually black, (despite what TWRA says, they are here. Rare but here) falcons, eagles, hawks and snakes that want those eggs. They'd all like nothing better than a free meal at your expense. Done.... trumps looks and means meat in YOUR freezer. I'm about halfway between Knoxville and Chattanooga. My papaw sharecropped a farm here that a pioneering family in the county carved out of the ridges. 375 acres of the best ground down this way. Those creek bottoms will still grow anything you wanna plant. Only trouble is the owner now is a city boy farmer and doesn't realize what he bought. So other than hay, they don't grow or raise anything and the hay is usually just left to sit and rot. Idiots burned down a 200 yr old log cantilever barn that was built before this county was a county officially. The roof had 3 rows of 14 ft tin on it with 35 sheets in each row. Logs in it that would dwarf a man, mostly American Chestnut that grew right in the ridge. Hand hewn and half dovetailed. It dwarved anything in Cades Cove which has a pretty good sized barn at the visitors center. Point being Done is better than looking good. Appreciate your hard work for what you get. At the end of it all Done is best Done right, sometimes has to come in second. Work with what you've got and get it done. Sorry for the novel. Just an old Tn farm kid Missing the happiest days of his life. Walking and working those fields and ridgesides, with my hero. Raise that little one to appreciate the ground that helps feed him. Let him get out there with you. Even if it means a leash is tempting. Lol It'll make memories you'll both cherish till the last breath. Dwayne

[@whitestone4401]

The pig segment had some Wizard of Oz vibes. Lol.

[@gkiferonhs]

Spring burning is a great way to clear out underbrush and provide some fertilizer right when growing season hits. You might try burning out some of those isolated islands of brush that would be easy for one person to contain.

[@debrawilliams5792]

Excellent spot for chickens I think

[@twoturtleshomestead]

Omgoodness! Little Henry is so cute! What a way for him to grow up - he's gonna be a great farmer one day 🙂 So glad you've decided on the Bresse chickens - you won't regret it! I like your plan to use the pig stall to separate them. You should mention that they take 14 - 16 weeks to grow out for meat processing so that would be a lot of time and energy using a chicken tractor. Also it would be nearly impossible to assess properly to select potential breeders. Eggs will be ready when you want them!

[@TheModernYeoman]

Will be ready soon!

[@susanray6533]

That stall looks like a good place for the Bresse chickens. I have 2 coops in old horse stalls and built roosts that are screwed to the wall. If I need to, they are easy to unscrew and stash for future use.

[@patfaulkner2069]

Work smarter, not harder. Work on a table when doing seed starts. 😊 I like putting it all in the raised bed!!!!

[@takeitslowhomestead5218]

If it was my new coop, I would put the roost(s) on the long wall that is free of the doorways, and the nests on the opposite wall, leaving plenty of space in front of the doorways. The nests don’t need to take up very much room. And you may only need one roost on the long wall. One of my flocks has eleven hens and seven nests, and they often all lay their eggs in one nest, sometimes in two nests; so, you don’t need very many nests. 🐓🐓🐓

[@TheModernYeoman]

Great tips here; will definitely consider this approach.

[@mio.giardino]

I would like to know what your plans are for that pond in the back part of your property. As for the chicken room that you were asking about what to do for the roost, I would first line the walls with either hardware cloth or at a minimum chicken wire to keep critters out that might want to get a meal. I do like the idea of a hanging roast where it could be moved out of the way when you have to do clean up in that area.

[@TheModernYeoman]

Dad and I have been chatting about the pond. It's a big project that we've put a pin in for now. Until then, we're focusing on clearing the back pasture. But that pond will absolutely come back one day!

[@rosmeeker1964]

*waves* way back when I had a littley i would pack a school type lunch before we went to the garden. Sarah had her own bench where she would sit and eat her lunch and that gave me some time. She also had a sand pit and a swing nearby. She'd play for a while and then I would put her down for a nap and have another go at the garden.

[@pamray1906]

Thanks for another good video. I enjoyed the part where you had to chase Henry❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@tammysarrazin-ux9tv]

i was just thinking that he is standing under trees in the wind and if a tree falls hes a goner arghhhhh get out of the trees boy hugsssss

[@AZJH8374]

Watch Living Traditions. They have had many different breeds of chickens, including the French breed. They change them out quite often, & always explain why. Its quite interesting & helpful.

[@TheModernYeoman]

Great tip -- thank you!

[@user-jo9lj1dq3l]

Hello Sean , we had a chicken house that had rafters and I used an old futon bed frame and laid over the rafters. As long as you have a way to have a ladder of sorts, a hanging rung frame will work amazingly and you can put it on a pulley system to keep it clean and lice free with a whitewash solution of diatomaceous earth and water in a hand pump sprayer

[@TheModernYeoman]

LOVE this idea. I actually decided to build something like this and it's in my next video. Thanks for the inspiration!

[@dollarsigns5427]

I appreciate how your videos are very inclusive and informative of your plans..Your channel has been an inspiration & I appreciate it

[@TheModernYeoman]

Appreciate the kind words!

[@danabe3220]

Cedar can affect a birds respiratory system I think. I hope all or most of your eggs hatch and are healthy.

[@carolleenkelmann3829]

It's quite obvious to me that you chose the wrong position to fill those seed trays with soil; you should have been behind that garden fence in front of the old barn.

[@HeatherNaturaly]

I bought those seed trays too. I have found them to be awkward to get the cells out once it is time to transplant.

[@user-vh8om8py9d]

Watch The Living Traditions Homestead as they raise the Bresse chickens ....Also might consider two fences with the outside one non electric

[@TheModernYeoman]

Such a brilliant idea with the two fences; can't believe I hadn't thought of that before!

[@maxinedurling3425]

Brest chickens seem to be the flavor of the month at the moment in the US you could also try the Jersey Giants Australorp and the Orpintons these are also meat birds, You could of course breed all 4 of them and see which ones you like the most both flavor and temperament wise. Not sure if you know but you will need to keep the two pig breeds that you mention for two years before you can eat them, I have heard good reports about the Berkshire or the Duroc and one that is fairly new to the US the Oxford Sandy and Black. Loved watching Henry helping you in the garden won't be long before he is telling you what to plant,

[@anitacravens333]

Oh my ! too cute!

[@jenniewolford1631]

build a chicken tractor you can fit into the raised beds, chickens will take care of all that

[@terrylink6174]

Hi it’s tie wrap your doing a great job 😊

[@jeb3415]

Hello and thank you for another fine video. As you mentioned the Bresse chicken breed it made me think of the Duroc pig breed… our local grocer was offering the Duroc meat and I had never had it before. What a delight. Thought I might mention it, it may be worth a little research I know absolutely nothing about homesteading the breed but I can tell you the meat is mighty fine, maybe even niche? Keep up the great work and blessings to you and your family.

[@renaebettenhausen3611]

Why not put the chickens on Garden Clean Up duty? Living Traditions is raising American Bress. About using the pig room for breeding the American Bress won't you need to at least enclose the room with chicken wire to protect them from predators? Don't you have a chicken tractor to grow out meat birds?

[@GrowingLittleCountryhomestead]

Those are alot of projects Sean.. I can’t wait to see it. Henry is a handful 😅. I know how that feels

[@TheModernYeoman]

Keeps me on my toes!

[@peppernc429]

Henry can run! 😂😂😂😂

[@debrawilliams5792]

You said about maybe taking it down in future, but maybe you could repurpose it for animal shelter

[@hapnewsom9217]

Spring is upon you! Seeds, prepping the beds, getting ready for the peeps, every direction you look is another thing to do! And yes, Henry is a ball of energy!! Don't know how well cardboard will discourage the Bermuda Grass, that stuff is tenacious!! Have you considered starting a worm bin? GREAT fertilizer and compost!!

[@TheModernYeoman]

That sounds like a fun project, Hap; one that I think the young one would enjoy, as well!

[@faithevrlasting]

Ah ha!! More Henry is great footage, but I see you got it at the end. In the fenced garden avoids driveway runaways.....LOL😂 Good to hear job going ok. Theres always a difficult first few weeks.

[@debrawilliams5792]

Your garden shed would be nice down in back pasture as shelter, then could use it for pigs or sheep..too bad it couldn’t be moved down there

[@TheModernYeoman]

I've thought a lot about putting a basic shelter back there. Great minds think alike!

[@stellaunger8568]

Love your channel- wishing you a great spring /summer on the homestead. ❤️😁🌹

[@dawndrake5833]

Hi Sean!

[@TheModernYeoman]

Hi Dawn!

[@terrymedina7893]

Sean thank you so much , I learn a whole lot watching your channel 👍🏽 may I ask what are you doing at your part time job? Your such a smart man 🤭

[@TheModernYeoman]

Thank you for the kind words! I am a kind of event production consultant!

[@mariesheppard3750]

Any time you play in dirt Make sure Henry has a dirt pail and shovel. them you won t be bugged so much LOL

[@karenscovill5459]

you need a sand box

[@TheModernYeoman]

Very good call!

[@Peachy08]

The cedar chips are bad for chicks lungs. Lil Henry is growing like a weed!!

[@carolcalf2032]

Yes Cedar chips are very unhealthy for chicks, or soo I’ve been told.

[@tracyzabelle]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@christinestephenson1742]

Are you going to get some calves to grow out and process? We have one we're growing out now, but he was expensive because cattle prices were up last fall. Hes a nice one though.

[@TheModernYeoman]

Not yet -- maybe one day! A lot of our neighbors raise cattle and it always has me thinking!

[@marieesposito9145]

👍

[@janetboozer4415]

🥰🥰🥰🥰

[@marthabartel604]

In that room that blue metal needs to go more to the left to seal for snakes, and possums. Permanently. Don’t leave this half done. It’s tacky and that is not your style.

[@stephaniebohn9002]

Put the chickens in your garden again.

[@lauriereese8734]

Your fabric will not work if you have dirt on it it becomes food for weeds

[@tireddad6541]

Living Traditions just went over that. I never knew