Farm Chores With Zach

Today I take you along as I take care of the farm. We've got chickens, cows, and pigs to take care of! Things are starting to grow well now that we've received some good rainfall!

[@barbaralewis3832]

Maybe some of your older hens could earn thier keep with bug patrol in the garden? Been meaning to compliment you on your intro music, very cheerful! In fact I've found myself humming the tune throughout the day.

[@ThePasturedHomestead]

That’s wonderful! I think the chickens may do more damage to the plants but I’ve heard ducks can be good!

[@3sisters634]

So good! A ton of work for one young man but you are doing it!!!

[@brendahaire8824]

You work very hard on that farm. Your parents raised a great young man.

[@danabe3220]

Your Buff Orpington (I think) had a close call with some kind of predator. Three of my free rangers weren't so lucky when a bobcat got them last week. Another great video. Always enjoy to see whats happening on your homestead.

[@ThePasturedHomestead]

We later found out it was the neighbors breeding dogs. They like to breed shebas and one got out. Thankfully they are selling them for good

[@danabe3220]

@@ThePasturedHomestead Thats good.

[@Diwondermum]

Zach you are doing so well on your property! You should be so proud of all you are doing. The animals all look in top condition and your gardens are thriving too. It must make you happy to have such success at a hard job. Keep going! You are awesome!

[@ThePasturedHomestead]

We are very happy with all the world we’ve done. Always looking forward to doing more projects!

[@coldspring624]

Ha..I always have liked roosters with grit.

[@mscarlarn]

Beautiful garden. We always loved playing with the cows and bulls. Good job.

[@MarciPrice-cl6eq]

You are doing great! It's a lot of work...but your working for yourself & not others.

[@kylejones2075]

It's really cool to see you do your chores and how you treat your animals and try to make make them friendly to you follow you around and do do what you want to do that's really cool not like some big farm that they're all stuck out in the pasture and they don't have any personality well once again thanks for sharing and see you next time

[@oliverjackson3461]

Good video on completing your daily farm chores. It can be hard work but lots of fun and showing how the gardens are growing can be rewarding. I hope your chickens 🐔continue to do well however bad time for the rooster🐓

[@monicafelton2088]

Dawn dish soap and water more water it will work God bless you 💕🙏

[@ThePasturedHomestead]

Is that for our potatoes?

[@monicafelton2088]

@@ThePasturedHomestead it for all of your vegetables it get some of the bud's. It helps dawn

[@crissy9792]

Great to see updates and day to day chores. Oooo more piglets 🐷🐷 hope all goes well. Loving Buddy he’s going to make a fine bull I’m sure. Keep up the fantastic work you are doing

[@rnp1785]

You’re living my dream I never got to do. Great you started it when you are young. I’m too old to do it now.

[@michellebever7729]

Looking good for your first year. Try planting Marigolds around your plants, there are many bugs that they deter.

[@ThePasturedHomestead]

Good idea!

[@glengillis7775]

​@ThePasturedHomestead 😅your doing great job.

[@annie.a.]

the place is looking very lush and green and those wildflowers are so pretty.

[@ThePasturedHomestead]

We love this time of year! Thunderstorms give us a lot of rainfall

[@stanleygallman7800]

Yes Sir it was kinda exciting to get the notification that you had a new video posting. Zach it is so good to be updated and see how well things are progressing for you and your family on the farm how you have been thoughtfully putting your infrastructure in place working with and training the Farm Animals and it's just extremely exciting to see all that you have been able to learn and accomplish from the time that you have been sharing your journey with the KZbin channel fans so may this all continue to be a great very meaningful learning experience and interaction throughout the remainder of your journey. And I also am so excited and proud for way that both Ashlyn and yourself have decided to share and document this part of your life and journey! Hoping that you might become somewhat of a inspiration for others. Keep up the good work and we will see you and hear about things on the farm in the coming days. Until then take care 🙏

[@garycloud5705]

Zach. Broccoli, cauliflower, brussel sprouts, cabbage are cool weather vegetables. They do not flourish in the heat of summer and fewer there are fewer bugs. Try planting them again about a week before Labor day. You will have fresh vegetables in October. If you are starting from seed then plant a week or two before. Hope this helps.

[@mindydillow504]

Weeds go crazy in the midwest. We doubled the size of our garden this year using the woven weed fabric and love it. We live in central Indiana and looking forward to not having a jungle of weeds shen we get busy canning. Your garden is looking great. Gardening is always a learning experience and it is fun experimenting with different varieties or new veggies. Keep up the great work!

[@karenr67]

Always enjoy your videos

[@lilawilley2661]

Spray with mixture of Dawn dish soap and water 2tbl dawn with 1 gal water

[@lilawilley2661]

Sorry the mixture of Dawn and water for your cabbage tomatoes cucumbers and other above ground plants hope it works

[@ThePasturedHomestead]

Thank you thank you!

[@BlindFaith777]

Tons of work. You’re doing a great job, both on the farm and with the videos. Currently in GA after an extended vacation in FL. Taking our time getting back to MI thanks to Canada’s fires! 😷🥵🤨. Really odd about the fires, I’ve lived in MI my entire life minus a year and 1/2 and there’s never ever been uncontrolled ‘wildfires’ in Canada nor MI in the 51 years I’ve been alive. 🤔

[@ThePasturedHomestead]

Interesting 🤔

[@kathleenwilder3367]

Really enjoy watching your videos. Both you and Ashlyn seem suited to this lifestyle. You’ve taken on a lot of responsibilities at such a young age. I live in North Carolina and enjoy your commentary about life in Kentucky around the Amish families.

[@forced4motorsports]

Good news on the chicks. Glad to hear it given what you've been through. I also have Red Rangers coming from MM end of July. I think they call them the Big Red Ranger now. I just processed 4 of 11 of my Freedom Rangers this weekend and I have to say it's an awesome bloodline (from Mt. Healthy Hatchery). These 4, all males, were 6+Lbs live weight at only 7 weeks. All but one dressed out under 4lbs and he was 3lb 15oz. 4lbs dressed at just 7 weeks old for a FR is crazy good. I have 7 left. One is a runt, one is a 5lb 8oz that I'm keeping and the rest are females; two over 5lbs, both of which I'm also keeping to create an American Bresse/FR cross. I know this is a book but thanks to you I'm not only mixing my own feed (and growing some of it), I'm grinding my own starter thanks to the EveryGrow. I would never have know existed if it wasn't for you. I keep meaning to check to see if they have a consumer grade fodder shredder and a pelletizer; both of which would be game changers.

[@ThePasturedHomestead]

Wow, those grew out so fast! I noticed out red ranger meat birds are the same size as out Cornish cross birds and the rangers are even 1 week younger! Glad you found a great feed recipe! Did you use the feed recipe on your meat birds or did you use a meat bird feed?

[@BlindFaith777]

Missing your videos. Hope everything is okay on the homestead. Sending love and prayers.

[@ThePasturedHomestead]

Thank you! We are doing wonderful! Taking a much needed break from KZbin for a moment!

[@BlindFaith777]

@@ThePasturedHomestead enjoy! I can imagine how hard it is to film while trying to get all that work done. Tell Rosie hello & give her a gentle pat from me. (:

[@shirleymoore4885]

Garden is looking great Zach and when it comes pumpkin season you can always sell some of them too for profit plus the animals love them and it’s a good dewormed for them. Do you have a video on how you make your own pig feed and chicken feed it’s getting so expensive anymore to buy it we try to give them as much scraps that we have and tops off of veggies too.

[@ThePasturedHomestead]

I have a short video on how to make the chicken feed. Not for the pig feed though. I’ll make one at some point’

[@donnakearse2503]

You have lots of weeds in your garden.

[@ThePasturedHomestead]

You are right about that’

[@mandykal]

Got to get some Guinea fowls for the pests…

[@DarrenCharron]

You’re welcome from Manitoba Canada. We’ve got zombie fires that are still burning under the snow in parts of the country. I am a homesteader as well on a small acreage and I enjoy your channel it’s nice to see the younger generation building their dreams living the homestead life. 😊

[@ThePasturedHomestead]

Wow, That doesn't sound too great! Thank you Darren!

[@roncarlson8061]

Great video Zach

[@champagnemommy]

We ❤ Buddy!

[@ashlyn.thepasturedhomestead]

Yes we do 🥹💗

[@MarciPrice-cl6eq]

I love my Plymouth Rock rooster...he will protect his ladies, but no issues on attacking us.

[@ThePasturedHomestead]

That’s exactly what we need!

[@michaelmartineau1373]

Zach you have a very good connection with your animals. It really shines the way they react to you. Keep up the good work lad.

[@suzannebazeghi5698]

Hi zach i love your music in morning make me wakeup i am 61 and have plan in mybmind to start homesteady and i am learning aa bout it thanks for sharing your chors honestly not everyone says everything but you say them takecare from canada.

[@llt4000]

Great job on your homestead!

[@MichiganMike]

you need a bear or a 4 wheeler, my bear really comes in handy for the land, farmers around here are having troubles with growth and fruiting with this C.smoke, although we see heavy hase from it it hasnt effecting my area here in southern MI, plants and fruit trees are doing awesome

[@ThePasturedHomestead]

We would love to get a Honda atv or a Kawasaki mule utv for the farm someday

[@MichelleMiller-yi1xp]

The beating up on a couple of ladies tickled me 😆but excellent homestead, I hope to start my own someday in the near future.

[@russse2793]

Sure hope you, the Mrs, and your animals are doing ok. We haven't heard from ya in a bit.

[@ThePasturedHomestead]

We are doing wonderful! Thank you 😊 we’ve been very busy with family moving to town and family visiting

[@Ann10999]

Hope you can find a pretty calm rooster 🐓 I got two little silkies and one turned out to be a Rooster and he’s a mess you’ve heard the saying mean as a hound dog ,well that’s wht I call him my little hound dog 🤣

[@ThePasturedHomestead]

Oh geez! I would have thought silkie would be nice!

[@Ann10999]

@@ThePasturedHomestead Oh the female is a sweetie but when I had them inside he was awful about pecking her put them outside and still pecks her but not as much thank goodness 😅 I almost got rid of him but then decided to keep him thinking about hatching 🐣 some because they’re not hard to take care of in fact kinda easy and there so pretty 😍but I may half to wind up putting my little hound dog to him self if he get worse wth the pecking, I know they’re gonna do that but I can’t stand to see one get picked on 😡

[@TheReconciledPodcast]

Try spraying water and dawn dish soap on the cabbage and lettuce for the caterpillars, or use BT-it’s natural

[@ThePasturedHomestead]

Great idea!

[@tracy1074]

Can you please do a house update? Thanks

[@ThePasturedHomestead]

We will eventually! Still have some work to do!

[@stanleygallman7800]

Hoping that things are going well on the farm it's been awhile?

[@ThePasturedHomestead]

Things are going great, thank you! Taking a little break!

[@kimberlyguimond4186]

I grow pumpkins just for my chickens.

[@joenicoud5967]

Interesting

[@TJP-on7hm]

A farmer I knew referred to black angus as the goats of cattle, they eat most everything! Dried leaves they love even eat cardboard! How many pigs have you butchered since being on the homestead?

[@ThePasturedHomestead]

We haven’t butchered a pig yet! This January we will be butchering “bacon”

[@DonHodges-n7k]

Just another text in English doing a great job.

[@joenicoud5967]

Did the storms hit your farmstead

[@sforhetz10]

Hey Zack if you feed the chickens in the morning why would they put much effort into foraging? Feed them in the evening, in their shed and lock them up. THat way the poop stays where you can get to it. They'll get used to the new routine.

[@briangrammer898]

❤videos ❤

[@TheComparatorX]

farm

[@joybochsler7160]

Buy a cochin rooster sweetest boys

[@corneliusanderson-t3y]

salt and mineralls redmond they need too