Calves, Beef, Gardening, and Trying Out the New Excavator

Picking up beef from the butcher, putting down weed block and mulch in the garden, Hilarie and I try out the new mini excavator, and the first calf of the year.
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[@marymelancon3024]

Got to love Pete..I started watching Pete because I was starting a small farm..About 4 years ago..And now we are doing great we have Dexter cattle and we raise turkeys and meat chickens and egg layers and we just started raising ducks for eggs and meat..I really appreciate Pete's wisdom...thanks Pete ..yall have a great mother's day.

[@MichaelAllanTorrey]

Happy Mother’s Day Hilarie! In 1961 my mother would place me in front of tv during early Sunday mornings to watch Modern Farmer. JAFAF is the reflection of that memory. My mother passed May 5, 2023 at 94. Modern Farmer is the entry point where I learned to appreciate farmers and farming. Hope you, Hil and family have a great Mother’s Day!

[@janeteckhart4886]

My mom passed about a month after yours just a couple weeks before her 94th birthday.

[@MichaelAllanTorrey]

@@janeteckhart4886 Sorry to hear that. There is no 100% healing, but time does relieve some of the pain of loss. I have memories and visit them often. Hope my few simple words help.🙏

[@Cookiegrabber-]

Happy Mother’s Day to Hilarie! 🥰

[@Bittythings]

Happy Mother’s Day Hilarie! You are one of the reasons this channel is so special! 💐

[@big.g.fromohio3546]

I love how the rest of the herd comes to meet the new member of the family.

[@johncourtneidge]

Yes!

[@MikeOrazzi]

That was pretty cool. Pete is going to enjoy having that excavator too.

[@ezone913]

That Case is a great addition. Sure beats the shovel and a mattock. Thanks for sharing, Pete. Happy Mother's Day, Hillary.

[@1russodog]

‘Having a calf is a very big deal for us’. Well Mr Pete and Mrs Hillary, you’re the best in getting our day off to a wonderful start.

[@kevinkoepke8311]

Happy Mother's Day, Hilarie! Farm and herd looking good, Pete.

[@bgatlin5918]

Hilarie got a new calf for Mother’s Day! How sweet to see nature take its course and all the mothers give their support. Hoping all the others go just as smooth. Just love y’all !! ❤️

[@ronarmstrong8585]

Pete, what nice Mothers Day gift you bought Hillary, her own mini excavator, what a thoughtful husband you are. Reminds me of the time , Homer Simpson bought a men's bowling ball for Marges birthday. Just kidding, Hillary hope you have a wonderful Mother's Day.

[@Jeff-jg7jh]

A friend of mine did the same thoughtful thing. I was a joke for the time.

[@jenaswartout4399]

That baby excavator is the cats meow Mr. Pete. And it will come in handy!

[@oledavec]

Thanks again, Pete. Love the excavator. Nice addition, as is the first calf. The communal welcome is cool. Glad to see spring up there. Best regards.

[@ruthwillis6153]

Happy Mothers Day to Hilarie and congratulations on the first calf of the season. 🎉🎉

[@scuttlebuttz7202]

Hope Hilary had a nice Mother's Day! A little belated wish for you! 🤗❤

[@RatdogDRB]

Love that notion of using the paper/mulch. Clean equipment always runs "more gooder" and goes much faster. LOL That's gonna be a NICE addition to the farm. Those Tulip steaks are looking delicious, great grill material there. Congrats on the new little one, just as cute as ever. And a Happy Mother's Day wish for Hilarie, the channel's blossoming equipment operator.

[@deb283028]

HAPPY SPRING!!! Happy Mother’s Day to all the moms🌷🐄🌞

[@raincoast9010]

Nice garden system and i liked that tub of clean water for the cows.

[@scrappyquilter102]

Thanks Pete. You are an oasis of sanity in this crazy world.

[@malcolmpas]

A bloke with a new toy - I love it how we can always justify a new toy, I mean tool ! 😂

[@oldmanrock7542]

Happy Mother's Day. Pete has a new toy, I mean tool.

[@anthonysutherland9487]

I can see a new hobby collecting and restoring mini excavators.

[@charleswebster2550]

My first thought! What's that saying? You can tell the age of the boy by the price of his toys?😉

[@ThomasDrehfal]

The cows are always fun to watch as you change pastures. You will get a lot of use out of that excavator - great purchase!

[@suepumphrey1559]

I hope your family is happy and well. I love the birds.

[@raincoast9010]

I said to myself when Pete started to clean it, he is going to get a manual for the machine and sure enough... ha ha ha. Make sure you hit all the grease points! Good for you, it's a great tool for the farm.

[@bikerhighmiler8998]

I'm sure you'll find plenty of uses for that mini excavator. Especially with that thumb attachment!!

[@markfin7225]

Just love calving time. We raise Belted Galloway cattle. Just four calves left. Pete, just love the videos. Hillary, Happy Mother’s Day!

[@rancancookcanoy9768]

Happy Mother’s Day Hilarie. Like your idea for the craft paper and planting your garden. We are having our coffee and enjoying your video. Have a great Sunday. Thank you

[@jimamundsen7029]

Loved the calving! New life. Hey, Pete, on your excavator - you gotta peel off the rental company decal! Make it yours! :)

[@JustaFewAcresFarm]

Hi Jim, after the video I took what I could of them off. Heated them with a hair drier and scraped at them. Got the lettering off at least.

[@jimamundsen7029]

Hahaha! Excellent! Now you need a decal of "Just a Few Acres Farm!" Love your channel. :) @@JustaFewAcresFarm

[@serenagomez3864]

Thank you for the calm and beautiful format!!

[@ltbfarms]

Hilarie Happy Mother's day!!! You and Pete are among the best in agriculture KZbin.. thanks for all you do at helping people understand agriculture.

[@keithwest2575]

Happy Mother's Day to Hilarie! As always, thanks for sharing with us. Congrats on the new calf and hope the others show up soon. I have many friends who have shared that the mini excavator was one of their best purchases and didn't know how they had gotten by without it for so many others. Take care & stay safe.

[@christianhansen3009]

You dont have to say "I hope you enjoy this video". This is the best content on youtube, and you could be a tv star. But I am sure you dont want that. You make good money on youtube now, and can still live your live. But time on videos and cameras cost money too. You have a nice balance. And so far no adds😊

[@Liberty_DIY]

It's in need of a new paint job so it fits in with all the red tractors. It's what I would do. IH Red would work quite well I be thinking.

[@PaffordHomestead]

Good morning Pete and cows ❤

[@crbridges]

You are with us now “ I said I can do it I never said I was good at it”

[@AndrewHCann]

Excellent video Pete :) , Hilary :) , cows , yes learning on doing gardening is fun too do always enjoy it to and learning new equipment always fun to do ! Plus Hilary Happy Mother's Day too!

[@boomerdrillman]

Another great video Pete, Happy mother's Day Hillary and great job with the excavator!

[@brycewiborg8095]

The Vegan thing baffles me. I understand minimizing meat intake, but would never want to deny myself meat entirely. Thank you Pete.

[@sailinwrench]

I would bet that excavator can pile drive fence posts in nicely. No more waiting on the other guy. Food for thought 😊.

[@johnwood738]

You sir will get me in trouble! Out for mother’s day breakfast and I’m watching your video.

[@biffking8198]

Brilliant watching Hillary on the Mini Digger soon master the Controls

[@maryricketts8526]

Very good video. Happy Mother's Day Hilary. Nothing like a new calf on the farm for the occasion. Beautiful little critter.. love your gentleness with them😊

[@rosejohnson452]

Lots of info today: Garden philosophy of no till and a bag check of the soon to be moms. (Utterly Devine)

[@just_me8796]

And the cycle begins again 😀. Love your bad jokes and Hillary is awesome!

[@ralphfonseca9303]

Your spring and summer videos are the best !!

[@alfredomarotta6604]

Way to go Hillary, you did better then me. Happy mother's day.

[@zeekfromcentralfl3299]

Love the newborn calf! Thanks for sharing!

[@tonyioannoni4951]

Hi Pete, nice excavator you got yourself, that is such a versatile tool, all you are missing now is a ditching and trenching bucket, and maybe later a post digger, and you will have a complete tool, it will do the hard work for you...Have fun!

[@jpeel2066]

Looks a handy little excavator. Thanks for the video. All the best 🇬🇧.

[@samvalentine3206]

Happy Mother's Day to Hillarie and all Mom's watching this channel. Great to see the new life coming to the farm! And Pete has a new toy in the mini-excavator! I see fun times ahead! Thank you for sharing what's going on and your ideas for gardening. It's always a good time when Just a Few Acres Farm posts a video!

[@larrysmith8315]

Another great and interesting video Pete. Looks like you may have an excavator operator with Hilarie taking to the machine with confidence. Greetings from Queensland Australia.

[@estherch8394]

Great sharing the garden. Hope to see the harvest. Great new toy, glad Hillary got to try it.

[@jamesleesley]

Happy mother's day, Hillary.

[@clintonirwin6825]

Happy Mother’s Day Hillarie from Ireland

[@randybennett5417]

That excavator is gonna be the new family toy.

[@bstiger6482]

Great idea / tip on gardening without weeds. They are a pain to hoe out all during the growing season.

[@kirkvermont7965]

I absolutely love how you don’t even see the cows waving there tails because of bugs! Your solution is epic!

[@ericfunnell1901]

Love it when you get a heifer calf. And cute too

[@MillicentAspinet]

Happy Mother's Day to Hillary!

[@moethetoe613]

I very much enjoy your channel, I’m not a farmer but enjoy.

[@user-ov9rj6ze7v]

It’s the best time of the year. Grass is growing,warming up and haven cafes

[@DoubleDRanch2]

I love your videos! You explain things very well and your voice tone is pleasant to listen to. Thank you for such good content! You inspire me to do better with my little farm.

[@Alpha1Farms]

Happy Mother’s Day Hilarie!

[@OldRedTractors]

thanks for the new ideas for gardening.

[@darkwood777]

Brings back memories of raising a newborn calf when the mother didn't survive. It was a lot of round the clock work getting the formula prepared and eventually weaning her.

[@stackshouse]

Hi Pete, not sure if you’ve seen this new hydrant idea yet, but I saw a post from Midwest innovative tech that seems brilliant. The basic premise is adding a pit less adapter to the bottom of the hydrant and placing the hydrant into a pvc pipe with the other half of the pit less in the bottom of the pvc pipe.

[@abbert5553]

Absolutely Wonderful content. Happy Mother's day Hill!

[@lynnclark4208]

Alright, Hillary! You go, woman! HAPPY MOTHERS DAY!

[@chrismorgan6898]

Pete another great video. You can use the bucket of the excavator to push fence posts into the ground too.

[@joeoconnor9630]

Happy mother's Day Hilarie

[@taylorhomestead6644]

This video was so much fun. Thank you. I love that Hilarie was on the new machine.

[@AlhiXD]

Loved the pun today. i'll share too. Cows aren't good at math unless .... they use a cowculator.

[@jamesbreault5762]

She will be a pro in no time

[@paulbarr3981]

Great episode Pete. Really enjoyed it. Perhaps because I like most people have varied days. Some planned and others pop up. Nice calves for sure.

[@duaneguenther3361]

Happy Mother’s Day Hilarie! Love the farmall shirt I have the same one. Great video keep up the hard work.

[@ozzyfranf]

I've found that cardboard boxes work pretty good for weed block.

[@gone2fish956]

Nice addition with the mini. Congrats! Thanks for another great video.

[@jimbucher1049]

Always so great to see you...doing a great job !!!

[@vossierebel]

OK, I know there will be folk who have already commented - sorry, I apologise, I don't get to read the comments - time is short! So, here I go. When you first started rejuvenating the garden I wanted to suggest you have a look at Charles Dowding's "No Dig" channel for ideas... but, now I see you are well on that route already! However, like you, he is an absolute inspiration so you may well learn a trick or two. Like, if I may ask, why don't you put aside some of your own compost pile to include in the mulch for next year? And then, wood-chip paths? As always, thanks for your great channel... I will make it to the farmer's market one day... and - I can't wait to throw some of your homegrown steaks on the coals! Boy... how I look forward to that day!

[@genegreear4183]

I sure envy your free compost. Here in Arkansa, I go to a saw mill and pay ten dollars for all the saw dust I can carry. Then I compost it with coffee grounds, char left over from my burning old trees and even the shells from all the eggs I eat. I’ve already used this year’s compost. I have already started the one for next year and will start one latter in the summer for the year after compost. Yip I sure do envy you and your free compost. Later

[@damo4370]

I know the feeling regarding calves, we’ve got 45 cows & heifers here in Australia, tiny scale really. We leave them to own devices, but love to see new life. For us, went back breeding as it’s more rewarding than just growing out steers, even if the losses are higher sometimes.

[@sporranheid]

Thoroughly enjoyable episode. 👍

[@markflick1641]

😀Hilarie is a natural . Sunday is always better with a few acres . I look forward to gardening so much since I retired . Love variety in today’s video . Thank you Pete .God Bless

[@SuperMAZ007]

Modern excavators are fun to operate unlike the old ones with very stiff and hard hydraulic leavers or just hard cable winches. I think all yours needs is just general maintenance and it will be fine. Calf for mothers day is just awesome.

[@stanleygallman7800]

Old things that make a day wonderful and new is a good day! Just a few acres thanks for sharing

[@allencupsie6560]

That's beautiful congratulations Grandpa

[@munroboice1542]

happy calf and Mother's Day

[@codymon100]

Hope all the calf’s are born healthy and you have a great day.

[@1944chevytruck]

CONGRATS!

[@nightsailor1]

Get a can of ArmourAll Tire Shine and waste it on the Case Excavator. All the plastic, engine Included. Hillary is happy with her new excavator. She needs to be the primary user. Trust me.

[@larrykrise3609]

hi pete.love those animals.must say you have a great wife there.best of luck always.

[@stackshouse]

You probably won’t see this, buttttrtt when you add the next yard hydrant, look up the new way of doing it! Basic premise is terminating the underground pipe in a 3” pvc pipe w/ pit less adapter, then putting the other half on the bottom of the hydrant

[@PatricesProjects]

What an obedient cow, having a calf on demand.

[@kirkvermont7965]

Great purchase! Cant wait for the projects.

[@candicespencer2021]

I love all the Espoma tones! I use the biotone when planting flowers or landscaping plants and even put it in my raised vege beds when I first plant.

[@jamesbrown8718]

I enjoy seeing calving season on your farm, your cows always have great looking calf’s and the others always feels the need to help in the process of cleaning them and being apart of the birthing. Enjoy every video you and Hillary put out always full of great information, and has great humor in them. Watching Hillary on the excavator learning to run it, she did a great job for the first time being on one. Hope this calving season is as great as all the others on your farm Pete.

[@DUEYZ4U]

Thanks for another video, Pete.

[@user-di7in2zx1c]

Pete and Hilary, Thank You both for great video today. Your tutorial on organic gardening was very interesting. It's wonderful that your Township provides you decent looking mulch and your Dad was kind enough to pick it up and deliver it to the farm. The Case Mini Hoe will definitely come in handy for a lot of jobs around the farm. Hilary looked reasonably comfortable operating the Mini Hoe. Like anything mechanical , it takes some time and practice. Nice to see the first heifer of the season. Your Tulip Cow is well built with a straight top line .

[@matthewwright57]

Also, weeds arent the end of the world. There are plenty of nutrients, so as long as it isnt outgrowing the garden , its not so bad. Just keep mulching over it.

[@DavidSunshineAquaWash]

Good looking cattle!