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Moves it slick as silk. I was a little worried but it doesn't even hesitate. The sleds help a ton!

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Great question... thanks for asking. The fact that these plants bolted isn't a function of the variety or genetics. Bolting is a natural process when the plant experiences certain external conditions. For cool weather plants like these lettuces, they tend to bolt once they hit a certain age and also when the temps are higher. The offspring of from the seeds won't bolt any faster than the parent plants did. When we plant seeds in the fall, they won't bolt as fast because the cool weather will not trigger them to bolt as quickly. If you liked the video, please give it a thumbs up and don't forget to SUBSCRIBE and check out some of our other videos! Thanks again for the question!

Thanks for the comment! I'm sure the bees had visited the flowers in the past, but there weren't any bees on these flowers currently. I'm not sure if you were thinking that the insects in the bag were bees or not, but those were just some beetles that got caught up in the shaking process. No bees were in the video but we do have bee hives in the back of the property. You can check out that video in our library. Don't forget to SUBSCRIBE!!

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Well... it must really blow your mind that we eat those rabbits as food for our family and our dogs. You also clearly didn't read any of the other comments or the information in the description of the video. These rabbits are on pasture during the day in tractors and then put in hutches like this at night to protect them from predators like wolves, coyotes, and foxes. Your rabbits are pets... ours are food.

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Haha.... yes... it does have kind of a rhythmic sound to it, so I could absolutely see how you might have mistaken it for music at first.

Now that is right up there with the old Fear Factor show. I'm not sure we're ready to go there just yet, but the chickens were lined up for them!

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Awesome! We're so glad it helped!!! What do you think was the most useful part?

Thanks for the question! Frankly, I'd say there is. If you don't check the trap often, the water (if you're making it a lethal trap) can stink and that will keep other mice from taking the bait. If you have multiple traps, it helps keep it going longer without having to dump the water and start over again. Also, some mice won't like the look of a setup for whatever reason and multiple traps gives you the opportunity to set it up a little differently so the mice might be more interested in it.

Hey @jacknixon496! Thanks for the question! I'd probably need to know a bit more about how you're using the hardware cloth. If you check out one of our other videos on making our chicken or rabbit tractors, you'll see that we use hardware cloth on all of those. However, we've not typically tried to connect the hardware cloth in those scenarios. What we've historically done is create an overlap of 4-5 inches where the two sections of hardware cloth come together and then staple them down on the wooden frame of the tractor. If you're making some type of freestanding fence with hardware cloth and need to connect the two rolls, that's a little less common. I would suggest using the small diameter wire that the rolls are typically secured with. You can then "weave" or "sew" the two sections together by overlapping the sections by about 4-5 inches threading the wire through the squares. Alternately, if you're looking for something that is faster but maybe not as strong, you could also use zip ties on the overlapping sections. The problem with this method is that it relies on the strength of the wire in the single cells where the tie wraps are vs. where the wire lacing would use the strength of the full rows of cells. Hopefully that helps get you started! Please don't forget to give our video a thumbs up to help us out and consider subscribing to our channel!

Subscribed! My family is in the process of beginning a homestead. Thanks for the video!

Try putting a small stick into the hole in the wood that you have your trap near. That can force them to try to find another hole and your trap is right there...

Or if you can get your hands on a already dead bee and put that in the container. Should help attract them.

Well.. unfortunately we don't have any evergreen varieties like Cedar or Siberian Larch around here. It's mostly Pines, Maple, Sweet Gum, Oak, and Holly trees. This trap is a great for places that don't have access to those types of wood. Another thing you can do is burn the wood like the Japanese Sugi Ban (Yakisugi) and that works great to repel the bugs.

Thank you for the kind words! We hope it helps you when you're trimming your hen's beak. It's easy to miss long beaks like this if you've got quite a few chickens in your flock. If you liked the video, please give it a "thumbs up" and also consider subscribing to our channel and check out some of our other homesteading videos. Good luck!

Hey...thanks for the question! Please give the video a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe if you like our content! Believe it or not, the Rubbermaid Brute cans are considered food grade safe. The National Sanitation Foundation (NSF as it's more commonly known today) has a listing of food safe storage containers, and you can find the Brute cans listed below as NSF/ANSI 2 certified. info.nsf.org/Certified/Food/Listings.asp?Company=40000&Standard=002

@@purposedrivenhomestead thank you

That's wonderful to hear! Welcome to the channel, and thanks for subscribing! How did you hear about us from Pinball Preparedness? Was it one of his recent videos or something else? I'd love to reach out and thank him for the shout out! Even if you don't have any animals that would eat the comfrey, the fertilizer value alone is well worth it for your plants. As a nutrient miner, comfrey is a great addition. Just make sure it's the right kind like we mentioned in the video. Otherwise you might find the comfrey spreading a bit more than you'd like. Please share our channel with others!

Thanks for the comment and question! The answer depends on a few things, but primarily on living conditions. We have our chickens on pasture with our milk cows, so with the exception of picking up eggs, the effort is no different than any other animal. Making sure they have food and water... etc. We keep our rabbits on pasture as well... so we feed them very little "feed" as they are able to graze for most of their food. However, we keep them in rabbit tractors for protection and those tractors have to be moved (by hand) each day. In that case... the chickens are less maintenance than the rabbits. However, the scenarios and goals matter. If you're raising the animals for meat, I could argue that rabbits convert better to body mass than chickens and are less effort to actually produce offspring. So there's a lot of factors in here that I can't answer without knowing more about your specific questions and goals. We have an article on the topic below. Hope this helps! purposedrivenhomestead.com/2022/03/09/5-reasons-rabbits-are-better-than-chickens-for-backyard-homesteading/

Thanks for the comment and great question! They sell "deburring tools" like the one I've linked below. amzn.to/3whW5Ia If you're on a budget, you can also use and strong flat metal edge like the back of a heavy duty knife. You don't want to use the blade edge, but instead you want the thick back edge that has a 90 degree angle on it (essentially a square edge). The flat square edge will flatten out and break off those burs if you work it enough. The reality is that a burring tool will work much better though, so I'd recommend using the tool designed for it. It's not very expensive to pick one up and they will last you nearly forever and the tips are replaceable if the edge ever gets nicked up. If you liked the video, please give it a "thumbs up" and consider subscribing to our channel! Thanks again!

What does that mean?

What dimensions are you looking for?

@@purposedrivenhomestead sorry, of your wood stand.

@@LetsProblemSolve I didn't include the stand info in our video but it was about 3 feet deep, about 8 feet long. I chose the length so that I could have 3 water barrels and then also add a solar pump system later. I still need to do the solar pump part... but I have the room for when I choose to. The height of the stand will all depend on the slope of your ground and how high you want your water spigot to be. I suggest something about waist height for you. Hope that helps! If you enjoyed the video, please give it a thumbs up and don't forget to subscribe and share!

Clearly... you didn't watch the video. If you had, you would have observed that it's not our land to make the choice. It belongs to the family and everything goes to a vote and logging was what the family wanted to do. It's also what the forestry service recommended to prevent a wildfire situation.

We had planned on selling quail and quail eggs for reptile feeding before we left the Midwest. No market here, but the zoo would have been a good candidate to sell for their animals and was on our list to check into had we stayed. Doing this a a live trap would absolutely work there. Much better for feeding your snake than using rats because mice can't really do any damage to your snake where a rat can.

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She wasn't overly thin, but we got her fixed up and the beak trimmed nicely. Don't forget to subscribe if you like our content!

Thank you! Yes, it was a long time coming but we are so blessed to have them. It's been a big benefit to our little homestead already! Fresh milk, butter, cheese, sour cream, yogurt, and buttermilk.

@@purposedrivenhomestead now you're just rubbing it in 😂😂

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Yes... the commercial ones are pretty straightforward, but I'd like to make some of our own to see the difference in performance. I would think you could make them considerably cheaper but not sure if they would work as well. Hey if you like our content, don't forget to give the video a thumbs up (helps us a ton) and consider subscribing to our channel!