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Observe Chicks and Other Farm Activities

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Kindnapping baby chicks to save them from the cold

What happens here

After the brooder setup is complete, the video provides several close-up views of the baby chicks huddling comfortably under the heat lamp and beginning to explore their new space. The chicks appear to be thriving in the warmth provided. The video then transitions to scenes of daily farm life, including feeding pigs by scattering corn on the ground and preparing chicken feed by scooping it from a large bin into buckets. These additional scenes showcase the broader farm environment.

Goal: The video concludes by showing the chicks settling into their warm brooder and transitions to other farm tasks like feeding livestock.

Tools and materials

  • Feed Scoop — Scooping feed for livestock
  • Chicken Feed
  • Corn Feed

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now uh when they're bunched together like that it means they're cold they're just trying to get warmed up from uh from the trip so they'll get better and life will be good for them I'm walking down now with my bucket uh we're going to steal some of the feed couple Scoops out of the uh Pig feeder that's a 16% I believe protein mix maybe 18% which will be good for the baby chicks for uh the first few days um chickens are omnivores they can eat pretty much anything and if they were following their mother around they'd just be eating bugs and dirt and stuff so they'll be just fine on it sometimes I think we overstress about what we're feeding our uh chickens and then we go out to uh McDonald's and eat a crappy McDonald's cheeseburger so um we need to think about that don't we the pigs are pretty curious little critters somebody's got a little bloody nose uh anyway they're pretty curious so I'm going to go ahead and give them a little bit of corn so they get out of my general area and they just uh eat the corn because they'll nibble on you they'll nibble on your legs or ankles or whatever so here's the uh pig food it's like a dust almost um let's see let's get this bit out here got some trash in there that's just leaves whatever dude so this stuff will be really good for the babies probably uh be able to get by with just uh feeding them this until they get on to regular food pellets so way more than I'll need cool little bucket though uh my friend gave me a bucket they're keeping eggshells for me so you can read that upside down uh to put in the garden in case you didn't know the benefits of putting eggshells in the garden uh you uh get what's called Blossom in rod on your tomatoes and sometimes other vegetables and uh that's just a Calcium deficiency in the soil you can crush up eggshells mix them in with your compost or mix them in with your garden soil and uh prevent blossom in rot so there's a little tip for you a little gardening tip I just doing a little walk back here just you know reminding myself of how nice it is to live out in the country um got a little Sunrise going on uh pretty cool so it's been about an hour and we're going to check on our little baby birds little baby birds let's check them out hello little baby bird hello little baby birds it looks like they're doing fantastic they're eating I think maybe they're water B is going to catch on [Music] fire yep the water bottle is starting to liquefy right there so it's good thing we checked on…

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