The Farm Might Not have enough HAY! Bad weather....cows eat more!

Is that a skunk? Yeah, it's a skunk. Oh man, let's have some fun on the farm today. Look at those cows. You know they hate that smell. farm. Woo. All right. >> All right, guys. We're going to take off from the house here, mobile home, whatever you want to call it. My trailer. We're going to fly over here and we're going to check on the cows and make sure they're doing all right. It's fairly early in the morning here. And uh we just want to make sure the cows have plenty of hay. We got a little bit of a dusting of snow last night and you can see there's been some calves out on the frozen pond. It's super important for me to make sure that the cows are able to break through that ice. And it looks like they've got good access to water. So that's good to go. It's fun to just kind of fly around. See this cow right here? They busted through the water. Probably this has just always been busted through ever since this whole storm. We had the coldest night of the year. It was one degree the other morning when I woke up. Man, it was chilly. Super chilly out. Donnie the bull standing right there. Looking good. So, let's fly on up. I put a hay bail out in the middle of this field and instead of unrolling hay, I've been getting stuck on the four-wheeler. So, I've been taking the tractor out and just setting hay out. And as I'm flying here, I'm doing a little inventory of how many calves I see and checking on the hay right here, which is pretty cool. The cows are just chowing down on the hay. Some of them are lounging. When they're laying down, that means they're ruminating. They're digesting, and that's a good thing. So, they all look pretty good over there. What you can't see is a lot of hay under that snow that they can't access. The farm is absolutely gorgeous and you guys can see just a beautiful shot of the North Carolina countryside here. We also need to take a look at some of our water tank. So, I set this water tank up to where it would run over so that we didn't have any freeze issues with our solar well. And you'll notice this solar well has a big pile of mulch in it. Well, that pile of mulch is to insulate all of the u components to the solar well system. So, I bury it up. When it's going to be this cold, I need to bury that up so it's well insulated. The solar well does not pump when the sun ain't shining. So, at night, it doesn't pump. Now, we're way over on the other side of the farm. Just checking on a few things and a tree was down. I could see it from across the way, but it looks like that tree did not fall on the fence. Thank goodness. just needed a little bit more work. Right? I was worried. I could see that from the house and I could also see it when I was flying around. I was wondering whether I had a tree on the fence. Now, you see to the right down here, this is the mobile chicken coupe here. These are my pasture sanitation crew, and they don't have a lot of room to roam. Chickens really don't like the ice. But you can see there's some tracks around. Uh those are my tracks running around there. There were also some tracks from some predators uh around the outside and the chickens appear to be doing pretty well. They're very wary of anything flying around them because they have been attacked by hawks. So, this starts our bail inventory. We're going to count these bales here. 2 4 6 8 10 12 14 16 18 19 1 2 3 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17. I got 17 bales in that pile and that's for that pasture. Let's just keep on counting. We're going to count every bail on the farm this morning. 18 19 20 33. I've got 33. What do you guys have right now? So that's 33. These are up on the top of the hill and they'll be fed in this pasture. I store my hay bales in the prospective pasture where they're going to be used. And there are more hay bales in pastures that need more nutrients. So you can see the pond right there. Both ponds are froze over. It's cold. Chilly chilly. So how many bales did we say we had back there? I think it was 38. Was it 38? The cow says it's 38. Now we're flying over to the next set of hay bales here. And this is a pretty big pile of hay. I'm going to try to count this. 1 2 3 4 5 6 70. I got 30 right here. Do you guys have 30? So 38, that'd be 68 bales. 68 bales should get us through about 40 days, something like that. If I'm feeding one bail on one day and two bales on the next day, you guys do the math for me. We're going to fly back over here and check on the cows again. So, 68 bales so far. And these cows are chowing down. This is uh a little unexpected encounter we're getting ready to have right here. So, I flew over. You see the cows are checking out the drone. They It doesn't bother them one bit and they like to push and shove. We got plenty of hay on the ground. Plenty left for all the cows. And I happen to catch out of the corner of my eye a little friend here. So, this cold weather is bringing the wildlife out like crazy. I see a lot more deer out in the pastures in the daytime, and it's not typical to see a skunk. You'll see him raise his tail up. He's He can tell that drone's there. I can't imagine what the cows are thinking that thing is. And I've seen the cows go after a skunk in the past and get sprayed. So, I think they've learned leave that stinky thing alone. Pretty neat. I decided to follow this skunk and see where it was going to go. I didn't know if it had a burrow or something like that nearby. I thought that they hibernated, but evidently they don't hibernate in the winter time around here. But you can see he's just searching for anything to eat. You see him stopped right there. He found something. I don't know what it was. A grub or something like that. But pretty cool. Some skunks are all white around here. Some have stripes like this. Some have a white stripe down their back. There's just a lot of skunk activity around these parts. I thought it'd be pretty cool to just watch him kind of waddle through. I hear skunks make a good pet. You guys know anybody that have a that has a skunk for a pet? I don't think I need a a pet that bad, but I hear they make good pets. They're they're pretty cute. Pretty docile little animals. So, you see this big old cow right here? She's just lounging, chilling out. Everybody's happy. Everybody's healthy. I'm super impressed with everything that's gone on this morning. And it's neat to be able to take the drone and fly around instead of going out and starting a machine wasting fuel. I mean, this cost me what, three cents to fly up and check on the animals. If you don't have a drone on your farm, I definitely recommend getting yourself a drone. Super handy to have if you're worried about something. If you're hearing something, you got a cow in distress or any animal in distress and you're super worried about it. All you got to do is toss that drone up in the air, fly around, check things out. I'll put a link to the one that I use. I I just got a smaller one called a Mavic 2, I think is what it is. Mavic Mini 2. So, that's it for the drone tour. Now we got to get these cows taken care of. Well, guys, what' you think? That was neat. Just taking a little tour around the farm with the drone. Good times. Uh the farm is absolutely gorgeous. That skunk was a bit of a surprise. I did not anticipate that. I went up a little bit later on that day and the skunk did not spray the cows. Thank goodness because she what a bad day. Lots of work to do, lots of things to do here on the farm on the future. Be sure you hit that like button as you leave. Go ahead and subscribe to the channel and hit that little bell icon and it'll notify you when I post a new video. I've got to take care of the critters and it looks like we're going to have enough hay to last us through the season. Awesome stuff. Thank you guys. We'll see you next time on the Stony Ridge. Woo! >> Come on down to the Stony Ridge. it. I'm just stuck. I just can't get out. I got to back up and see if I can roll this back and get the cows out of the way and get it get it again, bro. Better late than never. Our first snowstorm was 12 days ago. You're on your own out here, buddy. Oh, what a mess. Good for the skin. >> Who could resist? Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. CHUNKY ON DRIFT. NOT not what I wanted to do. Y'all come back now. Yeah.