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Monitor Livestock and Inspect Winter Infrastructure

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

What happens here

Following the hay distribution, the farmer continues the aerial farm inspection. This includes monitoring livestock activity, observing a skunk foraging in the snow, and checking the solar-powered water well system. The well is insulated with a pile of mulch to prevent freezing, highlighting winter maintenance practices for critical farm infrastructure.

Tools and materials

  • Drone
  • Mulch

What they say

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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…

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