タグ: Farm Life

▶ February 20, 2023 Our First DIY Rabbit Hutch Is Finished A search for a cheap cage led to a hundred rabbits needing help. Now the boys' team has a roomy new homemade… ▶ February 18, 2023 A Little Music Break: “Kaze ni Naru” on Ukulele A break from farm news: I sing and play a ukulele cover of the Japanese song "Kaze ni Naru" ("Becoming the Wind"). ▶ February 13, 2023 Our First Chicken Paradise Sticker Set Is Here! Our official chat sticker set, "Chicken Paradise Hawaii 1st," designed by my mother, is full of the funny faces of our chickens… ▶ February 10, 2023 Pigeon Homing Practice Begins — but Nobody Can Use the Door Back in the pigeon room: Happy and her husband, a frizzle-feathered pigeon with eyebrows, a giant white rescue, and a flock that… ▶ February 4, 2023 Thank You! We Reached 1,000 Subscribers A special report with Star: our channel passed 1,000 subscribers! A big thank-you, a word on where the channel's earnings go, and… ▶ January 30, 2023 How to Keep Happy Chickens, Part 1: Their Living Space Part one of our happy-chicken series: space, perches, nest boxes, bedding and poop, and how many roosters and hens to keep —… ▶ January 25, 2023 Our Pet Salon Opens: First Haircuts with Clippers Someone donated a set of dog clippers, so I tried them on our long-haired foster rabbits and a guinea pig. The customers… ▶ January 20, 2023 Our First Tote Bag, Starring Baby Tsuki Our original tote bag is finished! The design is based on a photo of Tsuki as a chick — so we asked… ▶ January 18, 2023 Bird Flu: What It’s Like Here in Hawaii Taro finds a sunny spot while I talk about bird flu: how wild birds are tested in Hawaii, how chickens are kept… ▶ January 16, 2023 Iroha the Dog Visits the Chicken Playground, and Meet Sugar Now that Iroha has calmed down a little, I let our dog into the chicken playground. Plus Sugar, the hen who slipped… ▶ January 14, 2023 Our 200th Video: Calling Every Chicken by Name in One Take For our 200th video, I tried to call every bird in the coop and playground by name with one camera. The count:… ▶ December 30, 2022 Looking Back on 2022, Our First Year on the New Farm A quiet evening with the flock, Iroha hoping someone will play, and a look back at our first year on the new… ▶ December 23, 2022 Thank You, 2022! Our Blooper Reel To wrap up 2022, a digest of outtakes: tangled intros, a forgotten breed, the wrong name, mosquitoes, and animals with ideas of… ▶ December 19, 2022 Meet Ohana the Rabbit — and Our Entrance Is Suddenly Closed The brown rabbit from the shelter has a name: Ohana. Then some bad news: our main entrance is closed, and every feed… ▶ December 12, 2022 Our 2023 Calendar Arrives — Plus a Pigeon Nursery Update Our 2023 Chicken Paradise calendar finally reached our house, glossy and beautiful. Then a check on Happy's chicks, the white pigeons' babies… ▶ December 5, 2022 Meet the Foster Bunnies: Dwarfs, a Lionhead Mix and Angoras Pellet time with the 14 rabbits I fostered while looking for homes in Hawaii — a rabbit avalanche, a bunny with two-tone… November 30, 2022 Farm Notes — November 2022: Pen-chan Going Strong, Baby Taro and Kittens in the Feed Box Thirteen clips from November: Pen-chan going strong after two broken legs, Taro at three months, Natsu all grown up, chicken bodyguards, kittens,… ▶ November 26, 2022 Rescuing Monarch Caterpillars on a Half-Price Crown Flower I brought home a battered crown flower plant covered in monarch caterpillars. Here's what I know about these striped, poison-storing travelers. ▶ November 23, 2022 Pigeon Eggs on the Floor — and Two Tiny Squabs Hatch Before I even built nest boxes, the pigeons laid eggs right on the floor of the pigeon house. One morning, two tiny… ▶ November 21, 2022 Our 2023 Chicken Calendar: A Year With the Flock, Month by Month Our 2023 Chicken Paradise calendar was finished! A month-by-month tour, from Hare-chan crowing on the cover to a December full of Pen-chan. ▶ November 12, 2022 How We Raise Mealworms in a Simple Plastic Box Our mealworm setup — a vented lid, wheat bran bedding and a few root vegetables — that turned one pack of 50… October 31, 2022 Farm Notes — October 2022: Gin-chan’s Best Seat, Dolly the Sheep and Two Guinea Pigs Thirteen clips from October: Gin-chan eating in the best spot, a big rooster comb, a rescued pigeon who got very attached, Dolly… ▶ October 28, 2022 Can I Do Pumpkin Art? A Happy Halloween with the Chickens I bought two pumpkins for a Halloween project — one split open for the flock, one carved (sort of) into a jack-o'-lantern.… ▶ October 12, 2022 Turning 18: New Flowers, a Lemon Cake and a Solo Birthday Song It's my 18th birthday! I buy flowers for the farm, sing Happy Birthday to myself over a lemon cake, and share what… ▶ October 5, 2022 Goodbye, Dolly Our very old sheep Dolly, thought to be over 20, has passed away after running around happily to the very end. Here… ▶ September 30, 2022 Hako-chan Is Recovering — and I Graduated from High School Morning roll call with the flock, good news about Hako-chan, the hen hit by a car, and a long-overdue announcement: I've graduated… ▶ September 26, 2022 Natsu Meets the Flock — and a Peek at Our Mealworm Farm I set Natsu the cat down among the chickens to see what happens, then show you our little mealworm production room, and… ▶ September 23, 2022 Bedtime for 200 Chickens: How Does Everyone Get Back Inside? Parsley's face keeps getting whiter, Natsu faces off with the hens, and here's how our big flock heads back to the perches… ▶ September 21, 2022 Hang In There, Yuhi! Plus Corn for a Snack Yuhi, still at the bottom of the pecking order, is doing his best on lookout duty, and the whole flock gathers for… ▶ September 9, 2022 Homemade Cran-Apple Hibiscus Tea from the Garden I pick cran-apple hibiscus leaves from our garden and brew a bright pink tea with honey and fresh strawberries — after a… ▶ September 5, 2022 All Grown Up: Fluffy Black Beards — and Meet Melona The chicks from a friend's house in Episode 70 are all grown up. Some siblings got a fluffy black beard and some… August 31, 2022 Farm Notes — August 2022: Pen-chan Turns Four, Walter the Survivor and Cats vs. Chickens Fourteen clips from August: Pen-chan at four, a broody hen calming down, Walter the cockfighting survivor, a chameleon-eyed chicken, cats vs. chickens… ▶ August 6, 2022 Papaya Day for the Flock — and a Bite for Moo-chan A stray zebra dove gets set free, organic papaya and lettuce arrive, Moo-chan tries to share with the girls, and the ducks… July 31, 2022 Farm Notes — July 2022: Parsley Grows Huge, Young Taro and a 20-Year-Old Sheep Twelve clips from July: a stolen crow, wild papaya feasts, throwbacks to young Taro, Marble, Piccolo and Kirin, a giant Parsley, baby… ▶ July 27, 2022 Donated Veggies and Neon-Pink Dragon Fruit — How Did the Flock React? A store's unsold organic produce becomes a weekly feast for our chickens. Tomatoes, lettuce and papaya are a hit; asparagus and dragon… ▶ July 23, 2022 Our 100th Episode: How It All Began, and Where We’re Going For our 100th video: how one tiny chick in the mud started everything, how 83 chickens found a new home in two… ▶ July 2, 2022 Our Finger Limes Have Buds! Repotting with Homemade Compost You asked how the finger limes are doing: they're bushy and covered in pink buds. Today I repot them into farm soil… June 30, 2022 Farm Notes — June 2022: Parsley the Duck, a Peacock Family and a Rainbow Thirteen clips from June: Muscovy ducks, a cartoon-like duckling, Parsley looking back, fresh cucumbers and lettuce, a peacock family, a cane toad… ▶ June 3, 2022 DIY Expansion, Part Two: The Coops Double in Size We extended the coops to twice their size, with a new roof, more shade and lots of airy netting. A room tour… May 31, 2022 Farm Notes — May 2022: Taro’s Chick Friends, Rescued Pigeon Chicks and a Tiny Snake Eight clips from May: Taro playing with the chicks, an egg caught the moment it was laid, a rooster double-take, pigeon chicks… ▶ May 27, 2022 Finally Finished: A Hospital for Rescued Chickens, Built from Scrap With help from volunteers and almost entirely free scrap materials, we built an isolation "hospital" for sick or not-yet-tame chickens — 7… ▶ May 25, 2022 What’s This Called Again? Protecting Our Melons from Bugs Bugs have found our melons, so I cut away the rotten fruit and tied a little cradle of non-woven fabric around a… ▶ May 12, 2022 Episode 60: The Chicken Paradise Project Begins on Our New Land February 24, 2022: we signed the lease, borrowed a friend's truck, mowed grass taller than me, built our first coop on the… ▶ May 1, 2022 The Great Cockroach Scramble — and Meet Wamekuko, Who Screams The little ones spend their first night alone at the farm, the flock goes wild over two cockroaches, chickens clean the duck… April 30, 2022 Farm Notes — April 2022: Taro’s Sand Bath, Sleepy Chicks and a Standing Sheep Six little clips from spring 2022: Taro digging into the perfect sand, a sleeping chick, a chick versus a mailing box, bathing… ▶ April 17, 2022 A Goat Field Trip, a Zebra Dove in the Net, and Meet Ginger I free a young zebra dove from a net, visit a goat family to learn about goats (meet little Miracle!), and our… ▶ April 16, 2022 Meet Salaryman, Wing Clipping, and Why Chickens Come to Us Salaryman protects friends during health checks, new arrivals get a one-time wing clip, and why so many cherished Hawaii chickens end up… ▶ April 15, 2022 Meet Jack and Beanstalk, a Mystery Hole, and a Banana Party Brothers Jack and Beanstalk (yes, really), a hole nobody will own up to, and a banana party where Chico plays the gentleman. ▶ April 8, 2022 A Lost Chick, Bedtime on Cue, and Meet Cheese I rescue a lost yellow chick, Balloon joins a worm-digging contest, our chickens head to their rooms on a signal, and how… ▶ April 2, 2022 Hare-chan’s Great Escape, Fresh Grass Bedding — and Meet Purin Hare-chan broke out and picked a fight, the flock got fresh grass to dig in, the tall roosters got tall rooms, and…