That's cool I didn't know that New York had a lot of peacocks, sometimes I forget that a lot of that state is still rural. Our farm is in Arkansas so a bit far, but we like meeting visitors!

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Thanks for watching, it was definitely a lot of work but it's always fun to make a video out of projects we do on the farm.

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That's cool that you are going to breed peacocks too! Thanks for the advice, we just got these adults recently and haven't gotten everything figured out yet but we'll be sure to learn more about this by breeding season. We've been hatching out chickens, ducks, guineas, and geese on our farm for a couple years now, but peacocks have interested us for a long time so we're just now getting started with them.

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We like them because their pretty colors, but also we have a hatchery so we'll be breeding them in the spring to add to our inventory of birds

Beautiful indeed! Much success.

I also planning to keep peacocks

Thanks for watching! The t-posts are 10 feet long, with about 2 feet in the ground so the height of the aviary is about 8 feet. For securing the wood, we just drilled holes in the wood and wrapped fence wire through the holes and then over the bumps on the t-post so the wood can't slide down. There are probably better ways we could have done it but this worked fine.

Thanks for the suggestion. We do have minks and raccoons here but it's been over a year since we got the peacocks and they've been fine so far. We do put a clip in the chain link gates so they can't be opened, but I agree the top netting could be a vulnerability

Thanks for watching! I don't know the exact cost but it was at least several hundred dollars. We got all the materials individually, such as t-posts, sheet metal, 2x4 wood, welded fence wire, chain link gates, and the top netting which is specially made for containing poultry.

@@joshuareynolds5219 Thanks for the reply Josh! Maybe try and keep a list for your future building videos so it would give people an idea of how much or what they would need etc if they wanted to follow your methods of building things, just an idea! I'm guessing some of the things you were able to upcycle rather than buy new like the sheet metal? I've subscribed to your channel cos I'm loving all the different videos you've put out! I'll be looking out for your next videos! I'm just finishing off my studies and you've actually motivated me to try and finish my studies quicker so I can get back onto our land and do loads of projects like you've been doing over the past few years! Also, another idea for some future videos (I know it's not necessarily your style of content making but you could always incorporate time-lapses etc into them) would be to show all the different types of animals you guys have in one day or a feeding chore of a day or something? Also would love to hear what made your parents get a farm and move (I'm assuming from city life) into the farm! Looking forward to more vids big man!

@@mattigil I'm glad my videos have had such a positive impact for you! That's cool that you have a lot of land too, is it like a farm already? On the peacock aviary, yes we did get some materials used whenever possible. We did actually move from the city to this farm, I actually kind of forgot what city life is like because we've lived here for 5 years now. The farm is over 300x bigger than the lot our old house was on. You mentioned a "day on the farm" video and I have actually made one almost identical to how you described, not sure if you've seen it, but here is a link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/rbSWmpNqtbiwZqM.html. As far as new videos, to be honest I've actually lost a bit of interest in making videos which I feel bad about doing, but there hasn't been much happening on the farm lately that I haven't already filmed. I have some compilation videos I filmed of winter stuff that I might upload, but again that isn't particularly interesting. We have a hatchery here on the farm, so I might make a video about the process of hatching birds such as ducklings and chicks.

@@joshuareynolds5219 We don't have anywhere near as much land as you guys have, I think we only have 3 acres and a big barn, it used to be a working cow barn around 40 years ago but it was pretty much in ruins when we got it. We've converted the barn for the past few years and done bit and bobs around the land but there's a lot of work to be done. I'm hoping once the studies are finished, I might make a channel showing around the land and barn and the chickens and ducks we've got so far as well. Still a long long way from where I want it to get to but I guess things around a farm are always going to be working projects that just keep getting bigger and bigger! I guess it's not a bad thing forgetting city life, especially with the whole pandemic as well, so look at the positives and you definitely seem to enjoy every project you're doing on your land; the satisfaction of helping your parents in itself is so good you'll see the benefits for sure! I must have missed that video, thanks for the link, I'll definitely give it a watch! I can understand regarding the whole losing interest as I know its a task in itself creating content that people would want to watch, and when you're not enjoying doing it yourself, the content might end up not as good either. I hope you find the spark again to take it forward because you've got a fair few subscribers and I'm sure they'd all love to keep watching your content! Good idea about the birds hatching video, would be fun to watch! I noticed you have some llamas (or alpacas), would be good to see more of them as well!

@@mattigil That's cool you already got a barn on your property, and 3 acres is definitely enough for tons of possibilities. It's hard to imagine what it would be like living in the city these days, here on the farm it's easy to forget that anything is different than it was a year ago. I'd like to do a farm tour video at some point, but I can't really do that at the moment, it's kind of complicated. When it comes to my videos, I'm a bit of a perfectionist (actually an extreme perfectionist) and I have literally spent dozens of hours working on individual videos. I sometimes feel like I don't want to post anything unless it super interesting to me. I have at least 3-4 videos that I had planned at least a year ago but now I think are too boring to post, like videos of winter snow or road trip time lapses.

Thanks for watching, glad you liked it. Here is the netting we got: www.3tproducts.com/shop/pc/viewCategories.asp?idCategory=21

@@joshuareynolds5219 DUDE! THANKS DUDE

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That's cool you have peacocks too, our pen is 30x30' and is divided in the middle to have 2 separate 15x30 pens. It is 8' high built on 10' t-posts.

Do you have intense cold?

@@loiswilson7474 We usually have single digits every winter, but this past February we got to -16 which is unusual for us, we're in Northwest Arkansas

Another question with So many opinions Do you keep your males with your hens and chicks or separate?

Yes our hens live with our males because we have a hatchery and we have them for breeding purposes. We have a couple males and females in each pen so we make sure we get fertile eggs. As far as chicks, we take all the eggs and hatch them in our incubators so any chicks don't live in the same pens

They were 10 foot t-posts, pounded in 2 feet so the aviary is 8 feet tall

The best way to connect the wood to t-posts is to use a U-bolt. You can hold the wood perpendicular to the t-post and then drill 2 holes in the wood on each side then push the U-bolt around the t-post and through the wood. If you put the bumpy side of the t-post opposite to the wood then the U-bolt will grip the bumps and never be able to slip down. We used 10 foot t-posts in this build which gives us 8 feet of height when they're pounded down 2 feet.

We actually got -16 degrees last February which is a record low, but we usually get down to 0 every winter

@@joshuareynolds5219 thanks and best wishes. Great watch

How did they do in -26 btw

It was just 16 below but still quite cold. They actually did fine but we do have water heaters to keep their water dish from freezing