I am so happy that smell a vision has not been introduced in our area yet.

What a great day for the kitty cats! Sure glad I'm retired. Couldn't do all the hard work you did. Good job.

It's very hard and nasty work, but it must be done. One nice thing about it is the rewarding feeling once it is done. No need to feel embarrassed about anything. As usual with many of your videos I'm learning and getting more ideas. Once again GREAT WORK!

You knew it was going to be bad but not this bad. Lol You are the hardest working couple I have ever seen. But most of the time you have to work hard to full fill your dreams. The Lord just keeps blessing you because you are good people. Take care and be safe.

Its a stinky job but someone has todo it! I hope you are both grateful you work together on this, we have three equines and chickens, and i do ours singlehandedly, cuz hubby cant. Remind yourself this only has to be done once a year. Thats why they call it Spring cleaning! Lol

Nothing to be embarrassed about! You two are the hardest working homesteaders on YT. Accomplishing all you do, while working full-time jobs. Love the video.

Good Wheel Barrow. Every farm needs one.

I dont' see that as a stinky mess, I see that as garden gold!!! LOL The glamorous life of a farmer!!! TY

I remember helping my grandpa clean out the barn in the spring. It was 2’ deep & it was compacted ! We used a wheelbarrow to get it out of the barn & into the manure spreader via a wide plank ! It seemed like it took a week to clean ! It was all cow manure !

Rebekkah don't be embarassed...... That is a part of barn life and in the spring you will always have that job trust me been there done that. My dad always kept a clean barn Evan and lime was a big part and he always bedded the animals like you do. Thanks for bringing back some cute memories for us. Love the videos you guys....Hugs from Minnesota

I enjoyed it and it brought back memories of my childhood and the things my dad made me do on a regular basis. Once a week would be the best thing to do. Enjoyed your hard work; now I have to go lay down and rest. ':

There's nothing to be embarrassed about, it's called farming and believe me since I've started watching videos about farming I've seen other farms that's way more worse than the few goats and chicken stalls that you have to take care of, but all you have to do is just stir up the shavings or straw and keep it fresh. So chin up and don't worry about a thing. Thumbs Up, Y'all did a great job.

Great job Rebecca and Evan, that’s just part of having farm animals. You’re doing a great job and you’re in the country that’s farm life 👍👍. Thanks for sharing with us, we enjoyed watching. Fred.

Love working in the barn. Garden is great but the barn yard is where it's at!!!

No more than twice a year will suffice, and better just once with regular topping up. U need the depth of the pack for winter heat for the animals. It's a farm not a motel. Good vid. Thanks..

I feel the compost bin area will never be enough. As the saying goes. Different Day Same OLD PILE.

It's funny this coming up,, me+my brother have just cleaned out our cattle shed not 4hrs ago... 100ftx45ft..abit bigger... And by tractor+tipping cart.. Ours was 18 inches deep... Great video.

Nice. No negative thoughts on how dirty your barn is. Your farm and family are awesome, this over powers the stinky barn.

Hi...... Evan and Rebecca nice good work nice cleaning now you will feeling fresh, thank you for sharing your video homestead chicken farmer garden 👋 bye 👋 bye 👋 bye 👕🐔🐓🐥🐈🐕🐩🎥👍👍👍

When I was a teen, on the farm, I learn NEVER to say near my dad that I was board....cause I would be cleaning the barn stalls !

You guys got the start of a fabulous pile of compost

We have a small herd of goats (4) and a few dozen chickens. I have gotten into a routine of cleaning the coop and the goat barn once a month through the summer. In the winter, we do the deep litter method. Seems to work well for us and our gravel floor in there. That spring cleaning is always a little more work and I am amazed at the amount of material removed, which like you, is done by hand. For a compost bin, I simply took groups of four pallets I tied with baler twine at the corners. Plenty of air flow and I cut the strings and the sides can disappear. I do not have a front end loader, so makes getting to it and using it in the garden, etc., a little easier for us. Anyway, keep doing what your doing and stay safe!

I love watching people work. All barns get like that. If u want to keep it looking nice & sweet smelling u need a full time crew. Good work 😁

A lot of hard work . Y’all did a Great job. And look at all the compost. It’s all part of farming .

Been there done that! We had 28 head of horses and mucked daily. When the weather was bad and had too keep them in it was quite the job,

I've been there to and feel for you . don"t fret about the mess . its a barn full of animals . we all have messes like yours thats just part of the fun farming .

That's a work out!!! 👍👏 good job.

Yeah, that was a dirty mess. Glad you were able to clean it out. As always, thank you for sharing ❤️😁❤️

You need to get one of those disc cleaners for your pressure washer-they work amazing on concrete and much quicker.

That's what keeping farm animals is all about....hard work.

There is nothing embarrassing about a barn having straw that is used from animals. To save your backs a small wagon or wheel barrow to put the straw in to take outside or better have the tractor outside and tip the barrow into the tractor will help. I'm glad you both were wearing masks very important! In regards to all the Hay watch a Joel Saladin video. Have you thought about having the chickens near a door so they have a place to go out To? That will help with also being able to change the bedding for the chickens on a more frequent basis. Sounds like we will be seeing some videos in the future on how you open up the drains in the barn and how you will be fixing the door and opening to The Barn so you can get your tractor there. And I'm sure you've thought of other projects you can do in the barn to make it more efficient so we will be seeing those videos also😊

It was a lot more fun watching the clean out, than you having to do the cleaning out. But it has to be worth the labor with the finished product. Thank you for the video. I love following you and your exploits. Art in Calif.

Nice size barn for sure. And the wife helps out yeah that is help much needed.

Evan can you put a blade on the 4 wheeler and scrape and push the manure out the door

A lot of farmers use the layer method to absorbe odors and moisture. It's a tough job when done with physical labor. Layer method has pros and cons. Doing accomplishes learning and I'm sure you will know more how to maintain the barn best for you, Rebecca and the animals. I'm jealous of all the compost you have in the making. Blessings ya'll. ☝🙏👉... Plz keep sharing.

Boy does this bring back memories! Half my childhood was spent shoveling “nature’s bounty”, or seemed like it. You mentioned getting a manure spreader and looks like you need one.

I wouldn't worry about a dirty used barn I've been in a lot of barns and none of them were squeaky clean.

Great job cleaning and great job designing it for your animals. Thanks for your videos. I really appreciate them. I enjoy how you talk your plans out with us and what you learn along the way. 👍❣️ Thanks for explaining why you torch your weed cloth for your garden. I will try burning an X with a smaller version of torch😬😁

Pro tip: make sure your barn cats have clean litter boxes (and are trained to use them). You don't want cats defecating in the animal bedding because of toxoplasmosis.

Cleaning the barn more often will probably give mice less places to nest.

ya all doing alright watching you living your dream off the grid out of the rat race is cool to see. I am giving up my job to do a small farm I may not feed the world but I will be able to help and sustain our environment excited to have my own little forest garden where fruit-bearing trees and farm animal roam around in my little farm.

The barn looks really good after you and Rebecca cleaned it out and the livestock will enjoy it more, plus now if any mice are left over, the cats will take care of them and no more mice! Tell Rebecca not to be ashamed of the barn, that just happens sometimes.

I clean my quail/rabbit shed about every two weeks, I use a shop vac to get the cob webs and feed sacks to put the waste into and give it to friends that want it for their gardens. Nothing to be embarrassed about just set a schedule and getter done. lol

barn looks amazing again... I know you feel better

Great composting

Nice job 👍🙃❤️🤗💜

Just a thought but a tarp to push that stuff onto would help in the future

The barn looks so clean

Hurrah! Perhaps an annual clean up? Perhaps straw bedding and fed hay bi s? And other livestock? Pigs, a cow or so?

Very nice video. The best result for catching mice, I get with a traditional mouse trap and nutella. 10 mice in 1 hour.

I tried deep litter method this winter and spring in my goat barn. Never again, like you said clean up was just way too much. I now clean it once a week.

JudithB I got a cow panel I tied into a circle for compost. You might put one in the barnyard for cleaning out and storage until you can move it to the compost pile.

Park the tractor bucket near the door and throw the hay in as you go. Saves pitching it by hand a second time.

To avoid feeding mice we got a Grandpa’s Feeder. The chickens step on a platform that opens the feeder. Mice are too light. I cut my chicken feed budget in half (or more) . I use the deep litter method in my chicken coop, but I use shavings and wood chips instead of hay. Much easier to clean out (once a year, no odor). Some farm jobs are just plain hard work. Mucking out is one of them. But such a good feeling when it’s done!

Mucking out the barn is the one job everybody puts off. The one promise everybody makes to not to wait so long to do it again. Lol

For those removable boards on the compost bin, round the edges, like popsicle sticks, and they'll never hang up.

Great job guys, looks great!

Oh but that's gonna be some good compost thou, garden gold👍

Fantastic job done by the both of you. Nice clean barn for the chickens and the goats. Monthly cleaning should be sufficient or bi-weekly. Luv your videos

Nice video guys. Really enjoyed watching y’all do that and now make compost from it.

A schedule would probably help. Do one stall a week or something along those lines. That straw/poo will make some wonderful compost!

I have spent lots of time in the country cleaning stalls so I don't say this lightly. WOW! And y'all did a great job!

👍 good Job

Awesome Clean up job.

That type of cleaning, once every quarter is enough. Too much work for every week. Looks great!

Looks great Evan. Bins are primo too! Best online!

You have a lot of skills. outstanding I am planning to go homesteading.

Each spring we would have 4 feet of waste from the cattle. We would put it in the spreader & put it out on the fields. In the winter the build-up heats the floor & helps. If you check around & talk with some old-timers they will tell you once a year is all they did.

I call it Spring Cleaning.... Love seeing the barn cats... Thanks for sharing....

Glad to see someone else waited too long like me but I only have 2 goats

God bless you guys I have done that before and it sucks

Your stall's arn't that bad ;) It's just a potting stall method and it makes the best compost and keep's the animal's warm during winter. So good job 😎👍

A good sweep once a month and a thorough clean every 6 months is what i usually do

For the caked on manure on the concrete floor,I use scrapers with a long handle for peeling up tiled floor.Works awesome.Great video.Take care.

Some good compost right there

LOOOOVE that old AC tractor!

Evan, I highly recommend the 4 wheel wheelbarrow. It is a back saver. You can get them from TSC

Thanks. A lot of work

I was trying to watch your loader. Looks to me like if you could movie the mounts on the back of your bucket cylinders farther up the arms you could curl the bucket back more. I think that would help you a lot.

In real farm life they let the straw bedding build up over the whole winter and clean it out in the spring when the animals are back out in field

Cats had a hay day no pun intended

get your self an old rotavator a narrow one and replace the blades with wheels, then attatch snow shovel scoop to the front and use that, our barn is ruffly 60 feet long and removable stall partitions, looking at your barn you could hinge the stall partitions to the wall and open and close them as you need them or for cleaning lol

You and the wife did a wonderful job. Don't feel ashamed of the mess, that's part of the everyday life on a farm. Look on the bright side..FREE compost in the future. LOVE your barn CATS. My granddaughter calls me, THE MOTHER OF CATS, as I have many FUR Kids. But, it seems to be inherited...my daughter is also a sucker for four legs and Fur. She brought home a little kitten found by the dumpster at the nursing home she works at. OH WELL... what's another fur kid. Someone has dumped a GREAT PYRENEES puppy, now a BIG teenager in our lane. Guess WHERE she's at...LOL YEP.. y'all have those good mouse traps.. four legs and TEETH..

No need to feel embarrassed. Y'all work hard and have some nice stuff for making beautiful compost. I know folks that would do clean up the barn for nothing just for the hay and manures.

A smaller tractor and trailer that could back into the hallway of the barn would save you a lot of shoveling. Just back it in, shovel into trailer, then off to the bin.

Free hot water : Place water pipes (pipe matrix or circular pattern) about 8 to 12 inches under the compost pile and the heat generated from the decomposing matter will generate enough heat to heat the water pipes beneath. Free hot water for bathing the animals or yourself. Look it up.

Check out Justin Rhodes video of how they built their double wide gate. It could save you from having to take down the existing gate . It involves digging a hole between the gates where you can insert a removable post that the side of each gate can attach to.

compost tea !!!

Awesome job guys :)

Y'alll should move those cylinder tangs on the bucket closer to the fulcrum of the lift arms.... It'll crowd the bucket in closer and give You a little more tip on the bucket... You'll really be able to stack it in then and not have to run the loader arms so high when travelling. Some removable manure tines will help Y'all too... We used 1" rebar 2' long, welded onto a couple of pieces of flat bar that gets bolted into the bucket when we need it... I had to bevel the end of the rebar into a chisel which helps it poke into the pile better. But it works great and isn't permanent.

Check out what Ben from The Hollar Homestead did to have the chickens make his composite. Brilliant idea.

During the spring and summer you should only put enough feeds for the goats. Winters times you can get away with it. It is true cleaning up after your animals is more then a chores itself. Stay safe!!!...

Its such a nice feeling to get it done. Been there with my rabbits

Build a chicken coop next to the compost bins and fence it in. Open the front of the compost bin and let the chickens turn the compost, they will love it, and eat all the flies and stuff. Much less work for you and also better smell in the barn. Win-win-win situation :D

Going back to the brooder box for chicks, surround the box with hay or straw bales to insulate it, even under the box.

Now you've gone and done it!...... You convinced me not to use the deep litter method, lol.🤷🏻‍♂️

Looking good

I look at it like mining for gold, black gold.

Your pile was smoking while you were getting ready to lift the tractor bucket.

The smell got 10X worse when you added the water from the pressure washer right?