Nice to see you smile again. Your love for critters of all shapes and sizes will soothe your soul in ways that humans can't. What a tribute to Cali. Take care Rachel.

I just found out my dog of 14 years has cancer, there is nothing the vets can do for him. Everyday is a struggle for us. He is literally the reason, I started watching you. I wanted to build him a cute bed, that was our first video watching you and Cali. You really inspire me through this dark time and give me hope. Thank you.

The coyote and fox will enter in the area where you put the pvc feeder. Also, fence the top of the run...

I love you and this is so cute, but you may want to secure that run roof with something a bit more sturdy. As someone who’s seen friends lose chickens to predators that got in thru the edge of the coop, make sure your corners are super secure. 👍🏼 blessings

Bless you. Great job honoring your baby girl, and taking care of yourself. We love you.

Your chicken coop is one of the most estheticly pleasing I've ever seen, I've followed farm videos in the past but yours has so much love put into each project, that it gives me such a warm feeling inside. Only thing I did learn is that you don't need to have a rooster, and although cute cock-a-doodles now, it might get on your nerves later down the line...😂❤

My absolute dream is having chicken and horses one day along with my dogs. There's nothing I want more. It makes me happy seeing you build your dream home and having all these animals that are loved and happy.

As someone who also struggles with depression and anxiety, I'm so proud of you for holding on. The sunrises in this video were such a perfect metaphor. It's such a relief when the light comes back, and I'm so happy that you're finding yours again. Thank you for your vulnerability.

Your coop is MAGICAL.

This is such a beautiful video. Seems like ranching suits you very well and calms you down. You were so relaxed and calm and accepting. Maybe ranching with some diy is more your "thing" instead if only diy - ing? I love, love, love this vid and I love, love, love to see you this way. Just relaxed and no need to "having" to do or finish a project. Marvelous!❤️❤️❤️

I just wanted to say this might be my favourite project of yours to date! You can see how much love and care went into it :) Plus it’s such a unique build that no one else will have. Awesome job Rachel!

I am happy to see you back and even more thrilled to hear that you are trying to continue posting videos. I absolutely adore your work; it is so inspirational.

Rachel, you are made to give love. You are the happiest when you are nurturing life. I'm thinking that's why you take your losses so hard, because that nurturing gets shut off. So happy to see you giving yourself new things to love on 🐣🦮🪴💘

Definitely put some sort of mulch around your seedlings. Will help with moisture retention, keeping the soil cool, and reducing the amount of dirt that blows away. Oh and weed suppression! 😀

Rachel girl! My sincere love and condolences to you and Blaze. I finally finished my 1st semester in nursing school and came up to speed on you, the trailer, your babies, and home. Im so glad you are still truckin along with your DIYs. You have been my inspiration since my divorce and i have been a fan of you since those Paul days. Please stay strong and fierce!

❤❤ those chickens loved their little home!! .. Think that is the coolest chicken coop I have ever seen .... You're doing great Rachel!! .. Your kind soul makes me want to be better and more kind to everything and everyone around me .. I pray this new year brings you plenty of joy and prosperity!! .. You deserve it! .. Take care till next time ❤

How charming and DIY and comfortable and lovely. Love the look of the repurposed supplies!

The chicken coop is adorable - great job!

I'm so happy for you, Rachel! Great work with the coop, especially the interior looks so fun for the chickens. And I also love the GG reference names

Watching you put up the bird feeder and that beautiful sunlight coming in, it almost looks like you’re creating a sanctuary for yourself on the desert. Cali would be so proud and I hope you get the fresh start that you need in this new year. Love seeing how happy you are with the chickens and sending all the love ❤️

This video is special. Seeing you honor Cali and yourself is how your healing begins. Within the room that you are working on it may need a spiritual cleansing, perhaps a shrine to Cali. Something simple, in order to release any uncomfortably sad feelings. Then when you are ready, it can be moved. Please be careful with the wolves. If you can, begin to fence in your property.

"I may break a TV, but I'm not going to react the same way " are you kidding ME? I'm screaming, "My God, YES!" I'm twice your age but this is now my new daily mantra. You really ARE a freaking Goddess Rachel.🎉❤🎉❤

Nice work and congratulations 🎉 I'm so glad to hear your light is reignited ❤

Rosters tend to do that when the weather is about to change as well. It could be sunny and then wind brings in the clouds. Your rooster will let you know. 30mins to an hours and a half before.

Wow, Rachel, you've really come a long way. From living in the city to a desert and now ranch style you created all on your own is so beautiful to watch. We are all so proud of you even if you don't see it from time to time. It's amazing. ❤

This has to be one of my FAVORITE videos you’ve ever posted. I loveeee the new chickens & mister rooster (I think you should name him Sargent pepper) hahaha. I know Cali is watching over you, SO PROUD of everything youve accomplished. She would’ve loved those chickens❤

From one obsessed fan to another, I appreciate the Gilmore Girls chicken! I hope you have a Rory, too. You cant leave Lorelei without her counterpart! This coop is the cutest ❤🐓

My family and I lost our little pupper, Toto, to acute kidney failure on Christmas morning. The vets let us know there was no way we'd have known and that he was not scared in the end, but the wave after wave of thinking he's still here when he isn't is deflating. We're all heartbroken, but we loved him so much for ten wonderful years. Callie had the best dog mom in you, and it's warming to see your inspiration from her soar ❤

17:30 mark is da BEST!! For anyone that hasn't experienced that in real life, it's usually accompanied by other fantastic memories & smells, too. Rancho De la Cali (that's what I'm calling it in my head ❤❤❤) is coming along great!! Blessings for 2024 SuperCat, Dirty Jersey out!!!

So sorry about your dog Rachel, glad to see you giving things new life and new purpose, stay strong! I've been watching you since you made over your garage at your old home.

Your authenticity is so inspiring- thanks for being you and sharin’ the all 🫶✨ you’re fricken’ incredible.

So glad to see you back on the tube. We have chickens smack dab in the middle of the city in Miami. They kind of run wild around here. We do enjoy the eggs. Just be wary of roosters attacking each other. It can get ugly. Love your channel. Love seeing you get back into doing what you love.

Oh my gosh! I love your chicken coop! I'm so glad they helped you come back to yourself, chickens are the best. 💚

Love how you honored Cali 💞This has to be the cutest chicken coop I’ve ever seen! Love the ranch/home you’re creating. 🥰❤️👑⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

I'm so sorry to hear about the loss of your beloved Cali 💔 I recently lost a cat and while I was grateful to have been beside him for his last days/moments, it was traumatic to go through alone and the clean-up of all the blood (he had a seizure at the end) was rough. It just breaks my heart that you had a similar experience 🫂 and I wish you nothing but healing, and hopefully some happy chickens and lots of eggs in your future.

Happy New Year Rachel ~ I just love the little "A" frame with a side yard chicken coop ☺️!

Just watched your video and it really resonated with me. I just lost my first dog who was my everything very suddenly at only 10 years old. I totally get where you're coming from, it's so much harder than I could ever have imagined. I try to focus on the blessing that I was chosen to be his mama and experience his love and light for 10 years but the loss is so real and raw..... enjoy your chickens and feeling that love and light again!!!! Good vibes being sent your way!

This was sweet and calm. Purposeful and thoughtful. A perfect salve for a broken heart coming alive again. Bravo lovely lady. Welcome back.

I love how your Chicken Coop turned out! 😍 It looks like a little cottage surrounded by nature! 🐤Might be my favorite build you've done! 🥹 I'm so excited for your Ranch! 💗

I think the design turned out absolutely perfect, everything so useful, adorable and eclectic! I love the exterior lights as well and all the fun useful details you added for them like mirrors and ramps. They are definitely going to be a happy bunch of chickens!!! ❤❤

Love your chicken they bring a little life in your life. Nice to see how you built the chicken coop. It looks amazing. ❤🐓🪶

The second you said you got a rooster, I thought, "There goes Rachel's late morning sleep-ins!" He will get you and your neighbors up every morning 🌄 Great job on chicken condo. Happy to see you back! 2024 is going to be sooo much better! ❤❤❤️

You’re the greatest! The way you communicate with your animals and give them all your love and devotion is so beautiful! I wish you the best of look ❤

Love the coop and the critters. You will find the hens to be very loving. Rooster testosterone is very evident. MEN!! Total don't mess with me attitude. One of my neighbor's hens would break out to visit me. I named her, Marie after my grandmother. Grandma taught me everything about chickens. Marie was so loving. She just pooped everywhere. I didn't care. Good luck with your new babies! I'm sure they will be loved well. This cheered me up for I lost my Baby Hoss right before Christmas. He was 21 years old. Thank you for bringing me happiness.

I'm sorry about your dog. I've lost 3 cats over the past 15 years and it's so very hard every time it happens. All three times, I was blessed to be able to say goodbye to them since they were put to sleep after finding out from their vet that they were fatally ill. I'm very sorry that you had to find your dog like that. I pray God gives you comfort, peace and strength and turns your sorrow into joy. God bless you!

Rachel, you have to make sure no snakes can get inside the run during the day or night. The fence where you put the gravity feeder looks to be too wide. I absolutely love the coop &run you made them. You’re very creative.

I’ve had a foreo for years and I love it! Also only charging every 6 months is chefs kiss

Chickens are such multi purpose birds... not only do they provide food with the eggs but they are one of the beat anxiety and stress relievers. And for your garden, they will make the beat fertilizer and compost. We have our chickens living next to our garden so the garden feeds the chickens and the chickens feed the garden.... it so exciting!!!

I am 92.8% certain I will cry when I come over and see your chickens. Love you and the space you’re making for Rachel’s Ranch. 🤎🤍🤎

Being three hours ahead, I missed seeing this when you posted it. You go girl. You’re moving through the darkness of grief and coming back into the light. Five chickens is a good number. At peak laying age they will lay once a day during the longest days of year. That five eggs a day, can you eat that many? Before others comment about selling yes you might be able to but don’t count on it. If you do, people liked them washed that’s a process that will take time. I’ve done it all I had as many as 100 chickens at one time. Feed isn’t cheap, yes free raining is nice, especially if you want to lose them to predators. The desert doesn’t offer enough to just free range. Lots of thoughts for you. Know what you’re getting into, that way you will succeed. You can do anything, you’ve proven that. Just be aware it isn’t what many people think it is. I’m down to about a dozen and that’s too many. Remember too that they won’t lay in the short winter months. One last caution, don’t leave the feed out. Leave extra in a metal trash can. Otherwise rats will find you and yes they will. You wanted fertile eggs? You might have chicks which is fun.

THIS is the vibe Rachel. Real & refreshing.

I love your channel, Rachel Metz. I am very inspired by your life in the desert and by the way that you just keep going even when life is difficult (understatement I know). Keep doing what you’re doing because you are great at it. Love the chicken coop by the way, it is adorable :)

OMGNESSSS Rachel Metz your coop is just adorably functional!!!!! Love love love!!! Welcome back to the channel :) We had 2 chickens that unfortunately our youngest dog killed but this makes me want to do tiny adorable upgrades to our coop if we get others come spring.

Welcome to the chicken mom club. :) My roo loves the 4am cocka doodle doo too!

Beautiful video, Rachel; so nice to see your spark come back in real-time. Wishing you all the best with upcoming projects! Looking forward to seeing what you come up with.

Paint your chicken wire black so it disappears visually! So happy for you to have the chicks to keep you and Blaze company ❤️

well that's the cutest damn chicken coop and run I've ever seen. I see your light, girl. Much love and happy new year 💗

I absolutely love everything about this video! I was so happy to see you just get back your light! So proud of you, can’t wait to see what more you accomplish

That is the most beautiful chicken coop I have ever seen 😂 they have to be so cozy in there!! Love the sunlight

farm girl rach here we go!! couldn’t be more excited to see your beautiful face again❤

I’m so glad you got those 🆕 babies and I can’t wait to see you get more animals and have gardens all overflowing! Blessings and health for you today, tomorrow and in the New Year🎉❤❤ Thanks for coming back “mi flaca”!

I am so proud of you! 2023 has been such a very difficult year! I've been dealing with the worst bout of depression these last few months, finding it hard to leave my house and do the things I need to get done. You are so inspirational to watch, finding yourself again. I can only hope the same for myself. I'm excited to see what the new year brings to you, and may 2024 bring forth the growth we all need in our lives to become our highest selves 💖🥰✨️

Happy holidays to you!!!! Hope you have a great 2024🎉🎉🎉

Eep! Chickens! My homestead chicken names are as follows (maybe inspo for your last 2): Random 7 Red heads- The Weasleys Then we have- Hetti, Siv, Bluit, Fancy feet, Goldie! They're a blast- even tho they crap all over everything!

Really nice to see you smiling again. Just don’t try to do too much too quickly. Take a day at a time hun. Hope you had a nice Christmas and I hope you have a Happy New Year.xx

Love your vision and then completion of your chicken coop. Your own thing ….Genius!

The coop turned out freaking adorable! So glad you found yourself again and are getting back to doing what you love 😘 Can't wait to see all you get up to in 2024!!! 💕😘

I used to have chickens. I had 26 at one point. I tell everyone, if you want to laugh ever day, get a chicken. Now having said that, your biggest worries will be predators. Including dogs. Blaze is *very* interested in the chickens so I know you're probably working with her on that one. My neighbor's dogs came down and killed 18 of my chickens once. It was a massacre. We ended up in court and everything. So you really need to make sure you're extra secure. I'd put a top on the run and cover the chicken wire with something stronger. Don't waste it, you can put it on the outside so a coyote or dog can dig under the fence. Racoons are also a worry. I don't know if you get them there but racoons are a-holes. They'll just kill the chickens and eat the head and leave the rest. Hopefully you can get the point that they can free range, that was really enjoyable for us. (we had 2 acres). If you want them to range in the little garden, you'll need a high fence and to clip their wings (just one side). they'll also eat ALL your pretty plants. lol. Congrats on your chickies. you can tell how happy they make you.

Losing a beloved pet is devastating. Don't ever be hard on yourself for grieving them, it is a long process that I don't believe we ever truly get over. hugs. What an awesome chicken world you created. I'm sure Cali is super proud of you.

Love the chickens and how they have lifted you in this season. Thank you for all your content. I have enjoyed watching you from over here in London, England. Wishing you all the very best for the New Year.

This is so inspiring how the chickens have helped you so much and you have created such a beautiful functional chicken coop. I love how your bulldog has inspired you so much through the bond y'all had together!!!! and I just love you ranch so much; it is so beautiful the life u have created for your little family!!!! I can't wait for the next video;)

Your story .. and all it’s renovations is such a testimony that you are living ! Thank you for always showing up as you !

I see the light and the life in this episode, thank you for sharing

I love this im so happy the chickens and blaze are giving you a new purpose cali would be so proud of you ❤

A truely beautiful video. You are a testament to the human ability, we all have, to pick yourself up after devastation and keep on going. Sure it takes time but, look at you go!! Thanks for sharing your story’s❤️ you’re an absolute gem!!

I know how you feel you could dedicate the room to her I’m a dog loving I know how it feels crying when my baby passed away too. Good luck with everything you do beautiful❤

Excited to see more of your videos, Rachel! We missed you ❤ the chicken coop is the cutest thing I have ever seen 🥹 this life was meant for you!

It has been so beautiful to see you on your life journey. Thank you for allowing us in and being a vision for hope.

Can totally see the spark coming back

Congratulations to the new members of your family ❤️❤️❤️

Love the chicken coop! Your creativity is so fun 😊. The ladies and the gentleman are a great addition to your homeplace.

OMG when you’re watering your flowers in the flower bed, you can see the flash of a rainbow! That’s sweet Cali girl🌈

You did such an amazing job! And i love the triangle shape! So cute and the front door of the walking area, i can't

KZfaq is the best plataform. I thought about you this christmas, for real i did. Hope you are feeling better. Love from Brazil 🇧🇷

Rachel, I'm so happy for you and how far you've gone, even with all the changes and life situations you have been through. I wish you a brighter and better 2024, you are already enjoying the beginning of it with all these amazing new projects and the addition of the new members in family 🎉🎉🎉God bless you, can't wait to see what your channel will bring us to enjoy ❤

I feel sure you will celebrate cali’s life 🌈, you are a true inspiration sweetie, so many virtual hugs from the UK, you work your own pace 🤛🏻🔥🙏🏻🇬🇧xxxxx p.s those chickens & rooster are spoilt 😂😂

When you released the chickens into the coop, I started crying. Not sure why, but here we are lol. So happy that your light is coming back. Thank you for sharing your journey with us ❤

Naming the two chickens Lorelai and Emily is everything! 😂🤍

That is the Cutest chicken coop on da planet ever build diy😊🎉

All thats missing is a disco ball😂😂😂😂love it

This is amazing! Great job Rachel! Cali would be proud of you. 🤍

Omg you can see the scratches on the door to the chicken coop from the coyotes trying to get in, thank God they were safe

Beautiful.. The chicken coup, the amount of love that pours out of you to all your animals, your soul....beautiful. ❤

Beautiful adaptation to life changes.

Your coop is so dreamy! I suggest digging and burying hardware cloth or cinder blocks around the base of your run and coop to stop the coyotes and foxes from digging in. Bury it under ground like an L.

I appreciate your unfiltered realness ❤ it’s inspiring

Chickens are amazing aren’t they? We’ve found that sharing eggs with neighbors goes a long way!

I’m from the Cayman Islands and chicken and roosters are legit everywhere. Enjoy your free alarm clock they usually go for about 2-3 hours sunrise and sunset 😂😊❤

Loving this so much. Can’t wait to see what is to come. Watching you has always calmed me. ❤

I miss you, girl....I was thinking about you one thing you never fail me. It has been a challenging year. Good to see your face and progress on YOUR HOME....