I love it when Kyle makes voices for the animals. It gives them their own personalities. Thank you for sharing the babies with us.

You should move your outdoor hen house so they have fresh grass.

If you don't want the owls or hawks to get the birds, make a chicken tractor. You can move it to new areas daily and your birds will be safe from flying predators

After a stressful day taking care of my invalid husband, watching you two help me to relax and have a big smile. You make my day !! Our Spruce is growing up to quick and love that Hercules ❤️. This video I’m laughing ❤️❤️❤️😂

Wow Shannon, that's really the first time I seen Herc go into the protection mode. 😊 ❤️

They're beautifull birds!

Turn tires into planters, spray paint them then fill with dirt and plant flowers or plants in them ❤

I love the sound of owls at night. It's my absolute favorite thing. Did you know that if you got a little goose to grow up with the birds it will grow up with them and become a guard goose . Cog Hill uses geese to guard their chickens.

When moving the birds if you cover their eyes it will keep them calm. Love you guys and all of your family! Keep up the great work! Love from Oklahoma.

I think that it would be a good idea to start building a nice sized chicken tractor. You could keep your birds safe and easily move it to a new patch of grass and insects each day

Has anyone suggested that you hang the feeder and waterer? If not, I'm surprised. It prevents a lot of that mess from happening.

Awesome job around the RV. Looks so inviting and great place to hang out to. The goats are doing so well even if cranky from time to time. But that’s the joy of goats each day is never the same. Enjoy your weekend. Take care and God Bless. 💕🙏

Spruce looked like such a big boy while he was walking along the fence by himself! But he looked like a little baby again when he was standing next to Hercules! I thought it was great the way Herc immediately stepped in to stop Mario from ramming Little Spruce again! Herc is a good boy and he knows Spruce is too little to take care of himself if the bigger goats attack him. He was just doing his job, Dad! And he did it well! It isn't always just about predators - sometimes it can be about bullying! Your place is really looking good - the hard work the two of you have done is evident - it must feel very gratifying when you look around and see how much you have accomplished! I love the sitting area you have created - I am sure you will receive a lot of pleasure from it. The animals are all looking well and you are acclimating the Turkeys and Guineas to their Hoomans. Don't forget to take a break and cool off and hydrate while you enjoy some lemonade and surveil your domain!

Sprucers is Hercs baby, he’s very protective of him. I love their friendship. Blue sure is beautiful. Those owls are gorgeous! You’ll just have to make sure to make your outside runs like grandpa’s maybe with 2 layers of netting over the top.

Love the way Spruce trusts you both he just gets cuter by the day. ❤️❤️🇦🇺🇦🇺👍👍🥰🥰

Shanon, don't let Kyle freak you out ! You did a great job!!!

I love watching Spruce and his bottle dance. Puts Grandpa to shame. It looks like you have at least one tom.

Thats not little😁 Love the new outside front room, live in, light up area. That is so perfect 👍☺️😁

I love how not one of your animals are not afraid of you and Kyle. If I had a farm that’s the way I would want it to be with all my animals. They are all so precious. That Spruce is really growing and great job on catching the birds.

Wow Guys, everything looks awesome!!!!

I just realized that Blue has the prettiest western chaps on her hind legs...🤠

We are under a heat dome until at least the end of the month, maybe longer, triple digits with heat index here in Central Texas! I should be as skinny as a rail but I’m not!! 😅 I LOVE your space!!! It’s the little things that count and your space looks so relaxing!! You should move your outdoor chicken coop so they have access to grass and more insects. God bless both of you and love y’all! If you hear a screech owl you’ll know what it is because it’s loud and boy is it screechy!

what a great dog he is doing his job love it

I'm surprised that the goats don't eat Herc's food. Excellent job Shanon! I so enjoy your videos!

I think it would be great to move the outdoor coop a little to give the birds some new grass xxxx

Your place is really looking great …❤❤❤

Howdy ya'll..hope all is well. ❤

The owls are majestic. Too bad they will prey on the small birds. Hopefully, once the turkeys and guineas get bigger, they won't be considered prey. Shannon, I love the "deck" you added to the camper with some help from Kyle 😄 Herc doesn't let Mario get away with anything as far as Spruce is concerned. God's blessing on Shady Acres from Proctor Minnesota!

I sure got a kick out of Shannon carrying the birds over! Well Shannon you did it! Great job! Yes those owls are looking for an easy dinner! 😮 continued prayers for Kyle! ❤

I know the owls are predators and can kill your baby chicks but they kill alot of mice, rats and snakes too. Once your chickens are full grown the owls will most likely leave them alone. I personally love owls, I think they are beautiful and love listening to them call to each other.

It is 1 1/2, Should have gone with 4x4 so much sturdier, you could have also extended your shade cover. 1 1/2 are a lot less expensive. Put up a patio cover a few years ago myself. You live and learn, today I would do things a lot differently. Going to build a coop and run, have too many critters to free range. Although free ranging would help with the ticks. Maybe Herk can be trained to run the entire property, that would help to keep the critters at bay. Or get donkeys. I have owls too, but they are the least of my worries. You two are really moving along. Working so hard.

Watching you two city folks learn to be homesteaders and handle animals is so funny. It can be rewarding, but also heartbreaking at times. You're doing well so far. Love the sitting area. So comfy looking.

I have faith in you Shanon you can do it!

Shannon... congrats on conquering you fear of the birds ! Your doing great !

Hello Kyle & Shanon, what a beautiful place you have to wake up to. Mario, Mama, Luigi, Blue & Spruce are looking so good & happy. Your young uns are growing fast. Love your quiet space Shanon it is very neat. It's good to see you feeling better Kyle & able to have some dairy again. 🙏🙏 continue fir you & Shanon. Take care & see you next time! 🩵💜😊🤗✌️✌️👋

Another great video. Thanks for sharing. Shannon you are so brave 💖

You’ve made a beautiful area ❤

Herc is Spruce's big brother. He will always protect Spruce until Spruce can protect himself. Mario will just have to be reminded by Herc about that from time to time. I don't know if Spruce will ever get as big as Bruce, since Spruce's mother was so little, but Spruce will definitely get bigger than he is, as he is growing every day! That little milk dance with the tail wag is so cute! The barn owls are beautiful birds, but they do know you have tasty young birds on your farm. The owls might have hungry babies of their own to feed, so your job protecting the guineas and turkeys is very real. Shannon, it was so fun to see you handle the transfering of the birds. I am proud of you for overcoming your aversion to handling the birds and getting the job done! I also am so amazed when I see how much work you both have put into Shady Acres. It actually looks like a home now. Shannon and Kyle, the rug and chairs and lights strung up look very cozy, and a great place to sit and enjoy your property. Blue is becoming more accepting of touching her. Your patience and gentleness is paying off. That is so nice to see. Best wishes to you all!

Hi Kyle and Shannon. Turkeys like to roost up high just as the guineas do. Shannon, as you wean Spruce you might want to start gradually diluting his milk with more water until you are done giving him a milk bottle. It does make the transition easier. You two are doing very well. Best wishes.

You two are doing so great!. You do make it fun for all of us who have already been there and done these things. BTW when you move them back to the shop at night....take advantage of the time that the coop is empty and each of you get on one end of the coop. Lift with your knees and move the coop to another location. The purpose for putting them in there is to let them be in the fresh air and to let them peck through the grit and grass. Look at the present location. They have about eaten all the grass and there probably are very few bugs there. However, they have fertilized that little plot of land.!

Glad your keeping an eye on the owl situation.

I love YOUR PROPERTY KYLE & SHANNON & ALL THE ANIMALS AND Both of YOU!! GOD BLESS!! BE SAFE WATCH FOR SNAKES!! Stay Safe if Storms Come!!! Missourian MYSELF!!!ALWAYS & FOREVER!! I love the Patio/ Sitting Area in Front of the Camper!!! Kyle hope Your Feeling Well and getting Better!!

A poultry transport crate could make your lives a lot easier as long as you're moving birds!

Good job Shannon. Kyle is so funny.

Kyle, I'm so glad you can have some milk now. I keep you in my prayers for a full recovery. Your little feathered flock is growing to help eliminate those nasty ticks.

You need to build a dedicated chicken coop, bigger, to house those birds. Something with a fenced run that you can cover with netting. The birds will use it to sleep and roost. The tick eaters, turkeys and regular chickens will go back in at night on their own.

It will be interesting to see how herc responds when the girls have babies

I've got to admit....those owls are a tad bit freaky. Again, your outdoor area looks so inviting & peaceful! Shannon, you did great on your first time transporting those squirmmy birds! Looks like you might need a roof on their cage in the shed - unless you don't mind poop everywhere! 😂

I just love watching you two work together. Maybe get an owl statue on the coup to make the owls think they have competition. You make such a good team. And now with Rae being on the farm every day I hope to see her and Chad doing the same. ❤❤❤❤❤❤

Love listening to the owls!!

I’m proud of Herc for doing his job! I love your beautiful outdoors spot!! Very nice!❤️🙏🏻🇺🇸

Is that coop able to be moved, to fresh grass? If that's something, you want to do? You both are doing such a great job. Thank you for sharing.

The owls are very beneficial when it comes to rodent control. And Kyle, wild turkeys roost high up in the trees at night. Your white turkeys are probably not going to do that when they get bigger.

Love your comfy outside space. Those turkeys are sprouting,

Wow! A beautiful patio. Way to go Shanon on handling your birds. Those owls are awesome. Just so amazing all you do and the love you share. Love and prayers 😇💜

I love having owls nesting nearby. With that said, I am watching and reading to learn methods of protecting free ranging flocks and livestock. 🤠

Moving the birds had me laughing so hard I had tears! Thank you for the entertainment. God bless you all. ❤😂

Spruce is growing like a weed and the birds are getting big too😊 The front yard looks great guys❤️🇨🇦

You two really do your research and I'm learning so much 😉😀. Jason and Brooke at Cog Hill Farm used to hang those colored plastic flags around so that critters wouldn't go where they weren't wanted. Might be worth it to hang in some of the trees and the birds chicken tractor 😄👍♥️♥️♥️♥️

Love your seating area , saw it lit up , it’s beautiful and so peaceful. Owls are neat, until they are stalking your birds ! I’ve got a pair in my neighborhood..

Hey guys, suggestion: if you put feeder & waterer up on a brick foundation (up inch or 2) they won’t get as dirty as fast. 😁💚❣️

You can actually hold on to those birds more firm than you are, you are not going to hurt them. It also maybe time that they don’t need the heat lamp because their feathers seem to be growing in quite well.

Eventually, Mario will figure out how to unlatch that gate!

The ones you are calling Grey are actually Lavender's. The dark ones Pearl and then the white. When mature they are like fish swimming across the yard. They are so much fun. Enjoy!

Spruce and now Maggie are the most loved critter babies ❤❤❤❤

Love, love, love your patio/outdoor lounge! Great job, Shanon and Kyle! 👍👍 Kyle, did you mean a symbiotic relationship? How is it that you two can make the most mundane chore (moving the birds) into such a fun adventure?!😂 Good job, Shanon. overcoming your hesitancy and holding the birds! And can no longer call yourselves "city folk"! Y'all are not city mice, y'all are country mice! Just like Nala is no longer an urban princess, she is a princess who resides in her country estate!!! ❤😂 And Kyle, when you said you were going to "wing" it, make sure you don't lay an egg!😂😂 Great video!! Blessings and wonderful news about the dairy products!🙏❤🥰

Looking at coming in the front gate and down the driveway is such a huge change from where you started a year ago.. Everything looks like a park area with the green being kept so clean and nice.. Unless you saw it from the beginning with all the work you had to do you just can’t imagine how two city kids (I’m 67 so I can say that) have worked your butts off sweating and using parts of your body you didn’t even know you had tearing down a house and a barn and cleaning up around all the vines and trees and ground cover of tall grass and weeds.. All the while battling the many mosquitoes and wasps and ticks and other creepy crawlers including snakes everywhere.. Shanon you have become a ninja at any project you have tried to do and you wouldn’t stop until you were satisfied with the end result.. Kyle you tackled projects bigger than you thought with the digging of trenches to the shed for electricity and water for the pump to work then more trenches to where you were planning to put your trailer so that required electricity and water run not to mention all of this was definitely not something you were familiar with so lots of trial and error and high stress not mention all the digging you had to do before you could even get started… So with all that being said Kyle and Shanon you have grown so much and more confident since beginning the journey of your property and home a year ago.. All you have to do is take a look around together and know you are home where you belong on the property you chose to be.. Shady Acres is amazing Kyle and Shanon Doss ❣️🐕‍🦺🦮🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐓🐓🐓🦃🦃🏠🌅🌄🧹🪓🪚⛏️🛠️🧰🪛🔧🪜🚰🚽📪❣️✝️💟💯🇺🇸

I'm so glad you are doing better, Kyle, as you're reintroducing the foods you like. Take it slow and easy thought, no need to rush it. Those birds are getting so big, too.

I simply adore the both of you, K&S!! Great job moving the birds, Shanon! I know it can make you anxious when you've never touched them before but you did an amazing job! Those owls are gorgeous and I know you both will do your absolute best to keep your flock safe, as you do with all of your animals. I love your "porch" area, it's so cozy and pretty and I love the mat (rug) and how it lights up!! I'm a "lights" person, meaning I love lights on everything and anything cuz it just makes everything so awesome. Thank you again for sharing your lives with us! God bless Shady Acres and Kyle and Shanon and all of the wonderful animals! 💜❤❌⭕

The owls are so neat! Maybe consider making them an owl box and putting it up in a tree.

Kyle maybe you could get a carrying cage and put several of the birds in there at one time, to bring them over from place to place, instead of bringing them one at a time! 💞

Hi guys, a simple solution for moving your birds around would be a small plastic dog carrier and just load them in at the brooder carry them to the day pen and unload them as a group. Especially if you are going to have multiple groups that are going to be raised to help with the tick problem. Then as you establish their home runs , follow the new design that Grandpa set up to let them free run in certain areas. If you add a goose or to each group per free run areas . You have winning combinations and can establish large free run areas with the safety home night lock up pens. They make the fowl electric fences and rollaround fowl trailers. Go back to Grandpa's house and check out his new set up to let his chickens free run and they know where to run for safety. Love to watch your videos.

Herc will definitely put Mario in his place. He keeps the peace! Love Bleu.

Those Turkeys are adorable. praying for your health!

Love and blessings to you both and all your precious animals and flocks 💕💕💕🙏🙏🙏

those feathered babies are really growing up fast! Love the seating area outside the trailer. It makes it nice to sit and relax after a long hot day. Definitely think about a chicken tractor until they are big enough to roam free. Inevitably the owls will pick some of them off but that's to be expected. Very proud of Shannon for handling the birds. You got this girl!

Love your sitting area. Looks great.

To make it easier for you to transport the feathered friends, what about putting wheels on the brooder ? That way they could be transported straight to the one outside ... it would save you going back and forth for each one ... just a thought ... .

Buy yourself a long handled fishing net. Great poultry catching tool. Build a tall coop with large tall roosting bars. If you want to train them to come back to coop, don't feed them anywhere but open air wired coop or run.

That was very interesting to watch Hercules put Mario in his place for going after Spruce. Lumber is never the size they are listed. I'm not sure as to why, but I learned that from my dad many, many years ago. Also I learned that when you are putting any wood in cement you should always make the cement higher around the wood so any water will run off and not pool around the wood so the wood won't rot. Therefore will last longer. Just a little FYI. And lastly, I am so proud of you Shanon for doing the birds. That was awesome. Kyle will you please give her a hug for me and tell her how good she did? Thank you.

Even at this young age, your white turkeys are behaving like Toms.

Owls are very interesting to watch ! What a beautiful peaceful place do enjoy your Shady Acres ! 😊

My daughter holds our 16 chickens on theit back like babies to move them. I hold them upside down by their legs. I can carry 4 birds that way. Ours has finally gotten out or the ugly teenage dinosaur stage. That's what my daughter calles it. Blessings to your both.

Hey y'all, I am willing to bet the turkey you picked up first is the male and the second one is a female. I have heard that on the Hidden Heights channel also about the goose as an alarm and protector.Jason calls them the alarm system on Cog Hill. Lots to think about!

Oh those owls are beautiful ! But boy you are going to have your hands full trying to protect those birds ,what next hawks ,snakes yikes ! It was so funny watching Shannon move the birds I had visions of loose birds! You guys are great,love your little rug area it looks soooo nice!

Just an FYI, it will do the birds good to have different thicknesses of perches to roost on. It’s good for their feet. What you may think is to fat or to skinny, as well as just right is a good combination to have 😊

You're doing such a great job! I'm fighting a mosquito in the back seat, headed home from Colorado. You're keeping me company and it's wonderful!🧡 ~Tennessee Fields

Love the front porch. Good job Hercules. Blessed life for all of you. How sweet it is.

Shannon You had me giggling during the transferring of babies. Kyle I loved your Guinea dance,was so cool. Shady Acres is Soooo beautiful

It might be a little thing but it doubled your living space. It looks awesome. Throw up a couple tiki torches to control the mosquitos and you got it made. If you are okay with it the bats will take care of the skeeters. My Dad caught an owl somehow and it was very large. It didn't stick around long. I think it may have been injured and once healed said Adios.

You're definitely going to need a bigger coop and run as those babies grow. You won't be able to let them free range until they are adult sized. And owls can and will hunt during the day too. And then there are hawks and eagles. Have fun! 💖💖💖

Hi K&S, just a thought about your bird coop. Perhaps you should move it to a ew patch of grass every other day. Keep up the good work ,love your vids👍👍👍👍

Great job Shannon, Kyle u were so patient while she was learning how to handle the baby chicks. Are u going to make a covered run for ur chicks so the aerial predator can’t get to them? Every day u learn something new. God bless u and urs.

You need a goose. They will alert the smaller Guinea and turkeys because they're always looking up. That being said your birds are pretty cute❤

Rae’s new baby is even louder. Spruce is so cute.

Great video today !!! Animals are learning their spot in the pen !!! 🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐🐕🦉🦉

Shannon you did good handling them guineas turkeys yourself for your first time. It’s scary you feel like you could squish them so easily.

Shannon you made a great and cozy place to sit and relax it looks so nice. Good job for your first time moving the chicks. Wow, owls they like the new buffet so you better think of what to do i hope your birds get real big and maybe get a goose to grow up with the chicken's like others have said on Cog Hill Farm they have Cheese to watch over that flock he seems to like being with them. Well thanks for a very interesting video I love watching all that you do.

Next time you make the concrete post pots, may I suggest put PVC pipe into the concrete then slide the wooden poles into the PVC. That way you can remove the wooden posts for easier storage in the winter. I would expose the PVC about 2-3 feet for added support for the wood posts.

Shanon saying "you're okay." Is she talking to the bird, or is she reassuring herself? 😅