Hey guys! So I know a few folks are asking how we are doing after the flood last night. We are OK, but many of our neighbors are not and we’re trying to do as much as we can to help them right now. I’ll try to put out a better update soon, but just know our farm and animals are ok. ❤

with the bees, your biggest mistake was to just sweep them inside the box without finding the queen. The bees are attracted to her pheromones and so if you managed to succeed to capture the queen and put here in the box, you would have managed to capture the swarm. But oh well, things happen, I'm sure you'll manage to do it next time.

You need to get the queen, put it in a queen trap and place it in the box. Source, me, a professional Vaalheim beekeeper who's bees are always happy!

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*@Gold Shaw Farm* 15:05 You *need* to clear out the grass nearby those beehives, ants might climb the grass & invade & exterminate the whole hive, or other nasty bugs can do the same. Idealy, the "feet" of the beehive should be standing in water, to further insulate the hives from invading bugs & stuff.

I had two broody hens die on their nests a couple of summers ago. I put one in a box on paper towels and brought it in the house. Lo and behold, the bird was full of those nasty little mites that sparrows bring into the coop. The mites had essentially sucked too much blood out of the hens. Broody hens are a perfect target as they don't move off the nest but once or twice a day. I immediately cleaned and treated all the coops for mites and have maintained that regimen since. No problems since that summer! May your chickens in the pasture grow fat and happy and stay safe!!

Yea on the bees, slow down and be more patient, loose the brush, look for the queen and slowly move the bees with your hands to the new box. Love your channel

The duck's name is clearly 'Chicken'.

My dog loves to watch your farm videos. She loves all the animals. Sometimes she moves closer to the screen when the animals are in the full screen close up shots, she gets off the chair and stands closer to the tv. So cute! Morgan, you have one of the best vlogs on KZfaq!

Hello Morgan! if you want to catch the swarm and have a high success rate, take a frame with an open larva without bees from another hive and place it on the swarm, the queen and many other bees will run to protect the larva, once the frame is filled with bees you place it in the empty hive. It is one of the ways we use in Greece.

Your artistry in filming simple day-to-day videos is off the hook.

When a hen dies while sitting on eggs, it's usually due to mites. So you should check your coop for mites.

I love how you are managing all the systems to benefit each other in the thoughtful, ecological way.

BEES: In the future, consider getting a queen cage and finding the queen. Cage her, and place her into the box to encourage the other bees to follow her in. They won’t leave if she’s there. If you can’t find her, don’t brush the bees into the box that way, as too many bees don’t make it into the box. Adding a bee attractant to the box may help. Lemongrass oil will attract bees. Place a few drops in the box, and they will be drawn to it. You can make a swarm lure that you can check by hanging a rag under a shelf-like structure. Soak the rag in beeswax and lemongrass oil, and the swarm can hang off the shelf and be easy to collect. To get them into the hive box, be VERY GENTLE!!! Scoop them with your hands, check each handful for the queen, and gently place them into the hive. If you get a lightweight plastic scoop (something from the recycling bin would do like a yogurt cup), that can be used to gather more bees in one scoop, if you want more than what your hand can gather. Those brushes can really beat up bees. A feather would be better. The way you were sweeping could kill the queen, or toss her into the grass. Best!!!

Free range chickens should be fine as long as they are still locked up at night. But you can go the extra mile and place random tall posts in the ground then screw on a couple crossmembers as makeshift trees/ high perches for the chickens to flap up to and escape ground predators. Like mini power poles With the shade wagon, maybe try something like a more solid wall or shade cloth wall, as the sun travels one side will always be in the shade and grows as the sun moves. But yeah you can make good extra shade by utilising vertical area. Imagine a set of goal posts with shade mesh strung between the posts all the way up. Takes up next to no ground room, same as a fence line, but can create lots of shade.

Bro really threw that swarm catch by not caging the queen first lol.

Love the view inside the coop while moving them! Hysterical watching them try to stay on their roosts!

If you mounted a pair of truck side view mirrors to the mobile coop, it might help you line it up with the trailer hitch. Or a camera that you could monitor from your phone - sort of a DIY backup camera.

In Poland, we spray the swarms with water. No bees will be harmed in the process, but they are compact so it's easier to throw them into the bucket and they don't fly around as much when sprayed. You can also throw all the bees on the ground, put a hive in front of them, and they should come in on their own if the interior is well made (Full frames, not a hose to build)

Love me some mulberries, as a little girl I used to sit in my neighbors tree for hours eating them, they were very tasty! More Cochin babies, they are adorable. Maybe Scooter should be a name for the baby duckling, he certainly scoots around a lot,lol. Thanks Morgan for the update, looks like all is well at the farm.👍🐝🐕💕🦆🐥🐣🐓🌱🌿

You should also put the owl on the new coop. Help with birds of prey getting the chickens

You still got a lot to learn from the way you tried to get your bees inside. You could've gotten balls of bees with your gloves and gently put them inside the box instead of brushing them like that like you are trying to scrape something off your fence. They were all agitated and you most likely missed the queen bee. I'm guessing they still get you nervous from the way I saw you brushing them into the box.

Omgoodness those baby chicks are sooooo cute!!! Can't wait till the next video to watch them grow!!! Love you Morgan!!!

You should take the extra effort to mark your queens so that if they swarm you can find them easier. The bees go wherever the queen is so if she isn't in the box, they won't stay.

Every bee relocation video I've seen, including one done on your farm, involved first catching the queen and placing her in a isolation clip before trying to move the rest of the bees into the box.

Since that duckling is a singleton, you could name it Han Solo :P

Just woke up to a terrible dream, happy I now get watch your video and feel better!

Looks like you might be getting scrambled eggs after that journey to move the chicken coop!

one thing i could recommend for your cattle are fly masks!! they help keep flies out of the cows eyes, while they can still see through them :) i dont know if theres a kind for highland breed, or it theres a kind for calves, but its still worth a shot!

My neighbor decided he needed a fancy backyard and used so much pesticide and weed killer we lost 80% of our mason bee population, which was at least 1,000. Poisons used don’t only kill the pests people are after in their own yards. Fly paper great idea.

I really enjoyed this video, Morgan. I’m realizing just how much work and planning goes into filming one small segment, eg. The bee rehousing one. As a person with planning and initiation challenges, I applaud you for adding more mental and physical work to your day for our entertainment and education. From the one who always thought farm life would be great.

You gotta find the queen and then the rest will follow.

Hi Morgan! I hope your day is going great! If you stick a couple of rear view mirrors on your barn vehicle (like bicycle mirrors, for example) it will make centering the trailer hitch on the trailer really easy. I really enjoy your videos, thanks so much!

Nice inside edition, please make sure there are no nails sticking up on the loose boards inside the new Cluck Hotel. Thanks for the variety of content.😅

Maybe you need a guard goose up there with the chickens they seem to protect against the predator birds

You need some queen clips and when you get swarms you can find the queen put her in the clip and place that in the hive and the bees will then stay in the hive

The chicks with the hairy legs is the best thing to I've seen today 😊 (and it's the evening here) 😅😊

piggies looking great, I knew you would repeat every year, they are such an easy animal to have in your setup

I've had bees in the past . First I always kept a empty hive close by. Plus it looks as if you have all newish frames when capturing a sworn throw a couple of combs full of honey so as to make the new hive more inviting.

Lavender's chicks are so cute. When you get your incubator can you try to hatch Bette's eggs.

Gorgeous Lavender Silkie mum & chicks, RIP little Bette, it's redmite season 😥🐔

the fly traps are back , YAY ! thats my favorite segment , kinds creepy of me i know ! i HATE flies !

Also you should be adding more boxes to the hives throughout the year so the bees have more room. You can even harvest honey several times throughout the year so long as you leave enough in the fall for winter. The bees don't really need it until then.

MORGAN, This is RJ... You said that this summer is drier than usual. Well, after yesterday, with all the rain you got causing many roads to wash away and restricting travel in the area, you know have a wet summer again like last year on the same day...

dewey duck is my suggestion for that cute grey duckling 🥰🥰🥰

Every time I see a video of your daily experiences I am in Awe!!! Amazing job Morgan!

The weird chicken army is growing once again!!

A productive day on the farm. I’m nervous but curios how the chickens will do without the electric netting. Hope it works out.

It sure is great to see you using these "organic" methods of farming/ranching. Wish more people did. You explaining it will help a lot of people understand their world better. Keep up the excellent work!

I'm really sorry about Bette! But I love the new tiny weird chickens. And that is a very wise-looking duckling. I'm glad that you left that food dish as its comfort place.

Appreciate your insight about the insects being part of the “farm”… So much going on with all the eggs hatching…

The easiest way to pick mulberries is to place a sheet under the tree, then shake the branches above the sheet. The ripe mulberries will fall on the sheet, easy peasy.

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15:03 their peeps mean something. This one was either danger or not happy and calling for mom. First week you should always listen to peeps for danger or in trouble ❤

No too critique, but from the video looked like your ball was set just right with tongue of the chicken trailer. It will still pull but can pop off easy as can be easily understood. Just something everyone towing needs to double check/ fitment and lock. Not so dangerous on slow around farm but certainly on road. Many disasters have happened from not checking. We have all done it

So glad you have chicks this year!

You should try to plant white mulberries. They are wonderful.

You don't talk about the 🐝🐝🐝 enough! ❤❤❤ Sweep gentler, slower.... move like you are walking through jello when dealing with a swarm. 🧘‍♂️🧘🏼‍♂️🧘🏿‍♂️🧘‍♂️

Still waiting for more Farmdog moments of Zen please! Edit; Duck name: Donald or Darkwing Duck

the shademobile needs help, more shade for the cows since you have no trees for shade. it's too hot for them just like it is for us.

Duckling name nomination - "Duckling Dew-Right " which is of course a cheesy take off from the classic Bullwinkle & Rocky cartoon series " Dudley Do-Right " cartoon from the 1970's.

Omg! Adorable chicks! ❤😊

Nice to see the bees again. I would love to see a video about how you collect honey from the bees.

Good update today. Sorry about the bees

That little white lavender brown chick was so cute, I could die.

Very,very good video, Morgan! Well thought out and complete. I love the joy your farm gives. Thank you for producing these videos!🐝🪰🐔🐓🐽

He's so gentle with his flock, that's why Toby is a superstar.

Hello from West Virginia. Love watching your videos. My Toby Dog book is supposed to be here Saturday. Take care

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If you can isolate the queen into a queen clip and place her into the new hive you will have much higher success rates with establishing new hives. Better luck on the next one!

Your chickens riding in the coop is hilarious but it makes me hold my breath..lol

Inside the chicken coop when youre moving it reminded me of lucy ball in the movie 'The Long, Long Trailer'

In my area we use mulberry trees as a kind of sacrificial crop around orchards (in or near fence lines), as most leaf munching bugs prefer them over any other kind of fruit tree. They're strong enough to fruit despite getting covered in aphids and various kinds of caterpillars, but few people actually harvest mulberries beyond picking a few to eat fresh from the tree. If you have the patience to pick a few pounds you can freeze them for smoothies or let them ferment with a touch of honey to make "mulberry wine", a fragrant beverage more akin to a vermouth / fortified wine, with as much as 20% alcohol content (without adding distilled spirits) and possibly some (unproven) medicinal properties.

Another channel, Farmer Tyler Ranch, set up a cattle sprayer to help with flies and found filling it with water and dish soap seemed to work really well - the sprayer is positioned so the cows have to walk through it to get to their water. Recently he set up a cow brush and a rub so the cows had somewhere to rub the flies off off their backs and faces

Freebees are the best kinds of bees. But, sometimes you have to buy them.

One of my fave mulberry dishes is to fill a bowl with them, pour enough half n half on them to almost cover them, toss one or two tablespoons of suger on them, stir till the half n half is purple, and dig in!

Love how you say it is your "costume". Good chuckle.

Highland cattle are naturally friendly animals who generally are interested in human interaction. Charolais tend to be more independent and while they are docile, they can get really temperamental. I'm not surprised the Alice B is a little more standoffish than Bea.

Duckling name suggestion: Emmitt Smith Because he's a runner duck, and he likes his bowl. Emmitt Smith was a running back for the Dallas Cowboys who won 3 Super Bowls.

I'm so happy to see Pengu is alive and well! Was wondering what happened to her!

I really really enjoy watching your films - more please!

I hope you are doing ok with the flooding. I heard that your town was hit really hard.

You should just build a minimum stall on the pasture where they all can lay underneath the shade and you don’t have to move it back and forth.

Good morning, Morgan.

The newest caw is absolutely beautiful

There was nice moments! It looks like you still have to learn more about bees. That duckling is so special! Thanks for telling us about mulberries, I'd try one.

4th. Never got here this quick as an Aussie

You should try a harvest bucket, Johnny seed carries one. they have an X strap that goes over your back so you have both hands free to pick. I put cardboard quart baskets inside so the small fruit doesn't get crushed

RIP Bette 😞

Put a verticle rod on the tongue of the chicken trailer. Put another on the atv in the center of the rear bumper. When both rods are adjacent you are lined up. Drop the tongue on the ball. Easy peasy

i love mulberries :) When we were kids we raised silkworms, and we fed them mulberry leaves.

My son is SO excited for kid sizes! Hes wanted a shirt for a while he can’t wait!

Hey, Morgan, have you thought of adding chicken seatbelts in the chicken tractor? LOL!🤣

After you swept most of the bees into the new hive, did you not sit back and watch to see what they would do? If they continued to swarm an area outside the hive, then you could have searched that area for queen. I feel like just sweeping them in & hoping you got the queen was not the best plan.😅

I'm not sure mulberries are a local berry plant, maybe try serviceberries if you prefer growing something that's from North America for little fruit

Dear Farmer, I think you just enjoy having those chickens twirk dance over bumps.

Once the predators realize there's a chicken dinner on the range, they will come. You're generally OK until they see an easier, plumper, fatter dinner among your chickens than elsewhere.

The law of averages makes me think that your chickens will be fine free ranging a large area, until... they aren't. At some point your (and their) luck will probably run out. Be interesting to see what happens. Are raccoons, coyotes and mink common or uncommon in your part of Vermont? They are ones likely to show the least amount of mercy to the birds.

We have mulberries in the park besides our house. I was thinking of picking some but then I though of our good ecosystem around the area and decided to leave it to the birds and critters living in the park. Even though we are in a big city we have rabbits and such living here.

Your mulberries last a lot longer than ours here. Ours ripen the 2nd-3rd week of May through the 1st-2nd week if June. They aren't over flavorful. They are filling. You need to make a movable scarecrow for you chickens. Have it hold a or two whirly wheels for movement to keep the predators away. 🤞🏻🌞