Organic Dairyman: Birdhouses

[OurHumbleLife]

I loike this sort of info~thanks

[kingofwc]

Interesting story about birds and their usefulness. I just love birds..God's amazing creatures.!

[rimma4]

Very interesting ....Thank you.

[MrSunny29]

Sweet , wonderful

[respectbluder]

y not jus use a venus fly trap

[pioneerliving]

That's very interesting, getting the bird to control the flies. That's a great idea about adding cedar shavings to the bottom of the bird house too. Really nice video thank you.

[cookingupastory]

thanks, pioneerliving. I love seeing how people work *with* nature to improve conditions. The cedar shavings were a nifty idea!

[capedchameleon]

This is very inspiring and interesting! I love ideas like this, it gives me hope for the future.

[cookingupastory]

Many different swallows feed on mosquitoes too!

[rhoula]

Great video I love it. I may need to install few dozen bird houses to get rid of the flies in my backyard.

I wish there was something I could do about Moskitoes

[anne2matthew]

that's very interesting

[Chivalryaintdead]

Great stuff man, that is the way the cycle should be. They also keep ticks and other baddies from hurting the cattle.

[mehdiebrahimi]

so interesting

[xzanadu89]

your a very awsome smart caring person!good for you!

[xXDyingDarknessXx]

aww im a vegeterian when i was small my grandfather owned a farm well he still does in dominican republic it was also organic :) thanks for sharing and supporting nature at its best!

[designed5]

thanks for the upload!:P

very educating. =)

[suchandradasi]

I LOVE your system!! Smart!!!! And it's cute too!!!

[NOLAcain]

mite killer, and promoter of lazy birds.

[mytujuan]

Very good !! a Honey bee in my beed look my channel myn (24) vid.

[robmacbob]

cool

[robmacbob]

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schon was freigeschaltet

[pailaip]

he uhhhh could have uhhhh said all that in uhhhh 1 uhh min!!

[tyfawtamghar]

sympa cette intention envers les oiseaux.

[PropagandaBuster]

Excellent video. Thanks. May I ask: can you tell me how wide the hole is on the bird house? Also what type of latch are you using to hold the front of the bird house in place? Thanks.

[cookingupastory]

You can ask, but I may not have the answer(!!), PropagandaBuster. At about 30 seconds in, look close, the latch is 2 nails on each side, bent over and swiveled out of the way to take off the front. At around 55 seconds in you can see him swivel them into place. Now the hole, my guess is that is less than 2" in diameter. I'd suggest googling what size hole swallows like in their nesting 'boxes'. Hope this helps a bit. Good luck, if you decide to make one. Will you paint it pink!?

[PropagandaBuster]

Yes I will make the boxes, thanks for the info. But why pink?

[cookingupastory]

Just cuz it was the most used color to paint the boxes in this video!

[PropagandaBuster]

I will most likely use the paint I have on hand, brown, blue, or gray.

[averagebetty]

I love how they are so brightly colored too. They look like lanterns ;)

[mariecs1969]

loved this...enjoying seeing the bird houses, the chickens, the cows..and the info...thanks for sharing

[hyrocket]

so if the lice are not in the bird house, they must be in your house, nice.

[dmccoig]

Awesome look into the natural way of Farming!

We just returned home from filming a working 1900 Historic Farm in the Carolinas and the old methods were so in tune with the organic considerations of today!

Thanks for another great piece

Dan

[cookingupastory]

That sounds like a very interesting project, Dan. Will you be posting any of it on YT?

That's what Jon (in this clip) was saying (in an earlier story) he discovered, that switching over to organic practices was like farming like his grandfather did, only they didn't call it 'organic' !

[dmccoig]

Very cool, Janet and I both said the same thing about our different grandparents farming methods.

That is our plan (YouTube), we have one more interview to film and I am hoping it will cover a sort of (Day in the life) point of view, hopefully a look back in time.

The farm itself was fantastic.

Thanks for the encouragement

Dan

[CanadaNS]

My comment about IT was for inferno566

[CanadaNS]

You ever read Stephen King's book It? I did, one of my favorties.

[CanadaNS]

I love your bird houses, we also have bird houses that swallows use every year. It's not spring for me until I hear their sweet songs. Wish I was as organic as you.

[BlackChameleon]

OMG, James Cameron makes bird houses?

[MONTANELAS666]

Um pequeno exemplo de como podemos coabitar pacificamente com o meio ambiente e disso tirar-mos proveito sem recorrer-mos a técnicas de extreminação de pragas.

Nota 10

[artettina]

Those ar realy cute houses, I didn't know that about cedar chips.

[thedungape]

go to thedungape vids

[ochagirl]

Great job!

I wanna live there. That's my kinda life. <3

[TheRealInvaderZim]

Very nice ,THANKS for this video :)

[emirdoalgarve]

simples,prático e muito útil.gracias

[b00025459]

i love counrtyside

[PsYCry]

get a job

[cookingupastory]

He has one! He's an organic dairyman and he works 365 a year. His cows don't take a day off.

[turkoman20]

Anyone know where this farm is located? It looks so green and peaceful.

[cookingupastory]

It's located in Oregon, turkoman20. Less than 40 miles from Portland. Very green around here =)

[turkoman20]

I live in Utah but have always wanted to move to Oregon... Eugene area, Mcminville perhaps.... We have taken several vacations up that way. Thanks for the reply !

[thisisnutsyouhear]

So simple but works so beautifully. Good on you.

[ReliableInsider]

It funny how when something seems sensible and right, there's nothing to say.

If there were some flaw in anything you were doing, I'd be all over it. LOL

Ahhhh, the quiet rustle of everyone agreeing. 

Peace, at last.

[cookingupastory]

If, somehow, ReliableInsider, we can get this to go all around the world...what a beautiful sound that would be :)

[cookingupastory]

Of course, now I've disturbed your peace and quiet ;-)

[ReliableInsider]

I love the story so much I just want to move . . . to that farm.

[cookingupastory]

It IS a beautiful location. I'm with you :-)

[marquisdejolie]

Experiential tourism is hot this decade. There are farms that cater to city folk coming in and getting "the rural experience."

[cookingupastory]

Do they get to work or just observe? Is this just in your neck of the woods, marquis, or all over?

[marquisdejolie]

I saw it in the news. You get on the tractor and plow. Maybe even slop the hogs. Guess you'd contact a travel agent.

[WeeMiniMoose]

Haha, I was just thinking the same thing! It's looks so beautiful and peaceful, I love it.

[ReliableInsider]

What if the family farm

became not something that was for-profit

but a place for people to go

to restore their souls

when the world got to be too much

in these troubled times.

By 'family farm' I mean a 19th-century farm!, not a 21st-century "farm".

Not-for-profit in the sense that *everyone* benefits, not just stockholders.

[cookingupastory]

An idea many could benefit from. Perhaps there is a philanthropist out there willing to start it? I'm reading a book now, 'Kitchen Literacy', and it mentions how at the start of the 1900s a fellow began a garden for school children in NYC, to get them back in touch with where their food came from. The kids were delighted to be outside, in the dirt, and growing things.

[ReliableInsider]

I would imagine the hard part is convincing the cityfolk to go back to the city when it's over.

[chimyron]

do you have any idea about what a contrast this is to most modern dairy operations?

[cookingupastory]

I don't. Anyone else?

[dionysusstar]

Another great video. Excellent idea...gotta love they painted them pink! The more organic natural ideas implemented on a farm the better.

[cookingupastory]

Yes, it's working with nature, not against it.

[nicanicabad]

really fine video--

[drail80s]

Would the mites as you mentioned still be a problem if the houses were cleaned after each use? Or would the cedar chips still be put into the house??

[cookingupastory]

My guess would be to put new cedar chips in after each nesting season. New family of swallows, new mites.

[pennilesscripple]

love your videos

some organic farmers move chickens into the cow fields to eat the maggots from the cow pies and scratch up the ground...that helps with fly control too....

[cookingupastory]

Gotta love those chickens! I understand they are great for preparing fields for future planting. Not only do they scratch up the ground, they also leave behind a rich manure.

[Octahoney]

Another great video! Plz keep it up!  :)

[srasm]

In the first few seconds it looked like the birdhouse was in the hills.

[cookingupastory]

Kinda like a boxy flying spaceship! :)

[srasm]

That is pink!