Shadowing Practice: Learn English at the Farm - Learn English Speaking with YouTube

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Hey everybody!

It's Arianita La Gringa and welcome back to my YouTube channel.

Today I'm with my friend Blair and she's going to be showing me around her farm.

I will be teaching all of you guys farm vocabulary in English.

Let's go!

What do sheep say?

Bah.

I'm gonna, you wanna hear my best sheep impression?

Ready?

Bah.

Wait.

You have to really make an ugly face, like bah.

Let's go over like the different ways that animals can like make sounds.

What does a chicken say?

Okay, chicken has Yeah.

Like a rooster, yeah?

Yeah, that's a rooster.

A cow.

Okay.

Oh, they do.

Okay, and the last one is a horse.

All right.

So what is like the typical cowboy cowgirl outfit?

I think what I had on earlier was way more typical farm boy.

A pair of beater seven jeans is what I wear in my muck boots every day.

Cowboy boots, shorts, a little top and a cowgirl hat.

And cowboy culture, anything like woven is cool.

We like that.

We like cowboys.

We like loud stuff.

These two items are literally like generational cowboy go-tos.

And you're straight kickers.

From one to ten, how would you rate my friend Blair's outfit?

I would say ten.

No way!

I'm a fourth generation farmer.

We do like to look like we lived in and worked in our outfit.

If not, then you're a poser a little bit.

This door's heavy.

It has to be kind of dirty, you know?

Yes, you have to live in it.

Lived in is cute.

Come on inside.

So this is my truck.

And everybody gets a truck when they're born.

And this is mine.

Wow.

Look, and my dad gives us all a truck when we're born.

And mine's skull edition, and the gear shifts glow.

It's awesome.

This thing is our baby.

So why does everyone get a truck when they're born?

Is that like tradition in your family?

My dad likes vehicles, and so do I.

So we like engines.

We like big engines.

This is a tractor, right?

Yes, we used to pull this.

My family had pulling tractors.

Now I think it's in the antique division.

What do you use a tractor for on the farm?

Right now, we're feeding silage and feeding hay.

You have two really big tractors for those.

Are those real deer?

Yeah, they are.

All of these bugs my dad and my brother and I have killed.

Do you guys normally hunt deer or like other animals?

I have killed quite a few more animals,

I think, than my dad and my brother.

In northern Kentucky, we live on the Ohio River,

and we would plant corn and soybeans,

and it was just basically a feast for these guys.

In northern Kentucky, we have an infestation of deer,

and so you can kill these guys.

If you're a farmer, you get farmer tags,

and you can kill them.

It's legal.

It's legal and we eat every single bit of our deer.

We've had cow tongue, cow intestine,

and that's just from our cattle.

Deer you can make a lot of jerky with,

even the parts that like aren't usually good to eat.

What's the difference between a deer and a buck?

Is a buck the male deer?

Right.

So a deer is like saying the species name

and then a buck is the male version and a doe is the female version.

And what's the baby deer called?

Fawn.

Yeah, it's a fawn.

Yeah.

We have the buck, a doe, and the fawn.

My dad was a mountain boy in the Appalachians.

They were all coal miners.

My mamaw actually got divorced and remarried my papaw.

Wait, what is mamaw papaw?

In the United States of America,

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we give our grandparents really goofy names.

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Yeah, we don't really say like grandma, grandpa.

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I mean, some families do say that.

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Some people do say grandma,

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grandpa, but it's fun and like uplifting to give your grandpa a funny name.

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My grandpa's name was Grumpy because he was really grumpy.

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So it's mamaw papaw.

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Mamaw and papaw are my dad's parents' names.

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So these are Blair's awards.

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Blair, can you tell me a little bit about your awards and what you won?

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This is one I showed under 4-H.

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This is when I won Grand Champion Berkshire Market Hog,

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Grand Champion Market Hog, or Reserve Champion Market Hog,

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and here's the banner for that one.

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So basically you catch pigs?

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No. In the livestock industry,

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in the show side of it,

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it's just like show dogs.

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You're trying to have the best genetics possible,

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like phenotype looking and genetic type.

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These pigs, when you're looking at them,

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phenotypically speaking they're like stout,

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wide made and so you have to judge them off of what they look like and they win.

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So just think of a dog show but with pigs.

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I won as a showman with all these pigs because they're the best.

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My brother likes cows and I like pigs.

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This is a fun pin.

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This has a lot of our unique breeds.

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So what is a pin?

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A pin is like a fenced in field.

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A pin can also be like a horse stall or something like that.

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Just anything that pins in animals.

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So in this pin we have belted galloways

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which are the oreo looking cows

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and then i also have highlanders with the horns scottish highlander long hair do you see them

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so when you breed a highlander the one with the horns

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and the fluffy hair to one of these white haired white parks they get white fluffy hair black ears

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and a black nose like

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that all the way in the back do you see it with the long long hair

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and the hump ones like yeah that's a yak what's a

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yak oh wait you know a yak that's That's the first yak I've ever seen in my life.

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Yeah, it's really cool.

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They're really mean.

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They have like a terrible attitude.

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They're the meanest animals I've ever had on my farm.

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Most farmers, whenever you climb on the gate here,

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you'll get yelled out by your grandpa or by your dad.

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You always have to climb by the hinges so you don't bend the gate.

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What's the baby name of a cow?

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Okay, good question.

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So we call them calves.

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Calf for singular, just one little baby.

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And then calves for plural.

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When it's a girl, that's a heifer.

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That means she has not had a baby yet.

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When it's a boy, it's born as a bull.

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And then after you castorate them, then they're a steer.

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And actually, when a cow is in labor,

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you can say it's capping.

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Oh, interesting.

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I didn't know that.

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So this is our bullpen.

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I'll go over what my family pretty much does for a living.

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My dad, he's a third-generation row crop farmer.

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He started off doing tobacco,

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which is huge in the state of Kentucky.

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But my brother and I have a little bit different interests than him.

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And we raise show cattle,

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show goats, and beef cattle.

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But this is what we do the most competitively is show cattle.

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In this pen, we have a lot of scimitol-influenced cattle,

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so you'll see a lot of color.

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So they're going to be red and white,

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and over here is our white park bull,

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and his name is Neil.

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So what makes the best show bull?

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I wrap it up simple.

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I also coach judging kids now for my county,

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and I say it simple like this.

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Butts, nuts, and guts.

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You want them to have a big butt and be really stout from behind because that means they're muscular.

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You want them to be big in their testicles so they're a good breeding piece.

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And then you want them to have a big gut

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so they have depth of body and they can retain their body weight really well.

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And you don't have to be worried about feeding them and them being skinny.

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What do they normally eat?

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So this is what they eat right here.

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We feed our cows silage and grain and hay every day.

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After you harvest all your corn, you're left with stocks.

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And a lot of farmers turn this into silage.

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And that's what we did and feed it to their cattle.

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And it's really high in protein and good for their gut.

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And you can even see some of the corn left in there.

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Blair, does the color red make bulls really aggressive?

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Honestly, I think that's just a common misconception about cattle.

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I think cattle, just like many other animals,

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don't have great color vision.

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Red is maybe a rare color they actually can see.

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Back in the day when Tauros would get a bull and do that,

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maybe it was just the color they could see.

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So no, I wear red around my cattle all the time.

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What is a barn?

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What do you use a barn for?

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A barn is either to store animals or equipment or hay,

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and it's pretty much just a large shelter to keep everything out of the weather.

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Because it gets cold in Kentucky.

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Like you gotta have some shelter and warm.

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I love Kentucky because it has all four seasons.

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It has a really cold winter,

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a really hot summer, a really wet spring and a beautiful,

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the prettiest fall in the United States of America is in Kentucky.

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Okay, which one's your favorite season?

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Let us know down below.

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Now, Blair is going to take us into her barn where she keeps a lot of cattle,

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storage space and stuff.

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So let's see what's inside.

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Okay, this is a once horse barn converted into now a goat barn.

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We literally go through a round bale probably every other day.

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This is hay, right?

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Yes.

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Hay is alfalfa.

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It's fescue and alfalfa grass.

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Kentucky we have fescue.

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It feeds nice expensive animals.

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It makes out for fluffy good hay.

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Straw is more or less bedding.

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Is straw harder?

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Yes straw is like you're sitting on a straw bale.

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Something about like that material.

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This is hay.

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It's a lot thinner and it's for food and then straw is mostly for bedding.

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It's a lot harder too.

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So why do you guys have so many goats on this farm?

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Here recently renting land and the cost of land has went up

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so much in the United States and owning land that you make money by selling it.

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And so we actually have less land now and bigger facilities,

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which works out perfect for smaller ruminant animals like sheep and goats.

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Smaller ruminant meaning their guts.

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How much is land in the United States?

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In the state of Kentucky,

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the lowest I've heard right now is $12,000 an acre up to $30,000 an acre.

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In Northern Kentucky, it's $25,000 an acre.

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Land prices are all about basis where you live and location.

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Closer to a city, more expensive ground.

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Yeah, we're 30 minutes away from Cincinnati.

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Yeah.

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30 to 45 minutes.

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So we're in some of the most expensive land in Kentucky.

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So do you think these are male or females in this pen?

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Okay, I think they're all males because they have horns.

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When you think of horns on an animal,

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you initially think that means it's a male.

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But with goats, the ones with horns are females and they're all does.

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But they share the same names as deer.

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The males are called bucks the females are called does

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but their babies are actually called kids

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so males bucks females does babies are kids most people also

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call human babies kids as well i'm like children children we call them children

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so this goat is a male actually no this one is

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still a female some breeds are pulled meaning they don't have

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horns they're born without them this is a pulled dairy goat you can You can still tell by her udder.

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What's the udder?

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They're teats.

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Goats have two teats.

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Horses and cows have four.

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This is my niece's pony.

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So is a pony the baby of the horse?

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No, a pony is just a different species actually entirely.

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Yeah, this is a Shetland pony.

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That's his breed.

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They're the prettiest kind of ponies.

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They get fluffy and they have long hair.

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And look, he's super nice.

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You could do whatever you want to him.

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Here's some pony facts.

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Cattle kick to the side like this.

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Ponies kick behind like that.

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So never get behind a horse.

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Ari's trying to right now.

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No, I'm kidding.

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Can I ride your pony?

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Yeah, do you want to?

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Sure, but I don't know if I'm too heavy.

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No, you can get on him.

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How do you ride a pony?

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So when you get on a horse,

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if it has a saddle,

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I would put my weight in my left leg,

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come this foot in the stirrup,

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and then swing this leg around.

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But since it's bareback, you actually get on different.

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Okay.

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You put your butt leg here.

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Luckily, he's short enough for me to do this.

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I'm 5'1".

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I don't have a lot of height to do, but yeah, he's good.

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Okay.

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Good job.

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Good job.

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Oh, yay!

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You want to go meet my brother?

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Sure.

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Okay.

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Hi.

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Nice to meet you.

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I'm Ariana.

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You're a lot.

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Look, this is a really cool bird.

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This is one of the smallest.

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It's a chicken, right?

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Yeah.

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This is called a banny.

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Right?

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This is called a kiki-riki.

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A kiki-riki.

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He's full grown.

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That's him.

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He's pretty small for being full grown.

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That's why he said it's the smallest chicken breed they make.

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It's one of the smallest breeds.

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So do chickens lay eggs or is it the hen?

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The hen.

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This is a male.

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So he doesn't lay eggs.

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But only the females do.

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The males have a comb.

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And that's right here.

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And then Jermai, what's this called?

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Waddles.

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They're waddles.

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Blair is going to show me some cool eggs.

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So I'm assuming this one is from the hen.

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This is a normal laying hen egg.

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I make scrambled eggs with all of these.

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They're like warm too.

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There was a chicken on top of it.

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The chicken was just laying on these.

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That's a turkey and then that's a goose.

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I always sell them to people that want to incubate them and then catch baby chicks.

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And what kind of egg is this?

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Quail.

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And this is a quail egg.

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Quail, a regular laying hen that you buy at the store,

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a goose egg, and then a turkey egg.

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Which one's your favorite egg to eat?

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A lot of people love goose eggs because there's a lot of yolk in them.

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They're good to bake with because a higher yolk Appearance more yolk makes bread

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and everything with yeast rise more

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so a lot of people like to bake with goose eggs The yolk is the yellow part of the egg

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and turkey eggs come with speckles There's another goose

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There's a duck Feel the difference on the duck how it's got like a waxy shell Yes

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and it's such a thin it feels like a thin shell

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compared to a goose egg here we'll show you Like a thick shell versus like a waxy seal

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and that's a duck egg.

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This is Finn.

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I rode Finn.

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He bites so watch out.

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He does bite?

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Okay.

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Yes.

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I won't pet you then.

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You can pet him easy around his mouth.

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Quarter horses are hyper.

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They can run the fastest in a quarter mile.

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That's why they're called quarter horses because they're faster in a quarter mile than any other horse breed.

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They're the stoutest made of horses so they're very muscular and they're made for working cattle.

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That's literally what they're made for.

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See he's little nipper and this is prim this is mommy.

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Blair can you go ahead and tell me the names of a mom horse a dad horse a baby horse.

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So this guy was born a stallion and then since then he's been castrated

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and now he's a gelding but over here we have a pretty mare the mommy horse.

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And what do you call a baby horse?

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You call him a colt.

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Now Blair's gonna show me this barn and you said that you had a favorite animal on this farm.

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Yes we're leading into my show barn.

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It was once a tobacco barn now it's a show barn

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this is my favorite animal on the farm i'm a pig girl

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and this is actually a pot belly pig she has no

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purpose on the farm other than to be cute she's a big girl

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look she likes eggs it's like little candy to her she has bad vision

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they love their belly rub

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and what does a pig say like what is the sound

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it makes point point here we have a baby calf see her ears she was born

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when it was really cold

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and she got frostbite oh wow she lost part of her ears the tissue is damaged

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and eventually they fall off kind of her mom didn't have any milk

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and so she's a bottle baby this is for cows

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but it's a it's a working shoot

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so the cows they'll come up through the pin system here

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and then they'll go into the alleyway

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and what's the pin system for give shots

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if we're doing a blood test or something's sick and like we had to give medicine.

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It's like there's a cow having trouble having a calf.

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It's all about restricting movement.

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This is a bottle calf and we can walk up to her

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and pet on her and like I might even be able to give her a shot

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or do something with her right here.

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But if it's a big cow that hasn't been handled much,

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you gotta have some way to restrain them.

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It makes them feel calm.

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When they feel pressure on either side of them, it calms them down.

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The baby's nursing off the mama cow.

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But if you were to get milk by hand,

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how would you say that?

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I would just milk in a cow.

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Milk in a cow, yeah.

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Blair, have you ever milked a cow?

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Oh, yeah.

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Yeah?

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Okay, everybody.

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That's all for today's video.

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Thank you so much, Blair,

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for showing me around your beautiful farm.

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I hope you guys learned a lot about farm vocabulary,

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the different names of animals and their babies.

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Let me know down below if you guys enjoyed this video,

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if you have any comments,

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and if you want a part two.

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Thank you again, and I'll see you guys next week.

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Bye!

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Bye!

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