Local Video Goes Viral: A Yoke of Oxen Helps Make Yolks

Thousands of people just fell a little in love with a small farm in Humboldt County–ShakeFork Community Farm near Carlotta. Local farmer’s market fans may already know about the 85 acre property in the floodplain of the Van Duzen River that uses oxen for tasks that causes most modern farmers to pull out a tractor. The yoke of oxen shown above is part of the entire farm team that works to create fresh eggs (and their yolks) and bring the eggs as well as fresh produce to market.

But to many of the new fans, their only introduction has been the video above with over 30,000 views that was shared by the farm on it’s Facebook page. In the video, oxen pull the chicken house to a new area to allow the feathered critters new opportunities to snack on bugs. Pasture raised chickens reportedly lay eggs higher in Vitamin E and Vitamin D.

And, if the video doesn’t make you smile, check out the little Shakefork farmer bringing in a couple of dozen of eggs in this photo from 2017.

Child Bringing in eggs

Bringing in the eggs on the Shakefork Community Farm. [Photo provided by the Farm]

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Willie Caso-Mayhem
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5 years ago

Good morning read,thank you Kym.

Guest
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Guest
5 years ago

While I have seen draft horses used in farming, this is the first oxen I’ve seen. They are certainly effective. It’s good to see efficient use of non chemical means of farming. Portable electronet fencing is so useful in being able to rotate areas of feed. Altogether a satisfying video.

guest
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guest
5 years ago

Super cool !!!

Dot
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Dot
5 years ago

❤️

Y Knot?
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Y Knot?
5 years ago

Is this what is called Vegan Farming, or are they sick of paying Renner $900 to fill up the tractor?

Aunt Jackie
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Aunt Jackie
5 years ago

I love it! Especially all those chickens running after their home which seems to be trying to escape!

onlooker
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onlooker
5 years ago

I wish that you would post this, and the article about our incredible local search & rescue crews and their efforts to find the lost hiker to facebook, Kym, so that we can share them far and wide, as an antidote to the poisonous attention generated by Murder Mountain. It would be great for everybody who thinks that Humboldt is a toxic waste dump populated by violent morons to see what life here is like.

Erik
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Erik
5 years ago

This is our future.👍

Central HumCo
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5 years ago
Reply to  Erik

Yes!

Y Knot?
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Y Knot?
5 years ago
Reply to  Erik

Maybe, but not if PETA gets their own BearCat and helicopter gunship support.
They won’t be allowing that blatant animal slavery to go on for long.

You’d see columns of uparmored, Prius technicals headed towards that farm.

Erik
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Erik
5 years ago
Reply to  Y Knot?

Haha, I’m getting an awesome mental image from this. Prius technacals, with Newsome anything is possable ffs.

Small Fry
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Small Fry
5 years ago

Happy Hens! Tough Ox! Nice Farm! Fun video!
This is how we do it..

Brother Bovine
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Brother Bovine
5 years ago

Oxen were used WAY before horses & mules to pull wagons, including the immigrant wagons that came west to steal land from the Native Americans…much more endurance…

Good read where Oxen figured: “Death Valley in ’49” an autobiography by William Lewis Manley

Joel Salatin
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Joel Salatin
5 years ago

That is gangster. Anyone into small scale heritage farming should check out the Sand Hill Preservation Center outta Iowa. Glenn Drowns has authored numerous books on backyard bird keeping and has hundreds of rare, heritage breeds of poultry. I believe he will ship chicks or hatchable eggs.

Not associated with his operation at all, but I would love to see more people check out his offerings. Either way, keep up the good work. Sustainable farming is about as radical and revolutionary as it gets.