Gabby’s Farm

Descriptive Transcript

[Upbeat music plays, pop giggle]

Child: Whee!

[Logos] T.V.O. Kids, B.G.M. Sphere Media.

[Text Reads] Original.

[Upbeat music plays, sheep bleats, cat meows]

DESCRIPTION: Aerial video footage shows a farm with a two-storey house, a barn, and outbuildings. A line of trees grows behind the house, with a dirt road running through the treeline. A sheep walks to a fence, and a grey-and-white cat looks down from a tree branch. Gabby stands by the chickens. Gabby has long blonde hair and wears a pink, grey, and white plaid shirt.

GABBY: They scratch!

[Clucking, hay rustles]

GABBY: They cluck!

DESCRIPTION: Gabby reaches into a nest box and removes an egg.

GABBY: Some lay eggs! Can you guess what they are?

[Ding]

DESCRIPTION: Gabby hugs a chicken. In an animation, the chicken gleams.

GABBY: They are chickens! I love you so much!

[Rooster crows, upbeat song plays, slide whistle]

DESCRIPTION: Gabby skips across a field, lies on grass by a cow, waves, and carries a net over scattered leaves on the ground. They look through a magnifying glass. Gabby and Thomas feed chickens. On a lawn, an adult wearing a riding helmet holds a lead as Gabby sprays a horse with water.

[Song] 1, 2, 3 and 4. Let's get ready to explore. All my favourite animals are right outside my door.

[Sheep bleat]

DESCRIPTION: Gabby chases sheep. In a garden, they hold up onions. Gabby poses near a tractor and smiles. Gabby walks with smiling adults and watches a third adult feed hay to a cow.

[Song] Pick some veggies from the garden. There's the tractor, let's go ridin'. Hanging with my family, right here, it's Gabby's Farm.

DESCRIPTION: Gabby steers a ride-on tractor past the barn.

[Title] Gabby’s Farm.

GABBY: That's me!

[Light music plays, Gabby shrieks, giggles]

DESCRIPTION: Gabby kneels on a spinning disc swing and then waves.

GABBY: Here, chicky, chickies!

[Chickens cluck]

DESCRIPTION: Gabby and Thomas feed chickens.

GABBY: Me and my brother Thomas are playing with the chickens.

DESCRIPTION: Gabby and Thomas hunch forward and bend their arms, flapping their elbows like wings.

GABBY AND THOMAS: Cluck, cluck, cluck, cluck!

[Chickens cluck]

DESCRIPTION: Chickens and chicks peck the ground.

GABBY: Chickens are a big part of my farm. I have lots and lots of them. And it is our job to feed them.

THOMAS: Bawk!

[Gabby laughs]

DESCRIPTION: Thomas flaps their elbows and follows chickens.

GABBY: Come on, Thomas!

[Food rattles]

DESCRIPTION: Gabby spreads feed on the ground.

GABBY: Dinnertime chicky, chicky!

[Chickens cluck, lively music plays]

DESCRIPTION: Thomas smiles as a chicken pecks at the food in their hand.

GABBY: Good chicky.

[Chickens cluck]

DESCRIPTION: Gabby and Thomas hand-feed the chickens.

GABBY: Oh, don't eat my whole entire finger!

DESCRIPTION: Thomas gives Gabby a chicken, and they hold it carefully.

THOMAS: Ready? Tuck it underneath. There you go. Now you can pet him with this hand.

DESCRIPTION: Gabby pets the chicken.

GABBY: This is a hen! Hens are like Mommy chickens. They lay eggs!

[Pop]

DESCRIPTION: A row of hens lies in their nest beds. One nest bed has two brown eggs inside.

GABBY: And they like to cluck a lot!

[Hens cluck]

GABBY: Every hen is different. Some of them are really chatty.

[Hen clucks]

DESCRIPTION: A hen clucks at a camera. Outside, a hen walks across the grass.

GABBY: Some of them are quiet. Just like people!

[Hen clucks]

DESCRIPTION: Gabby holds the hen.

GABBY: This is Kelly. She's my favourite.

[Chicks peep]

DESCRIPTION: Gabby and Thomas sit on hay bales while yellow, orange, and black chicks peck at the grass by their feet. Gabby holds a pale yellow chick and Thomas holds a black chick.

GABBY: These are chicks! They're baby chickens.

[Chicks chirp, gentle music plays]

DESCRIPTION: The chick Gabby holds flaps their wings and jumps off Gabby’s hand. The chicks peck at the grass.

GABBY: Aw, little girl. Look, there's a big step. Big step. Big step, lil guy. They are so cute!

[Chicken squawks, Gabby grunts]

DESCRIPTION: Gabby feeds the chickens and startles one of them.

GABBY: Ooh, sorry, chicky.

DESCRIPTION: A white rooster walks alone on the grass.

GABBY NARRATES: That is the rooster, he is like the Daddy chicken. He does not lay eggs.

[Leaves rustle]

DESCRIPTION: In the morning, the sun rises from behind the barn.

GABBY NARRATES: He wakes us up in the morning with this sound…

THOMAS AND GABBY: Cocka Doodle Doo!!

[Rooster crows]

GABBY: That sound is called a crow.

[Rooster crows, whoosh, upbeat music plays, cows moo, horse nickers, hens cluck]

DESCRIPTION: Gabby climbs up a playground slope and runs down a slide on the other side. Gabby enters the chicken coop and sits on the floor among the hens.

GABBY: Hi, hens! I just drop it on the ground. They all go to it.

[Gabby laughs]

DESCRIPTION: Gabby drops feed into a metal bucket hanging from the ceiling. At the bottom, the hens eat. Gabby picks up feed and hand-feeds hens.

GABBY: Hens lay eggs. Let's go check their nest boxes to find some!

[Bang, upbeat music plays, hens cluck, wings flap]

DESCRIPTION: Gabby picks up a basket and carefully walks through the gathered chickens. Hens fly out of their nest boxes, and Gabby gathers eggs.

GABBY: I have to be gentle. I do not want to crack the eggs. Good job, hens! Time to count them.

[Pops, bleat]

DESCRIPTION: As Gabby counts the eggs, the number appears beside the egg.

GABBY: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight! Let's keep collecting eggs.

[Lively banjo music plays, Gabby giggles, exclaims, hen clucks]

DESCRIPTION: Gabby puts more eggs in the basket. A hen startles Gabby when they fly up and lands on the ledge beside the basket.

GABBY: That is a lot of eggs!

[Gabby clucks, Gabby giggles, whoosh, upbeat music plays, Gabby giggles, pants, tractor motor rumbles]

DESCRIPTION: In art on the outside wall of the barn, metal cat and dog shapes sit with a stack of farm animals between them, with a cow on the bottom, then a horse, then a sheep, and a chicken on top. Gabby runs around a tree. On a field, the tractor tills the yellow grass. Gabby looks at the chickens.

GABBY: There are eight chickens out here.

DESCRIPTION: As Gabby counts the chickens, the corresponding number appears beside them.

GABBY: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight!

[Ding, crickets chirp, feet scratch]

DESCRIPTION: Chickens peck the ground and scratch it.

GABBY: Chickens have beaks. They use them for eating. The red thing on the chicken's head? That is called a comb. Chickens have feet. They use them for digging. They scratch the ground to find bugs and worms. And they eat them! Yuck! Do you know how many toes chickens have? Let's count!

[Pops]

DESCRIPTION: Numbers appear beside a chicken’s toes on both feet as Gabby counts them.

GABBY: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight!

[Sheep bleats]

GABBY: Let's count our toes, Thomas!

[Hens cluck]

DESCRIPTION: On the hay bales, Gabby and Thomas lean over and count the toes on their feet.

GABBY: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten. We have more than eight toes! Come on, Thomas, let's race!

THOMAS: Wait! Gabby, your boots!

[Whoosh, Gabby giggles, upbeat music plays, Gabby exclaims]

DESCRIPTION: Gabby runs across a lawn with a black-and-white dog. Gabby runs to a rope ladder on a swing set and climbs.

[Text Reads] Gabby’s Farm Fun.

DESCRIPTION: Gabby steers the ride-on tractor past the barn.

GABBY: Gabby's Farm Fun! Let's play! Time for our egg and spoon race.

[Eggs tap]

DESCRIPTION: Gabby and Thomas carry eggs on spoons.

GABBY: 3, 2, 1, go!

[Lively music plays, footsteps thump]

DESCRIPTION: Gabby carries the egg between two swinging swings. Thomas carries their egg across a playhouse.

THOMAS: Uh oh!

DESCRIPTION: Thomas runs down a slide. Gabby and Thomas zig-zag around pails, and Thomas drops their egg. Gabby passes them.

THOMAS: Oh!

GABBY: You watch out, slowpoke!

[Thomas exclaims]

DESCRIPTION: Gabby does an extra circle around the last pail and carries their egg towards a hay bale. Their tongue pokes out of the corner of their mouth. At the hay bale, Gabby stops and picks up the egg.

GABBY: Made it! Didn't crack!

[Upbeat music plays, cows moo, geese honk, hens cluck, sheep bleat]

DESCRIPTION: Cows stand in a field. Ducks and hens waddle in the grass near a wooden building. A flock of sheep runs beside a fence. Gabby stands with hens, who peck at the grass.

GABBY NARRATES: I love chickens so much! Let's count them again!

DESCRIPTION: As Gabby points at the hens, a number appears beside them.

GABBY NARRATES: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight!

[Sheep bleats, chickens cluck]

DESCRIPTION: In the coop, Gabby takes eggs out of a nest box and puts them in their basket.

GABBY NARRATES: I love collecting eggs from the hens. Look at all the eggs!

[Chick peeps]

DESCRIPTION: In a flashback, the black chick walks on Thomas’ arm, Gabby holds a pale yellow chick in their hand, and Gabby holds Kelly.

GABBY NARRATES: I love cuddling them! Chickens have eight toes. Count them with me.

DESCRIPTION: As Gabby counts, the corresponding number appears beside them.

[Pops]

GABBY NARRATES: One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight!

[Hens cluck]

THOMAS: Gabby, time to go feed the cows!

[Hens cluck]

DESCRIPTION: Gabby releases Kelly and waves.

GABBY: I wanna help! See you next time! Bye! Come on, Thomas!

DESCRIPTION: Gabby runs to Thomas.

THOMAS: Okay, ready?

[Upbeat music plays, hay bale rustles, Gabby grunts]

DESCRIPTION: Gabby lifts a hay bale.

GABBY: Hey, I never knew I could lift hay bales.

[Cat meows, purrs]

DESCRIPTION: The grey and white cat walks to Gabby’s foot.

GABBY: Holy. Oh my gosh, you cat.

[End Credits] Executive Producers: Bruno Dube, Marlo Miazga, Daniel Bourre, Sean Connolly, Corinna Lehr. Created by Daniel Bourre. Host: Gabby. Directed by Daniel Bourre, Chloe Gray. Writer: Steve Diguer. Special Thanks to Tanya Sharpe, the Sharpe family, Marianne Fallis, Sheena Switzer. Copyright 2020 Kids Farm Productions 1 Incorporated. All Rights Reserved.

[Logos] T.V.O. Kids. B.G.M. Sphere Media.