Tuesday February 6th, yesterday we had a little reprieve from sickness. Nehemiah is well!! One down and 4 to go, well technically 5. Kassy is not feeling so hot. Unfortunately there is no time at work to ask off, so I am stuck at work and not able to help as much as I would like to.
Even with that going on I was able to get the cows moved yesterday. When I was moving them I noticed an extra cow. I wasn’t sure so I did my daily count and sure enough I had one extra. I took a closer look at this new arrival and come to find out he is a big bull. The neighbors bull decided to come for a visit. The neighbor is suppose to come over and get him today some time. I checked our electric fence and nothing was torn down but somehow he managed to get in with our herd. It reminds me that I really need to get started on replacing our perimeter fence. We plan to put up high-tensile electric around the whole perimeter. The first step is clearing off all the grown up brush and trees from the current fence. We hope to start clearing this weekend.
I made a modification to Daisy and Poppy’s new stall area. I had it where they ate their daily hay in their stall. The problem was that it made it where I had to clean the stall out right before time to put them up or they would mess it up again. So I made it where they can get to their hay without going into the stall area. Hopefully this will make it where I can clean the stall earlier and it stay clean.
I set up the electric fence for Penelopee to have a little yard from her stall. Her stall is full of hay for her to munch on and build a nest for birthing. I plan to move her to the stall this afternoon. We shall see how it goes. I think she will be happy.
Our wheelbarrow broke and I was able to get a new one from Lowes. I am still getting use to it. I got a really good deal. It was only $50. It was apparently mislabeled on price because when I got to the register, it rang up to $70. The customer service person was nice enough to override the price and give me the displayed price. I plan on writing a review for it. I will keep you posted.
One final note, our egg production is starting to go up. We don’t place any artificial light in the chicken mobile so winter time is there off season. The egg production was between 1-2 eggs daily but the days are getting longer and production has gone up to 4-7 eggs daily. As spring is quickly approaching, we hope production keeps going up.
Well, till next time. Get in the Dirt & Get Growing!!!
Kyle – a bearded farmer
