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by Bayvistafarm » Sat Jul 30, 2016 8:33 am
Glad your feeling better Sandy.... but what put you there in the first place? Kind of scary stuff.
Its raining!! Lightly, which is super, considering the ground is so hard, it just runs away. My pail ran over yesterday on the lawn... and it never even soaked in before it rain itself dry right across the ground.
We got our straw all baled up, and baled for others. He still has to bale his cousin's straw. Our wheat... we rented some of his land. What a screwed up arrangement that is. Paid his land rent for the 50 acres already. But... depending on what things run... he gets $1 bushel more over and above whats been paid. Really, such a loser farmer. Bought a dairy goat farm over an hour away.... and really can't manage both farms. Why.. he hasn't even gotten first cut hay done around here yet, and hes MILKING goats!!!!!!! He didn't charge us HST on the land... and really, I never thought of it when I cut him a cheque the first time around, I guess anyone with a business number has to charge HST on land. Stupid government. We get it back... so why in the hell pay in the first place. I guess they hope you over look stuff like that.
Cleaned out a few pens yesterday. I got going, and never stopped. Before I knew it, it was 2:30pm. Caught and moved a lot of birds too. I have scratches all over, and one long one in my scalp. Mostly guinea's and turkeys. They like to fly over your head, and land on it. While I had them caught, I ivomec'd them. Banded certain guinea's, that are now all running together. Then I can put them back in their 'groups' if they start to fight. Two got bands on their left leg. Blue and dun. 4 got no bands. 3 got bands on their right leg. 2 blue and one dun. lol.
After wheelbarrowing all that crap out of the barn, around the barn to the manure pile, moving shavings bags... and spreading them, cleaning waterers, and changing feed in feeders (turkeys were moved to the horse barn with their grower, and guinea's were moved in with their layer), moving turkey groups... blah blah... I was so so tired, aching.
I noticed the red palm has one less baby. Where it went is anyones guess. It couldn't have gotten out. Nothing got in, that was big enough to notice damage. A rat? I waged war on those a few days ago, with a new poison... and it smells nothing but dead around here. You see them laying here and there. Course, I pick up those. And, a hen presented me with new babies, didn't even know she was setting. Outside even. 4 new chicks. found the nest. 2 eggs not hatched, and a baby with the guts out of it. Probably stepped on.
Well, better go out and get wet!! looking forward to that!
Have a great weekend!
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Pet quality wheaten/blue wheaten ameraucanas, welsummers, barred rocks, light brown leghorns; Projects on the go: rhodebars, welbars
