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November 15, 2004

Fall cleaning

We spent Saturday cleaning and moving, organizing and deciding what to throw away. I posted a number of items to our local freecycle list as well as an electronic classifieds for things we could get $$ for.

We spent Saturday cleaning and moving, organizing and deciding what to throw away. I posted a number of items to our local freecycle list as well as an electronic classifieds for things we could get $$ for.

The barn had to be cleaned out. We moved out some large table saws and radial saws. Raked up old hay. Moved skid steer around. Organized planters and buckets.

The blue house is a small 3 room house that the previous owners of the property used to live in. We use it now for storage. I brought my soap tent and its accessories to the blue house as well -- won't be doing any outdoor shows for a while.

The goat pens and chicken coops were cleaned out. The pigs got all the clean hay the goats discarded, and the garden got the chicken litter as well as soiled hay.

After trying to store a round bale of hay outside under a tarp, we decided keeping it in the barn worked better. We unroll it a little at a time and fill garbage cans and rubbermaid totes and lug them up and down the hill to feed the goats. It's getting pretty old pretty fast. I am tyring to figure out the best way to make a round bale feeder from cattle panels.

The sawmill gives us plenty of rough cut lumber. What we don't use, we store. We put a bunch up in the rafters of the barn and also loaded up the truck to take some to the land. At the land we put a lot of lumber up in the rafters of that barn. I have the sore shoulders and arms to day to prove it.

Sunday we worked again on the coop but have not finished it yet. We ran out of netting for the run, and have to hang a door to the run so I can get in and out. Then I can move the chickens in there. Er, rather I need to do a chicken swap and get the chickens who live in there now out, and put in the chickens who hatched out this spring. It will be rough for everyone for the first few days. Most of the chickens are used to free ranging throughout the day. While the birds get accustomed to their new homes, they will be enlosed in the coops and not allowed to roam so they learn that "this" is home. Then I will be able to let them out after a couple days and be pretty confident that the birds will know where to go come bedtime. In the meantime I am hoping my egg counts will increase. When they run around everywhere, they tend to lay everywhere. Enclosed, their eggs can only be found in a certain area ;-)

Posted by roosterh at November 15, 2004 11:13 AM

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Thanks for the farm photos and stories. Keep them coming!

Posted by: Loren at November 18, 2004 2:11 PM

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