Cutting Hay

It was a hard decision on to cut or not to cut.

The boys finally decided to cut two small fields.

It feels good to have that job started.

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The Clean Shop

Good grief,

as clean as the kids

got the shop today

you'd think there was going to be a party in there.

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Wrong Place

Elsie went out to milk the goats the other night

and found Simon in the barn stall

where he wasn't suppose to be.

After they gently explained to him where he was actually suppose to be,

he turned around 

and ducked back out the door he wasn't supposed to have come in 

in the first place.

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The Sign

We got a little closer today to what I want with the sign.

Ben and Hannah helped get this far.

Now I need to paint boards for the other side

and Elsie needs to buy short flowers. 

A Busy, Sunny Day

Olive was born sometime early this morning.

Betsy is a good mama.

The boys stayed home to work today.

But they didn't get nearly as far as they had hoped to.

Ben and Hannah went out to do some fencing 

and move the cows and calves to a different pasture.

It should have been a quick job.

 Everyone is at the gate waiting to be let out.

And then Curly, the big, ugly, naughty bull tried to jump the fence.

He got himself high-centered and all tangled up.

Ben cut him free 

and they moved him to a different pasture.

So then they had fence to fix 

as well as having fence lines to put up 

and move.

Little Polly just went to the new pasture 

and laid down for a nap.

Polly

Polly joined the herd Sunday morning.

Now isn't that an adorable face!



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The Newcomers

All of the newcomers seem to be settled in and happy.

They are going to get cold tonight.

The low is suppose to be 32*.

So we had to cover the garden too.

Very, very sad for May 13!

Moving The Broilers

It's been raining for three days.

But it was warmer yesterday

so it was time to move the chicks out of the water tanks in the shop

and over to the little barn.

Hannah does not appreciate these little beasts!

They will be much happier here

until they get moved to the chicken tractors

in a couple of weeks.



New Steers

Luke and Ben went to look at steers on Monday.

 

 They decided to buy 19 head.

 

They were delivered during a lull in the rain today.

 

Ben hopes to fatten them up and head them out quickly.

 

This is something Ben's been wanting to do for quite awhile

and we are proud of him for pulling it off.



Quigley

"Q" names for calves are not easy to come up with.

But since we are doing the alphabet backwards this year

that's what we had to work with yesterday when this guy was born.

Cleo is his proud mama.

I don't think Ben has weighed him yet,

but he's a whopper!

Good-bye Piggies

They are gone!

The final four of the last litter of 13

were hauled to A & M this morning!

I went out to get pictures

but three of them had walked right into the trailer so I was too late.

Number 4 turned out to be a little more challenging

so I held the gate instead of taking pictures.

So two bucklings were sold this morning

and the pigs were hauled in.

The barn just got a lot quieter!

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Spring Chill and Summer Heat

Paul was off Monday and Tuesday.

We worked outside all day both days

and nearly froze to death in the wind.

But we got the perimeter electric fence working again.

The new layers were moved to the chicken castle yard 

so they could get out of the chicken tractors.

We changed part of their fencing too.

The post office called at 6:15 Tuesday morning 

to say the broiler chicks had arrived.

After the rain last week...

and this today...

this should be turning green very soon!

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