Yesterday I worked at the farm, my usual Sunday routine. I feed the ram (Black Knight), who is good friends with me, then head down to feed the piglets and the swine. They have 6 piglets and 5 pigs. I head to the chicken houses and feed the layers, the pullets (broilers to be), and the new flock of layers which are still very young. Finally I head to the large barn and feed the 30 or so sheep and lambs, as well as the two sheep dogs, and the barn cats. Then I go to the other farm down the road and feed more sheep and lambs. Next week I will start feeding the cattle- they are changing the management plan to try to tame the cows a little bit more, making it easier to deal with them for routine health maintenance as well as when the time comes for them to go to slaughter. They have a mixed breed herd, with only about 15 head.
The rest of my day is filled with general farm labor; yesterday I moved feed and hay around, cleaned out all of the nest boxes, and shoveled out the "Super Coop" chicken barn. They keep the barns very clean, and the chicken houses get cleaned about once a week, while the other pens get poop picked out twice daily. As far as farms go, this is about as clean as you can get!
This week, my first out of school(!), I am starting to work 3 days a week there. This should definitely help me pay off my vet bill for my horse in a reasonable amount of time! I also will be doing some garden work for Doc to work it off, continuing to clean houses and picking up some more yard work and such. Hopefully sometime soon I will have paid it off and will be able to put some of the money I'm earning into my checking account!
Tomorrow I will be learning how to shave the Great Pyrenese farm dog, and starting to paint the mile of white board fence surrounding the farm. They are trying to keep me with the animals as much as possible, which is awesome.
Here are some cute pictures from the farm:
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| The small brown coop |
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| Piglets! |
What a cool farm :) Congrats on starting your summer vacation!
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