February 25, 2007

aisy report day 16...

She is still standing this morning. And looking for food. I presume she laid down last night. But she is at the fence looking for breakfast. Hopefully I have nothing exciting to report until she calves and we get that first gallon of milk in our refrigerator. 

It snowed last night, about an inch. Today's plan after the archery shoot is to clean the chicken and turkey pens. The pens are damp.. which is a good/bad thing. Good as it is not frozen and it is not dried, so it will not be like concrete. Bad as I do not like damp bird pens as that can contribute to ill birds and diseases. I bought bales of shavings to put back in there again. 

The turkeys are HUGE. We have three left here. The largest tom we are going to eat soon and then keep the pair to see if we can breed them. I have to finish the 'honeymoon suites', (3 separate pens with houses) but that will not be a weekend project. Just a few hours one day and something I can probably do myself. I have plenty of no-climb fencing left to replace the cheesy 2" chicken wire which is on it and will not protect them from wild animals. Other than hawks, that chicken wire was not going to protect them a bit. 

We were talking about our "List" for when my guy is on breakup.. which should be in a month? 

b Fencing repairs on the barb wire in the back 40
b Pole fencing in the front pasture
b Take down all the dead Pine
b Portable mill to cut lumber from said pine
b Hook up the new well
b Water and electric up to the barns
b Build a new barn for cattle, feed and tack
b Maybe build a new poultry barn
b Help Mary & Matthew on their fencing
b Discing and seeding our pastures

... that does not include the normal things of gardening, seed starting, animals, finding all the things lost under the snow all winter, maintance of the things broken during the winter and could not do anything about until the snows were not making repairs impossible. And a thousand other odds and ends.

"Teenager" did not do too bad in the Basketball Tournament this weekend. I want to get some pictures of him shooting baskets, but he is like trying to herd cats anymore. 

"Kid" did the 3-D shoot this weekend. That is where they have life-sized realistic targets. The first day he got 115 and then today 119. Not bad for only doing this since January. He shoots recurve and he did better than all the adult women and half the adult men with the same kind of bow.