May 10, 2007

e got alot accomplished today. Well we did yesterday as well. Got almost all of Mary's poultry pens all put up yesterday.

Today was un-fencing... taking out all the really yucky, cheesy and "What-On-Earth-was-someone-thinking-when-they-put-up-this-fence???" fences. There were 3 of them. Mary was busy talking to her neighbor who showed up, I kept at the scummy fences. 

We also worked on the hog pens and got all the debris, like heads of engines, old barb wire, various boards etc out of there and loaded it up into my truck to go to the dump. Before we left her driveway we also cleaned out the turkey shed and got rid of carburetors, nails, "what-is-this-thing-anyway?" Saw a bear on the way back near Amy's.

It all went pretty well, until I was pulling one of the last sections over and from in between saplings. It happened pretty quickly.. so quickly I did not notice for awhile. But then it started to get kinda breezy. (See the red arrow on the back of my right leg?) Thankfully the barbs on the wire never touched me. That would have been surely a nasty suture area. And they were not even my pants!!! They were a really old pair of the guys they no longer wear as luckily all mine were in the wash. 

Then tragedy stuck. Something got in with Mary's day old chicks and killed most of the Bronze turkeys and 5-6 other chicks. None of the white Cornish X were touched. It looked like a large something had taken them out of their bathtub, piled them in part of the basement closest to the door and then stomped on them. All dogs and cats were accounted for, so it is a complete mystery. The older chicks we hatched out went to Amy's. Mary's new ones went to the outside brooder where the older ones had been and we should have 119-some hatch here soon and they will go into my brooder.