This page is both for the blog’s readers and myself. I have a great deal of difficulty remembering what exactly I did and on what day I did it, so I thought that since I visit the blog at least daily it would be a good place to keep a running log of the non-daily tasks I complete. I will also use the log to record any events, like births, which will be a nice record to have because, for example, I have no idea when Izzy the goat’s kid was born — “About a month ago,” is the best I can do.
Tuesday, June 4, 2008
- Began collecting eggs — 38
Thursday, June 5, 2008
- Moved the sheep — 40 minutes
- Filled the water tank
Sunday, June 8, 2008
- Filled the water tank
- Picked up the grain bin
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
- Moved the sheep (should have done it yesterday) — 40 minutes
Wednesday, June 11, 2008
- Filled the water tank
- Built most of the broiler coop
Thursday, June 12, 2008
- Trailered six pigs to slaughter — 140 miles, 14 gallons of gas, 3.5 hours including drop off
Friday and Saturday, June 13 and 14, 2008
- Built a sheep shade and placed it in the pasture
- Mowed a section of the pig pasture. Mowed between the compost windrows
Sunday, June 15, 2008
- Finished the broiler coop. Moved the broilers onto pasture
- Moved the sheep
- Moved the pigs
Monday, June 16, 2008
- Filled the water tank
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
- Opened up a new section of pasture for the feeder lambs
Wednesday, June 18, 2008
- Herded the feeder lambs across the stream to the new section of pasture. Apparently they don’t like to get their feet wet
- Mowed a bit of the sheep pasture
Thursday, June 19, 2008
- Buzi the goat had a doe kid
Friday, June 20, 2008
- Moved the sheep — 1.5 hours, including taking down and setting back up one section of the feeder lamb paddock to use as a corral and running an extension wire from the perimeter fence to the middle of the pasture where the sheep are now
- Mowed the fallow side of the pig field
Sunday, June 22, 2008
- Filled the water tank
- Mowed another section of the pig pasture
- Dismantled the broiler brooder
Monday, June 23, 2008
- 4:00pm-10:30pm with 45 minutes for dinner at 8:30pm — Moved the pigs, moved the broilers, moved the sheep, spread manure, prepared the laying coop to be moved first thing Tuesday morning
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
- Moved the laying hens
- Advertised fifty hens for sale
- Took the two feeder lambs to the slaughterhouse — 1.25 hours including drop off, 40 miles
Wednesday, June 25, 2008
- Sold twenty six hens
- Brought the new buck home ($150, half kiko/half sable)
- Moved the sheep
Thursday, June 26, 2008
- Filled the water tank
- Sold four hens
- Picked up fifty red broilers
- Two 250W brooder lights turned on
Friday, June 27, 2008
- Sold fifteen hens
- Turned half of the compost windrows
Saturday, June 28, 2008
- Trailered one pig to slaughter
- Jen and I built two 3′x12′ raised beds in the kitchen garden
Sunday, June 29, 2008
- Moved the sheep
- Sold six hens
- Mowed the upper pasture
- Jen and I built the last of the raised beds in the kitchen garden, making six total
Monday, June 30 , 2008
- Brown goat had two kids, one doe and one buck, at about 10:45am
Tuesday, July 1, 2008
- Filled the water tank
- Moved the upright freezer to the basement
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
- Took ten broilers and twelve laying hens to the slaughterhouse
- Picked up pork ($1500 for six pigs, including smoking)
Thursday, July 3, 2008
- Put the goats out
- Moved the sheep
- Picked up lamb — One was 47lbs, the other 43lbs. The meat cutter commented on how nice they look
- Turned off one brooder light
- One year old piece of shit freezer full of thousands of dollars of meat broke the evening before Fourth of July weekend
Friday, July 4, 2008
- Filled the water tank
- Charged the fence energizer battery
- Turned off the second brooder light
Monday, July 7, 2008
- Put out the new chicken range feeder with fifty pounds of feed in it
Tuesday, July 8, 2008
- Irene the Goat had a single doeling
- Moved the sheep
Wednesday, July 9, 2008
- Took forty three broilers to the slaughterhouse
- Filled the water tank
- Lost one broiler chick. It was dead in the brooder and shredded. I don’t know if something got in the brooder and killed it and ate a bunch of it, or if it died in the brooder and the rest of the chicks shredded it
Thursday, July 10, 2008
- Lost two more chicks to what turned out to be a rat or rats. Lost one chick to illness/disease. Discovered one chick missing completely (spirited away by the rat?)
- Moved the chicks out to pasture to get them away from the rat(s)
Friday, July 11, 2008
- Put fifty pounds of feed in the layer range feeder
Saturday, July 12, 2008
- Opened up a new section of pasture for the goats
Sunday, July 13, 2008
- Coco the goat had a single doeling
- Moved the sheep
- Put a tarp up on the back of the broiler shelter to keep the rain out
Monday, July 14, 2008
- Put fifty pounds of feed in the layer range feeder
- Filled the water tank
Tuesday, July 15, 2008
- Moved the broiler coop to fresh grass
- Charged the fence energizer battery
Wednesday, July 16, 2008
- Mowed half of the big pasture
Thursday, July 17, 2008
- Put fifty pounds of feed in the layer range feeder
- Moved the sheep
Saturday, July 19, 2008
- Filled the water tank
Sunday, July 20, 2008
- Moved the sheep
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
- Added fifty pounds of feed to the chicken range feeder
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
- Wormed the sheep with Cydectin cattle pour-on at 2.5 times the cattle dose. I got all of the lambs. Two of the ewes escaped from the catch pen twice because the bottom was too high. One ewe seemed to not need worming
Friday, July 25, 2008
- Moved the sheep
Saturday, July 26, 2008
- Filled the water tank
- Filled the chicken feeder
- Charged the fence battery
Monday, July 28, 2008
- Moved the sheep
- Opened up a new section of pasture for the goats
Wednesday, July 30, 2008
- Filled the laying hen feeder
- Mowed part of the big pasture
- Mowed the broiler pasture in anticipation of moving them
Friday, August 1, 2008
- Moved the sheep
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
- Moved the sheep
- Filled the laying hen feeder
Wednesday, August 6, 2008
- Filled the water tank
- Mowed the pig and chicken pastures
- Charged the fence charger battery
Friday, August 8, 2008
- Moved the sheep
- Moved the broiler chicks
Saturday, August 9, 2008
- Filled the layer feeder
Sunday, August 10, 2008
- Lost three broiler chicks to a predator, an owl, I think
Monday, August 11, 2008
- Moved the sheep
Tuesday, August 12, 2008
- Moved the pigs
- Noticed that one pig isn’t feeling well. I am hoping that it is just an upset stomach from something she ate out of the waste vegetable barrels (I saw some gladiola leaves mixed in yesterday. I tried to get them all, but probably missed a few)
- Moved the layer coop
- Put up one section of electric netting around the coop that I will leave closed until noon, after they have all laid
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
- Turned most of the compost windrow
- The sick seeming pig seems better today
- Finished mowing the pig field
- Collected 42 eggs, up from 24
Thursday, August 14, 2008
- Filled the water tank
- Filled the layer feeder
- Moved the sheep
- Collected 43 eggs
Saturday, August 16, 2008
- Filled the layer feeder
Sunday, August 17, 2008
- Moved the sheep
- Put out a range feeder filled with fifty pounds of feed for the broilers
- Charged the fence battery
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
- Filled the layer feeder
- Filled the broiler feeder (evening)
Thursday, August 21, 2008
- Filled the water tank
- Moved the sheep
Friday, August 22, 2008
- Filled the broiler feeder (am)
Saturday, August 23, 2008
- Stacked 695 bales of first cutting in the mow
Sunday, August 24, 2008
- Filled the layer feeder (am)
Monday, August 25, 2008
- Filled the broiler feeder (am)
- Filled the water tank
- Moved the sheep
Wednesday, August 27, 2008
- Filled the layer feeder (am)
- Filled the broiler feeder (noon)
- Spread twelve loads of compost on the middle pasture (25 minutes per load — includes round trip to/from field, unhooking/hooking spreader, loading/unloading spreader)
- Charged the fence battery
Thursday, August 28, 2008
- Moved the broiler chicks
- Moved the sheep
Saturday, August 30, 2008
- Filled the broiler feeder (am)
Sunday, August 31, 2008
- Moved the sheep
- Moved the layer coop
- Took down the division fence so the pigs have the run of the pasture
- Filled the water tank
- Filled the layer feeder (noon)
Monday, September 1, 2008
- Filled the broiler feeder
- Spread five loads of compost on the middle pasture
Tuesday, September 2, 2008
- Turned the remaining compost windrows
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
- Filled the broiler feeder (pm)
- Moved the sheep
- Stacked 145 bales of second cutting hay
Thursday, September 4, 2008
- Filled the layer feeder (am)
- Spread one more load of compost, and that will be it for the year. The windrow I thought was far enough along is still cooking pretty good, so it will have to wait for next year. I covered about 80% of the middle pasture.
Friday, September 5, 2008
- Filled the broiler feeder (late pm)
- Filled the water tank
Sunday, September 7, 2008
- Moved the sheep
Monday, September 8, 2008
- Moved the broilers
- Filled the broiler feeder (am)
Tuesday, September 9, 2008
- Moved the sheep, or rather, the horses and sheep moved the sheep
Thursday, September 11, 2008
- Filled the broiler feeder
- Charged the fence charger
- Moved the sheep
Saturday, September 13, 2008
- Filled the water tank
- Filled the layer feeder
- Filled the broiler feeder
Monday, September 15, 2008
- Moved the sheep
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
- Filled the broiler feeder
Friday, September 19, 2008
- Slaughtered forty two meat chickens (5.5 hours, plus 1 hour to weigh and bag)
Saturday, September 20, 2008
- Filled the water tank
Sunday, September 21, 2008
- Moved the sheep
- Charged the fence charger
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
- Moved the sheep
Monday, September 29, 2008
- Moved the sheep
- Filled the layer feeder
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
- Charged the fence charger battery
Friday, October 3, 2008
- Moved the sheep
Saturday, October 4, 2008
- Filled the water tank
Sunday, October 5, 2008
- Filled the layer feeder
Monday, October 6, 2008
- Sold five hens to my neighbor
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
- Charged the fence charger for four hours
- Started milking Izzy the Goat
Friday, October 10, 2008
- Filled the layer feeder
Monday, October 13, 2008
- Charged the fence charger batter for five hours
Tuesday, October 14, 2008
- Filled the layer feeder
Friday, October 17, 2008
- Moved the sheep
(Note: I blew off the tasks log for a few weeks)
Monday, November 10, 2008
- Put Coco and Buzi the goats in with Silky, the 1/2 Saanen-1/2 Boer buck — Coco was bred, Buzi is not in heat; Put Bucky, the Kiko buck, in with Izzy, Irene, and Brown Goat; Penned the doelings up separately
