Baymule
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No baby piglet pictures? 
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misfitmorgan
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No baby piglet pictures?
Not yet, DH thought she might still be in labor so i didnt want to go snapping pics because i need to use my flash and Mr. pig was already freaking pretty good.
Bruce
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We have just over 60°F yesterday, the ground is mostly non white, the top 1/2" melted so it was squishy. The chickens were super happy to come out and forage, they don't care for snow much. Below freezing today so things firmed up.
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misfitmorgan
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Pilgrim has been acting odd and seems thin. I am wondering if he is having some sort of tooth problem. The vet should be coming out the first week of March so i will see what she thinks.
Some of the sheep have decided they no longer want to stay in the electric net, which is fine as long as they stay in the back yard or anywhere else on our 12 acres that is not the highway. We have put t-posts in to make the fence tougher to walk over, raised the fence, checked the fencer....and still the sheep are now walking over it. Not all of the sheep mostly the two rams. We have plans this weekend to clean our fencer terminals, to make sure there is good contact. Then we will reducing their pen down to one net and run three strands of electric on the inside of it. That only needs to last them until the ground thaws enough to put up some real fence. If that doesn't work DH says they are going into the bottom of the 2 story until we can put up proper fencing. It will be a wreck but it is better then being on the highway.
Our animals are pretty happy about the early snow melt. That's part of the sheeps problem they are looking to graze but there is nothing to graze yet.....doesnt stop them from trying.
Some of the sheep have decided they no longer want to stay in the electric net, which is fine as long as they stay in the back yard or anywhere else on our 12 acres that is not the highway. We have put t-posts in to make the fence tougher to walk over, raised the fence, checked the fencer....and still the sheep are now walking over it. Not all of the sheep mostly the two rams. We have plans this weekend to clean our fencer terminals, to make sure there is good contact. Then we will reducing their pen down to one net and run three strands of electric on the inside of it. That only needs to last them until the ground thaws enough to put up some real fence. If that doesn't work DH says they are going into the bottom of the 2 story until we can put up proper fencing. It will be a wreck but it is better then being on the highway.
Our animals are pretty happy about the early snow melt. That's part of the sheeps problem they are looking to graze but there is nothing to graze yet.....doesnt stop them from trying.
Bruce
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My 2 alpacas are the same, out in their pasture nibbling away at ... something I guess. The chickens are finding grass around the house. Last year's of course, frozen and thawed and frozen again for their convenience.
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misfitmorgan
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I literally went and looked where they were "grazing" and there is nothing but dead brown grass matted flat down to the ground from the snow. My conversation with the rams went something like this....."Yes i completely understand how this dead dried up grass you have to pry from the muddy ground is better tasting and less work then the two bales of fresh hay you have in your pen" *nodding the whole time*
Bruce
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ME TOO! They are hardly eating any hay so they must be finding SOMETHING of value in the brown.
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misfitmorgan
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Baymule
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Naturally they want the dead muddy grass rather than the nice fresh, put up with love, hay. Just like the chickens ALWAYS run to drink the dirty water I just dumped out, instead of the clean, clear fresh water I refill their tub with.
Bruce
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Yours too? And people get all concerned that their chickens have really clean water every day. Mine will hit a puddle in the dirt first if they can. Probably has more flavor and minerals.
