2023, Waiting on Lambs!

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Nope. My dimensions are off & I'm so annoyed!
Sheep instantly pulled hay out n onto ground.
Will redo metal so the bottom "floor" is double depth. Then add vertical bars. Maybe that'll help...

 

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The "floor" in there looks to be too high. That'll have to wait until it's dry out again. Too gross out now to unscrew everything.

 

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Looks like we're 7 weeks from the earliest possible due date!
Started looking into buying more hay, as we're getting low...Maybe 100 bales left, 30days worth.
Ignore the barrel & mattress, they're horse obstacles.

 

[canesisters]

The sale pen/group.
Didn't realize how dry it was....I have to remember to mow earlier next year & mow at least twice. At least there's green hidden underneath.
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OHMYGOSH!!! In the little thumbnail pick I thought that one was zebra striped!!!!

 

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Put Magnemite in with the ewes. Kept thinking about how Lucy failed to breed last year, don't want open ewes, so hoping if the previous ram didn't get her, this one will.

 

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Put Magnemite in with the ewes. Kept thinking about how Lucy failed to breed last year, don't want open ewes, so hoping if the previous ram didn't get her, this one will.

Forgot the pic-

 

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I think I need to move lambing to last week of March for next year.
This will all eventually be lush green. I just need to keep it mowed to keep weeds & trees away! Then, one day, paddocks.


Horses lost their area to the ladies. I feel like I either need to make 60+ feet of covered hay feeders or put up another carport to move them out of the horse track.


Cleaned out the left side, put down plastic & 10 pallets. 20 bales per layer, 5 high, makes it 100 bales.


Had to move everything over. Left over bales, about 60, they love this hay.


Every day, I move a bale to the girls, three times a day. A few nets for the horses. And every 2-3 days, I move 3 bales for the rams & zebu.
High labor farming. Lol



100 new bales, from a different supplier, are scheduled for tomorrow! They better love it, or I'm going to cry at the $ I dumped on it! Orchard grass, 2nd cutting.

 

[Mini Horses]

Yep. Hay $$ is killer!! I use wheelbarrow to transport

 

[Youngfarmer2019]

Ah, I understand paying for high quality hay. I get Standlee hay from tractor supply $20-$25 a bale, depending on type I really need to find a local supplier and soon.

 

[Mini Horses]

Been getting awesome 2nd orchard and baby alf. 70# bales...$28-30. some straight orch runs a little less but what I need to feed it's $60-75 a day plus concentrates as kidding gets close.

Dealer brings in from up north & Canada. Big enterprise...snow slowing deliveries right now.