RollingAcres
Herd Master
None of that
Coffee anyone ?
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Baymule
Herd Master
Thanks for the coffee. I have a lot to do today and tomorrow. I am going to work on the middle bedroom closet today. I am going to slice cucumbers and soak them in lime water, have a friend coming tomorrow. I'm going to teach her how to make the spicy sweet pickles that my great grand mother made.
RollingAcres
Herd Master
Morning everyone. Thanks for coffee @MatthewsHomestead .
My chicks arrived yesterday! I posted some pics of them in my journal. DS named them last night. I didn't get to take individual pics of them but I will. Names are Pitch, Birch, Walnut, Romelle (a female character from Voltron), Jolte (Jolteon from Pokémon).
LOL kids! They always come up with some good names!
My chicks arrived yesterday! I posted some pics of them in my journal. DS named them last night. I didn't get to take individual pics of them but I will. Names are Pitch, Birch, Walnut, Romelle (a female character from Voltron), Jolte (Jolteon from Pokémon).
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promiseacres
Herd Master
Problem is dispite lining everything up our latches no longer work because the posts have all moved due to the wet ground. Duke likes to lean on the gates and I am guessing lips at my chains until he gets out. My fix works for all the others and if he has company he doesn't appear bother them. I may need to put a different chain on it, bc of our hot wire I can't just chain it to the post.
Mini Horses
Herd Master
Until stable posts, there is always -- WAIT -- baling twine
That 1300# horse needs some electric on the fence.
Some days things just make you wonder! Yes, the grass (crops) always seem greener on the other side. But often the crops, which they will eat, can be a hazard to their health. A big horse with colic is a real problem!! Not to mention vets & possible worse than hoped outcomes.I have been able to locate and cover excape routes for the goats (put extra wire over lower half of tube gates!) -- except for ONE 18 month old doe...she jumps 4' like it wasn't there! At least she also jumps back in
Now, the doelings from this year are no longer following her. I'm sure the guy with the alfalfa field across the road is pleased. What can I say, she has good taste. This year I will breed her and hope that stops the excessive jumping. Has worked in the past with a couple other athletes. 
Morning news has reported this summer has been the overall highest on record for days of high humidity & rain here locally. Like 60 out of 75 days....heck, I could have told him that! Supposedly we will have 4 days of no rain now
then another front with -- what else? lots more rain! It's depressing and not convenient. 
Could be worse, so I am thankful it is not.Had tuna salad breakfast & some dehydrated figs that I worked up this week. YUM. I don't really like to "stop" to cook breakfast anymore, it seems. So whatever leftovers are in there get my attention.
Gotta get outside!Have a great mid-week day everyone.
MatthewsHomestead
True BYH Addict
He finally agreed that we need the heat. Even told her yesterday to enjoy it bc by this weekend he hopes to have it up and on.@MatthewsHomestead sounds like names my 9 yr old gives.
As for your DH mine is the opposite.... let' take 2 months to plan a project that will take 2 days....and we needed it yesterday. I agree make those wires hot!
BTW Duke DHs horse pushed his gate open last night...was grazing in the yard this morninghe pushed the gate open after he unlatched it.. pain in the butt. If it was someone's else's horse DH would be threatening an auction. I have had him isolated to put some weight on him....
now Duke is in the pen without gates to the yard, road.
I'll be saving up and buying a few actual posts at a time. Next tax season we are springing for a much better fence if I've got to go buy the fence panels myself! And some tube gates. Plus he wants his own horse now so we can ride together. Not until we extend the pasture and set up fences better. Thankfully she only escaped the one time he left the gate unlatched. I was at football practice with our star wars fanatic so he had to run her down by hisself. Should have just put the lead line on her and he could have saved himself the trouble.... oh well. He's learning I guess. I'll take a pic of our gate system in a bit....
Horses are highly intelligent. They can figure things out quicker than us humans sometimes..... even gate locks....
I want to learn too! Recipe???
RollingAcres
Herd Master
I forgot that I did take a pic of one of the chicks yesterday. I used my work address so that when they arrived I could pick them up. I picked up the chicks yesterday during lunch and brought them back to the office with me.
This is Romelle. She was trying to learn chicken math.
This is Romelle. She was trying to learn chicken math.
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RollingAcres
Herd Master
We already knew that, didn't need a report to tell us. Rain, rain and more rain...my tomato plants are all waterlogged.Morning news has reported this summer has been the overall highest on record for days of high humidity & rain here locally. Like 60 out of 75 days....heck, I could have told him that! Supposedly we will have 4 days of no rain now
I still have lots of tomatoes on there, so I'm just leaving them on the vines until they ripen, although a lot of them are falling off...
MatthewsHomestead
True BYH Addict
I forgot that I did take a pic of one of the chicks yesterday. I used my work address so that when they arrived I could pick them up. I picked up the chicks yesterday during lunch and brought them back to the office with me.
This is Romelle. She was trying to learn chicken math.
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adorable.
Bruce
Herd Master
I don't have data on the heat (we've had plenty) but we are the opposite on rain. Has barely rained at all the last 2 months.
But they don't have fingers and can't spin the dial on a Master padlock.
