October 2, 2014

Farm happenings

Bethel pregnancy check countdown- 19 days!!!

I've been bringing her in at night with the calves, which has brought a whole new dimension of smell to the barn in the morning.

The leghorns haven't laid in almost a week. The brown mutt chickens haven't laid yet. I fear that they are filling up on all the corn in the fields and not eating their food in the coop. They are then lacking the nutrients they need to lay the eggs. Or maybe I'm.completely wrong and it's something else, I'm not sure. What I do know is that these chickens were a big gamble this year, mostly because they came from a production line hatchery. We'll see how the fare in the winter and in the spring we'll be ordering heritage breed chicks, if I can find them.

Theodore went for an evening run with Doug and Tori last night.

I'm trying to make the house a home. I hate it. I stink at it. I like cleaning and shoveling manure and cooking. But it makes Doug warm and fuzzy inside to have a modern type home, not a shack, so I'm doing what I can.