Porch Move

We went over to Andy’s to help move his porch. It was attached to the trailer at its other location. Andy and Lisa moved it earlier but it still needed to be placed in its final location. In case you are wondering, it is heavy.

Andy’s place from the top of the hill.

We tilted it onto the back of the truck to move it across the yard.

 

After we got it down Andy measured and trimmed off the bottom to fit.

 

Final resting place.

Tom and the Ladies

The wild turkey flock showed up at the pond to drink. We haven’t seen this many near our house before. Its been so dry all the usual ponds are drying up. This is the one behind us, it and ours are spring fed and have water in them all the time. They are lower than usual but most of the run-off ponds are dry.

The lambs are doing well. They’ll be heading down to the pasture with their moms this weekend.

The barred rocks are getting big. We hope to have the hen house finished by the time they start laying.

Hen House Roof

The roof is up on the hen house. It came out pretty good. We used the Mansea Metals material like we did on the tractor port. This time it is the same color as the barn roof with white trim. We’ll get the gable edge and ridge cap later. Now we can do the floor in the shade.

Lisa has been working on the outdoor pen. It has welded wire on the bottom which is embedded in the ground several inches. It will have poultry wire above the welded wire and across the top. We’ll add the small chicken wire at the bottom in case we have chicks.

Lisa was combing burrs out of the minis’ tails.

Sheep Agility

If you read Anne's comment in the last post and thought that sheep couldn't possibly be trained in Agility or obedience, think again.

Lamb Update

The three lambs are doing well. We banded the two boys and all the tails. They all get along with one another. The ewes don’t show a lot of love for each other’s lambs, but no injuries so far. They are all living in the stall together at night and come out to graze during the day.

Andy and Allen picked up this jersey steer today. He’s a little thin but they said he hasn’t been wormed yet. We’ll get him fixed up.

The boys pretending to be a herd.

The girl resting. Being a lamb is tough work.

The neighbor steers found Jersey interesting briefly, it is difficult to hold a steer’s attention very long.

A nap can come upon you suddenly at times.

Digging Holes in Bath

We went over to Bath County to help Andy finish up his pier pilings. It was hard work but we had a fun day and it was really nice out. It started cool this morning at around 60 then warmed up to the low 70s.

  There was digging.

There was picking.

There was shoveling.

There was dumping.

There was mixing.

There was mixing.

There was mixing.

There was pouring.

Did I mention the mixing?

Jessica came down from Ohio for the long weekend.

  We had a canopy for a while. A big gust of wind took care of it.

Finished for the day. All the holes are complete!

Henhouse Progress

The rafters are up on the henhouse. We’ll try and get the roof up next so we’ll have shade doing the floor.

It’s pitched to the back with one inch per foot drop. The roof will be the same metal we used on the tractor port and there is going to be an overhang in the front.

Matthew came up from Tennessee to visit. He helped with the rafters.

We’ll trim the back of the boards off to about an 18 inch overhang.

The baby hens came to check out their new yard.