The week has been good. Monday we took the piggies to be processed. Mark was worried how we were going to get five pigs into the trailer. Last week he started feeding them in there. The only problem was not all the pigs were going in at the same time. On Saturday, I husked all the popcorn, only took 2 hours! Mark fed the husks to the pigs & they all went in the trailer, so he kept some as back up. He also put hay in the trailer. Sunday morning they were all sleeping in the trailer instead of their hut, but as soon as they saw Mark they came running out for food. Here was the plan, he tied the door with baler twine, so he could sneak down early in the morning & cut it with his knife then quickly shut them in. Monday morning in the dark Mark snuck down there, and looked around he assumed they were all in but it was dark & hard to see. You guessed it- only half were in the trailer. He brought out the back up - they all jumped in the trailer for the corn husk. We got um! We had kept one of the smaller females intending to breed her, so after we delivered the pigs to be processed, we went to the petting barn & loaded the 2 younger female pigs that we kept there. We put all the "girls" together. The first few days were a little rough, the big pig didn't let the smaller ones eat or sleep in the hut, but now they are getting along. This morning all the girls were snug in the hut together, sleeping.
The next adventure of the day was to round up all the ewe sheep to check for worms & trim their feet. We chased 14 ewes around the pasture. Of course Leo saw us struggling & came out to help (they are awesome like that, always helping). We got all but one, after trying for quite awhile Mark went to get the four -wheeler. Finally we got them all loaded in the trailer and brought them to the barn. I am happy to say we didn't have to worm any of them, they looked great. We did trim their feet. I usually trim the smaller one & Mark does the older ones, cause their hooves are tougher. When we trim hooves we flip them, sit them right on their rumps, leaning the sheep up against us & hold their front feet. I was holding crazy Myra, when she caught me off guard & we both tipped over. I never let go, & pulled her back up. Mark said it must be lugging all the water buckets made me strong! Then we loaded them all back up and took them back to the pasture, we did keep all the ewe lambs in the barn, so we are ready to put the ram out to pasture in a few weeks for breeding. The last thing on the daily list was to move the ram lambs to fresh pasture.It's a good feeling at the end of the day knowing we got all the animals taken care of and put where they needed to be.
Today, after chores I brought all the chicken waters & feeders to the barn and cleaned them. Lets just say at one time this summer we had 150 ish birds, that = lots of feeders & waters. It took me 1 1/2 hours, but happy to say that chore is done. Then I made homemade turkey soup and apple crisp for dinner. K3 came home & said it smells like fall in the kitchen.Sure felt like fall outside today!
We continue to get ready for winter, which means the fun continues..
P.S.- We decided not to get Raven the foster dog - it was a hard choice, but I decided she wasn't going to be a good fit for our family :(
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