Baymule’s Journal

[Mini Horses]

NICE JOB!! WOW, you have a lot of drying out to do.,

 

[Baymule]

Yes it feels good to get that accomplished. I got a lot done, but there’s tons more to do. It’s supposed to rain Tuesday, so no drying out. My son’s tractor is a beast. He bought a grapple and had the hydraulics run for it. He also bought a shear that goes on the front that will shear off up to 15” trees. It’s still on his flatbed, he had to leave on his job. He has a big bush hog that leaves my tiny 4’ bush hog in the dust. All I can do on it is move round bales and I feel like a she-woman!

 

[canesisters]

I bet that feels good.

I wanted to mow the front field today, but it has standing water in it. Even after 3 days of sunshine, it’s still a series of mini ponds.

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I set a round bale for the sheep in the front field. My son’s tractor is a big tractor!

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I set the bale and backed the tractor out.

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I got on my little tractor, scooped up some dirt and shoveled it under the gate. Water runs down the fence line, under the gate and into the hoop shelter pen. The dirt helps keep the water out. I mashed it all up with the big tractor, so I fixed it.

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I had 3 gates leaned on the end of the shed with doors. Grass was all grown up in them and it was messy. I dragged the gates out and cleaned up the mess. There was some used 3/4” plywood from the Hurricane blown out middle shed. I had to lift them over the cow panel pen. Heavy! I laid them down at the end of the shed and put the 3 gates back.

Then I machete chopped the weeds at the other end of the shed.

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There were 5 gates in this pile, 16 feet long. I dragged the gates behind the sheds, and through a gate made of a half cow panel.

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The gates were heavy, but I got all 5 moved to the neat, cleaned up other end of the other shed.

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That done, I went back to the messy other shed. There were posts laid down that te gates had been resting on. I had to pry them up with a shovel.

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I picked up some more mess and took it to the burn pile.

I’m tired, but I got a lot done.

Wow!!!!! Looks fantastic.
I always love when I can get an "eyesore" cleaned up. Such a good feeling.

 

[farmerjan]

@Baymule .. was thinking you had a cornish chicken thread here... in the temp hoop coop... take some cardboard and make a corral in there with the heat lamps shining down.. doesn't need to be real high...a foot or so.... it will keep the heat in the area under the lamps and the cold from filtering in... They do it in the big poultry houses with the first hatched chicks many times... don't want it too small... just like another "barrier" from the cold air at floor level...
The heater in my house can have the air temp at 80 but there is a draft along the floor... that is what you are getting with the area under the heat lamps... the cold is moving in along the floor level and you don't even need to feel it move... the heat dissipates away...
Kinda makes you think of a "play area" where the chicks are corralled to keep them from straying too far... but it will keep the heat more concentrated under them... daytime, they can be moved if the whole coop is warm... the chicks will go back under the lamps in the evening and you can put it back up...

 

[R2elk]

@Baymule .. was thinking you had a cornish chicken thread here..

Cornish Cross 2025

 

[farmerjan]

Cornish Cross 2025

I thought there was a cornish thread here on BYH. I did post on SS... I don't go on there as often, didn't know that they were as interconnected...I know they are sister sites...
Thanks @R2elk ....

 

[R2elk]

I thought there was a cornish thread here on BYH. I did post on SS... I don't go on there as often, didn't know that they were as interconnected...I know they are sister sites...
Thanks @R2elk ....

I've only seen the one on SS.