She did and there are still 3 more from the original flock - Zorra, Black Australorp; Persephone, Easter Egger and Anais, Faverolles. Persephone still lays regularly spring and summer, Zorra and Anais only when they decide it is time to go broody AGAIN.
Pallets maybe?
PITB to put on and off with the kind needed to do heavy work has a sub frame; a 3 pt hitch type can put alot of stress on the tractor frame plus you will want to use it, then switch to a bush hog then have to switch back....; a piece of equipment that you don't want to leave out when you are not using it, so it gets put inside and takes alot of space, but that would protect it from weathering; do you have enough jobs to use it and would it be big enough to do a bigger job, like burying a big animal like an elderly horse; and he has good alternatives, can rent one that would be more sensible than make payments for years, or can call a neighbor to do it and they can get the job done quicker, and maybe can trade off with a neighbor that has a mini excavator but not a tractor.
