Bruce's Journal

[Bruce]

True, he was a foutain of helpful information here

 

[Mini Horses]

Anyone herd from Barb??? Just wondering how they're doing.

 

[Bruce]

I have not

 

[Bruce]

Exciting day on the farm! I cleaned out the chicken coop.

 

[Bruce]

The boys have been banished from the barn since they keep pooping and peeing inside even during the day when the door 10’ away is wide open. I put the old chicken litter there and will move it to the compost bin with the tractor

 

[farmerjan]

How are your potatoes looking?

 

[Baymule]

Bad boys!

 

[Bruce]

The potatoes look great. A few look like they will make flowers soon. The red plants are still somewhat smaller than the blue. The friend who gave me those seed potatoes lost all her reds. They just died without producing anything. Same type of grow bag right next to the blues that are doing well.

No idea what happened. But she did totally cover her plants several times as she told me to do. I went midstream between "hill up the sides to keep the potatoes from getting sun" and totally covering. And I only covered twice. Guess we'll see if anything is produced

VERY BAD BOYS!!!! I could understand if they were ANY other farm animal but alpacas are supposed to use a community pile and go to it from wherever they are. And they have NEVER pooped anywhere else outside except at their pile (though it does slowly move over time).

 

[Ridgetop]

Must have decided to make a new pile in their stall. Indoor plumbing? LOL

Didn't see news for a couple days the saw about the flooding in your state. Hope you are ok.

 

[Bruce]

Actually I was half considering putting a shower pan where they go inside piped under the outside wall. Seems they can drink a pint and pee 5 gallons. The poop removal isn't bad but I dig out a lot of "ground" getting the wet out. I saved a fair bit of chicken coop stuff to refill the hole

Fine here, very lucky that we are not only high at 750' but also not near a river and the vast majority of the intense rainfall was south and east. A lot of the same areas Hurricane Irene screwed over 12 years ago. Same problem, too much water too fast in areas where the riverbeds run in narrow valleys with the towns built where there was flat land next to the rivers.