Baymule
Herd Master
At the first sign of a sore throat or sniffles, I sip on apple cider vinegar and honey mixed half and half. Sometimes I add a little ice water to tame it down a little.
Canesister's 2025 journal - Bushel & Peck Farm
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canesisters
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This is the back of my only chicken shirt!
Baymule
Herd Master
I had to get my chicken shirt out and take a picture. I LOVE this shirt!
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canesisters
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Not much going on around here.
Will be on heat-watch for Eva this weekend.
Worked an extra shift yesterday. Possibly picking up a few more over the next 2-3 weeks. I need to get the car checked & I'm expecting it to be expensive.
Have gotten a few eggs! That was a surprise. Maybe the hen I lost a few weeks ago was the egg eater?
Good news at work. I discovered that there is a glitch in the soda machine. It gives 2 diet cokes at a time.
.... small victories
Will be on heat-watch for Eva this weekend.
Worked an extra shift yesterday. Possibly picking up a few more over the next 2-3 weeks. I need to get the car checked & I'm expecting it to be expensive.
Have gotten a few eggs! That was a surprise. Maybe the hen I lost a few weeks ago was the egg eater?
Good news at work. I discovered that there is a glitch in the soda machine. It gives 2 diet cokes at a time.
.... small victories
Baymule
Herd Master
Eggs! That’s always nice this time of year. Egg eaters are BAD chickens. When I get hens again, I want to build a roll out nest box. Have always wanted one, but never made one.
SageHill
Herd Master
Looking forward to seeing your roll out nest box.
Now if I could just keep mine from roosting in two of the nest boxes!
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canesisters
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I took a storage tote with an entrance cut in one end, wired a grate in the middle a couple inches off the floor, then set the end with the door on a couple of bricks. They're not all using it, but I have collected eggs from the 'safe' side a few times so someone is.
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canesisters
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Pre-crack-O-dawn here.
Eva started with some half-hearted mooing & fence walking yesterday evening. There was a little bit of dried mucus in her tail & on her rump. I contacted the AI guy. He asked me to update him in the morning. I'm expecting her to be in full fledged 'annoying everyone over 1/2mile' bellowing by then. If all goes well she'll be bred before the day is out.
Work stuff.
My trainee passed his test with flying colors.
Then I found out they were going to immediately transfer him back to his shift (the other night shift) because their lead Beamer Op is going out for 3 weeks.
I had heard about this & had been asked to help cover the shift. The new plan is to 'dump' Donavan as the only person in the building with any training to run things on his own.
I remember how HARD that was when they did that to me! I pitched a bit of a fit. Just because they've done it before doesn't mean it works. Rowland & I pointed out that we lost A LOT of production time.... and A LOT of product... as we figured things out after we got dumped on a shift days after being certified.
Just because I had received my certification didn't mean that I had seen everything the machine could throw at me.
They relented & agreed to let me & Rowland switch off & work with him over the 3 weeks that the lead on that shift is off.
We'll only be there as support in case something goes really wrong & we'll probably have to help out in the creel to justify the hours. But I think it'll go a long way to not break his new confidence...... & the OT will be a boost.
I can't wait for spring to get here. By the time I finish this OT at work we'll be almost in March. There is so much that I want to do this season.
I still have 2 more garden beds to build & fill. I had planned to only have a small, simple garden this year - to just get back into it and not overwhelm myself - so 1 bed plus tucking in the odd few plants here & there will be perfect.
Eva will be preggers through the summer.
I'm still considering doing a dozen or so meat chickens.....
I'm waiting on a call back from the local farm store. They're supposed to send someone to look at the mudbog-mess behind my barn & make some recommendations about what to dump to clear it up. Once that's done, I really really want to look into rehanging the 8' steel door as a sliding instead of a swinging. It so warped that it takes a lot of cussing & grunting & a crowbar to close it anymore.
I'm looking forward to being able to use that new mower & cut my chore time in half this summer.
The 'Big Dream' project this summer will be to repair the fence around at least some of the back pasture & get that back in use. Plus - of course - getting at least a little bit of fencing supplies stockpiled for the eventual replacing of perimeter with stock fence instead of electric.
Eva started with some half-hearted mooing & fence walking yesterday evening. There was a little bit of dried mucus in her tail & on her rump. I contacted the AI guy. He asked me to update him in the morning. I'm expecting her to be in full fledged 'annoying everyone over 1/2mile' bellowing by then. If all goes well she'll be bred before the day is out.
Work stuff.
My trainee passed his test with flying colors.
Then I found out they were going to immediately transfer him back to his shift (the other night shift) because their lead Beamer Op is going out for 3 weeks.I had heard about this & had been asked to help cover the shift. The new plan is to 'dump' Donavan as the only person in the building with any training to run things on his own.
I remember how HARD that was when they did that to me! I pitched a bit of a fit. Just because they've done it before doesn't mean it works. Rowland & I pointed out that we lost A LOT of production time.... and A LOT of product... as we figured things out after we got dumped on a shift days after being certified.
Just because I had received my certification didn't mean that I had seen everything the machine could throw at me.
They relented & agreed to let me & Rowland switch off & work with him over the 3 weeks that the lead on that shift is off.
We'll only be there as support in case something goes really wrong & we'll probably have to help out in the creel to justify the hours. But I think it'll go a long way to not break his new confidence...... & the OT will be a boost.
I can't wait for spring to get here. By the time I finish this OT at work we'll be almost in March. There is so much that I want to do this season.
I still have 2 more garden beds to build & fill. I had planned to only have a small, simple garden this year - to just get back into it and not overwhelm myself - so 1 bed plus tucking in the odd few plants here & there will be perfect.
Eva will be preggers through the summer
.I'm still considering doing a dozen or so meat chickens.....
I'm waiting on a call back from the local farm store. They're supposed to send someone to look at the mudbog-mess behind my barn & make some recommendations about what to dump to clear it up. Once that's done, I really really want to look into rehanging the 8' steel door as a sliding instead of a swinging. It so warped that it takes a lot of cussing & grunting & a crowbar to close it anymore.
I'm looking forward to being able to use that new mower & cut my chore time in half this summer.
The 'Big Dream' project this summer will be to repair the fence around at least some of the back pasture & get that back in use. Plus - of course - getting at least a little bit of fencing supplies stockpiled for the eventual replacing of perimeter with stock fence instead of electric.
Baymule
Herd Master
Sounds like good plans. Eva will be bred, a calf coming and you can milk her again. Working on the garden, building 2 new beds! Stock piling fence materials, leads to new parameter fence! Switching barn doors to sliding doors will make life much easier.
Good for you for sticking up for the new guy. Even better that management listened to you and agreed.
Good for you for sticking up for the new guy. Even better that management listened to you and agreed.
