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AClark
Loving the herd life
Bruce, yeah I remember upstate NY, y'all still have 4 more months of winter up there, maybe 5. I remember one year I was planting my garden on June 1st, and it snowed. I can't do that short growing season, though I had a really nice garden.
You'll hear no whining from me with the heat, I love it. The humidity, not so much, but I get used to it. Growing up in Arizona, triple digit temps don't scare me, but 80% humidity with a triple digit temp sure makes me pour sweat. I have a phrase for it when it's that hot - sweating like a wh--- in church.
Daisy (broken colored meat bunny) kindled last night. She has 4 or 5, not sure I could only feel in so will have to check later with a flashlight, but I felt 4 for sure. I swear she wasn't due until the 23rd, but we found little bits of fur in the pen last night and moved her where she'd have a box. I had it written down to move her and Chocolate tomorrow, but I'm going to move Chocolate today since they were both put in at the same time.
We are doing away with our colony for space reasons. There's just so much digging and fence repair with it, since we can't put in a cement slab, and no, I'm making big hutches with built in boxes. I have room for hutches in a nice shaded area that stays cool all summer (north side of the barn, has trees covering it so it doesn't even grow grass). If i could drop a cement slab I'd keep the colony set up, but that's just not something I can do here. Also having problems with two of the does not playing nice together, so I had to remove one from the colony anyway.
Not sure I mentioned it but we bought a nice big meat breed doe at the auction for $10. She's big, all black, and her name is Eclipse. So we have one big Cinnamon buck (Ozzy), and 4 does. Chocolate isn't a great doe, she's smaller, but she has nice babies and is a good mom. We have her full sister Bella, and she just raised a litter of 7. Daisy is larger but she's not the best mom and doesn't make a great nest, she lost her entire last litter to the cold, in the barn, they were born the same week as Bella's 7. She also doesn't have big litters, whereas Chocolate and Bella do.
I have the pigs in the old colony pen now, it'll be a nice space for the summer since it stays cool. We have a lot of moving stuff around to do this weekend - neverending chores! At least my new nail gun will get a good workout. I really love that thing, talk about so much faster and easier on the arm.
You'll hear no whining from me with the heat, I love it. The humidity, not so much, but I get used to it. Growing up in Arizona, triple digit temps don't scare me, but 80% humidity with a triple digit temp sure makes me pour sweat. I have a phrase for it when it's that hot - sweating like a wh--- in church.
Daisy (broken colored meat bunny) kindled last night. She has 4 or 5, not sure I could only feel in so will have to check later with a flashlight, but I felt 4 for sure. I swear she wasn't due until the 23rd, but we found little bits of fur in the pen last night and moved her where she'd have a box. I had it written down to move her and Chocolate tomorrow, but I'm going to move Chocolate today since they were both put in at the same time.
We are doing away with our colony for space reasons. There's just so much digging and fence repair with it, since we can't put in a cement slab, and no, I'm making big hutches with built in boxes. I have room for hutches in a nice shaded area that stays cool all summer (north side of the barn, has trees covering it so it doesn't even grow grass). If i could drop a cement slab I'd keep the colony set up, but that's just not something I can do here. Also having problems with two of the does not playing nice together, so I had to remove one from the colony anyway.
Not sure I mentioned it but we bought a nice big meat breed doe at the auction for $10. She's big, all black, and her name is Eclipse. So we have one big Cinnamon buck (Ozzy), and 4 does. Chocolate isn't a great doe, she's smaller, but she has nice babies and is a good mom. We have her full sister Bella, and she just raised a litter of 7. Daisy is larger but she's not the best mom and doesn't make a great nest, she lost her entire last litter to the cold, in the barn, they were born the same week as Bella's 7. She also doesn't have big litters, whereas Chocolate and Bella do.
I have the pigs in the old colony pen now, it'll be a nice space for the summer since it stays cool. We have a lot of moving stuff around to do this weekend - neverending chores! At least my new nail gun will get a good workout. I really love that thing, talk about so much faster and easier on the arm.
