CntryBoy777 - The Lazy A** Acres Adventures

[Bruce]

Oh it was real wind, but wasn't too bad....I just drove on her book and made it to St Joesph, Mo before stopping...

Good thing you are retired so we don't have to turn you in for that

I had to look that up. Explanation made perrrrrfect sense to me. Especially when I watched a you tube video with examples and stuff... Yea - must be a guy thing!

Nah, it is a "took physics in H/S and college" thing. We actually have it here it two places.

• There is the big barn (70' x 50') and south of that the little barn (30' x 30' ish). They are about 15' apart. Both have their ridges running N/S but the east side of the little barn is several feet farther east than that of the big barn and (obviously) the west side is 20'+ farther east than the west side of the big barn. Often when there is almost NO wind, there is a slight breeze running between the barns. When there is wind, there is more wind between the barns. I joke that I should put a wind turbine in there.
• The other is between the small barn and the back of the house. The house (2 buildings) is maybe 75' long. Their north ends are about in line and the buildings are maybe 25' apart. The wind blowing through will clear a path in the snow pretty much down to the frozen ground.

We can have almost no snow between the house and little barn and 3X as much in between the barns as fell away from the buildings.

 

[Bruce]

Wow Bruce, that is a Whopper Jumbo...were they double-yolked?

Yep.

 

[CntryBoy777]

So, today I got the last 2 dug and posts placed by 9am....it was 71 and I was sweating...the first hole was the worst of all 35 with roots and more roots. I am glad I went ahead and got them knocked out early, cause we had a misty, drizzly rain from 10-12 today, then sun from 2-5:30...but the front is moving thru cause it is down to 59 now and wind from the north.
The final count of posts is 37, gotta get 20 brace poles, spool of wire and 37 bags of quickrete. Gonna be about 5 rolls of fencing....its 100' rolls. I'm hoping to get started this next week. Here are some pics of this last line.... the corner post between the 2 trees was the worst one.
Sure am glad we are getting back to more seasonable temps, the skeeters and biting flies are starting to show up. Going to dust the goats with DE and trim hooves this next week too....they have been neglected enough. Also, going to call about taking fecal samples in to vet to get it evaluated...I have to see if they will even do it...
Tho, with rain coming in, I'm taking a couple of days off from this "Manual Labor"....

 

[Mike CHS]

Steady gets it done.

 

[Bruce]

Gee, by 9 AM today I hadn't even finished making my wife's Sunday omelette!

That close to a tree I'm not surprised you found a ton of roots.

37 WOOD posts??? Now we know who is the wuss, I only had to put in 17. Saved 4 by using floating braces. Saved a few more by making the south line totally with cattle panels.

I had to buy a second "roll" of brace wire. I have no idea how many feet are in each one.

I'm sure the vet will be happy to take your money for the fecals

 

[CntryBoy777]

@Bruce when they "Claim" to treat goats, but don't do testing or vaccinations...and they won't make a farm visit except for cows, horses, and pigs....I'm not very confident. If they say they won't, I'll tell them it is Rabbit....

 

[Mike CHS]

We still need to meet the new vet we think we want to use. They get 45 for a farm call, $3 a head to worm give CD&T, $10 to castrate. We may use them a couple of days before we put them in their bigger pasture. We need to do what handling we are going to do before we move them (at least till we get our other catch pen done).

 

[CntryBoy777]

You know Mike, that is one more reason I wish I was your neighbor....not for the digging in rock tho.

 

[Bruce]

My understanding is a fecal is a fecal, doesn't really matter what animal it is. They are counting eggs and eggs is eggs! Hope the vet doesn't prove me wrong.

@Mike CHS Sounds darn cheap compared to what it costs to take the cats to the small animal vet for annual checkup and shots.

 

[NH homesteader]

Pet vets are so expensive. They make a lot of money off us!