CntryBoy777 - The Lazy A** Acres Adventures

[Bruce]

You didn't charge the guy to hay the field @Mike CHS ?? Or was it sort of a trade, you cut it for sale and don't charge us? I pay Al to cut my fields because while they USED to be hay fields, and in fact he used to hay them in his younger years, they had been let go to weeds. I'm paying just to keep the weed growth down. Hopefully I can get them productive again though it doesn't help that the people due south of us have a large (probably about 9 acres) untended field so even if I got rid of every weed in my fields, there is a ready source quite nearby to reseed it.

Al sells hay to pretty much everyone on the road that has hay eating animals so my boys didn't have to deal with changing their hay source. I am buying different pellets (more expensive according to the farm store) but they don't seem to mind. They wait at their gate twice a day like kids at an ice cream truck.

 

[CntryBoy777]

It may be worth a soil test. You can actually kill weeds, or thin them out by adjusting the ph of the soil. Here it takes lime to do much good, adjust it to the grass and the weeds will begin to be choked out. Tho it would work quicker by keeping them cut back, like mow once or twice a mnth to keep them from seeding. Those your neighbor grows, only adds to what is there now, and the wind doesn't always blow from the same direction, and progress is made.

 

[Bruce]

True! I should take my own advice that I just posted on a pasture question thread. Call the extension agent

 

[Mike CHS]

Bruce - we could have had all the hay we wanted but at the time we had no plans to get livestock until spring when I have plenty of pasture. The plan changed.

On a side note our pasture was nothing but briars and sapling trees when we started here. The first time I cut it I had to cut it twice just to get everything to lay down. I cut it every month for a little over a year and then had the Co-op out to take samples for a soil test. It cost some $ but they brought and spread several tons of lime and all the fertilizer (except nitrogen) to bring everything around. I still have a bit of milkweed but overall everything out there is edible now.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Back before the OKC bombing, a lot of people around here used sodium nitrate to burn everything up and only the bermuda would come back. It is the prevalent grass around here, tho Johnson and Sage brush is plentiful too, but kept cut, the bernuda will choke it out, especially with some fertilizer.

 

[Mike CHS]

I was in OKC the day of the bombing and that will always be something you can't and don't want to forget. We were at the airport for a meeting.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Oh my! Sure glad ya was Safe! A few people that I knew and danced with at PowWows lost family in it. Back then, I didn't get over that way much, but tried to make it to Anadarko, Ok for the July 4th dance at Chiefton Park, and Labor Day in Tahlequah, Ok. There were others, but these were the 2 I tried to make each year. It was really devastating for sure, and affected a bunch of people.

 

[CntryBoy777]

@lcertuche Hope ya are doing okay over there with all this weather going thru your way. Sure hope the Ice doesn't get too bad over there. I certainly hope ya don't lose Power for sure. Stay Safe!!
Also, to any others being affected too!!

 

[CntryBoy777]

The day started pretty foggy this morning, but got sun sun to shine thru before noon, wind wasn't too bad either and got some burning done. It got up to 70 so spent most of the day outside. We are suppose to get rain moving in tomorrow evening, so gonna do some "Mucking" tomorrow, goats for Sure...they're overdue and going to put DE down and fresh shavings. Then I gotta get the ducks done too, before the rain. That way the bedding hay can get rinsed, with the rain, and won't be wet and heavy either.
I have seen quite a few flocks of geese flying north, one had to be at least 150 of them. Saw some Snow geese too, but most were Canadian honkers. The frogs are croaking and the song birds are singing and active, saw some bluebirds in and out the box in the garden. Ya would think it is Spring or something.

 

[CntryBoy777]

I've been telling y'all about it and finally got some pics. This is 3 pics of the same flock flying over...it was huge... it was Canadian honkers and I was standing in the same spot and caught most of them in the series of pics heading north.