LAZY H FARM N/C FL. THREAD

[Farmer Connie]

Here is some of the nonsense I have to put up with. The city chicken folks don't really appreciate this video but they sure eat at popeyes and kfc a lot!
When our hens get older, they stop laying. If they stop laying we stop getting money for our power bill, feed bill etc.
The hens have lived a long and peaceful life compared to big production poultry industries.
So if you don't like the idea of raising an animal for consumption, it's time to skip this post.

This is a silly video made by my wacko husband featuring one of our older hens who started costing more than it was contributing. My husband, bless his heart, can't just make a plain jane video. He tinkers and tinkers making a big production out of the littlest thing. His favorite things are pics/video tinkering, working around the farm and of course.. Ice cold beer. I should have added driving me nuts.. hehe.
Anyway. This video ain't for the city folk with 4 silkies in a $2000 chicken tractor.. This is for the farmer folks who will be able to survive when all the supermarkets and burger kings are long gone someday..

And of course he uses my voice at the end from one day a was squawking at him.. He is a pain in the you know where but I guess I'll keep him around.. For now..
Sorry Chicken folks!

 

[Farmer Connie]

Rain/Rats/Snakes....
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[Baymule]

High water moves lots of creepy crawly things to higher ground. Lucky you.

 

[Farmer Connie]

My babies are hungry!!!

 

[Farmer Connie]

Thank the Lord I have a 4X4 Vehicle! Shoveled a ton of mulch dropped off by our friendly neighborhood tree trimmers, into our trailer and hauled it to the far paddock that has an underwater piglet pen. It is all down hill to that spot.

On the way back it is gradual climbing up hill. Thus the reason for the flooding.
Man o man it poured last night!. We have a series of 10ft gates you have to stop at to open and close. At the last gate to go thru, I put it in gear and just sat there. I gave it gas but not rolling. I thought the transmission died! I got out and saw the slime ditch. The clay soil was like soap and I was spinning the tire with an empty trailer.

Locked in 4 wheel low and rolled right out..
We hubby gets home he's gunna rag on me for not being in 4 wheel the entire time and tearing up the paddock. I better have some cold beer in the fridge when he get here! Hehe..

 

[Farmer Connie]

New babies today yay!

 

[Baymule]

Awww.....what cute babies! What breed are they?

We let contractors for cleaning power lines park their trucks here at night and got over 80 loads of wood chip mulch. It has been composting for months and we are going to spread it on our sand that passes for soil. Wood chips are worth their weight in gold to us farmers!! We spread mulch all around the barnyard and in the barn to keep down the dust. Haha, you are fighting mud and slush and we fight sandstorms.

 

[greybeard]

I have a fresh load of that 'mulch' myself.

I don't think a lot of it, having gotten it in year's past as well. Makes some pretty acidic stuff once composted down, with every vile seed in the world as well it seems--probably because of the large % of it being pine which of course has pine cones.
I have to introduce some lime with the end result to use it in garden or flowerbeds here.

But, it's free...tho as with most things..ya get what ya pay for.

 

[Farmer Connie]

Awww.....what cute babies! What breed are they?

We let contractors for cleaning power lines park their trucks here at night and got over 80 loads of wood chip mulch. It has been composting for months and we are going to spread it on our sand that passes for soil. Wood chips are worth their weight in gold to us farmers!! We spread mulch all around the barnyard and in the barn to keep down the dust. Haha, you are fighting mud and slush and we fight sandstorms.

The mud in a 16x16 piglet pen turned an entire round hay bale into decayed mud slush! So I dumped about 8 yards of tree branch mulch on the slush yesterday. Then a thick layer of last years hay. The mulch is an excellent barrier to keep the hay from mud contact and speeding up the decay.
Of course pigs like to till it up. Just got to feed them at free will to keep them with full bellies and too stuffed to search for what not under the hay!

 

[Farmer Connie]

I have a fresh load of that 'mulch' myself.

I don't think a lot of it, having gotten it in year's past as well. Makes some pretty acidic stuff once composted down, with every vile seed in the world as well it seems--probably because of the large % of it being pine which of course has pine cones.
I have to introduce some lime with the end result to use it in garden or flowerbeds here.

But, it's free...tho as with most things..ya get what ya pay for.

If we get a load of pine tree branch mulch, we just spread it on our dirt driveway. Sometimes we get sap on our shoes! sticky stuff.