Misfitmorgan's Journal - That Summer Dust

[misfitmorgan]

These are just cause I had them.

 

[Baymule]

I was going to admire your pallet barricades until you pointed out that the sheep used them as ladders to eat the bark off the apple tree. LOL LOL Your barn may have flooded, but I still admire it, it looks great from the outside!

 

[CntryBoy777]

Might wanna plant several more apple trees to get them thru the winters....they will gladly "prune" them for ya and will supplement the winter hay.....

 

[misfitmorgan]

I was going to admire your pallet barricades until you pointed out that the sheep used them as ladders to eat the bark off the apple tree. LOL LOL Your barn may have flooded, but I still admire it, it looks great from the outside!

Well if you notice it is pushed over against the tree because i didnt put t-posts in to hold it in place. Also it was the goats...sheep don't climb, least not mine. Thats not the barn either lol, its the 2 story...which just uses half for the chickens.

Might wanna plant several more apple trees to get them thru the winters....they will gladly "prune" them for ya and will supplement the winter hay.....

We still have 19 apple trees so i'm not to worried. That tree in fact is used for nothing but livestock apples so i'm not to upset. I don't know what kind of apples they are but they are mealy and dont have much apple flavor, small and roundish.

 

[Baymule]

19 apple trees……..I could only wish. LOL My sheep climb to reach low hanging branches, they love browse. One of them was trying to reach a branch one day, saw me and walked to me baa-baaing loudly. I got the message and pulled the branch down so she could reach it.

 

[misfitmorgan]

19 apple trees……..I could only wish. LOL My sheep climb to reach low hanging branches, they love browse. One of them was trying to reach a branch one day, saw me and walked to me baa-baaing loudly. I got the message and pulled the branch down so she could reach it.

Do they grow apples in texas? I always thought it would be to hot. My herd does the same thing to me, so I of course go hold the branch for for them. My herd is smart though they will stand on eat other to get "taller" then one pulls it down and the others help themselves.

 

[Baymule]

There are finally some varieties that will grow here. But in your area, you reap the benefits of apple trees being planted for hundreds of years, established trees and orchards, even if a bit neglected. Even livestock apples have value.

My sheep follow me through the woods, snacking on the branches I pull down for them. The next year, they sprout back out, rinse, repeat. They love red cedar and elm the most.

 

[misfitmorgan]

There are finally some varieties that will grow here. But in your area, you reap the benefits of apple trees being planted for hundreds of years, established trees and orchards, even if a bit neglected. Even livestock apples have value.

My sheep follow me through the woods, snacking on the branches I pull down for them. The next year, they sprout back out, rinse, repeat. They love red cedar and elm the most.

Yes but you have things like peach trees and pecan trees or are able to grow them and a lot of other tropical type fruits we cant..not to mention a much longer growing season. The ground here isnt even completely thawed yet. I do like orchards sadly many of the old orchards are just cut down because the trees are to far gone. No one wants to try to pick apples from a tree that is 40ft tall and the closest apple 9ft away from the ground. We have a Granny smith that needs most of the top cut off and branches grafted lower down. The tree is so tall DH can't even reach a single branch and he is 6'4" as well as bearing no fruit last year. The tree really needs heavily pruned back but it is going to be a dangerous job because of how overgrown it is. If it was anything other then granny smith or if i had another granny smith we would just cut it down.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Yesterday I cleaned a past due pig pen, the one that Sara's daughter and Mrs Pig shared. It got scraped, limed, bedded and then Sara was put in that pen. Sara is not to far from having piglets and is not in great condition, we didnt realize she was that far along. We also took Spot out of her pen and put her back in the big pen with Laverne and Backfire(boar). Then the hereford girl who is also bred but not as far along as Sara i dont think went into Spot's pen. And Sara's daughter and Mrs Pig went into the pen we had Oreo in. Spot pigs pen needs to be cleaned which I believe will get done tomorrow, I need a break for a day from shoveling,scraping and wheel barrowing.

So todays plan is to start building pens on the other side of the barn for the goats/sheep. Currently i am planning two larger pens. Then we also need to make a feed stall so the feed is kept separate from livestock even if they are on the main floor. We also have plans to build a poultry house of some fashion to house the chickens and ducks and geese so they are on their own and can properly lay eggs/brood/raise young while being protected from predators.

I also am hoping to get the mineral feeder fixed tonight for the outside pen. They keep ripping it off the wall so I(or DH) are going to build a wooden frame and screw it to the wall. We also need to move medium brown back to the outside pen.

 

[Baymule]

Pear trees are the homestead imitation apple tree here. We planted a pear tree 3 years ago, it is blooming for the first time now. I love home canned pears. We also planted 2 peach trees, we got 4 peaches last year, I think the best I ever had. LOL They are loaded now, if we can keep the squirrels away from them.