Misfitmorgan's Journal - That Summer Dust

[Baymule]

Sorry you lost your goat, it's always hard to lose one.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Thanks guys...it sucks but as always we get a bit sad and keep moving along. Farming is never easy...which is why DH has his favorite saying. When everything is breaking, failing, going wrong, dying, etc "We're farming now!" always makes us laugh even when we are terribly frustrated.

 

[NH homesteader]

I just said to my husband earlier this morning, farming isn't always fun is it? He said that's how you know you're doing it right. We lost a lot of meat birds this year so not happy here either.

 

[misfitmorgan]

I just said to my husband earlier this morning, farming isn't always fun is it? He said that's how you know you're doing it right. We lost a lot of meat birds this year so not happy here either.

We lost all 20 of our meat birds this year and went from roughly 100 laying hens down to 15. We have moved everyone to the barn now until we can redo the coop and added 10 new laying hens.

 

[NH homesteader]

Ouch. That's bad. We have lost over 50% of our meat birds thus far. You must have serious predators.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Ouch. That's bad. We have lost over 50% of our meat birds thus far. You must have serious predators.

Hawks and Eagles took 95% of them...no feather piles or carcasses or anything just gone. Also lost 4 guineas and 15 ducks. We tried netting the top of the coop yard so early morning and evening no birds could get in but then they started taking them when we free ranged them in broad daylight. Then we noticed a bald eagle momma teaching her new chick where to get easy food. After two month or so the netting was useless the wind had shredded it. So this spring they will be a totally new coop yard with wire mesh lid.

 

[NH homesteader]

Oh wow. We have hawks that hang out but haven't taken anyone yet. That's infuriating!

 

[misfitmorgan]

Oh wow. We have hawks that hang out but haven't taken anyone yet. That's infuriating!

oh yes it is....and you cant shoot them. It's all BS because the wind farms can kill 10K birds of prey including bald eagles a year per wind farm....but we cant even though they are killing our livestock.

 

[misfitmorgan]

i saw this and thought it was pretty funny...and no i was NOT searching for AGHs

These ended up right next to each other on craigslist...talk about a marketing nightmare.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

You're right about that! Maybe the higher priced ones are registered?