Two Hundred and Eleven Bales of Hay. Not a bad days work at all!
Above is the toppings bales from Daisy’s paddock and below the alfalfa mix from the haymakers field. The good hay. Lovely green hay just like my darling hay mentor Linda, has been telling me I should strive for. This lady and her husband know their hay. I don’t know why that link got so big but I will be late for the milking if I go back and try to fix it.
In the mail the other day arrived a package for Sheila from one of our darling fellowship friends. One of Sheila’s fans. Gifts are from goodness not for publicity so I will not embarress her but thank you darling. Hope your dogs are well!
Sheila, after grazing for a while yesterday morning, toddled back into her sunroom and lay in front of her new fan for the afternoon. She wanted me to tell you that she loves cool air, she adores her new fan (so does Poppy for that matter) and also some people think that some pigs smell bad and their um… poo smells too. But Sheila eats plenty of greens, piles of grass and vegetables and fruit – almost no grain at this time of year so her poo is clean smelling manure. Her .. um.. poo does not stink. Just so’s you know. This is what she said.
Tima the little kunekune pig and Boo the Blue Heeler cross (with who knows) entertained the hay baler’s children while he and his Dad worked. And Ton spent the entire time retrieving for the bigger boys. The Farmy is a mecca for children.
And then when we had all the hay pulled into the Kelly Creek barn for safe keeping until the morning-it rained.
Maybe you are magic.
I am well pleased with yesterday’s work. Hay in the barn is a wonderful feeling. We will need plenty of hay this winter with three growing calves and the two big, hopefully-gestating cows. As a rule a big cow will eat a ton of hay during our long winters. A ton is 2000 pounds and a bale is around 50 pounds. So we will be needing quite a few bales this year. I have not done the maths yet. But we need more.
I hope you have a good day.
Your friend on the farmy
celi
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37 responses to “Every Pig Needs a Fan”
Wow
What a lotta work
Good. That you.love your animals. I take it that good hay advice came from Linda and Terry
Lots of love P
A fan from a fan. I love it! I’m so glad you got the hay in!
Half a bale a day for six months is 52 bales. For four heads of cattle that’s 208 bales. Add the sheep and pigs and you’re up to 312 bales. Anyone else need hay while I have the calculator out?
Thank you darling, I am doing well then! Once I am over the 350 mark it is fat cows from then on.. c
Shei;a is such a lady!
That is a lot of hay! Reminds me of the hay we had for our two horses.
We were with you in spirit getting the hay baled, but it’s truly wonderful to see Sheila and Poppy enjoying the fan from a Farmy fan. Good work all round 🙂
Definitely a great place for children! (And their moms.) 🙂 The hay looks wonderful!
Sheila and I have lots in common….I love a fan blowing on me. I don’t mind the heat as long as there are fans all around. I have them inside and outside and I look very contented just like Sheila when I take a nap with one creating a breeze.
I am the opposite I hate having air blowing on me. I guess becaise I did not grow up with fans. c
What a beautiful picture that hay makes!! What sweet relief and by my reckoning there should be two more lots from your own paddocks to come? Love the pigs ‘basking’ in the fan flow but have to admit I do not like such myself either!! OK, OK – Tima is very photogenic also 🙂 !!
Morning eha mama, if the rain and heat keeps up we will get at least one more and possible two more cuts off that field. but i do need to get it fertilised at some point too.. there are no guarantees but we have some good bales in the barn.. !.. c
Hope it is two!! Wonder what you use as fertilizer liking things natural? Just know that that six-storey photo practically made me trickle a tear as it seemed worth its weight in gold 🙂 !!
Hurray! Hurray!
You brought in the hay!
Are you having a hay-making party now? this deserves a good celebration. I jumped up and down with excitement when I saw those tidy green bales on top of the trailer. Congratulations. I reckon it takes a lot of nerve to be a hay-maker.
So happy to hear the hay made it safely to the barn. Sheila and Poppy look delighted with their new fan.
Exactly what I was thinking Kate! Firewood stacked and Storeroom shelves stuffed full of canning jars… ; )
Sorry, lol (and no offence intended Sheila; ) but that photo brings to mind that olde saying “built like the broadside of a barn door!”
And oh boy, does that butter churn ever stir up some wonderful memories, Celi! (And pun intended in multiple directions; )
And yes, I’ve been wandering about in the links to older posts suggested at the bottom again. Tima was SO cute as a little ‘un, wasn’t she?
She really was!!