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
The Kitchen's Garden 
37 responses to “Every Pig Needs a Fan”
I love the photo of your butter churn! The feeling of hay in the barn is like the feeling of having all your winter firewood ready, split and stacked, isn’t it? Safe. Secure. Confident. You’re fettling the Farmy for winter.
What fun this post is. I love to think of Sheila and Poppy under the cooling fanbreeze. Hooray for hay safely gathered in. You must be so relieved after the whirlpool of yesterday. Our monsoon Saturday has calmed down a bit today.
Love,
ViV
Beautiful hay! Wonderful that you got that put in. It does feel good!
Your 211 bales add up to just over 5 tons (5.28). Yes, my brain went straight to the math, at 6 am on a weekend. Go figure!
Still, it’s a good start, despite the unpredicted rain shower.
I was hoping you would do the math for me! The other equation is half a bale a day per cow! for six months.. how many would that be? then we throw in half a bale a day for the sheep and pigs.. that might be more accurate as to how much we need.. c
Oh gosh. Our bales must be smaller than yours. We figure a ton of hay per month per cow here in MT. That means 4-6 ton per winter for my sweet gestating Jersey,,,,, especially if this next winter is like last years winter. Yikes! We have alot of hay yet to put up too. Enough reading. More WORK!!!
Hay at it’s best – and pig poop, too! Sounds like life was a bit better than the day before with the whirling winds and rain. The sun is coming up here on the Cutoff, twin fawns practicing flagging their tails in the back and the grandkids still sleeping peacefully in their beds. 🙂
Sigh of relief…the hay is in! Poppy’s face is so cute staring up at that magic machine that blows air on her to keep her cool.
Have a wonderful, relaxed Sunday, Celi.
A good news day! May they continue for many a long time.
Lovely hay. Going for $6+ per bale around here. So quite the haul to your barn! Congratulations on your success.
Great work – I’d think you’d need a fan too 😉
Yay for the hay!
Tis true about the unsmelly poo, my friend! Deer poo does not smell either and they eat mostly greens, dead leaves and tree bark.
I’m glad your hay is in the barn and all the animals are happy . When do you take a brake to relax?
October!. c
YAY! A fan for my favorite Piggies! YIPPEE!!!
Linda
http://coloradofarmlife.wordpress.com
Hay in the barn, besides the wonderful smell, is better than money in the bank when you have animals that need it ! Keeps them warm in the winter and sustains their life ! I remember many cold nights giving the horses extra hay !
Beautiful hay Celi . Love the photo of it stacked high on the wagon, My auto correct wanted that to be wag on which fits too !
Nanster
“Make hay while the sunshines!” has been a saying in my family forever but never having the experience of farming, I had no sense of its significance. I do now. Wow! What really gets me there’s no saying, “Gee, I’m not up for this today. Let’s bale tomorrow.”
Those 211bales of hay are an amazing sight. Just amazing.