Also went and picked a red cabbage for Vickie, a milk owner on Monday whose DH was coming by to collect their milk.
Caught and re-dewormed some of the lambs, and gave the poorly boy an iron shot in the butt. Much easier to catch and dose when you have someone helping, thank you Teri. Randomly checked eyes to see if the anemia was under control.
Unloaded the 2 hay bales from the truck, really a long job without the front-loader of the big tractor. The bale spear on the back of the little tractor is better than how we originally used to do it, but still have to park the truck on a steep incline so that the tractor can reach the bale and lift it out. As the shed is still full of loose barley, put the one bale down by the sheep and covered it with a tarp held down with big rocks from the garden. Today I put those twirly metal spikes into the ground and attached the tarp to it as this coming storm is predicted to be a big one. The other bale is on its' side so shouldn't be as water absorbent as the one down by the sheep. Not the greatest of hay, 1st cutting but not wrapped in plastic so there is a whole bad layer that I had to peel off. At $50 each, this is an expensive enterprise again.
Poked holes in the aluminum roasting pans I got from the $ store to do some barley fodder.
Collected 11 eggs yesterday, so took some out of our fridge to make a dozen for Teri. So far today I've only found 6 eggs, and Anni is in the lower barn enclosure with Rosco (and Bambi and Mabel). Seriously looking at which chickens are going to pot. Need a way to tag those that are on the nests laying, and the rest are fair game. Also need to do some geese. Probably 4 gray ones and 3 white ones. Just thinking of their livers is making me drool, which is something seeing as we had steak, baked potato and green peas for lunch.
DH is out with the tractor, damn thing won't start. Have manure building up around the lower barn door so need the bucket to scoop it into the spreader. First need to move the spreader up from it's parking place out back. Then I can shovel it straight into it.
Wanted to take Bambi out to the other cows today, but cannot get near her with the lead. I watched her feed Mabel, then wanted to take her out as Mabel will just sleep with her full tummy. Maybe from milking tomorrow I'll attach the lead to her so that she gets used to it. She'll probably bolt out the barn, pulling me through the poop pile outside the lower barn - maybe that's not the greatest idea.
Looks like we have a storm brewing. Let me go and salvage some tomatoes from the garden and put up some more jars before the additional rain splits them.