Interesting week on the farm: chicks, pigs, hail
Interesting week on the farm. I am trying to get this place in order for a farm tour May 13. I am really not sure who is supposed to be coming here. I just agreed to host a tour as an incentive to get the farm somewhat cleaned up and organized.
Got in 60 more broiler chicks to keep me busy in my spare time.
Put Olive the Tamworth gilt and George the Ossabaw boar on some beautiful lush pasture on Tuesday. Or tried to. Once a pig learns where the electric fence line is, they are reluctant to cross that boundary. I took down the 16-foot hog panel and single strand of electric fence wire and tried to entice Olive and George out into the pasture while sitting on an upside-down 5-gallon bucket. I offered them feed and treats but they would not cross the line. Olive finally crossed after about two hours. George did not until the next day.
We had some serious rain along with a brief outburst of hail. I was in the barn late Tuesday listening to it hit the metal roof, watching it bounce off my truck, and wondering what it was doing to the crops.
Friday, I had a long list of things to do before it rains again. Clean up and weed the onion beds, get transplants in the ground, blah, blah, blah.
Dean Mullis writes from Laughing Owl Farm in Richfield; demullis@vnet.net.
This story was originally published April 28, 2015 at 1:38 PM with the headline "Interesting week on the farm: chicks, pigs, hail."