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I bent over this morning to scoop out some feed for the chickens and threw out my lower back.
So, not enough it seems.
RIP you. How are the chick-os doing?
Well enough, I'm always injured in one way or another but the work still needs to be done. I realized after this happened the chicken feed needed to be replenished, as did the alfalfa pellets for the cows. So that was neat, carrying the feed sacks where they needed to go like a decrepit old man.
Have you considered automated feeders with a timer set to go off everyday? I would want to automate as much as possible as a farmer, even as a fun mental exercise thing.
I haven't, no. The name of this place is (or reasonably should be) Good Enough Farms.
Most of the things are pretty easy. The sheep are self-sufficient most of the time, unless they're lambing or getting stuck in a fence. The are the dumbest mulotherfuckers around. Same with the cow, but since she's nursing, I supplement with alfalfa pellets. Other than her and the chickens, there isn't a whole lot to do but manage the nonsense from afar.
Lol what are these sheep doing to get stuck in the fence? Like they poke their head through and can't get back out? You ever sit out there and just watch your animals? Because I would definitely have a designated watching chair out in the yard.
Chickens, if they have a run with enough stuff inside, can be mad entertaining too. Their brains do not work like ours.
Oh yeah, we can see everything in the pasture from the back deck of the house. The 6 month.old calf tries to play with the sheep, but they don't understand why this giant is chasing them.
Sheep are, in my experience, the dumbest livestock around. The will shove their head through fence openings to eat the exact same grass on their side, get stuck, and then just bleat to be rescued. They are coyote unaware, and will stare at them instead of running away to the barn. They fall in ponds and creeks and can't get back out. Get tangled up in blackberry vines and get stuck.
Wild sheep are probably smart in order to survive, but domestication has removed all semblance of cleverness.
Overkill. My ladies just had a hopper feeding into a tray with a small enough gap to prevent overflow, and a piano hinge to close it up when the tray needed cleaning.
Hmm. Cows too. You have a whole operation going there. Good luck, and take it easy - you only get one body, and there are tools.
Luckily they're (mostly) self sufficient.