Our Yanmar 1300D tractor wouldn’t start the other day so we have to take it into the shop. We need the tractor to drill the postholes for our 2003 Fencing Project. Update: It was seven weeks until we finally got the tractor back! Since it is a gray market tractor it was difficult to locate the parts.
We were relaxing on the veranda today and noticed the ducks were fairly agitated. They were in a group facing some sort of object about 15 feet from them, quacking in unison. Upon investigation we discovered this snapping turtle making its way slowly along the pasture fence, looking for a way through. As you can see he (she?) is a bit over a foot long. Lucky for it we already had dinner ready.
This summer we are planning to fence in another pasture for our sheep and goats. We are using the goats to clean out the abundance of multiflora rose and greenbriar that have completely overgrown this old pasture. These plants have quite nasty thorns, but the goats have very sensitive and controllable upper lips and so are able to eat the leaves while avoiding the thorns.
Here Eric is carefully lopping his way through the thicket so we can move the portable electric net fencing to the next area. in a week or so this lush green wall will look like …
Our tamworth piglets resting on their self-made pallet of straw; pigs are quite fastidious about having a relatively clean, dry place to sleep. In a week they have completely tilled up the 20×30-foot former garden that we wanted them to. Time to move them to a new area that needs tilling and reseed this one.
We are in the process of weaning our goat kids. We separate the kids at night and give them limited access to their moms during the day. Here are the kids wait for their turn at mom. Note the head through the fence — the kids can get a nip off mom even when she’s not in the same pasture.
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