Grass seed & early Spring Cleaning
We have moved piglets and they are done cleaning the horseradish bed, so I moved them in to the peacock cage and that is about clean, next is the turkey area and then the piglets will be moved to the four acre lot to finish the clearing there.
Last Sunday I went to what is now my new favorite store, "The Barn Store of New England” in Salisbury, N.H., about a 3 hour drive to get there but well worth it. I arrived about an hour early and then had to drive another 10 miles to find a place to eat.
The purpose of the trip was to buy Portahuts http://www.port-a-hut.com/ and they are really worth it, we bought 3 huts, 3 fronts with out doors, one farrowing guard and one piglet roller, and three fronts that allow the attaching of portable fence sections, total cost was 1100.00, I should have purchased the fence sections while I was there but didn’t want to spend the extra money, I will head back up there later this year to buy 3 more huts and get more farrowing guards.
When I got back I put one together and set it out in the four acre lot, Olive has already claimed it as her own and Perry and Petunia are “out in the cold”. Speaking of pigs, both Thelma and Pearl have farrowed and the “squish” rate was not good which is why we decided to bite the bullet and spend the money for the huts, now we will build up the straw inside to provide bedding and extra heat as it composts.
We have really been moving hogs around in to all our pastures and we will be ready to spread the 200 pounds of seed we purchased from Welter seed out of Iowa. http://www.welterseed.com/
Mix No. 9 - All Grass Pasture & Waterway Mix
All of our mixes are premixed, saving our customers the time and hassle during the busy planting season.
15% Duo Festulolium (perennial ryegrass & meadow fescue cross)
15% Rough Rider Orchardgrass
10% Lincoln Smooth Bromegrass
10% Paddock Meadow Bromegrass
10% Rebound Bromegrass
10% Tuukka Timothy
9.5% Bronson Tall Fescue
10% Rebound Bromegrass
9.5% Starfirer Clover
9.5% Alsike Clover
Product Type: Hay, Pasture Mixes
We’ll over seed the end of February first of march and expect to get a 25% germination rate by doing it that way. And all this with no seeder, no no-till drill, no plow or harrow, just some pigs, some frost and some walking!!
Meanwhile, Sheryl has been busy throwing out “stuff” and painting things, she is also pretty good with a hammer so she tends to fix things herself which certainly helps me focus on the farm chores.
Cheers,
Craig
Last Sunday I went to what is now my new favorite store, "The Barn Store of New England” in Salisbury, N.H., about a 3 hour drive to get there but well worth it. I arrived about an hour early and then had to drive another 10 miles to find a place to eat.
The purpose of the trip was to buy Portahuts http://www.port-a-hut.com/ and they are really worth it, we bought 3 huts, 3 fronts with out doors, one farrowing guard and one piglet roller, and three fronts that allow the attaching of portable fence sections, total cost was 1100.00, I should have purchased the fence sections while I was there but didn’t want to spend the extra money, I will head back up there later this year to buy 3 more huts and get more farrowing guards.
When I got back I put one together and set it out in the four acre lot, Olive has already claimed it as her own and Perry and Petunia are “out in the cold”. Speaking of pigs, both Thelma and Pearl have farrowed and the “squish” rate was not good which is why we decided to bite the bullet and spend the money for the huts, now we will build up the straw inside to provide bedding and extra heat as it composts.
We have really been moving hogs around in to all our pastures and we will be ready to spread the 200 pounds of seed we purchased from Welter seed out of Iowa. http://www.welterseed.com/
Mix No. 9 - All Grass Pasture & Waterway Mix
All of our mixes are premixed, saving our customers the time and hassle during the busy planting season.
15% Duo Festulolium (perennial ryegrass & meadow fescue cross)
15% Rough Rider Orchardgrass
10% Lincoln Smooth Bromegrass
10% Paddock Meadow Bromegrass
10% Rebound Bromegrass
10% Tuukka Timothy
9.5% Bronson Tall Fescue
10% Rebound Bromegrass
9.5% Starfirer Clover
9.5% Alsike Clover
Product Type: Hay, Pasture Mixes
We’ll over seed the end of February first of march and expect to get a 25% germination rate by doing it that way. And all this with no seeder, no no-till drill, no plow or harrow, just some pigs, some frost and some walking!!
Meanwhile, Sheryl has been busy throwing out “stuff” and painting things, she is also pretty good with a hammer so she tends to fix things herself which certainly helps me focus on the farm chores.
Cheers,
Craig
posted by Footsteps Farm | 1:51 PM
1 Comments:
Thanks for the great review. We now have a restaurant in the Barn Store and serve local meats from local farms. It's quite unique. Come hungry next time, serving breakfast and lunch until 2:00 7 days a week.
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