Small things

Well I got the new battery put into the truck today.  A spiffy Autocraft which is what came out dead.  The old battery lasted 5 years and several run dead's from left my headlights on ordeals.

Hopefully this battery can last at least as long!! 

Despite the rain shower that went through earlier this morning, I took the shedding blade and shed off the two horses-again.  Eventually I'll get Phoenix all shed off!

 

Coyote proofing

     Since I've had plenty of issues with coyotes, which I at first blamed on a possum, getting in and last Friday killed 7 of my good dutch rabbits(Rafik, Syd, Dalton, Leonardo, Rebecca, Zoey, and Rachel) I was pissed and upset.  I hated losing Raf, Syd and Rachel the *most*.  Rest in peace my darling babies. 
     Well last night(Tuesday), Jason, next door, actually saw the small pack of 3 coyotes back by the barn.  I've been putting the x-pens up in the doorways to keep my dutch safe, but they got in under the panels and got to my meat pen cages- killed one bunny

     Well at least I knew I had to replace the floor wire, this just speeds up that process.  I'll try to sell the last two does and rip the floor wire out and re-breed Juliet for meat bunnies.   I'll probably rebreed tomorrow. 
     So I took two of my cattle panels, since I won't need them for calves this spring, and cut them to the 10foot length to replace the corral panels so the coyotes can't sneak under them.  Then stuck the end pieces- cut to 4 foot lengths and put them over the gates. 

     So the traps are still out, since we've caught 5 stray cats so far-and popped them all!  We're decreasing the stray cat population!!  Now to get that back area completely cleaned up and use that area to put the x-pens out for the bunnies to romp in!! 

Little Storm damage

I had to take a few pictures of the storm damage from the storms on Thursday. 

Took a HUGE limb down off the maple in the back of the pasture.  It took a 12 foot section of fence with it.  Blocked it for a few days to let the horses finish up their round bale and then I'll take the panel down and re-do the fence back there.

And one of Phoenix pacing the fence, but he'ls putting weight back on!

Now to find a vet that I can haul Phoenix into that has the grinder to do his teeth. 
I took miss Connie with me today to go pick up my rabbit food-PenPals.  The guy ordered PLENTY, he has 12 bags in stock but my bin barely holds 3 so I'll have plenty for a little while(It's $20 for a 50# bag if you want some for Marty and Goldy!) 

She had to endure a small time stint sitting on my bed while I got my stuff together.  She's a bit spoiled!  Can't wait for the show on Sunday!

The evening ended as I was coming inside to a loose steer calf.  Standing next to the fence mooing at Phoenix and Heidi.

Whisman eventually came down and caught him.  Someone must have called him.

New Hay Roll!

     Dad and Aunt Lisa found some hay rolls and went to pick some up for the cows, and Dad said they looked good so I asked him to pick me one up.  I also shaved Heidi's beard off too, more to see what it would look like!

The new roll of hay is a HUGE success!!  Now hopefully we can get some rain and get the other pasture to GROW.  COME ON RAIN!

Fun Fun

Did a few things and got a little bit of fun done today. 
First thing I did after feeding was some laundry!  And while that was running, I got all my bunny water dishes cleaned and put away for the Summer. 

Then after that while the laundry was still running, I took Phoenix out for a little walk around and we even did a few short trots.  Very weird riding him again, I haven't ridden him in a saddle in a long time, first time ever riding in that Saddle! 

I got seriously covered in fur, he's STILL shedding like a BASTARD.   We did mostly walking and a TINY bit of trotting and I was able to actually keep a posting trot at the end of the mess.  I let him end on a good note for both of us, I untacked him over the drain field to graze, and carried my tack back to the barn, grabbed halters.  I haltered Heidi and let her out in the back yard to graze some more of the drain field and then put Phoenix's halter on.  I laid in the grass dozing while they ate.  Then I looped their ropes up around their necks and went to make their supper- both came running for supper.    

Afterwards I brought the blue Dutch doe baby and the two tort babies, they didn't get out of the x-pen.  Gave Heidi something to sniff!  They were both very, very good.  As well as the blue dutch baby.  I'm waiting for the tort babies to get in good shape before I separate them.  The Pen Pals' rabbit feed seems to be doing great.  Time to call and order it!