30 August, 2009
What did we do today?
- Fed and watered pigs
- Fed and watered poultry
- Made a huge batch of pancakes for breakfast
- Finished cleaning byre (mucked out yesterday)
- Scythed potato foliage
- Raked potato foliage and loaded it into the Land Rover
Did first aid on the Other Half’s head after the Wee ‘Un clobbered her with a rake- Drove the Other Half to hospital for further treatment while the boys visited the neighbouring farm
- Drove home, collected the boys and deposited the OH on the sofa with chocolates, lemonade and rubbish TV
- Drove Land Rover to the top of the hill and unloaded the potato haulms onto the bonfire pile
- Drove to feed merchants, loaded 750kg of pig feed and drove home
- Quick lunch
- Mowed a lot of grass
- Cut back the trees along the roadside to improve visibility, with a hand saw
- Lifted pig hut out of top field, dragged in down the hill, lifted it into one of the bottoms pens
- Moved the pair of porker boars into the bottom pen (easy) and then tried to persuade the porker gilt to join them (not easy), so they’ll be together for the abattoir trip
- Cleaned out troughs
- Unloaded 750kg of pig feed and carried it into the hay shed
- Fed and watered poultry
- Fed and watered pigs
- Came in, made dinner
Shut poultry up for the night and checked the pigs, topped up water in a couple of troughs- Put boys to bed
- Took a deep breath!
Oh, and Sunday is our “easy” day.
Tell me about it !!!!!!!!
Back in Aberdeenshire soon looking forward to the rain etc Who in their right mind would live up there.
Andy
I’m sure you said on Facebook that “just by being with OH you were ‘spoiling her’.”…. sounds like she could have passed out (or away) and you’d have known nothing about it! ….. Out there in the fresh air, enjoying yourself!…….Better get her some more chocs and pick her a few flowers tomorrow, too! Hope you are feeling better now OH?
Busy day here as well….
its that time of year, no?
Ouch! Hope OH doesn’t have too much of a headache after that whack (and that she didn’t need a tetanus jab). And that Wee ‘Un is doing something nice for Mummy today. Mine are reliable with small tools, but long items like brooms and rakes are still tricky for them to handle.
You did better than me: as well as the obvious tasks of feeding, providing fresh water, etc, I moved a pig ark and its inhabitants, collected the eggs …. and spent the rest of the day inside moaning about the horrendous weather. Though I did mince up a couple of pork joints to make burgers.
Hope the OH has recovered!
Buying feed on a Sunday? Not in Devon you can’t. Apart from the newsagents, church and the pub everything else stays firmly shut. There are lots of farmers who don’t work on a Sunday either (apart from seeing to livestock). Many tales round here about hay harvests ruined because Sundays are the day of rest. It’s never a day of rest for me though. My list wouldn’t include taking OH to hospital (hope all ok there), but apart from the livestock duties did contain mountainous quantities of preserving, chutneying and brambling.
Wow.
How many pigs for how many months does 750 kg of feed cover? And how big is the pile of bags of feed? All I can picture is something around the size of a Smart car–the weight’s around the same, anyway.
Hope OH’s feeling better.
Normally, 750kg of feed lasts 35-40 days. With all the extra pigs on the croft at the moment, it lasts 16 days.
ouch poor OH – hope you are feeling better.
You took OH to hospital and were back before lunch? Wow! Hope she is okay, and I am in awe of how much you get done in a day.