Busy Wife This Weekend

[EddieWalker]

Re: Living on a farm can be dangerous in ways you would never think. (Poop can kill.)

Sorry to hear about your poop sickness. I let my wife do all that sort of stuff. She's a nurse and seems to think poop is just part of her day. Thankfully most of our animals poop off somewhere far enough away that we don't know about it. But those chickens sure do create a lot of it!!!

Hope you get better soon, shame to not be digging or tearing up something while the weather is good.

Eddie

 

[Sodo]

Good lord, that sounds like it was dangerous. Lots of farmers live around animal poop, howcum you got it?

 

[mike69440]

Good lord, that sounds like it was dangerous. Lots of farmers live around animal poop, howcum you got it?

I can't say for certain what caused the "Atypical Pneumonia".

The only thing i did different the prior week was to inhale a lot of chick dung dust.
Horse and cow manure are proapably harmless, once you build up an imunity to whatever bacteria likes to eat that stuff. Chicken poop is dusty and I was clearing out an area where we had the old coop for more than five years. There was a 20' x 20' area about 6" deep of flakey dry chicken poop. Raking either by hand or using bucket and york rake covered everthing with dust. and that dust was not ordinary dirt.
I will mix it with horse and cow poop and wet it down prior to tilling it in. Stuff should grow good.
(After I feel better!)

 

[wedge40]

Histoplasmosis - Mayo Clinic

 

[Mikemahindrah]

Wow...I'd be in heaven...

 

[mike69440]

Re: Busy Wife This Weekend, She is playing in her garden, I'm in the woods

Well my acess road to the back end of the pasture is nearly done. I just have a bit more grading, cleanup and rock hauling.

The road was stated in 2011 and was never intended to be anything more tna scess to the ponds and the front gates. Some work was done in 2014 to extend it, as a logging road so I could haul firewood.
http://www.tractorbynet.com/forums/projects/324502-breezy-ridge-farm-2014-project-2.html

This year I ran in around the back side of the pasture as an access road, horse trail, and a place to take walks with the pooches. A loop of the property is a little less than a mile and makes for a nice summer night walk.

 

[mike69440]

Busy Wife This Weekend, She is playing in her garden, I'm in the woods, more pics

Continuing the ride.

 

[dave1949]

Nice! Having good access to areas of your property makes life so much easier. The deer and coyotes appreciate it too. I've seen moose tracks on our lanes but they don't use them as much as the deer do. Sometimes our dogs get into territory marking contests with the coyotes.

 

[EddieWalker]

You sure do take your dog walking seriously!!!!!

 

[mike69440]

Re: Busy Wife This Weekend Re; coyotes

Nice! Having good access to areas of your property makes life so much easier. The deer and coyotes appreciate it too. I've seen moose tracks on our lanes but they don't use them as much as the deer do. Sometimes our dogs get into territory marking contests with the coyotes.

Kioti's are welcome on the farm, but with 6 Geese and 9 Turkeys behind a fabric mesh fence and free ranging during the day, (Chickens too), Coyotes are not welcome.

They are getting bold, coming way too close to the house. A little scary at dusk in the woods.

A fox has to think twice before taking on a big mean goose, especially as they much rather prefer chicken, but a coyote would rip them to shreds.

Hopefully coyotes will respect our dogs markings and poops along the road that this is not their territory, but hunger has no boundaries.