Busy Wife This Weekend

[dave1949]

Re: Busy Wife This Weekend Re; 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.

I'm sure coyotes have visited our compost pile on occasion and that's only 40' from the house. They do get bold. We don't have poultry or livestock so, I don't worry about them much. 99% of the time they only come around late at night, it's really rare to see one here in daylight. I've had them run past my tent not 10' feet away after dark. All that yipping does get a little scary but at least in rural areas they are more afraid of people. With your poultry attraction you may need to back them off a bit.

 

[woodlandfarms]

I am generally against any unneccesary killing of any animals. I have a moderate amount of interaction with animal control, and wildlife management people through my neighbors and friends. Every one of them has said that we need to shoot and kill any coyote that gets too close or comfortable. They don't scare easy and tend to take over quickly. I cannot bring myself to do this (stupid liberal, I know) but my neighbors have no issues.

 

[mike69440]

If Buster our Bull Steer mesed with a few Coyotes they would be grease spots in the pasture. I doubt he would back down or run. The other steer might have a problem being timid.

It will be a shame to turn him into Steaks & burgers, he would have been a star in the rodeo.

We just got a third cow, now we have 4, with a new calf.

Add I swore we would never feed another cow through the winter.

Photos is Buster over a year ago. He has to be 1,600 lbs now and real quick on his feet for his size.

 

[mike69440]

Re: Not so Busy Wife This Weekend

Not a piece of equipment in sight, but our road through our woods would have been hard to do with an axe and shovel.

 

[Sodo]

Socrates said "Beware the barrenness of a busy life". There was a time when I knew that all too well and I'm smelling the roses now. But Socrates' warning has changed to "Beware the 'Baroness of a busy wife' ".

In a few years though we'll be empty-nesters and she'll be more interested in the projects on our land. You will enjoy those trails in the years to come.

 

[mike69440]

Just puttering arond

Last Year I bent my forks picking up the new chicken hotel.
I finally got around to straightening them.
Excavators are real handy.
Also little tractors to pick up even littler tractors.

 

[Sodo]

Re: Just puttering arond

Mike Not counting hospital scares;;;; :shocked:
I'm gonna guess that you have as much fun, if not more, than I do.
As I've wrote before, to have a tractor, and need it, is a good life.

 

[mike69440]

Re: Just puttering arond

I have not posted in a while

The wife wanted a cider press.

i made it fro a 12 ton harbor freight shop press, A real $90 doll piece of crap, that i doubt would stay together at 12 ton load, but for apples, it should work

The press plates are from glue lam pressure treated Southern yellow pine, all coated in urathane with a laminate contating the juice.

I finally got more lighting and a weld plug outlet in the equipment building. The LED lights in recessed cans work really well. !00Watt equivalent from Amazon.

So how warm des it have to be to spread grass mix in our pasture. **** cows eat double a horse.

Max28 working real well as our newish small chore tractor.

Snow is just about gone!

 

[EddieWalker]

Re: Just puttering arond

Always good to hear what you've been up to. What are you making with the apple press? Cider of just apple juice?

 

[mike69440]

Re: Just puttering arond

Always good to hear what you've been up to. What are you making with the apple press? Cider of just apple juice?

I never done this before. Another wife idea.
Apple moonshine sounds kind of neat!
On another subject.
I'm doing my best to convince her not to move the turkeys and geese to the pasture. I fear coyotes and the hassle of taking care of them out there in winter.

I think I convinced her better to move them on the other side of the paddock, safer , closer to water and electricity. Me they are fine where they are, better yet put them in the freezer!