We survived the heat wave, all of the critters included. The swimming pool sure helped us, even though by Sunday afternoon the water temperature was up to 85°. A nice storm front came through yesterday evening and dropped the temp from 93° to 75° in about 20 minutes and it was very welcome. After it passed we sat down by the barn and just watched absolutely constant flashes of lightning filling the sky to the south for about half an hour. It was tremendous.
The pigs seemed to take the heat better than anyone on the farm, it actually stays pretty cool in the barn basement area that they have access to, and along with a big mudhole and a few soakings with the hose they were just fine. The ducks went through about 7 gallons of water on Saturday, luckily I thought up and built an automatic refilling waterer for them that holds just over 5 gallons, so it's a lot less work for me. I am pretty proud of that waterer, there are even some really bad pictures of it in the Poultry album.
Also in the Poultry album are some pics of the turkeys from this morning. No doubt about it, Whitey is a Royal Palm tom and is going to be a striking looking turkey when he is mature. We also have a Blue Slate tom (Ghost), a domestic Wild Turkey tom (Smarty), and 5 Bourbon Reds, at least one tom, maybe 2 (Brownie x 5). Whitey and Ghost are featured in today's picture.
4 comments:
Be sure not to let any onions or beer get into your pool, or you might find yourself being eaten by a busload of Sheboyganites.
DJ...is this pig/poultry raising a one-time thing, or are you planning to raise more next year?
Nice idead on the automatic waterer. sounds like you are putting some well needed shortcuts in place.
The little white flowers are some kind of weed that is actually rather cool. the flower is at the end of a little round pod, and when the flower wilts the entire pod falls off and rolls away in the wind. I have no idea what it's name is, I will try to remember to take a close-up this weekend.
I think we are going to do pigs and turkeys, and possibly chickens, next year. We may increase to 3 pigs, still haven't decided.
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