The hay is in the barn!

We now have 770 square bales stacked in the pole barn. It is a great feeling knowing that our animals have feed for the winter. We should get at least one more cutting this summer, and possibly two more. I'm told that the first cutting is best, and that together the second two cuttings probably won't equal the first. It's a good year for hay.

It was great to be baling hay and watch Tyler, Trevor and Tucker getting the hay loaded onto the trailer. I was very thankful for their help.

This next week I will start dismantling a pole barn on a farm about 20 miles away that had the roof collapse this past winter under the weight of snow. We should get enough good material to build at least half of our barn. I'll be building on an existing foundation of the barn that burned down here in the mid 70s. That will put the tractor inside, get the animals much closer to the house for the winter, and allow me to get electricity to the barn as well.

We now have 50 dual purpose chicks. We'll butcher the roosters and keep the laying hens, once we can tell which is which.

We also went to a gathering of like minded folks on a farm down by Bismarck, and came home with 75 meat chickens that we will butcher the end of this month.

At least two of Trevor's rabbits kindled, so we have little bunnies added to our farm.

All in all, June was a good, productive month.


Tyler came for the weekend and we put him to work. What a great help!

The baler worked like a champ!

Mowing the road ditch with the mower/conditioner.