Milk room

This week was filled with building the milk room/milking stanchion, butchering roosters and traveling to the second Junior Bible Quiz meet.

The milk room is ready for milking, and more importantly, for heating! The stanchion is very basic, but I test-drove it with Bell and she seemed to think it was OK. She has still not had her calf. Hopefully she will deliver soon.

We have now butchered 29 roosters, so we have greatly diminished the stress in the chicken coop in addition to lowering our feed costs for the winter. We have gone from zero eggs per day to 4-6 eggs per day. We have around 25 hens, so the number should steadily climb.

I was very pleased with the children at the JBQ meet. They were much improved over their first meet. Tucker and Courtney’s teams placed first and second in the A league, and Tanner’s team placed second in the B league. In their overall individual standings, Courtney placed 2nd and Tucker placed 4th out of all A league quizzers, and Tanner placed 3rd out of all B league quizzers. Most important of all, they continue to hide God’s word in their hearts! The next meet will be in Minot in January. The baby will only be a couple of weeks old, but hopefully Sheryll will be able to go and see them quiz.


Here's the milk room framed in and ready for insulation.

Here's the milking stanchion that will keep Bell from wandering around during milking.

And here's the completed milk room. It's 10' X 12', so it doesn't take up too much room and should be easy to warm up.

I go to training with UPS this Wednesday, so we'll see when they want to put me to work. If it gets quiet on the blog for a while, that may be why. Of course, with my erratic history, I'm not sure if you'll be able to tell a difference! :-)