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February 18, 2016 by: RidgetopFarm&Garden

2016 Update – Week 7

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• Most of the herb seeds we started over two weeks ago haven’t germinated yet. Hmmm… I’m not too impressed. I am needing a bunch of good starts in less than 8 weeks.

• The Great Backyard Bird Count was going on this weekend, so I went on a number of bird watching walks.

• Farm Girl & I had gone for a bird walk and when we came back Farmer John & Farm Kid1 had Sven in the house tending to a wound. He had a pretty good slice on his leg. I ended up taking him to the vet to get stitches.

• To keep Sven’s stitched area from getting infected it was recommended that he not be out in the muck and the mud. So, we boarded up the Goat Hut (which started out as a Turkey Hut, then switched to a Chicken Hut and was once also a Pig Hut) to keep him cooped inside. Before boarding it up though, we layed cement pavers on the ground. It’s not our finest work, but it should keep things a little cleaner. I had been wanting to lay a cement pad for the goats anyway with the hopes of it doing a bit of hoof trimming work as they walk on it. So, this worked out perfectly. And, if one day we don’t want the cement in the hut we can just pull them out.

• Just yesterday somethin’ snagged our rooster that we referred to as The Hippie. There was a lot of commotion outside and after checking it out Farmer John found Hippie’s feathers. When a bobcat has gotten a chicken, it leaves a trail of feathers as it’s dragging the chicken off into the bushes. This time there was not a trail of feathers – and The Hippie was a fairly large rooster. So, I’m not sure what got it.
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