Colonel’s Blog, Earthdate 26 October 2024…
Hey Y’all!
Good afternoon and happy Saturday from Air2Ground Farms/Meats! I missed Fast-jet Friday yesterday but hope you had an amazing day. The fast jet today is the Mighty-Mighty F-15E Strike Eagle. The two pics were taken this week in Wales as the jets flew low-level through the mountains. WE GOT RAIN! It was less than 1/10” but it was rain! We stood in the barn and watched and listened to the rain grateful for every drop. Shelley started what the Dr called “prehab” at the local physical therapy office this week. They want her leg to stay strong before surgery. Our home gym is helping also and she is working out each morning. The big news on the farm this week was a new heifer calf in the beef herd. I took the top 3 pics the morning after she was born and she was up and running before I could even get close! She is doing very well and stays nearby her mother throughout the day. This makes the 8th calf born on the farm this year and takes our beef herd to 33. The next biggest news is that the sheep have decided they no longer want to stay in the 20ish acres worth of pastures we’ve been letting them graze/browse. The grass is gone but we’re offering hay and they have decided they don’t want it. They are shooting under the fence to pick through the oak leaves lining the county dirt road and eat the acorns. We have been holding them where they are currently so that we could feed them and the cows hay at the same time. There is a bit of grass remaining on our bottom pastures but we don’t want to graze it. They would quickly eat it to the dirt and there would be little left to regrow this season it ever starts raining. That decision has us feeding hay in October and the sheep are unhappy with that. This weekend we plan to move them into the pasture with the rams. We wanted to wait until 1 Nov to put them together but we’ve got to get them behind electric wire so they stay off of the road even if it means they get bred a couple of days early. Additionally on the sheep front, we are keeping one of our ram lambs this year. He is the fastest growing lamb and his mom is our best ewe. We want to infuse those good genetics into our flock. In the Berkshire hog enterprise, we will take 4 feeders to the processor Monday morning. That will leave 11 in that group of feeders and the next 4 are scheduled to go the first week of December. The next batch of feeders behind those currently has 11 and we will add 4 more to that batch and those 15 will grow until spring. We will ween the next batch of piglets next week and we still have 1 female that is pregnant and due any day. We think 15 is a manageable size group. Lastly, the new layer chicks are doing very well and are growing daily. They are starting to get wing and tail feathers. They will spend a couple more weeks in the brooder and then we will move them out onto pasture to finish growing. We’re staying busy on the YouTube side of things also! Check out this week’s video and podcast when you get a chance.
This week’s video was a final look at our 2024 garden. We discussed how we were able to grow lots of food with minimal time expended. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c6Fc_eoERzg&t=4s
This week’s Dust’er Mud Podcast was a look forward into 2025 where we believe food prices will continue to rise and we believe a farm crisis like we saw in the 1930s and 1980s is impending. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJXPgslsPZc
Cheers!
Psycho & Shelley
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