Sunday October 22, 2006

Greetings! It has been suggested that I put up a blog to keep people up to date about what has been happening around here, so her 'tis.

We have just gotten through a spell of Horrid Hay Poisoning, finished wedding off one of my 21 year old twins, and ran slam out of hay on site. After serious seeking and rejecting, I found some most excellent hay for my livestock, but have transport problems. The hay is in Culpeper, 50 miles north, and getting it here has been a trial. The fellow who was going to transport it lost the tranmission in his tractor, and has been promising delivery for over 2 weeks to no avail. I actually ran slap out of hay on Friday, and calling, and begging, I finally got some relatively poor quality, but clean, hay yesterday afternoon, and had a delivery of the same this morning. I will need to get my good hay down here, and use this minimally, but needed something NOW.

Due to lack of hay, and poor quality of replacement, milk production has diminshed dramatically. I am hoping that it will pick back up with feeding supplemental alfalfa cubes.