Piggies Piggies Piggies four boys and three girls.
We keep finding babies when we go out to milk in the morning. Check back, I’ll add the details of the day soon.
So of course Penelope is a great mama. We brought in some grass clippings from our pile from the landscapers so she could make a better nest for her babies. We also had to take several baby breaks from our chores, so needless to say, we were very late finishing milking. It is so hard to get anything done when there are such cute babies all over the farm.
We did bees. We had the usual crew, Amy, Sonya, and Bethany. Another couple came to see how the top-bar hives work. They have the Langstroth hives and are wanting something simpler. There was a lot of new honey and lots of half-capped honeycomb, but not much was ready to take. We took 2 combs. That will yield probably between 1-2 quarts.
I took a little nap before the afternoon milking.
I put in a chicken for dinner before going to milking. After milking, I went and dug some potatoes for mashed potatoes. Then I cut some greens (chard and kale) for dinner. I made chicken gravy with the oil from the cooked chicken and the liquid from the simmering giblets. I also made the cream o’ root vegetable soup I made for my cousin last week who was in the hospital. The only improvement I made was to saute the beets and carrots in bacon grease. A friend/shareholder was picking up her milk around dinner time, so I asked her to stay for dinner. She put all the 10 pounds of dehydrated carrots into a 1/2 gallon jar for me (yes they shrunk that much).
After dinner, Kyle, Sweete, and I dug potatoes. It wasn’t easy, and there wasn’t the yield I had expected. The end we started on didn’t get enough water at first, so I’m hopeful that as we work back, the yield will increase. We got eaten by mosquitoes!!!! ARGH!
Milk Stats: We milked 6.72 gallons; Sally gave 23.3 pounds or 2.82 gallons; Janie gave 19.8 pounds or 2.39 gallons; Annie gave 12.5 pounds or 1.51 gallons; we got 24 eggs, or 2 dz.
July 27th, 2009 at 9:00 pm
Congrats on the new babies. They are sooo cute! And there’s even some girl piglets this time….