Chores

Chores are twice a day, am and pm. Summer chores are really quite pleasant, and don't take too long. Here is how it goes...
1. Feed and water the cats on the porch...
2. Prepare ½ scoop grain, 4 scoop garlic, 1 scoop each of kelp & minerals for Bubba, the draft horse. Give grain and water to Bubba behind the barn. (The garlic helps deter the biting flys.)
3. Prepare grain and oyster shells for layers (blue plastic bucket). Make sure you close the lid to the grain bin. Give the layers water.
4. Prepare about a quart of sheep minerals daily….they have been eating it fast. Goes in the box in the field, free choice. Give them water too.
5. Turn off electric fence at the gate. Turn on water on the slab of new sugar house.
5.Check and fill chicken grain dish and water. Gather Eggs. Check mother hen and 2 chicks in the little tractor.
6. Count sheep’(and goats) but don’t go to sleep yet. (Really just make sure they are upright and happy). We just wormed two of them with the poopy butts. Watch out for limping, and if you see that check their feet.
7. Turn on the fence at the gates and turn off the water. Make sure gates to in barn and field are safely latched closed.
8. Take eggs to the refrigerator in the pantry.
9. Have a great day!

At dusk, repeat above list, except feed Bubba and the cats only once a day, and close in the chickens both in the field and in the barn. Make sure the fences are on! In the barn check for one rooster, 4 guinea fowl, and 2 hens. In the am let them the chickens all out. Protection from the fox is very important.