Hay, Fall, sheep and chickens

1. Sheep think it's too hot to get up. And it's a middle of October already - sure doesn't feel like it, especially with our AC dead for a week. Although for us it's more of a nuisance, not a catastrophe - the AC is never lower than 80F anyway, and we usually only use it for several weeks every year. Naturally, that last week with "feels like" temperatures of over 100 had to be one of them.

2. Unlike the sheep, we have to get up and work, heat or no heat. 10 truckloads of hay from WH (and we're not done yet, a couple is still there). 7 went to storage (it's full all the way to the roof), 3 straight to the barn. Sheep like this hay a lot - they nibble on it even though there is still plenty of green grass on the pasture. Update: 3 days later I still can't get that hay as it rains almost non-stop. It's so great that DW could help me on Wed and we got the most of it safely in the storage.

3. Chicken's life here so far has been pretty dull and uneventful, which is exactly how I want it. We spent some time one night looking for one of them who decided to roost up on a tree ... really nothing else to report. They finished a 50# bag of feed in 6 weeks (we're giving free choice now) and grew up a lot but no eggs so far. We move the coop every week or so, now with the tractor (yeah, I'm lazy).

4. One of the reasons for luck of updates is that I spend all my free time researching aquaponics system that I plan to start building soon. Our pond has a big problem of too much nutrients in it - our garden has even bigger problem of being a sandbox with too little nutrients. Sounds like a perfect combination, eh?