Movin Critters around..

Well, I am the first to admit that my drawings are bad but they do show what I want them to, the first picture shows what we had for pens/box stalls when used.

The second one shows what we are planning on doing today in regards to making adjustments, this will ideally put the space to the best use, and will allow pretty much everyone bigger pens overall. The sheep jug will be used as Girls Calf’s pen for when we are milk sharing with her and or depending on what I am going to do, will be the calf pen if I decide to milk full time and raise a extra calf up with her’s

Its something that I don’t hear many other folks talk about on the farming blogs, the need to move the animals from area to area as they are raised up, I wonder if they all start them in the area’s they will finish them in? or if they just don’t have as many choices an so what they have is what they have? or they think its a boring subject LOL

Regardless, I seem to spend a good amount of the time per year adjust pen sizes, moving critters from jugs to growout pens with creep feeders to big raising loafing in and out access area’s and depending back to expecting pens etc etc..

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4 Responses to Movin Critters around..

  1. Deb Weyrich-Cody's avatar Deb Weyrich-Cody says:

    So is this all inside the main barn, or is some open on one side (pigs, sheep and loafing area)?

    • The loafing area is open to the back pasture, the gate where Miss Piggy is opens into the Correl Pen, and the gate on the other side opens up into the big pasture for the sheep.. the front doors of the barn open into the small pasture.

      • Deb Weyrich-Cody's avatar Deb Weyrich-Cody says:

        That is one very nice barn you have there: ) They sure don’t build ’em like that anymore (and I have SUCH a bad case of barn envy; ) LOL!!

      • It is a wonderful barn, but its old and each year we try and do a little repair here and a little repair there, Going to need to do a bit of roof repair this coming spring on it, and I really need to build a new door on the one spot. Its not much to look at from the outside, but it sure gets the job done for us..

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