Farm Journal

Our grapes are abundant, and we ate the first few bunches yesterday and today. Delightful!

On April 26, we bought three chicks: a "black sex link":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Sex_Link, a gold sex link, and a "buff orpington":http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orpington_(chicken).

We incubated them in the living room and the mud room. Once we put them out, they got along fine with the single remaining Araucana hen. The Araucana has begun to crow, now that the rooster is gone.

Today we finally moved the small barns all together. Yesterday Jessie helped us move everything out of the tool barn and the grass hay barn. Today our next door neighbor Tom came over with his big hay squeeze (it can lift 8500 pounds). He picked up each of the barns and moved it aside, then we relocated the eight pier blocks and approximately leveled them. Then Tom dropped the barn back down onto the blocks. The barns are quite a bit higher off the ground now than they were (a good thing, since they will rot more slowly). Tom moved the stack of grass hay in front of the barn door for us, and Jessie loaded the hay back into the barn.

Month	Wormer
Jan-Feb-Mar	Benzimidazole
Apr-May-June	Benzimidazole
July-Aug-Sept	Pyrantel
Oct-Nov-Dec	Avermectin

Avermectins: Eqvalan, Zimecterin, Equimectrim, Quest

Benzimidazoles: Panacur, Safe-guard, Anthelcide

Pyrantel: Strongid-P, Strongid-T, Strongid-C, Rotectin-2