Here is a short video of our 2 week old kids jumping around.

Well today I finished up the fall cleaning for the chickens. I put up 2 more gutters to catch water drips, planted rye in the chicken run, and cleaned the last 2 pens and put down new bedding.

I also pulled some trees in the fence line and dug 2 post holes for the fencing we are working on. I gave the trees I pulled out to the goats so they can strip the leaves.

Here is a video of our Alpine Nubian cross dairy goat sucking up leaves.  I can let her go on her own and she won’t run from me so she gets some time out of her penned in area to eat some leaves and plants around the property.

Today I moved the goat grazing area. As you can see they can really clear an area. The last picture is the area they will move to next unless the corn gets harvested.

Did some more fall cleaning tonight. I was able to get the duck pen done. Looks much better but with the ducks that won’t last long.

Well you can tell some harvesting has started because these stupid little black bugs are back. They are tiny and really hurt when they bite but for me don’t swell into a big itchy bite which is a good thing I guess. They almost look like dirt in the picture.

Well our old Case 1816 skid loader broke a hydraulic line that runs the grapple. I was sprayed with fluid when it broke. Not fun! So I decided to pull it out today. I took some pictures for anyone that may want to see what I did.

Picture of the broken spot

The line runs from the front to the back, then back to the front under the seat to the battery area under the floor.

Here is a picture of the connection under the floor. Ours was possibly repaired in the past because it had this connection then another one further on that connects to the foot control.

I tied a piece of twine to the hose before a I pulled it through so that I could pull the replacement hose back through.

This is the hose out and it measures about 12′ long.

Well I am finally getting around to fall or more accurately pre-winter cleaning. Got this area cleaned and now I need to buy some bedding. It doesn’t look clean but this part of the barn does have a dirt floor.