Baymule’s Farm

[baymule]

Having a glass of ice tea. I’m tired and back is sore. Been “hoggin” all day. Still not done. I packaged back straps, tenderloins, then cut all the meat off the bones. I got 6 pounds of Boar Burger and 9 pounds of pan sausage. Still have to bag and vacuum seal the pan sausage. It’s on the refrigerator now. I cleaned up my mess sat down. I’ll be going out to feed dogs and sheep soon. I got to haul off bones and trimmings.

I packaged 2 pounds of flanks for dog meat.i have about a pound of scrap meat cooked for the dogs to go over their kibble in a short while. Carson is looking in the window, telling me it’s time to eat. Sigh……. Did I mention I’m tired?

 

[baymule]

More outside work today. This little Pallet Palace was a mud hole this past winter and spring. It started raining in January and rain d for 6 months. I’ve already done dirt work on several of the shelters, making a dirt pad higher than the rest of the pen. Hopefully raising the level will help keep their shelters dry this winter.

So here’s this pen with a Pallet Palace and no way to get in the pen with my tractor. So I swung around in the driveway and dumped 3 bucket loads over the fence. Then I had to shovel the dirt into the shelter, stooping over, half crawling in it, and slinging a shovel of dirt to the back of it.

The ewe lambs of course, were delighted.

Pawing the dirt, were they helping me spread it or just being a PITA?

Did they HAVE to go in there while I was slinging dirt on there?

Done!

 

[SPedigrees]

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More outside work today. This little Pallet Palace was a mud hole this past winter and spring. It started raining in January and rain d for 6 months. I’ve already done dirt work on several of the shelters, making a dirt pad higher than the rest of the pen. Hopefully raising the level will help keep their shelters dry this winter.

So here’s this pen with a Pallet Palace and no way to get in the pen with my tractor. So I swung around in the driveway and dumped 3 bucket loads over the fence. Then I had to shovel the dirt into the shelter, stooping over, half crawling in it, and slinging a shovel of dirt to the back of it.

The ewe lambs of course, were delighted.

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Pawing the dirt, were they helping me spread it or just being a PITA?

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Did they HAVE to go in there while I was slinging dirt on there?

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Done!

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That's a pretty neat little shelter. The lambs want to help! Ha ha

 

[flowerbug]

That's a pretty neat little shelter. The lambs want to help! Ha ha

more likely they are looking for animal crackers or other treats.

 

[baymule]

Pallet Palaces will do until I can get a couple of barns built.
And yes, all my animals are spoiled!

 

[baymule]

Bennett had 2 hogs in the trap this morning. The boar was tearing up the trap, Bennett raced back home, then raced back to shoot the hogs.

Big boar but not old, plus a decent sized sow. Yup, I did.

Had to drag the boar out with 4 wheeler, to heavy to drag by hand

We hung him from Bennett’s tractor bucket.

Country style meat market!

Nice sized sow

Put meat in 2 coolers. All Bennet wanted was backstraps and tenderloin from the boar.

I had to go to town for more ice. Meat is on ice, I cleaned up my mess, and I’ll process in a couple of days.

 

[SPedigrees]

Bennett had 2 hogs in the trap this morning. The boar was tearing up the trap, Bennett raced back home, then raced back to shoot the hogs.

Big boar but not old, plus a decent sized sow. Yup, I did.

Had to drag the boar out with 4 wheeler, to heavy to drag by hand

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We hung him from Bennett’s tractor bucket.

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Country style meat market!

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Nice sized sow

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Put meat in 2 coolers. All Bennet wanted was backstraps and tenderloin from the boar.

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I had to go to town for more ice. Meat is on ice, I cleaned up my mess, and I’ll process in a couple of days.

Poor piggies, but good eating.

 

[baymule]

Poor piggies, but good eating.

Those pigs are very destructive. My back field still has the run down barbed wire fence. The hogs have plowed it like mini bulldozers. Holes, bumps, they have torn up the grass and it’s so rough that I have to put the Kawasaki mule in 4 wheel drive. Once I get it fenced like the other 2 fields, it will keep them out. I’ll have a lot of work, dragging a disc, with tires tied to the back of it to smooth it back out. One pass won’t be enough either. Neighbors hay field is likewise being destroyed. Plus those things are mean! I don’t walk in my back field, it’s not safe. I drive the mule or tractor.

 

[flowerbug]

that's called living high on the hog!

 

[ninnymary]

Hi Bay, I've been without a desktop and phone screen is too small to be on here. But I'm back and have caught up with all your hard work and projects. Never knew you had wild boars on your property. It's nice to have all that free meat and good thing you have the skills to process them. You know I wish I was there to help you with all the work on your homestead LOL.

Mary