Mullerslane Farm Animals and Buildings Part 2 of 3
Efficiency. A well-structured farm is the epitome of efficiency. Even though the Mullers lane Farm (MLF) does not have that many animals, it still needs the efficiency to take care of the animals. It still needs a place to keep feed dry – protecting it from the elements and to keep it from the varmints, or the critters such as mice that will get into it and spoil it.
Also whether you have one horse or many horses you still need a place to put up saddles and tack. If you look carefully in the barn you will spy the saddles in one room and outside that room are rows of nails set up for the horse’s tack.
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Another aspect of efficiency is: Am I working for the animals or are the animals working for me? Another question that might be asked is: Do the animals need to be confined to pens or will they do just as well feeding free?
In the past years the MLF kept their birds confined in pens. That means that every so often Paul and Cindy and the rest of the family had to clean out the pens and lay down new bedding for the birds as well as the daily filling of the feeders with water and feed. Stay tuned for Part 3 of Mullerslane Farm Animals and Buildings.
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I think ” does not have that many animals” is subjective. Compared to a full dairy or a beef or pork operation, than, “No, we don’t have that many animals.”
For a homestead, having a team of Draft horses for farming, ac oouple of saddle horses for riding, a milk cow, 2 steers for the freezer, a mating pair of Berkshire hogs to give us a litter a year. Enough meat birds (turkeys and chickens) to fill our freezers for the year plus able to sell some to other families. Over 50 laying hens for eggs and 3 honeybee hives …. Yes, I think for a homestead, we’re pretty filled up.
One correction I would like to make is that in years past we did NOT confine our meat birds once they out grew the brooder. Thise year, Paul did construct a chicken tractor to house the birds more safely against coyote.