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.

Mullerslane Farm -Animals and Buildings 2

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.