Starting last weekend, I renovated the goat barn. I was using the hay barn for milking, since we had 4 goats and a cow to milk. I tore down a couple of walls and build some stalls for the goats so I could free up the hay barn for hay (what a concept).
I Took Wednesday and Thursday off. Wednesday, I finished the milking section of the barn – it is now partitioned off from the goats, so they can only get in when we bring them in for milking (one at a time). The goat milking stand and the cow stanchion were moved in there, along with a light, electric, the feed cans and milking stuff.
I Took Wednesday and Thursday off. Wednesday, I finished the milking section of the barn – it is now partitioned off from the goats, so they can only get in when we bring them in for milking (one at a time). The goat milking stand and the cow stanchion were moved in there, along with a light, electric, the feed cans and milking stuff.
I then laid down more pallets in the hay barn. later Wednesday, we went and picked up 100 bales of hay out of the fields and stacked it in the hay barn.
today (Thursday), we picked up an additional 109 bales of hay from the fields and stacked an additional 31 in the hay barn and left the rest on the neighbor’s trailer, which I parked in his barn.
So, we now have 170 bales of hay in our barn, a milking area in the main barn and the beginnings of individual stalls for the goats, which will be completed in the next 2 weeks.