Ken finished the little shed in the north triangle, so the piggies have a bedroom now. Not a minute too soon - it was really cold last night. I know they are pretty well insulated, but so am I and I feel the cold a lot, so I was really concerned for them to have a nice warm place to sleep. I know - anthropomorphism rules! Hard not to assign human feelings to such sweet and friendly creatures. I had run out of hay, so I put down a bunch of old paper feed sacks for them to shred and bed down in. I put a small amount of hay sweepings from the floor of the barn feed area plus some of the hay discarded by the wasteful sheep from inside the barn. I have plans to put that stuff in the summer garden in Spring - it will be great fertilizer by then... Anyway, the piggies are enjoying their new room.
My meat from which I make dog food was delivered Saturday. Today I will grind it all down, five pounds at a time, add some juiced vegetables with the fiber added back in, and package and freeze it all - about 175 pounds of it. That is likely to take much of the day, as it is a fairly slow and laborious process. However, I truly believe that the dogs are much healthier on this raw, natural diet. I know exactly what goes into it and where everything comes from. That means a lot in this day and age of frequent contaminated food recalls...
My other task for today is to empty and inventory at least one of my freezers. I have three. Two chest and one upright. Currently I have no real idea of what is in any of them. I found a lamb loin from 2006 in one chest freezer the other day when I was rummaging around trying to figure out what to cook for dinner. My alpha LGD was grateful for my lack of organization, but I could have kicked myself. Lamb is an expensive meat - though (thankfully) this loin was part of a home-raised, home-butchered lamb and cost little to produce.
I see DINNER!
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