The2MooresRanch: Meow! Meow!

We have been reading and talking about getting some cats to put in the barn with the rabbits. We were told that if you get them while they are kittens and raise them up in the barn with the rabbits , chickens, ducks etc that they will kill mice and rats and hopefully any snakes and not harm the rabbits. Well... I had to go to Ranchers Supply to get some feed and when I got out of the car I heard a small Meow. I went looking and by the front door there was a box with 4 kittens in it. I called Brent and told him about them . He said sure. So I went inside to and asked. She said a customer had brought them in for barn cats. We will be taking them out to the barn when we go so that they can get use to the rabbits and the rabbits use to them. They will also be in the house with us for a few weeks getting use to us, Robin and maybe even Kanga. We will need to be finding some cute name for them. I forgot to check what they were when I picked them up. The gray one looks to be a female and the yellow one looks to be a male. Oh well.

With all the rain we have been having , not only is everything green, but very tall also. Brent got the brush hog out yesterday and cut down some of the area around the house and then got the weed eater out and worked and on a little bit more. The mosquitoes sure have been loving the wet weeds!

We did some work in the chicken house this week. the roosting poles were low and side by side. Finally talked him into stair stepping them. He said the next morning we would probably go out and there would be chickens on the floor with broken necks. As you can see they love it. They fight to get up on the top one and it is always full.

The Black Soldier Fly larva is coming right along. ( If you have a weak stomach you will want to scroll past the next picture. ) The compost is moving up and down in their box, which means they are doing what they are suppose to . We have started to have them crawl out. Hopefully several of them will turn into flies and start the cycle all over.

Brent has been walking the property when it rains looking for the low areas. He has been marking them with sticks and is hoping to start making swales in those areas by chopping down the rest of the dead trees here and covering them up with dirt and start planting stuff on them and then letting them all go back into the soil. If you look close in the pictures you will see where some of the sticks are. That is just a small portion of the sticks that he has in the ground.

Here are a few other random pics from this week.
With the rain the last several days I have started a fire in the evenings. It sure was nice.

I have been seeing Barn Swallows flying around the house and was hoping they would build a nest here and help with the bugs. The other day I noticed they had started building their nest. ( I have also asked Brent about building a Bat house to maybe attract bats here to help with the bugs)