Wednesday, 23 October 2013
Today's the day!
The very large muck spreader has been hired and the loose housing is, as I write, being cleaned out of manure from last winter ;it has been left in there to mature over the summer and actually smells delicious- well alright, not delicious as in 'yum-yum' but a lovely healthy smell. Now the farmer is carting it to the bottom fields and spreading it in spite of the stormy weather (wet one minute, sunny the next). He has to get on because wet weather is forecast for the foreseeable future and the cows may need to come in at any time. It is always a hard choice because if the weather is also warm then there is a tendency for them to develop pneumonia. The good news is that the man he has hired it from says there is no rush for the machine to go back, and he need only pay for it for the hours he uses it. Often these pieces are paid for by the day which makes it a very expensive operation.