Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Spreading fertilizer

Alex shoveled out the old lambing barn this morning while I fed the goats. We loaded up the bags on the trailer hitched to the gator and made it up to the back goat pasture. I am trying to get grass or any vegetation to grow on the hillside. Even if I could afford to buy fertilizer there is no way a truck could get in there, very narrow and steep. I prefer manure over man made fertilizer, and it is made right here every minute of everyday. Plus, it will make your poor ground very rich. Then there is the health benefit of shoveling and spreading, by the time we get all the barns clean  we should live to be 120. The Pennelope poo is my favorite, easier to handle, I need a nice mannered mini horse for every pasture. Horses do not share the same parasites as sheep and goats so she helps clean pastures by grazing behind them. The chickens help to, scattering and picking through all the nuggets. So it is a circle, sheep and goats drop manure, grass grows, sheep and goats eat grass turning it into milk,meat and fiber. I can't take credit for it but what a good idea.

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