Unity Farm Journal - Fourth Week of October 2016

After two weeks of international IT collaboration, I ’m returning to the farm tomorrow.  Kathy and I have been in constant contact despite the 6, 12 and 17 hour time shifts during my travel.What has Kathy done in my absence?1.  A few baby guinea fowl showed up in the driveway after being hatched in the forest and then chilled in rain/freezing temperatures (did I mention Guinea Fowl are horrible parents).  We immediately put them in the brooder but only 1 survived.  We named him Rambo.  He refused to eat because he was so focused on searching for his brothers and sisters.   Kathy gave him an instant family of freshly hatched chicks (pictured below) and now he ’s eating like a horse.  We ’ll move the entire group to a mini coop inside the main coop when I return.2. We ’ve had 5 inches of rain during my travels so our mushroom farm has thrived.  Kathy has harvested 100+ pounds of Shiitake and has filled a stack of produce bins as tall as she is.  Here ’s what happens to inoculated oak logs when they’re soaked with Fall rains and given moderate temperatures.3. All the bantam chickens and roosters new to the farm have established their pecking orders and found their territories. Kathy has kept them healthy and happy.  We ’ve not lost a single bird to predators while I’ve been gone.4. Before I left I cut a road from the barnyard to the new aviary area and around the back of the alpaca pa...
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