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Old 08-20-2014, 06:38 PM
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I'm enjoying the break today. Rain is a pain in the butt for me. I love it for the grass for grazing and the trees, but not for the mess it makes and the work it causes. Flies, humidity, rampant weeds, unhappy livestock hurting each other fighting over dry space in the barns. I spent two hours yesterday in the downpour sewing up a torn udder on one of my best does who managed to get pinned against a fence by another one in a fight. We got three inches in this last pulse. I suppose it would be pleasant to sit on the porch and watch it rain if it didn't cause so much other grief. Besides, extended cloudiness makes me crabby. Always has.
Sounds like you would do well with some drainage. Run some topo and make a series of swales and ponds. And perhaps and another loafing shed, works against the sun too
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Old 08-20-2014, 08:09 PM
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Sounds like you would do well with some drainage. Run some topo and make a series of swales and ponds. And perhaps and another loafing shed, works against the sun too
I have two loafing sheds for the goats, one big one for the sheep, two 6 stall barns for the horses. My pasture soil is the problem. It's very very fine alluvium. Basically silt. It turns into pancake batter with more than an inch of rain. Drainage is in place but it doesn't make any difference. The horses, sheep and few cows do fine, they don't mind the rain or the mud. The goats are a different story. Buncha prima donnas. Goats HATE rain about as much as I do. They have plenty of room in their sheds, but the dominant does beat up the subordinates and throw them out in the rain. If it's wet enough the outcasts will decide to fight their way in, then all hell breaks loose. Only my bucks get off easy. The boys have their own pasture and shelter.
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I'm sure it's different for you. I'd be happy for more of them drops up your way to find their way down here. Unfortunately while we get some for the most part the storms are always way north and east of us. I watch them on the weather radar but so far my rain dance mojo ain't working for us down here in Avondale.

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