shelter – Page 2 – Pukeatua Farmstay

New Building Projects

11 January 2018
building, feed, horses, house, mud, shelter, winter

The last winter has been so terribly wet and turned all paddocks into mud that we decided to have the horses in a shelter and feed them rather than having them wading through mud and effectively thrashing the paddocks.

Winter prep part 1

9 April 2017
shelter, weather, winter

Done… busy weekend making the most of the weather… weeding, fertilizing and oversowing paddock yesterday, pouring concrete in the animal shelter today. For years the shelter has been wet – this will hopefully make it drier and easy clean!

Busy weekend

9 April 2017
animals, dry, food, grass, land, rain, rusty, shady, shelter, sun, sunset, waimauku, winter

After the rainy weekend we got busy outside again. Saturday we weeded the paddock and sowed new grass plus added fertiliser. Sunday we got the concrete mixer out and got builders mix and cement from Waimauku Landscape supplies to pour concrete into the animal shelter.

Firewood – stuff you need to do when it’s still dry

8 March 2017
digger, dry, fire, firewood, forest, shelter, winter

Since we only have a horse float that I probably would not be able to get back up the hill (I have never tried but don’t want to), I just loaded Mary’s boot up with the firewood. Note: Mary is our 4×4, everything with motor or soul has a name at our place. Who needs a trailer?

Happy for the endless rain to be over

19 October 2016
cheeky, grass, rain, school, shady, shelter, waimauku, walking, water

Mr. Shady is happy in the new grass strip. Just two weeks ago the alpacas have been in there and kept it nice and short so he does not get overexcited. After all that rain, the ground is getting better and the grass has been growing since. It must have been drowned in water before.

Treework

29 August 2016
christmas, event, fire, firewood, mud, shelter, tree, weather, winter

The winter storms and the wet weather was not too good for some of our already damaged pine tress along the middle paddock fence line. So we untied the fence wires and chopped the most damaged and dangerous trees down. All trees fell exactly between the fence posts and we simply tied the wires back

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