Random Farm Photos - June

I found myself wildflower hunting in my own pasture.

Wildflowers in pasture.

These aren’t your traditional wildflowers but they are still pretty.

Salsify.

Roadside bushes with a hidden turkey nest.

As I walked in the pasture a bird startled me when she flew up out of the vegetation between the fence and the road. Do you see that depression in the lower center of the photo?

It happened so quickly when the bird flew up and into the tree I thought she was a turkey. But now I’m wondering if she was a pheasant. It seems more likely that a single pheasant would be nesting here. I’ll have to go back and check.

Electric fence wire against a post and not in insulator.

After I set up the electric fence I tested it and there was hardly any charge. That meant I had to track down the reason that the fence was grounding out. I found this one, but fixing that didn’t change the charge on the fence.

Fenceline with log over electric wire.

Then I found this one—a branch holding the wire on the ground.

Tree with electric fence insulators

Here the tree has grown so much since putting in the fence that there are multiple insulators to keep the wires off the trunk. Eventually we found that a gadget with a plastic handle that connects the fence at the west side of the pasture to the fence near the barn was grounding out on a metal gate. This fence goes all the way around the pasture and the paddocks so it is important that it is working.

Chicken in a barrel where she likes to lay eggs.

In the barn. Hen in a barrel. The chickens lay eggs all over the place.