The Ladies have now spent their first week in the barn! Luckily the transition has gone really well and we are looking forward to starting milking this week. We have been moving them up to the new barn after morning milking and letting them stay all day until it’s time to bring them back down […]
Monthly Barn Report: December
Here we find ourselves at the end of 2016 with Monthly Barn Report: December. I’ll be honest at the beginning of this year there was no way I would have imaged we wouldn’t be robot farmers by the end of this year. Somehow the year just flew by. Big projects have a way of testing […]
Monthly Barn Report: November
Monthly Barn Report: November is brought to you by some much needed sunshine and a little relief from the rain. In that the rainfall was at a normal level compared to October! With clear skies the temperatures dropped and you could really tell that fall was ending. Not that we ever get really cold in […]
Monthly Barn Report: October
Monthly Barn Report: October starts with very good news as our electrical plan was approved by the power company! Wasting no time we dug the trench that day and got the conduit laid and wire ran. That was such a relief. Still no power, but very nice to finally be moving forward with the process! […]
Monthly Barn Report: September
Here comes the 5th Monthly Barn Report: September. At this point we were wondering how in the world it was already September! Throw in a construction project to daily dairy farm life and the days seem to just disappear in minutes. By the first of September it was thankfully still dry (notice no mud!) and […]
Monthly Barn Report: August
Whew, half way through as I bring you Monthly Barn Report: August! Crazy to me that by August we had already been building for 4 months. With the heat of late summer we were enjoying even play time under the shade of the barn roof. Mason and Nolan have been having fun with finally having […]
Monthly Barn Report: July
Here’s the Monthly Barn Report: July. Are you feeling overwhelmed by this many posts at once? I am definitely regretting not finding the time to make this happen while all of this was going on, but it feels great to finally get most of it recorded now! My apologies for the post overload! After lots […]
Monthly Barn Report: June
If May was exciting for the exterior and frame of the barn, then June was equally exciting for the interior. Here’s the Monthly Barn Report: June. I think June can be summed up in two words: concrete and robots! We kicked June off right with our first big pour on June 1st. The first pour […]
Monthly Barn Report: May
As promised this week, here is the first Monthly Barn Report: May. Since my last construction progress report ended in the middle of May, I think you can tell just from the pictures that May was the month of the most visible dramatic changes. Pretty much the whole barn went up in the month of […]
We Now Have a Barn
I had this grand plan to keep you all updated here on the blog as we went through the construction process of building our new robotic facility. The last time I shared a real construction progress update was in May!! So…….obviously my grand plan did not work! The reality of building a new barn and […]