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Our typical yearly update

February 18, 2017Uncategorized3 board, agri-tourism, agritourism, aviary, barn, Busted Bucket Farm, chicken run, Eno River Association, fencing, Frank, grading, hydrant, irrigation, lettuce, pigs, pole barn, privy, RambleRill Farm, road, road construction, Rohan Farm, Vault Privy, water distribution, woven wireadmin

Yes, we have neglected our blogging duties since March 2016. We have been busy constructing and farming and not posting regularly to social media. Lots of pictures have been taken of the process and posted to our portfolio (link to portfolio). Several highlighted projects are below:

We built 2 vault privies. One for RambleRill Farm and one for the confluence property of the Eno River Association.

ERA Privy

We also built a huge horse facility for Rohan Farm in Mebane, NC. Just a few thousand feet of fencing for good measure. Fence was a combination of woven wire and 3 board. We also performed grading, road relocation, water distribution and hydrants, and a barn.

At other client locations we built fences to contain horses, goats, and chickens, fences to keep out deer, a hay barn converted to an agri-tourism destination, some large chicken runs/aviaries, and some major grading work just to name a few projects.

And our pigs at Busted Bucket Farm got huge!

And Frank grew some beautiful lettuce!

Pigs Update at Busted Bucket Farm

May 25, 2015UncategorizedBusted Bucket Farm, growth, hog, pig, pigsadmin

Here are the pigs, now about 4 months old.

Super Produce Score

May 17, 2015UncategorizedBusted Bucket Farm, cow, cows, feeding frenzy, geese, goat, goats, greens, organic, pig, pigs, produce, recycling, waste streamadmin

Today the geese, goats, cows, and pigs are dining on some serious organic grub: hydroponic butter lettuce, broccoli, romaine, carrots, peas, and multi-greens all courtesy of a generous big box retailer’s waste stream. What a feeding frenzy.

Don’t say pigs can’t fly. Pigs meet Cows for First Time at Busted Bucket Farm

May 13, 2015UncategorizedBusted Bucket Farm, cow, cows, encounter, pig, pigsadmin

For the first time, the young pigs met the cows in the same pasture. The pigs thought the cows were something to eat until the cow made the pig fly by throwing it with her head. I wish had caught that move on video.

Pigs love eggs from rogue chicken nests

May 2, 2015UncategorizedBusted Bucket Farm, chicken, chickens, Easter Egg Hunt, egg, eggs, free range, free range chickens, hog, pig, pigs, protein, rogue nestadmin

With a flock of extremely free ranging chickens at Busted Bucket Farm, sometimes the chickens lay eggs in rogue nests around the property . When I find these eggs, I don’t know how long they have been there. There isn’t usually a hen brooding them so they are not viable to hatch. It is time to convert some protein. The pigs absolutely love the eggs and think it is an Easter Egg Hunt. They somewhat gently crack the egg open and suck the insides.

The pigs at 18 weeks old

April 25, 2015UncategorizedBusted Bucket Farm, free range, hog, pig, pigsadmin

These 3 girls and 1 boy are getting large quickly. Good food and free ranging!

Feeding Time

March 26, 2015UncategorizedBusted Bucket Farm, feeding, feeding time, pigs, slopadmin

Pigs to new pasture

March 15, 2015UncategorizedBusted Bucket Farm, containment, electric fence, pasture, piglets, pigsadmin

Moved the 14 week old piglets from the small shed to the big shed and lower pasture. They are ready to free range and root around. Yesterday and the prior weekend, we had installed the lower hot wire, filled in a gate jamb, and pig proofed the perimeter the best we could. When pigs are rooting, they don’t look where they are going and will plow right through if there isn’t a hot wire to remind them of boundaries. Even so, it is a chore keeping that line clean from all the rooting buildup at the edges.

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