Choring With Daddy

The morning we got our goats, the kids were thrilled that they also got to go outside early enough to do all the feeding chores with Daddy.  School was called off for the day and we made a morning of chorin' and goat gettin'.  I don't have pictures of all the chores, but I snagged Josh's phone long enough to get a few pictures of working at the silo.

One of the morning chores was feeding the bull.  Josh, or in this case Sarah, takes scoop shovels of spilled silage from inside the feed room to feed the bull in the bull pen. ( I say "was" because the bull has since been moved down the hill to join with the weaned calves, so he gets fed with them now.)

It's a heavy load for a little girl!

Yum!  That's some good cow chow there!  This is the haylage that we put up last summer.  Better than ever!

Caleb's turn!  Look in the upper left hand corner of the picture.  You can see the bull there waiting for his breakfast. 

After the allotted time of feeding, it was time to turn the whole system off.  Daddy gave us all a lesson in how to shut the silo down.  There is a breaker box and three (I think?) switches.  Caleb shutting the silo conveyor off....

... then Sarah Rose turned the bunk conveyor off.

It's amazing how such simple things, like choring with Daddy, can make kids so happy.  Caleb had been begging all winter to go out with Josh, but between the weather and school, it just wasn't possible. The joy in the kid's eyes when we broke the news of being able to go out first thing after breakfast was memorable... and I'm certain the joy was because he got to chore with Daddy and not because school was cancelled.  The great thing is, with summer a-comin', his requests of "Can I go out with Daddy?" will start being more and more yeses and less and less nos!  Yay for warmer weather!