After my Saturday class at GCC, I had lunch at Michelle's Cafe in Mangilao. Food is good as always there. Service is a lot better since my first visit weeks ago. Really pleased with the food and service. Will be back there to try their Orange Chicken, next weekend.
After lunch, I picked up 2 bottles of Fire Clean from Ken in Hagatna. Gonna give my weapons a thorough cleaning tomorrow. Thinking of putting the new accessories on my Saiga 410, as well. I'll definitely will be able to pick up those 7.62x39 rounds from Anthony next week.
On the way home, I stopped by WSTCO to get some Alfalfa Hay for Gera, our karabao. Northern plants don't have enough protein to sustain a growing karabao, like Gera. So I have to supplement his food intake. The area he cleared, I'll be planting some Malato grass seeds. That's a grass that has a lot of nutrition for grass fed livestock. For now, alfalfa hay will do. After I got home, I took a nice sizeable flake of hay to Gera. He was happy to get his treat again. My niece Rachelle, who raises cattle and her own karabao at her family ranch, told me that Gera should get 8 to 10 lbs a flake of hay per day. That's about the size of my palm.
This afternoon, I spent most of my time cleaning up the south side area. Post storm debris all over the place, mostly fallen trees. Getting all the fallen limbs to the boundaries to compost there. After I was done moving branches. The rest of the afternoon was working with my Layer Flock. Did a headcount of the hens. 12 hens all accounted for. Checked on the roosters, one was missing. Thought I was miss counting. So I recounted...several times. Only 11 free range roosters were seen in the area of the chicken pens.
While fixing one the pens, I noticed a bulk of red feathers behind a tree. Walked over, thinking the rooster got tangled up in the vines. But no...he was dead. He was one of the big Rhode Island Red roosters that I acquired, over a year old. I turned him over and saw that he was badly beaten. I'm pretty sure it was the free range boonie roosters, that came from my Uncle Goro's ranch when they closed up over a year ago, that are responsible. They're always beating up on the RIR roosters, except for Big Red. Gonna have to shoot that boonie rooster and his co-horts tomorrow to leave my RIR flock alone.
I got back into the house well past sun down. Watching the sunset and observing the Rhodies to see if they returned to their respective roosts. Most of them did. The roosters went into their pen, except one. Found him in one of the layer pens. Most of the hens went into their pens, except one. Found her in the rooster pen. Apparently both the rooster and hen had switched pens. Yeah, I know. Never thought I'd have a rooster player, and a slutty hen in my flock. Their going to be one of the first to cull out later on.
Have lots more to clean up in the next week or two.
ESTA
KEEP SMILING
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