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 Settling in

Coco and Vanna are selttling in nicely, though they do cry still right about dark. They are in a 10x10 converted kennel for now, while I finish the property fencing. I have done three of the four sides of our acre, and I am going to be cross fencing the back 1/3 for all the animals to graze eventually. We will allow the chicken, the goats and the sheep to graze, but I am on the fence still on the pigs we are scheduled to get in two months.

So, speaking of pigs, we are scheduling getting them on the farm in two months. so pens need to built soon. I am thinking of doing a modified KNF -Korean Natural Farming method of piggery that results in a no smell pen. Yeah, I thought the same thing too. JoAnn and I went through the KNF certification process and when we got the opportunity to visit a piggery with 4 full sized 400 pound sows and found that there wasn't ANY smell other than the animals around them, we were sold. I will need to dig down a bit or find a puka to build a deep base of logs and branches. Then it's mulch and then soil- their method dictates 4 feet, but thats where I AM modfiying the system.
Logs and branches will be of thinner dimensions and the mulch and soil layers will be only a foot for a total of  2 feet. I am too old to have been injured by falling off our pig skyscraper! 
Oh, the digs the goats and the sheep are in are temporary while JoAnn and I come up with a design we like for them. We try not to do Utilitarian if we can avoid it. We know that they may cram together in one shelter but we'd like to do two so they at least can have a choice. We are going to start with this and tweak the design a bit to fit 4 animals. 
Next, Cross fencing so we can get these sheep and goats out in the yard.  

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