Australia: The shit stays but the eggs move on!

So we’ve moved on from shoveling compost and wood chips to chicken shit and cotton seeds! What a varied work we have here. I did not expect cotton seeds feel so soft and comfy in large quantities. You just want to dive into the pile and lay there forever! Cotton seeds are used to feed the cows which brings me to the new job we completed recently. We grabbed a truck and drove all the way out to the paddock, picked up empty “bathing bowls” (they could easily be used as a small outdoor pool) and brought them over to the cotton shed. The farmer drove up to us and loaded the cotton seeds into our trailer with the tractor. You should be able to see it in the videos posted below. We then proceeded out to the paddock to drop each swimming pool 20-30m width apart and filled them with cotton seeds, of course we had to shovel it all in. The cows got really curious, I suppose they knew they were getting food, so we got really close up with them. I did not realise they are so shy. I tried to touch them but they just run away from you. Their calves are so cute, they look fake. You’d almost think they’re dolls J

I must not forget about Why-Man. Obviously he was not man enough to do most of the shoveling. He prefers to watch or do the bare minimum! I think he only cares about driving the car and looking important...

For the past few days we had to clean out the shed from chicken shit and really leave it spotless. We are getting 1200 new chicks on Sunday / Monday and the shed needs to be almost sterile, so that they don’t catch any diseases. The farmer was very happy with our job and said it is the cleanest it has ever been. None of the other volunteers have done it so well. Praise for me and the other girl but NOT for the Why-Man. We asked him to clean the roof with a blower so that we could clean the floor inside. Guess what? He did not do it. He must have thought 20 mins of his time is too much and besides, the job must have been too difficult to undertake! It was a waste of time to wait for him to do it. In the end we had to explain to him why we wanted him to do it! Aaarrrgggghhh! Because the farmer said so! Instead of the roof he was wiping down the cobwebs with a pan and broom. That must have been really difficult. Not sure if that was even required to be done.