Recycling

Hey, see this plastic milk crate?

It serves an important function here on the farm:

I use it to recycle hay.

My goat boys, Pete and Reggie, are a wasteful pair when it comes to their hay. They tend to pick through it, eating only the best tidbits, and spreading the rest on the ground or leaving it in the trough of their hay feeder:

Rather than let it go to waste, I scoop the disgarded hay out from the trough...:

and throw it into the milk crate:

Just the simple act of doing this makes the previously disgarded hay more attractive again:

...and often, when I come in to feed in the mornings, I will find little mouth holes where they've re-feasted on the "disgarded" hay:

Once this crate is full of packed and no-longer-interesting-to-goats hay, I (with assistance, of course) move the crate out of the goat house:

and carry it down to the chickens:

This is an enormous treat and delight for them:

"Oooooh....looky, a whole crate full!":

"Stand back, ladies, I'm goin' in!":

The girls are always especially perky and enthusiastic on recycled hay day:

Everyone enjoys doing their part to recycle here on Critter Farm:

You didn't think...:

we just sat around...:

looking cute...:

and eating carrots all day, did you?: