I'm not sure really what all this guy has in mind, but him and his wife were very impressed with our work today and want us back tomorrow for about a half day before they leave for a week on their cruise. I will have to help feed his 100+ chickens 50+ducks pigs cows and whatever else he has I haven't seen yet 
while they vacation. 
She's from London, and he's from, and I quote, "a little town I don't even worry about mentioning the name because nobody here knows it anyway about 1 hour outside of London, so, I'm from London too" That guy cracks me up. he reminds me of your dad a bit, except he's only like 32 I think he said.
I truly hope not at this point, it's already more than what I bargained for!
Good job! I don't mind anyway, it's just 9 days, and it pays good. We have the opportunity to bid the job pouring the concrete for the new duck ponds. It's roughly a $10K job, so it'd be good if we could get it. Today I have to go over and catch a flock of his birds that are diseased. I promised I'd have them gone ASAP, and it's only about 30 birds. We've been finding a couple dead ones every day out there. I actually got someone to come take them for $25, full disclosure, they think they may be able to save a few of them. They all got upper respiratory infection and swollen eyes, except for about 10 or so who are showing no signs....yet. So, maybe the $25 will cover his feed costs since he's had them at least. Then I have to get their area cleaned up, and disinfect all the feeders, waterers, coop, and nest boxes. It should be pretty quick and we will be back home to begin work on the greenhouse by lunchtime. We should be able to get that knocked out today too. I HOPE! If I can get my helpers in gear we will definately be able to.
Fed the other 40 ish coops of birds and came home. We got the pile of gravel knocked way down, and got most of the floor of the greenhouse covered. Now we need to move the tomato plants in, and get lettuces, spinach and such started in there in bins. I am SO behind here at home!!!! The guy sent me another $100 today though for taking care of everything and saving a bunch of his best birds. Then he offered me a job. It's about too good to say no, but....I am pretty busy to be tied to a 40 hour job...so I am on the fence about it. It'd be $1200 a month salary with 4 weeks paid vacation and other benefits to be discussed later. I'm wondering how much I can delegate to someone else and pay them out of mine to increase my flexibility. Basically it's just feeding and managing a bunch of birds a few cows and pigs and maintaining their health. I can train someone to handle the feeding, and check them myself daily for signs of illness or injury, and clean the coops on a rotational schedule. Well, anyway, I am bouncing a crapload of ideas around in my head right now on how to handle it, how to manage my time with it, and how to proceed. I have 8 days left to figure out whether I want to take it, and possibly come up with a counter offer cutting my hours back a bit. It only takes 2 hours to feed and maintain rotation of the coops to new grass. If we have sick birds it could take a bit longer. The most difficult issues I see is he is going to have educational workshops eventually and the biosecurity that will be necessity is going to be a friggin nightmare! Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I love being meeeeeeeeeee We'll see. I do think shovelling wet gravel helped work the kinks out of my back though It feels better anyway.
