I noticed after the first day or two that the wood barrel's airlock stopped exhibiting gas release. I realized that since the keg wasn't completely full that there was a potential that the top of the keg has dried slightly allowing gas seepage.
Seeing in a articles when researching wooden barrels about using glass beads to aid in filling the volume of the keg I purchased some beads and boiled. After cooling I placed them into the barrel to raise the volume but sadly I didn't purchase enough. Not wanting to potentially contaminate the brew I will wait and see on this effort.
My suggestion in the future is to brew a half gallon more than needed and waste the extra or place into smaller carboy.
This is the initial site for the organic microbrewery I am setting up. It will go through all of the processes from successes to failures that go along with setting up a brewery first at home then to small scale production.
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