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I was on the receiving end of that ram power once and it was enough to make me keep my eyes open but that time was where he got his name and it fits. We are way behind in registrations for the sheep. We have about a dozen ewes that we will be sending registeration papers on and a bunch that...

We got all of the sheep sorted although it didn't happen the way that we had planned on. When I went down to let the big bunch of ewes into the stall, I was surprised to see that Oshi was with them. He obviously didn't agree with what we had planned so he forced his way through the gate to get...

We had planned on working the big herd today but we had to do some work on the chute to get the ground level enough so the scale would work. The new scale is longer and heavier but it is less forgiving of unlevel ground. We have a couple of ewes that we want to pull fecals on but other than...

They do a lot of good things for a whole lot of people and this is an annual event.

This must be the season for fund raising. Teresa helped at the church this afternoon handing out meals for folks that had been part of their annual trail ride (horses). They had over 320 people and their horses take part and it is supposedly the biggest in the state. I'm not sure how they...

That is a little lower than we got for our last bunch but overall I was pleased with our last sale. They listed two of our cull ewes as fat (they weren't) but they always list our adult ewes as fat since they are bigger than most of the sheep around here.

We had a light rain on and off for most of the day with a nice high temp of 75. The Volunteer Fire Department not far from us was having a fish fry as a fund raiser this afternoon and it turned out to be some of the tastiest fish meals I have had in quite a time.

Many years ago, we had a stove with a glass top so we bought a nice propane camp stove that let us do our canning work outside.

I had another session in teaching me how intelligent Great Pyrenees are this afternoon. Maisy has one hot spot on her hip that needs spraying meds on a couple of times a day for a few more days. She doesn't like it and will fight with me to get away from the sprayer so two days ago, I hid the...

Now that the lambs are all gone, we will move the ewes to another paddock where Oshi can't smell the girls that are ready. He has been hanging out at a gate that Missy (the ewe that had a C-section) has decided is the place to be since she is obviously ready. I will go out tomorrow and move...

Once he got it back in the shop and broke it down, he found a really small screw in the tire. It was barely long enough to penetrate which I guess is why it was such a slow leak.

The lambs were the last of the Oops lambs and they sell by the pound. When we settled on this yard almost 7 years ago we stayed for a couple of the sales but this company does an excellent job of managing the sales that we don't worry about kinky bidding. We do occasionally watch a bit over...

Teresa's car has a slow (and I mean really slow) leak in one of her tires so we dropped it off to have it checked. I told them that it was slow and only lost a couple pounds of air overnight but I have had to air it up three times in the last week while we were getting other things cleared up...

We wound up taking 5 lambs and 5 cull ewes to the market this morning. Two of the ewes was based on their configuration not being up to par with our likes and 3 were based on their lack of shedding hair. We often give them more time to see if their shedding gets better but all of these girls...

Getting ready to call it a day as tomorrow is market day. We did the fecals (actually Teresa did them) from yesterday and there aren't any cull candidates based on that but there are a couple that are going based on attitude. I keep checking the bred ewes and they are seriously looking like...

I finally thought to upload a picture that Teresa took of Maisy. The other is our so mistreated herding dogs right after getting up. :)

The lady that gave Maisy her haircut said she didn't run across a single flea on her but she takes the pill for flea and tick since she doesn't wear a collar most of the time because of her hair matting. We brought the big flock of ewes in this morning to take a last look at who is...

Maisy is back to normal, and her hot spots are healing. I have been making her meals a bit more tasty since I add a pill in each one along with bacon and bacon grease. She is about as smart as any dog that I have ever seen. I add her pill just before putting her food down for her and she will...

Our sheep are like that with Maisy right now. As far as they are concerned Maisy is a different dog than the one they are used to.

Maisy had developed a hot spot on her hip that we couldn't seem to beat so we took her to the vet yesterday. They found a couple of other spots and asked if they could keep her overnight and go ahead and cut her hair to see what we are really dealing with. That poor girl is a trooper and didn't...