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Touche I hear the Alaska summers are a trip with it staying light so late. And while I do like to keep an eye on my boys (especially Jack wheres he’s given me the colic scare) it is sort of nice to not have to buy feed for a month or two. It’d be so nice to have some water rights to do some...

I would very much like to backhand the person who came up with daylight savings, as they have effectively ruined my after work schedule. It has been crazy busy at work lately where we’ve been doing a lot of sow movement (imagine a game of musical chairs with 5000+ sows) so of course I’ve been...

Congratulations on the new pup. And sorry about your blow out. I hope your new ones last you a good long time and just remember it could be more expensive: you could be driving a dually

The real key there was to slowly heat the box and pipe. This prevents from smothering and then smoldering which is really what causes most of that smoke that billows back into the house. Where he’d said that he’d hoped if he got it burning fast enough he’d be ok I assumed there wasn’t enough...

I second greybeard. Where we used to live we’d trap a lot of raccoons and a .22 insures that they can’t come back to cause grief. And while we don’t have possums around here aren’t they supposed to breed like bunnies? I know they have a ridiculously short gestation period. A little...

We used to have a similar problem when lighting our stove. It has something to do with differing air pressures and the cold air doesn’t allow the smoke to rise up the chimney. Ive found the best way is to go slow, start a smaller fire with the door open and allow this to heat the box and pipe...

So it’s been a crazy busy week with pretty much every day after work being devoted to working on everything besides the outside things. So for a break we ran to town for their annual livestock festival. They had a parade with “antique” (pre 65) tractors, old sheep camps, horse drawn wagons, and...

Jacks hoof is doing a lot better and he seems pretty comfortable now. Now I just have to pull his front shoes now that he can comfortably stand. Dixie doesn’t try to jump out anymore I believe her experience has wisened her up to it. Maybe I shoulda put it around the base when I had a digging...

So I got home last night and grounded the fence. Of course within two minutes she tried to jump out of her run. Let’s just say problem solved. Once she came out of her dog house she kept glancing at the top of the run at the biting string around the top

So I forgot something crucial to my whole hot wire around the top of the dog run idea. I was in a hurry lining the top of the run yesterday and so I didn’t test it like I should have, just assuming that I had done it right and ran off to take care of some other errands. I get a call this...

That’s a very large dog to be jumping a fence like that. When I put Dixie back you could tell she knew she’d been naughty but I feel a little better knowing there’s a little reminder around the top of her run

So we found out today that Dixie can jump a 6 foot dog run. I was out feeding horses when suddenly Dixie’s by my side and I can hear Kya carrying on because she can’t jump out like her pup can. This poses a serious problem as my neighbor has all of her really old sheep (I’m talking 11+ year...

I was born in Southern California and a few years later we moved to Bedford Texas. So most of my young life I enjoyed fairer climates. My first winter in Utah I don’t think I ever took my jacket off and my step-dad couldn’t understand how I was so cold.

Yeah it gets harder to get out of bed in the cold but sadly i gotta get up and head to work by 5am so it is what it is. It warmed back up quick and was 75 when I got home that day but those low temps in the morning are a great reminder that winter is coming. I’ll take 18 while I can a few...

That's Utah weather. Go from 100 degrees to 40 in no time flat. Then drops again. And stays that way

You're not kidding about the cold. I woke up this morning and it was 18 degrees outside. The cats were standing on the ice in the horse trough trying to get at water and the ducks were pulling their feet up to keep them warm. Seeing as its only October I'm figuring it'll be a cold winter...

So I didn't get much done around my place today as I spent most of my day helping a friend build some new corrals for his horses and heifers. And while I know it's a sin and all to covet your friends stuff I must say I had severe corral envy today

Thanks Baymule it's been hard to get anything done with this darn cold going but I think I'm starting to get over it. I should be done in the next week or so with it. Meanwhile we somehow wound up with a little tabby cat so I've gone from 0 cats to 3. Now if I could just get someone to drop...

Does he have a temperature? What color is his diarrhea? Those will help indicate any particular sort of illness. Head to one side could be a symptom of disease or he could have gotten feed into his ear causing an ear infection what kind of feed set up do you use?

Thanks everyone I'll try a few of those. This thing has really just wiped me out. And Jack is starting to do a better it was a abscess in his hoof so I've let it drain and bandages it up with an iodine soaked rag and duct tape. Works like a charm