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I've found out that keeping the milking tube extra clean, washing her udder and making sure that milk IMMEDIATELY gets chilled good fashion has seemed to help to lessen, if not completely eliminate the sheep smell in the sheep.

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Update... Peanut butter - the great remedy for anything that ails a dog's relationship. Tom about an hour yesterday with her on a leash teaching the come command and rewarding with peanut butter. Then took her into the pasture with me, ran seeing with her, have get peanut butter, praised her...

Update on the dog. Killed one of my ducks. Suppose it was to be expected since she's young and had never been trained so can't be angry with her. I was out feeding the animals sometime last week and she was out with me when she touched the hot wire. She started yelping and whining. I came and...

We brought home a dog for my daughter today. A reward for all her hard work around her. It's an 11 month old Akita. Seems like a good dispositioned dog. She had been purchased previously but the owners didn't really know anything about Akita's and wanted a lap dog so they returned her. She's not...

Nothing new really happening still working. However I will be putting down Clara Bell tomorrow. She's been the one acting strange for a while now.

Thanks everyone. I always wash my ewes udders with dawn dish soap before milking them but I suppose I need to be more diligent in that. Probably wouldn't hurt to cut off some of the wool around the underside as well. The milking tubes and cups get washed everyday right after milking. The milk...

It's 5:30am so this won't be long. One of the lambs from this year died half unexpectedly. She was good one day, next day she would graze away from the herd, next day dead. Another of it ewes from original stock lost tons of weight and can't seem to get it back. Still alive but I might have to...

Any of you have that problem? My wife says she doesn't like sheep milk because it smells like a sheep. I can't really find anything online about that so I figured I'd ask here. Anyone else have that problem?

The one I use has a trip cord on it that may be what you're looking for. I've got a video of me using it on my journal if you want to see it. Might be what you're looking for.

While the center pulley is being lowered or raised the rope twists around itself. You may be able to sort of see the rope twisting around itself in the video when I'm raising the load. EDIT: I just looked at both videos and the failed attempt sort of shows what I mean. The ropes are wound...

This is the rope we're using right now which is giving all the trouble.

It sounds like your house has a colorful history to it. That's one of the things I really love about old houses, figuring out the history of them. By the way, happy Father's day to all you dad's or expecting dad's today!

Hay door works great so far. Only thing that it's a bit of a mess to fiddle with us the rope system. For some reason when I'm raising the door or hay claw the rope being to twist making it sometimes very difficult to lock the center pulley into the trolley system. Might be the rope itself. Might...

Wow! I couldn't imagine doing that many plus having the twine break or not tie on you then having to redo them again. It already takes forever just with 100 ish. There's simply no way you'd be able to finish before it rained. I learned that one through trial and error. I keep it in low first...

:th this is what I get for posting this at 12am after a day of work lol. Thanks for the notice. It's been corrected and here's the correct one. Excellent advice! That is definitely on the to do list as soon as I get a few moments. I was thinking of doing just that. Having a journal for...

Here's a shot of the newly built shed with all the hay equipment in or around it, where it'll be staying I think tomorrow will be bush hugging that side pasture then finish mowing it and the neighbors. That should give me plenty to do.

Ok, so the last few weeks have been a blur but I'll try to recap what I remember if them. Also, excuse the more than usual typos, my children busted the screen on my phone so it's a bit....touchy, for lack of a better word. As you know we have a new child in the house. Beautiful little girl...

Today was "bale the hay" day. It something could go wrong, it did. I only have 4 (four) acres to hay. I got maybe a third done and put in the hay loft. After, this well I'll probably try to do a dump of info.