2022 Waiting on Lambs Journal

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That was fast! Ross is now dual registered, OEBSR & BSSBA!
NABSSAR is left to go!

 

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Just 4 weeks left until lambs start to arrive!

3 more jug panels were built.
2 more feeders were also built.

 

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Trying bars before a whole new style.
Also need to use 2 pallets underneath next time, so I won't have to dig out the bottom for them to eat. I have to pull hay down daily, so, hoping with the bale higher, I'll be better able to just shrink the panels instead.

 

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Realized that the hay mess isn't really my issue, it's that I have to constantly adjust the darned thing for them to be able to get at it...
I think Monday will be new bale day.

 

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Cattle don't want any fancy hays, so, it went to the sheep!
Unrolled the junk hay the cattle were digging in and there was a bunch that was good. So, they're eating that as ground hay. Core of junk hay was also clean and I tossed it to the sheep.

Good hay in the junk bale.


Fancy hay now for sheep.


Core for sheep. Tried to unroll it, but it just barely split.

 

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Ordered two creep gates. Need to put together a gravity feeder next.

 

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Gates arrived. To use upside down or right side up... Previous DIY gates, a step over bar bothered the lambs.



Moved Kibito & all 10 of the 2021 ewelings to the backyard. Setup a free feeding station for them.

I now have so many sheep that I have to setup two sacrifice areas that are split into a mature ewes & lamb ewes paddock for winter. So, I will have to figure out how & where to do that. I still need fenced off areas that allows me to feed without being mobbed & trampled! But also lets the tractor in easily to bring in the hay.

 

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More feed, 16 of em, plus wood to finish changing the old jug panels. Got the square U bolts for the barn addon, plywood this weekend!
Still no gravel, though...

 

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Pulled out all the "icky" stuff blocking the holes and shoved the good stuff down into reach. And tarp up because of rain in forecast.



The almost-yearlings have food in the DIY truck topper. Kibito is too massive, blocks entrance completely. So, had to put her bucket up high. Then, saw that rain is forecasted, had to add a cover of sorts. Luckily, managed to put it up in a way that let her still eat out of it.



Switched to not soaking the pellets, but corn is soaked, then put on top of pellets. So far, no choking.
Comparison-
1st is soaked pellets & corn. Pellets grow 3× the volume! 2nd & 3rd pics, that's how much dry pellets has always been used, once water added, grows to 1st pic size.


And got more of the bolts. Excess will be cut off. Store didn't have ones that were shorter, so, ah well.

 

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Tried topping with dry corn & no chokes!