I shared this photo with my sister, to share with one of her granddaughters, who wants to be a farmer when she grows up. I think she's 6. She will love it.
Baymule’s 2025 Lambing
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Baymule
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Granddaughters and I castrated 2 ram lambs today. I told them several days ago that we would castrate lambs.
What’s that?
I cut their testicles off
What are testicles?
Those big hanging down things that let’s the rams be a daddy
Oh….
Next night watching Dr Pol, he castrated a mini donkey and 3 mini horse stallions. They love Dr Pol. They aren’t grossed out by anything.
We castrated Easter’s black head ram and Ewenique’s white ram. Future freezer meat. They asked why those two…..
See Ewenique’s spotted ram next to that white one? If you were buying one, which one would you choose?
The SPOTTED ONE!
Exactly.
Same thing with Easter’s ram lamb. We have a lot of gorgeous ram lambs. The color is there, just got to see how they grow out.
I sat DGD #2 in a chair, caught a lamb and plopped him in her lap, belly up. She wrapped her arms around him. DGD#3 held his back legs apart.
I cut the bottom of his sack off, tossed it over fence, Carson ate it. I fished out the testicles and cut the cord, tossed them over the fence, Carson ate them. Doctored up the wound with purple spray and set him down by his momma.
Same thing with the second one. The girls asked why castrate them.
Because I’m gonna let them grow out about a year, then take them to slaughter and keeping them as rams would be annoying. This way they can run with the ewes and they won’t be trying to breed them.
What’s slaughter?
That’s where they get turned into meat for your freezer.
Ok.
What’s that?
I cut their testicles off
What are testicles?
Those big hanging down things that let’s the rams be a daddy
Oh….
Next night watching Dr Pol, he castrated a mini donkey and 3 mini horse stallions. They love Dr Pol. They aren’t grossed out by anything.
We castrated Easter’s black head ram and Ewenique’s white ram. Future freezer meat. They asked why those two…..
See Ewenique’s spotted ram next to that white one? If you were buying one, which one would you choose?
The SPOTTED ONE!
Exactly.
Same thing with Easter’s ram lamb. We have a lot of gorgeous ram lambs. The color is there, just got to see how they grow out.
I sat DGD #2 in a chair, caught a lamb and plopped him in her lap, belly up. She wrapped her arms around him. DGD#3 held his back legs apart.
I cut the bottom of his sack off, tossed it over fence, Carson ate it. I fished out the testicles and cut the cord, tossed them over the fence, Carson ate them. Doctored up the wound with purple spray and set him down by his momma.
Same thing with the second one. The girls asked why castrate them.
Because I’m gonna let them grow out about a year, then take them to slaughter and keeping them as rams would be annoying. This way they can run with the ewes and they won’t be trying to breed them.
What’s slaughter?
That’s where they get turned into meat for your freezer.
Ok.
Being straightforward with children, what a wonderful concept.
