Baymule’s Journal

[CLSranch]

Coggins test.

Yes. For something I do for several horses EVERY YEAR, you'd think I could remember that. Oddly enough we went to the play days yesterday and the DW mentioned she wasn't sure if we were bringing a horse. I said we still haven't re done the.... that one thingy, that test, we can't bring a horse. She says coggins, I say yes, I've been trying to think of that word.

 

[Baymule]

It’s a sorta strange word, doesn’t roll off the tongue, doesn’t match anything else.

 

[Baymule]

Took a couple of pictures of my house, sporting a blue roof! One of the guys is coming Wednesday morning to help me replace deck that has rotted. A neighbor is coming with his tractor to lift the OSB to the roof. 10 pieces. Hoping we can get the front done Wednesday before it gets too hot, do the back Thursday morning. Just going to replace the whole sheet, rather than cut out the bad, cut a new sheet to fit and blah, blah, blah. Pry it up, toss of roof, lay new sheet down, screw in place. It’s too hot to do all that cutting and fitting.

 

[purplequeenvt]

Maybe a stupid question- Do you guestimate number of lambs and get preprinted or do you write numbers on yourself?

I do name tags for the lambs and get scrapie tags later. I’m fudging it a bit this year because I have 24 lambs and the tags I buy from Premier1 come in packs of 20. I have left over tags from last year so I’m giving the crossbred lambs old numbers.

 

[canesisters]

I am SOOOOO Impressed!!!
I ran 250' of wire fence inside my board fence yesterday at 87* and high humidity, and I had to take a long break in the middle to cool off. Several little breaks to get out of the sun for a few mins and I was watching sweat drip onto the feed room floor. I don't know HOW you did roofing work in last week's Tx heat.

 

[Baymule]

I do name tags for the lambs and get scrapie tags later. I’m fudging it a bit this year because I have 24 lambs and the tags I buy from Premier1 come in packs of 20. I have left over tags from last year so I’m giving the crossbred lambs old numbers.

Can you use temporary tags, sort out keepers, and auction lambs-scrapie tags only, and then send off for registration papers and use a permanent tag/number?

I’ve just been using scrapie tags. I’m doing paperwork now for recording in the breed up program. Got to get caught up! LOL

 

[Baymule]

I am SOOOOO Impressed!!!
I ran 250' of wire fence inside my board fence yesterday at 87* and high humidity, and I had to take a long break in the middle to cool off. Several little breaks to get out of the sun for a few mins and I was watching sweat drip onto the feed room floor. I don't know HOW you did roofing work in last week's Tx heat.

I’m proud of you for YOUR accomplishments!

 

[Ridgetop]

Can you use temporary tags, sort out keepers, and auction lambs-scrapie tags only, and then send off for registration papers and use a permanent tag/number?

We used to use the left-over tags from years earlier sheep and Boer goat breeding along with scrapie tags. Now we just tag everything with scrapie tags and al ewes with flock tags. If we send off ewe lambs later they go with flock tags. It makes it easy to sort them out - along with not docking the ram lambs. If they have a tail and no colored flock tag, they go to auction. You need to have a permanent flock tag number when registering, not after.

 

[canesisters]

I’m proud of you for YOUR accomplishments!

Awwwww
Thank You

 

[Baymule]

Yesterday I got the front fence row sprayed with Remedy by Chris and his brother. Chris machete hacked cuts in the bigger trees so the poison could get in it. Sprayed on my side and on the county side. Also sprayed the short stretch on the side close to the house where a lot has been cut, then around the corner to the fence that goes between me and Bennett and Peggy. There was a little bit left in the tank, so I had him spray another short span behind the horse’s pen. I can’t wait for all of it to turn brown and die.

Son told me go to his house and get the tank he had rigged up for water when he was on a job, could only find a state park to put his RV in. There was no water hook ups and he would’ve had to move his RV to the one water source for water. So he used the tank to fill with water, then transferred it to the RV.

Chris put a plug on the mule, connected to the battery. He rigged the tank so all I have to do is plug it in to the plug on the mule. Now I can do my own spraying. I’ll get started on the back field after the roof is done. I’m going to ignore that fence for now, and spray the grass to kill all the terrible weeds, hemlock, 3 kinds of nightshades, invasives that are taking over.