Baymule’s Journal

[Alaskan]

@Alaskan climb in the trailer and you'll get some!

For yummy snacks, SURE THING!!!

 

[farmerjan]

Talk about a teaser... not a word about the trip there, @Ridgetop and her DH ... just that Cooper likes Cheezit crackers.....I am waiting for the whole "trip" report!!!!

 

[Baymule]

We are in Arkansas, stopped to visit with Palomino and her family, got the tour of their new place. She has my dream barn!
Dropped trailer, fed Cooper some feed @Mike CHS sent with him so I can transition Cooper to new feed. Gave him hay and water. We will pick him up in the morning and go to Texas.

 

[Baymule]

We are home, Cooper is home.

@Mike CHS said Cooper was scared of people, he’d run away. So he put Cooper and Pete in the pen at the shop and fed them. I went in the pen with animal crackers and Cooper took them from me. He was at ease with me. That made Mike smile.

We stopped for fuel and I went to check on Cooper. He was on the opposite side of the trailer and not even an animal cracker could lure him over, so I walked around to his side. He took the cracker. Today we stopped for fuel and he walked to my side of the trailer for an animal cracker. I think he likes me. LOL

He is in a small night pen now. Tomorrow I’ll give him Dessa, my non pregnant concubine ewe. They will have a small area, but it has plenty of forage. I can use my Premiere1 electric netting for the backyard too.

@Ridgetop and her husband had a great time and thoroughly enjoyed meeting and visiting Mike and Teresa.

 

[Baymule]

After we got home and I fed, watered sheep and dogs, hugged dogs, petted sheep and got Cooper settled, we went to eat. On the way, my son called.

“Well, are y’all road foundered?”

He does have a way with words. Yes, after 1500 miles, we are road foundered. LOL

 

[Mike CHS]

I was hoping that he was going to be accepting of what we did and am REALLY happy that he didn't disappoint.

 

[Baymule]

I was hoping that he was going to be accepting of what we did and am REALLY happy that he didn't disappoint.

He took it all in stride with no problem. Every time we stopped, I talked to him and reassured him. He walked off the trailer and started browsing on the weeds and grass. I’m working on getting the yard secure so I can let Carson roam the yard at night. He’s no LGD, but he’s happy to bark like one. Cooper wasn’t impressed with him and took that stare at the predator stance. We’ll work on it.

 

[Mike CHS]

He tolerated the dogs a little but I was afraid that he could hurt Mel since he was so much slower than Maisy

Edit to add that we loved the visit.

 

[Margali]

I can use my Premiere1 electric netting for the backyard too.

PLEASE be very careful with the electric netting from Premier. I did some inspection of my netting and I think I know what happened to Pepper...
The posts have a small clip that holds bottom of net at bottom of post and small clip at top. That's the only thing that keeps it spread out. When she got her head stuck and zapped, she flung her head up. It pulled the fence completly off one post and rucked up another forming a wrist thick bundle of fence that wrapped around her head.

 

[Baymule]

I also use step in posts between the flimsy white posts that comes with it.