murphysranch
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I LOVE LOVE LOVE this entire post.
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Baymule
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The little girls and I put up a roll end of wire to give the 7 young spring ewes a very small pasture yesterday. It went faster and easier because I had 2 little kids as helpers. LOL the lambs sure appreciated the extra room. I think I’ll put up another one to give them 2 pastures.
We also ran Granny in the chute and I took off the vet wrap. Her injured hoof looked much better. I washed it in the coffee can of water. Squirted hydrogen peroxide on it and lots of purple spray. Then I wrestled with her for the foot and rewrapped it in vet wrap. She puts weight on it with the vet wrap giving support. We will do it again on Thursday because we are leaving Friday morning and I won’t be back until Sunday evening.
Then I got 4 loads of dirt delivered, 3 on future barn site, 1 in yard for me to put in strategic places to hopefully give dry places in the pens for the sheep this winter. Girls have a dirt pile to play in! Youngest birthday was Sunday and she gave her mom a list of things she wanted for her birthday. On that list was a pile of dirt. So I’m a big hero because I have a dirt pile.
We also ran Granny in the chute and I took off the vet wrap. Her injured hoof looked much better. I washed it in the coffee can of water. Squirted hydrogen peroxide on it and lots of purple spray. Then I wrestled with her for the foot and rewrapped it in vet wrap. She puts weight on it with the vet wrap giving support. We will do it again on Thursday because we are leaving Friday morning and I won’t be back until Sunday evening.
Then I got 4 loads of dirt delivered, 3 on future barn site, 1 in yard for me to put in strategic places to hopefully give dry places in the pens for the sheep this winter. Girls have a dirt pile to play in! Youngest birthday was Sunday and she gave her mom a list of things she wanted for her birthday. On that list was a pile of dirt. So I’m a big hero because I have a dirt pile.
rachels.haven
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Great thing about a dirt pile is that they should stay right there for a little while. Nothing better than good clean dirt!
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Baymule
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Today we added water to the dirt pile. I gave them 2 aluminum pie pans.
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Baymule
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I hosed them down outside. Their clothes got an outside washing, now in washing machine.
My first morning greeting was a sheep mauled hoop shelter. It was bent, hoof holes punched in that new tarp and I was mad. STUPID SHEEP!!
I couldn’t push it back, it was too heavy. Couldn’t be on the inside pushing it back and on the outside zip tying it anyway. So I got my rope. Pre punched holes at each end, how convenient! In one end, along the inside, out the other end, tied together and ran to the tractor bucket. I eased back, stood up the hoop shelter, set brake and turned off the tractor.
I zip tied it to Kingdom Come and back again. Then I hunted up gates to keep those hussies OFF!!!
Carson sat in the mule where he could watch me. My Velcro dog.
I covered the holes with gorilla duct tape, ran out and had to finish patching with regular duct tape.
That knocked a couple of hours out of my morning. Then while girls played in dirt, I pushed and dragged dirt and got a pretty good pad for future barn.
It’s only 2:20. I’m tired. Got chicken in oven, gonna have baked beans and corn on the cob.
My first morning greeting was a sheep mauled hoop shelter. It was bent, hoof holes punched in that new tarp and I was mad. STUPID SHEEP!!
I couldn’t push it back, it was too heavy. Couldn’t be on the inside pushing it back and on the outside zip tying it anyway. So I got my rope. Pre punched holes at each end, how convenient! In one end, along the inside, out the other end, tied together and ran to the tractor bucket. I eased back, stood up the hoop shelter, set brake and turned off the tractor.
I zip tied it to Kingdom Come and back again. Then I hunted up gates to keep those hussies OFF!!!
Carson sat in the mule where he could watch me. My Velcro dog.
I covered the holes with gorilla duct tape, ran out and had to finish patching with regular duct tape.
That knocked a couple of hours out of my morning. Then while girls played in dirt, I pushed and dragged dirt and got a pretty good pad for future barn.
It’s only 2:20. I’m tired. Got chicken in oven, gonna have baked beans and corn on the cob.
SageHill
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CarsonMini Horses
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You did good !! Tractors are meant for odd work 
Enjoy dinner -- and a good night sleep, too.
Enjoy dinner -- and a good night sleep, too.
peteyfoozer
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I put a hoop shelter in the goat pen once. 20 minutes later I saw all of the goats in my YARD! They had used the shelter as a springboard to launch themselves over the fence 
canesisters
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Things are coming along! Exciting
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Love the kids and the mud. My mom always said that dirt and mud and animal smells and stuff were washable... that's what washing machines were made for... She seldom ever got mad at us for getting dirty as long as it was not good clothes or school clothes....
