BrownSheep- It's been a while

[autumnprairie]

So I am off to wait again.

 

[BrownSheep]

Had the best day yesterday with my poor mouth!....And then I woke up in excruciating pain tonight . The walk around balling and get your mommy sorta pain. After two hours it's now bearable and I'm going to try to sleep again.

 

[BrownSheep]

Much better this morning! Minus Miss Ruby who decided today would be a good day to sit on the front lawn. So she is temporarily in purgatory with the ewes. The fences are higher there and the grass is starting to be more cow worthy. ( aka higher than the ewes like to eat)

 

[BrownSheep]

Not much going on. One of my aunts is critically ill and is in the ICU. Pleasekeep her in your thoughts.

We have two kittens that live in side right now. We have too many cats as it is . Some how we've convinced our grandma to let them live with her during the school year. She's about three miles frome my dorm room so I'll be close by to help her. It will be nice for her ( a former nurse) to have some one to take care of. She'll be 90 this September and these babies should keep her entertained.

We've got all of our hay delivered this week as well. 4 harrow bed loads, about 20 tons. B-E-A-utiful alfafa!

 

[BrownSheep]

On of my turkey hens has finally hatched some babies. Two so far! There was also two that had died ( shrink wrapped and sqaushed). She has six more eggs. I'll probably steal these babies.

A neighbor down the way let us take down a fence of hers and keep all the material. At least 50 fence posts so it easily paid for the amount of time it took to do it.

It's a low water year so our irrigation has already been turned off for the year. We will probably end up feeding hay by the end of August :/ . Right now though we've fenced off some of the canal banks. If they can't give us water we'll feed our live stock on what they can't help but water!

I'm also going to be the sheep interview person this year for 4-H ! Beware little 4-Hers!

 

[Four Winds Ranch]

Poor trukey chicks, I have heard that turkeys are bad mothers, but don't know from experience.
Lol, it should be fun keeping all the 4-H'ers on their toes!!!!

 

[BrownSheep]

She's not bad per say but nt great either. She keeps a good eye on it but she just won't defend it like chickens do.She's down to one. I suspect a cat ate it. I would steal it but 1) chicks take a lot of work and for just one it really isn't economical and 2) he is so much happier with his mommy. I'm out of town so I'll have to see if she still has him after I get back

 

[BrownSheep]

Turkey lost chick to what I suspect was a magpie. There one minute gone the next. Fair is next week so I am busy busy busy right now. Judged 4-H interviews, shearing sheep and matting photos. The ewes escaped an extension of their field today. It was new so I kind of expected it to happen. Lost of baaing tonight so I went out in the dark to herd them back...and just an FYI there is nothing more terrifying than running into rams in the dark where there should not be rams. I guess the pretty smelling ladies were to much to resist. The tore down a part of their fence....which they share with the yaks . Temporarily fixed with a pannel. The boys where to concered with the ladies to be too much of a pain. Henry must have aweful vision in the dark because he wouldn't walk unless you shone the flash light in front of him.
I'll have to separate them back out in the morning since we aren't planning for lambs until April....And I am suppose to shear lambs tomorrow morning as well.

 

[jodief100]

Sorry about loosing the poults. My turkeys are good mommas so I am not sure what to tell you.

I had some bucks tear down part f the fence to get to the ladies. Those randy boys are a pain aren't they?

 

[autumnprairie]

I brought my chicks in so my outdoor cats would leave them alone I still lost two but I have 6