Coffee anyone ?

[Blue Sky]

Good morning. Another stealth lamb this morning. Nursing mom well so my bottle lamb won’t have a roommate. BL still has drainage from his eye but the infection is much better. Vet tomorrow if I have to drive to Ft. Worth. At beer o’ clock yesterday Hubbs and I discussed the idea of selling the flock and starting a new one sometime around the end of the year. It would make the move easier, we wouldn’t be trying to slap up a safe pen and grazing for 70 plus sheep in the summer heat (likely with the Sellers-as-Renters looking on with disapproval because we’ll need to hire help, the from out of town help, because in the the twenty plus years we’ve had acreages not one neighbor has ever helped us with fencing even though they benefited from it). Anyhow I’m also in my annual “let’s raise Dorpers or Katahdins or anything other than the Painted Deserts we have” phase. My flock is birthing, nursing, weaning, aging, coming of age etc and looks like a bunch of old shag carpets. (Wispy fleece balls drift by). It’s tempting. Fencing at a leisurely pace in October. Sorry for the novel length posts lately. There’s a lot on my plate. Enjoy your Sunday everyone.

 

[Mini Horses]

@Blue Sky there are days when NO animals creeps into my mind as a positive. . It's always a short lived thought. You may have the right idea. But. Be sure to have plenty of hay stocked for winter! Heck, maybe wait and buy more just before spring. A winter of freedom.

 

[Baymule]

But @Blue Sky what would your dogs do? And liquidate a flock of 70? And make an easier move? You KNOW that isn’t the BYH way!!!

 

[Blue Sky]

I’ve had “no animal” moments too. So many decisions end up based on them. Walking past the house to check out the barn first, to the astonishment of the city realtor. Or scrutinizing the pasture vegetation. Or fencing. So little property is set up for small stock. I have a love/hate relationship with chickens. Like those eggs, hate that 2am crowing. And the inevitable rodents. I bought a victor electric rat trap after seeing something darn near possum sized shinny down a porch support. (“Of course you know this means war” Daffy Duck). But I’m going to plug along with the critters and the lifestyle. Lamb Report he’s doing only fair. Eye is still weepy but drying. Won’t nurse well. Vet visit tomorrow. And all my LGDs are presently snoring away on the porch or under the dining room table. According to Hubbs they walk through walls. I rotate them in for sack time and to accustom them to indoors in case of whatever.

 

[Alaskan]

But @Blue Sky what would your dogs do? And liquidate a flock of 70? And make an easier move? You KNOW that isn’t the BYH way!!!

Like the "build it first, then buy the animal" plan.



@Blue Sky but then again... lower stress is a GOOD thing.

 

[Baymule]

Like the "build it first, then buy the animal" plan.

Who does that?????

 

[Bruce]

Not me!!

Like those eggs, hate that 2am crowing.

Oddly I've never had a hen crow at 2 AM Echo did, for a while, decide she should crow but it was always during the day.

 

[Blue Sky]

Not me!!


Oddly I've never had a hen crow at 2 AM Echo did, for a while, decide she should crow but it was always during the day.

I used to go to work around that time. I disturbed the birds and roos started crowing. I also have a light pole in my safe pen. On full moon nights the chickens would troop out to the pole and chase June bugs (or May beetles- now you know imma Yankee transplant). It was so odd to see them out there. If any stayed out too late they just ground roosted around or on the dogs. Finding a sleepy dog in the early am with a couple of hens on his back was not unusual. And I’m up now feeding Lambster who is finally taking a decent amount of formula.

 

[Baymule]

Been up awhile, on FB catching up on groups that I like. My good knee that I fell on Thursday is still hurting, but is better. I'm sure that the activities in Galveston over the weekend have nothing to do with the pain I'm in now! I'm gonna try to not do much today.

 

[Alaskan]

@farmerjan i keep thinking of you... and how you would be able to relate..

Been awhile since I have had to listen to one of "those" conversations... (mostly one sided... because not as if that guy heard anything I was saying... and nothing I said was seen as valid)

It was "but if you followed Salatin's (sp?) advice where you ..blah, blah, blah... then you would be able to vastly increase the number of cattle per acre. All you need to do is to allow the natural mulching process of the leaves... blah, blah, blah... and your comment about the number of rocks and soil depth isn't valid because you can get dump truck loads of compost and mulch from most cities, and that could be used to increase the soil layer. And there is no reason at all why that area of the world should need so many acres per cow if you have such a high number of inches of rainfall..."


I was polite.



Sigh

Why is that years of experience, and years of schooling all mean zero... and his watching one permaculture video means he knows all.... way more than me.