mysunwolf - four acres and some sheep

[mysunwolf]

Lest we forget, here are the sheep! With the pastures looking this way, I have at least enough stocked forage for everyone until the end of November. After that, we'll see.



Last but not least, the house dogs, since I never seem to post them. They are so perfect and well behaved that they never seem to make it into my rants

 

[mysunwolf]

Oh, and I forgot the barn cats and their antics. This is Fred. He is a goof.



In addition, the guinea operation is going very poorly. I hate incubators! But we have 15 keets, so that's at least something.

 

[ohiogoatgirl]

Really? They think the ram will make lambs that are too big?
I have a cormo/shetland ram who is from a farm with little shetlands. High twinning rate and almost no issues with the pregnancies or lambings. Even one ewe (the year previous to me buying him) a ewe lamb got in with him and had no problems with her or her lambing either. And that farm is quite strict about not breeding ewes until their second year because they are too small.
Not to say it doesn't happen. But from everything I have read or seen/heard from others is that the biggest thing to worry about a ram is if he is stocky and wide or wide head with a slender or small frame ewe.

 

[CntryBoy777]

All your animals look excellent to me...like always...and it looks like Fred is a Siamese.....great name by-the-way....and love the keets. What kind of trouble did ya have with the incubator?....I'm wanting to get some next Spring, and have thought about using an incubator to hatch some....

 

[mysunwolf]

Really? They think the ram will make lambs that are too big?
I have a cormo/shetland ram who is from a farm with little shetlands. High twinning rate and almost no issues with the pregnancies or lambings. Even one ewe (the year previous to me buying him) a ewe lamb got in with him and had no problems with her or her lambing either. And that farm is quite strict about not breeding ewes until their second year because they are too small.
Not to say it doesn't happen. But from everything I have read or seen/heard from others is that the biggest thing to worry about a ram is if he is stocky and wide or wide head with a slender or small frame ewe.

You have just saved my evening, I think I'll be able to sleep tonight now Usually one person's opinion on the situation wouldn't sway me so much either way, but clearly I'm a little stressed I purchased this guy for a lot of reasons, some being that he has a pin head and narrow shoulders for easier lambing. Here's hoping things work out in Jan/Feb

 

[mysunwolf]

All your animals look excellent to me...like always...and it looks like Fred is a Siamese.....great name by-the-way....and love the keets. What kind of trouble did ya have with the incubator?....I'm wanting to get some next Spring, and have thought about using an incubator to hatch some....

Thank you @CntryBoy777, as always you've managed to make me feel good about my animals

Fred is 1/2 siamese but got all the looks, none of the personality (or so I'm told). Sweetest, quietest, most gentle barn cat we have. Just love him.

I borrowed 2 different incubators from different friends, and I got 1 egg to hatch out of a LOT of eggs. I don't have a really sensitive thermometer to monitor the temps, and I think the thermostats get out of whack really easily. Honestly, I would recommend watching Ideal Poultry or similar and wait until keets go on sale. In the long run, I've found it to be much less expensive to just buy the live keets than to try all this incubation nonsense!

 

[Baymule]

Low on pottery? Do you make pottery? And your grandmother is in the hospital with a hurricane running amok? And you can't do a thing about it. Take a deep breath, hurricanes, even bad ones, fizzle out and this one will too. Your grandmother is getting cared for despite the hurricane.

Hug your dog, hug your sheep, hug a chicken. They are great de-stressers.

 

[mysunwolf]

Low on pottery? Do you make pottery? And your grandmother is in the hospital with a hurricane running amok? And you can't do a thing about it. Take a deep breath, hurricanes, even bad ones, fizzle out and this one will too. Your grandmother is getting cared for despite the hurricane.

Hug your dog, hug your sheep, hug a chicken. They are great de-stressers.

Oh man Bay, if one more person is kind to me I'm going to cry out of relief THANK YOU for those words, I hugged my sheep all evening, I think I'm going to go hug my dogs now.

 

[mysunwolf]

And yes, pottery is our living! Farm is our food. Works out kind of nicely most of the time, as long as we can keep up

 

[Baymule]

Do you have a web site or facebook? How do you market it?

Things will work out, they always do. Even when it seems your world has turned to crap, there is a glimmer of hope somewhere in there. Look for it, find it and hold it tight. Sometimes it gets worse before it gets better, but it always gets better.