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Ridgetop
Herd Master
I need to keep all my show equipment just in case my grandchildren decide to join 4-H and keep livestock. The Nipomo, CA, grandkids will be joining 4-H in another couple years and their father, DS3, wants them to do market lambs, market goats, hogs, and poultry. They will probably eventually do steers too.
14 years ago my last child graduated from 4-H and sold his herd of show milkers. I sold all my of Sydell lambing jugs, creep gates and one of the folding portable stanchions with lamb head holders, and other large equipment - field feeders, etc. I have regretted it ever since. We have to build the jugs and equipment since then and they have not been as useful. Everytime I suggest buying more, my DS1 builds something. Sadly, the wooden built ins are not as useful as the pin together panels which can be taken apart, reconfigured, and stored when not in use. I plan to get more secretly some how. They are located n Burbank, North Dakota so maybe on a trip to Dakota I can casually direct us to that location. I original got all the equipment when Sydell came out to National sheep show at the L. A. Fair. I saved a lot of shipping costs. They post when they will be attending events in other states and I keep watching for one in a location within 2 days drive. I might just break down and check on the cost of having them sent via truck. I replaced my rear trailer gate several months ago and that heavy gate only cost $35.00 to ship from WW in Oklahoma. Might not be that much more expensive from North Dakota for the jug panels. I need to check it out. However, since I only have 4 ewes to lamb out this year, I can wait another year. Need to get the barn cleaned totally out and build new jugs and creep for lambing.
14 years ago my last child graduated from 4-H and sold his herd of show milkers. I sold all my of Sydell lambing jugs, creep gates and one of the folding portable stanchions with lamb head holders, and other large equipment - field feeders, etc. I have regretted it ever since. We have to build the jugs and equipment since then and they have not been as useful. Everytime I suggest buying more, my DS1 builds something. Sadly, the wooden built ins are not as useful as the pin together panels which can be taken apart, reconfigured, and stored when not in use. I plan to get more secretly some how. They are located n Burbank, North Dakota so maybe on a trip to Dakota I can casually direct us to that location. I original got all the equipment when Sydell came out to National sheep show at the L. A. Fair. I saved a lot of shipping costs. They post when they will be attending events in other states and I keep watching for one in a location within 2 days drive. I might just break down and check on the cost of having them sent via truck. I replaced my rear trailer gate several months ago and that heavy gate only cost $35.00 to ship from WW in Oklahoma. Might not be that much more expensive from North Dakota for the jug panels. I need to check it out. However, since I only have 4 ewes to lamb out this year, I can wait another year. Need to get the barn cleaned totally out and build new jugs and creep for lambing.
I don't think the long, HOT, summers & "far ants" sound as good as the mild winters. Short winter, I might add. Always enjoyed my time there in past visits but, been years since any.
