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Ridgetop
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Did not do the other 4 ewes last night. DS1 admitted to still feeling a bit under the weather from the kick he received. We will do them today and tag the 2 that need tags. I did go down and get the scrapie tag numbers and have filled out the registration application for Cleo. It will go in the post office mail today. Then those 5 will be ready for the vet check on Thursday. Once we have trimmed hooves on the last 4 and marked them with livestock marking paint - bright green for being trimmed and hot pink for TX, we will separate the 5 for TX into a holding pen for the vet on Thursday. We need to keep them separated so they will be easy to load in the trailer as a group.
We are waiting for the tractor guy to show up to work on the tractor. DD2 called and said that her car was not working again. She had returned our old car on Saturday because they had replaced their fuel pump which was supposedly the problem. She and DSIL2 came over and collected it again. We are not leaving the keys to our good car behind when we leave for Texas. I told DH that we will bring the keys with us. Oops! Not having anyone help themselves to our car. drive it the entire time we are gone and bring it back with no gas!
We still don't have our truck back from the dealership shop so if we don't get it back before leaving for Texas, we will just be driving the black truck with the stock trailer. That will put us behind in our plans because we won't be bringing the flatbed with the fencing stuff. The black truck doesn't have a gooseneck attachment. We will bring back the sheep, a bunch of boxes of equipment, shelf units, etc. and go to the wedding. Then I guess we will have to make several turn around trips with the flatbed and stock trailer with the fencing stuff, tractors, more boxes of building supplies, and some outdoor furniture to use in the house. We will need to get on with the fencing this spring once the tractor is in TX. DS3 said he would give us a couple weeks with his family and so did DS2. Before we can host them, we will have to buy a washer and dryer and move a freezer back so we can feed everyone. LOL
Not happy about having our plans collapsing.
We are waiting for the tractor guy to show up to work on the tractor. DD2 called and said that her car was not working again. She had returned our old car on Saturday because they had replaced their fuel pump which was supposedly the problem. She and DSIL2 came over and collected it again. We are not leaving the keys to our good car behind when we leave for Texas. I told DH that we will bring the keys with us. Oops! Not having anyone help themselves to our car. drive it the entire time we are gone and bring it back with no gas!
We still don't have our truck back from the dealership shop so if we don't get it back before leaving for Texas, we will just be driving the black truck with the stock trailer. That will put us behind in our plans because we won't be bringing the flatbed with the fencing stuff. The black truck doesn't have a gooseneck attachment. We will bring back the sheep, a bunch of boxes of equipment, shelf units, etc. and go to the wedding. Then I guess we will have to make several turn around trips with the flatbed and stock trailer with the fencing stuff, tractors, more boxes of building supplies, and some outdoor furniture to use in the house. We will need to get on with the fencing this spring once the tractor is in TX. DS3 said he would give us a couple weeks with his family and so did DS2. Before we can host them, we will have to buy a washer and dryer and move a freezer back so we can feed everyone. LOL
Not happy about having our plans collapsing.
- I just back them up and tip them into the chair. Some are tough to tip but that's because I'm not that big. A struggle here or there but for the most part they've been good. Now that they take crackers and treats from me it might be easier 
The final injury came when trying to sort one ewe out of the remaining 3. As they all rammed into DS1 the smallest got under DS1's legs and tripped him up. As a final insult the sheep managed to wedge him in the gateway on his back as they trampled out over him. He was finally able to get unstuck and climb to his feet to finish the trimming. I offered him Arnica, but he just reminded me that he hates sheep. I told him that building a proper chute with gates to let in the sheep one at a time instead of just trying to catch them would make it easier, but he just snarled.
We spray painted them as to who is trimmed and who is going to Texas (different colors) and put the Texas bound ones into the creep. We have not turned the others out into the field yet since DS1 said it would be easier to run the others into the barn without them cluttering up the flock. He plans to do that tonight when we feed, I think. Until we bring the rest of the flock in from the field, we put the trimmed ewes into the small pen below the milk shed. We also ear tagged the two that had lost their tags. After the vet comes on Thursday I will worm the 5 ewelings going to Texas and move them into the small pen below the milk shed for now. I got a really good look at both Purple 18 (Cleopatra) and Purple 16 and they are really lovely. Both look to be clean shedders too. 
....but gotta say -- I was laughing my a$$ off imagining the scene! 
