SA Farm's journal

[SA Farm]

We’re in the freeze now and sheepies just finished polishing off the first of the round bales. Lasted longer than I was expecting, which is excellent.
Chickens are fine, nothing happening with them until spring. I keep going back and forth about hatching or not. Right now I’m leaning towards yes, but we’ll see how I feel when we’re closer to lambing
Another month or so and I’ll need to get the girls at least trimmed back for babies. Foxy and Coy are starting to look wide to me. I ended up taking Dingo’s harness off and Kit has since had her marks rubbed off, so, pretty sure she didn’t catch the first time. She’s also not looking near as wide as the other two I’m sure she’s bred, just for April again, probably. I don’t think she settled the first heat last year either since she lambed last. Hm, it was March 13,15, 24 and then her April…6, maybe? I can’t remember her exact date atm.


(Dingo is a hay bale because he rams the hay as I toss it over the fence so he ends up covered. Goofball )

I’ve been working with Doll and she’ll let me handle her while she eats her grain. I’m not pushing my luck, just getting her comfortable. Coy’s boy is starting to get a little rammy. Not bad right now, but I did bash him in the face with an empty (plastic) water jug the first time he tried anything, so I earned a bit of respect He definitely thinks about it, though…
I still let him and Doll run around while I do chores, but he and Dingo will be moving to the bachelor pad soon so I can focus my attention on the girls without having to watch my back.
I’d put them all together, but don’t want Doll bred until April (assuming Coy’s boy didn’t already settle her), so the boys need to be separated until after lambing.

Yeah, like a moron I didn’t write down the day she was running around the pen Dingo was in, her tail wagging madly. Dingo and Coy’s boy bashed heads through the fence and I grabbed grain and put the lambs away to keep them (my fence) safe.
Pretty sure it was around mid-November, though, so I’ll be watching her closely for April babies. Maybe she and Kit will lamb together a month after Foxy and Coy

 

[Baymule]

If you keep your cell phone in your pocket like I do, I have a Notes app, and I make notes under Breeding 2022. I make one for each year. I record “chasing” and actual “breeding “ and then figure due dates later. It helps.

 

[SA Farm]

I usually do write that stuff down, but I think I grew lax when the 3 main ewes were bred, so stopped thinking/worrying about it. I also wasn’t taking my phone with me because, you know, yoga pants and no coat with pockets back before it got really cold

We’re supposed to have a bunch of rain and snow this weekend, so I got the sheep moved around. Dingo was good and not beating up on Coy’s boy too much. Their shed isn’t big enough for them to do too much damage to each other thankfully.

Such a cute couple

If I’m not on again before then, Merry Christmas, everyone!

 

[farmerjan]

OMG how cute !!!!!

Merry Christmas to you and your family also !!!!

 

[Baymule]

Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones!

 

[Finnie]

Yes! Merry Christmas!

 

[SA Farm]

Had the most interesting/hilarious dream the other day:

Dreamed I was a sheep farmer with lots of sheep. I helped investigators hunt down/trap a couple of serial killers, but they escape and come back to get their revenge on me by forcing me to give them my sheep.
I agreed, but begged them to let me keep 4. They allowed it (surprisingly) and I picked Foxy, Coy, Doll, and Dingo to retain, planning to use them to rebuild my flock to its former glory.

There was some interesting action, dialogue, and I even remember having a serious internal debate about not keeping Kit, but that was the gist.
Just glad I remembered it long enough to write down

 

[Baymule]

I never remember dreams! That’s some dream, and you remembered it! LOL

 

[SA Farm]

I occasionally have oddly vivid dreams that I can only describe as similar to watching a movie. Sometimes I’m watching and “living” it too (like the sheep one), but often I’m not even involved. Some of the ones I remember are good book ideas.
My last sheep dream (that I recall/know of) was back before I had sheep and I dreamt that my DH bought a flock without consulting me and I was PEEVED! Go figure lol

 

[Bruce]

I never remember dreams either.

Sounds like you need to start writing books @SA Farm !