SA Farm's journal

[Baymule]

A guy on BYH caught neighbor dogs on his place, literally caught them. He spray painted red target circles on their sides and sent them home. They never came back. I guess their owners got the message. LOL

Cute little lamb. Soon you will have even more sheep. Sheep math at it's finest!

 

[Baymule]

A guy on BYH caught neighbor dogs on his place, literally caught them. He spray painted red target circles on their sides and sent them home. They never came back. I guess their owners got the message. LOL

Cute little lamb. Soon you will have even more sheep. Sheep math at it's finest!

 

[Baymule]

A guy on BYH caught neighbor dogs on his place, literally caught them. He spray painted red target circles on their sides and sent them home. They never came back. I guess their owners got the message. LOL

Cute little lamb. Soon you will have even more sheep. Sheep math at it's finest!

 

[Baymule]

5 times. REALLY? It wouldn't post and wouldn't post and wouldn't post, then finally did FIVE TIMES.

 

[Bruce]

Usually that means the site is slow and it actually did post but you don't see it. If I post and the little dots run forever then disappear I copy the text in the box and refresh the page .... as many times as it takes to actually refresh. Most of the time my post shows up. If not, I paste and post.

 

[Baymule]

Yeah and when I do the delete multiple posts, they all delete. So when the satellite internet is wonky I just leave it alone. Irritating.

 

[SA Farm]

Thanks for the idea @Baymule!
Where I live there are a TON of dogs. A lot of them aren’t fixed and create more problem dogs. Some are owned and just wander around, but most that come by are dropped off by irresponsible owners from the surrounding area and form feral packs. I don’t think I wanna catch one to try and paint it, though that’s a fantastic idea if it’s a neighbors dog! I think a paintball sends a similar message...I’ll just have to make sure the paintballs are red (and not frozen the first time) so that if the dog does have an owner s/he’ll hopefully get a good scare and keep their dog penned up!

 

[SA Farm]

Spent a lovely morning outside with the sheepies. They had fun running around while I sat and read stuff on here for a bit. I’m trying to catch up on some of the journals, going back about 50 pages or so.
I’m making progress slowly but surely.

The chickens seem to like their new pen. They’re still working out their new pecking order and of course the GLW is at the bottom with Pizzazz. Hopefully they work things out quickly and Mojo keeps them in line.

Foxy jumping straight up from a standstill

Woolfie showing off her own skills.

Foxy is so incredibly lightweight...more deer than sheep. Look at her fly!
Woolfie is definitely the sturdy one in comparison. I should get my scales out and weigh the two of them. I’m curious to see if Woolfie weighs more and, if so, by how much. Foxy is taller, but Woolfie is a bit longer and ‘feels’ heavier.
I’m not even sure Foxy is a sheep anymore. Maybe she’s a fluffy goat or really is part deer

 

[Baymule]

I see Picture Of the Week!
We get dogs dumped out here too. Our place is totally fenced in. It sure helps keep unwanted visitors out. We heard coyotes killing a stray right at our front gate one night, it was pretty awful. Sometimes strays live long enough to have puppies, they usually disappear. We had the county come out and trap one, by that time she only had a couple of pups left.

I think you need more sheep......

 

[SA Farm]

I see Picture Of the Week!
We get dogs dumped out here too. Our place is totally fenced in. It sure helps keep unwanted visitors out. We heard coyotes killing a stray right at our front gate one night, it was pretty awful. Sometimes strays live long enough to have puppies, they usually disappear. We had the county come out and trap one, by that time she only had a couple of pups left.

I think you need more sheep......

You do? Which one?

I would love to get this place completely fenced in. We want to, but we need to get our land surveyed to find out where to put the fence, then get an estimate, then save up for it. We’re making our pens as impenetrable as possible in the meantime.

I do need more sheep! I need a couple for freezer camp and for breeding in the fall.
When I started doing research on sheep when DH told me he wanted them, I narrowed down what I wanted to Jacobs, Icelandic, or Black Belly. I’m hopefully going to get a ram for breeding out of those options. Since my ewes are mixes, I don’t think it matters too much, but I do need a ram on the smaller side for Foxy, so my top breed choices should be good...if I can find one of them I should weigh the lambs, measure them, and start a thread to find out for sure (or more sure) what breeds they are first. I have so much to do and I’m not talking about just with the lambs!

In other news, my Mom sent me home with an elderberry bush last night, so I put that in this morning under Foxy and Woolfie’s close supervision They immediately nibbled on the branches, so I think they approved of my efforts.
I’m beginning to regret my decision to garden this year. Mostly because I don’t like gardening, and partly because I have to finish building my raised beds so I can plant the stupid things.
The lambs were helping with that too