SheepGirl's Journal - Photos of the sheep 4/25

[SheepGirl]

Well it is a legal requirement, so yes

 

[SheepGirl]

I made fried chicken for dinner this evening. I had my mom buy drumsticks from the store and then I went and looked up a recipe (I used Paula Deen's). I didn't use the hot sauce she has in her recipe because, while I like spicy/hot foods, I don't like hot sauce lol. But I didn't care for the batter on it. I tasted too much garlic (not a fan of it) and it was really super thin, but crunchy. She said to use self-rising flour, but I used regular flour you bake cookies with, so that may be why.

I think I was so disappointed in it because I guess I was expecting it to taste like KFC fried chicken (which it didn't ). I think I will stick to eating fast food or grocery store fried chicken instead of homemade

I was the only one who ate it (it was just me and a brother home, but he doesn't like fried chicken so he didn't eat it), so I didn't get any opinions from anyone else lol.

I'm hungry for beef stroganoff so I think I'll make it tomorrow...I never mess up on that...I just have to follow the easy-peasy directions on the Hamburger Helper box

 

[CochinBrahmaLover=)]

Can goat get scrapie / would the people think I'm an idiot for calling about my 2 goats to get tags? Lol, I need to get them tested for CAE, CL, Johnes Disease, sooo, if thye can get Scrapie, might as well have the tags, LOL.

Ya, I'll stick to KFC chicken as well!

 

[purplequeenvt]

Can goat get scrapie / would the people think I'm an idiot for calling about my 2 goats to get tags? Lol, I need to get them tested for CAE, CL, Johnes Disease, sooo, if thye can get Scrapie, might as well have the tags, LOL.

Ya, I'll stick to KFC chicken as well!

Goats can get scrapie, but if you only have the 2 goats and you aren't going to be breeding or selling goats then there is no need to get them scrapie tags.

 

[jodief100]

Can goat get scrapie / would the people think I'm an idiot for calling about my 2 goats to get tags? Lol, I need to get them tested for CAE, CL, Johnes Disease, sooo, if thye can get Scrapie, might as well have the tags, LOL.

Ya, I'll stick to KFC chicken as well!

Goats have the same legal requirement. They have to be Scrapie tagged to sell them. Some state have additional rules. Here in Kenticky they have to be tagged if they ever leave the premisis.

 

[SheepGirl]

So I had my first class in college last week and I was so excited I started my homework right away. Apparently I didn't get near as done as I thought I did and I completely forgot about it earlier this week so now I'm rushing to finish it lol

I'm only taking two classes--Intro to Business (now) and English 101 (starts in October). My mom makes us kids pay for our own college, either out of pocket or through scholarships. I've applied for scholarships, but I haven't gotten any...yet. My GPA in high school was a 3.43 and I was actively involved in FFA as an extracurricular activity (both as an officer and a member), and I have over 220 hours of community service/volunteering. So you wouldn't think it would be that hard, but it is :/ My savings account my godmother/parents set up for me (and my brothers, too) is what I'm using for now to pay for college. But it's already run dry, especially after buying books.

butttt on the bright side, my 'sheep shack' has held up in the rain and wind so far I need to get pictures of it 'cuz I think it's pretty snazzy if I do say so myself

 

[SheepGirl]

Back in June I posted about how I was doing the Livestock Judging CDE for FFA. Wellll we never practiced. So I joined the Poultry Judging CDE at the last minute (I only went to two practices) and we had the contest yesterday and I placed the highest in our team I got 5th place out of 20-30 other kids who did it (the guy on our team, who attended one practice got 10th or 11th place, and the girl who went to every single practice didn't place :/). Our team got 5th place (out of 7 teams). I also did it for 4-H (basically I copied my FFA answers and put them on the 4-H answer sheet), but I didn't stay for the awards to see how well I did.

 

[Alice Acres]

Congrats!

That brings back lots of memories. Really old ones! I did livestock judging team too - in 4-H and FFA. I also was often a handler in the dairy cow judging - as they always seemed to be short on people to parade the cows around at contests. That was fun as well. Learned more about dairy cows from doing that than anything else I did. It was 30 yrs ago already...wow, how time flies.

Do you still do oral reasons? I used to like that part - although it was kind of nerve-wracking.

 

[SheepGirl]

Yep, we had to do oral reasons...geesh I am soo bad at those lol. The first one I couldn't remember all I had to say and the second set of reasons I gave I kept messing up what order I placed them in (though I did remember my reasons) and the judge kept laughing at me haha.

But my friend txted me my 4-H results...I got 14th in live birds, 1st in eggs woot ), 14th carcasses, and 13th overall. It's out of 20 or so people, so at least I got in the top 70%

 

[Alice Acres]

LOl - yes those darn orders of placings.
OK if it goes in some logical order. But I swear they numbered them badly, just so they could laugh at us trying to keep it all straight.
I literally have not thought about this for DECADES...and now I have stuff like this going through my head: "I place this class of market wethers 4-2-3-1. This class has a top and bottom pair. I placed 4 over 2 because....."

Congrats on your overall placings, but especially that #1 in eggs!