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

[Pearce Pastures]

Sheepgirl, I am SO impressed with your website! You did an outstanding job. You should post your business plan here, too! I bet everyone in your class was very interested in your plan.

After looking at your site, I could imagine you singing this song "I like big butts and I cannot lie, what the other shepherds can't deny..."

Great work. I need to get busy making one. Oh, one note, I bet with your medium coarse wool would be very good for felting!

 

[SheepGirl]

Sheepgirl, I am SO impressed with your website! You did an outstanding job. You should post your business plan here, too! I bet everyone in your class was very interested in your plan.

After looking at your site, I could imagine you singing this song "I like big butts and I cannot lie, what the other shepherds can't deny..."

Great work. I need to get busy making one. Oh, one note, I bet with your medium coarse wool would be very good for felting!

hahahahaha! girl you crack me up!

but thanks! I was thinking about posting my business plan here, but I think I will do that after my instructor grades it and then I will make improvements and then post it

Haha I'm sure it would be! I was thinking of keeping Ali's fleece and doing SOMETHING with it because her fleece is very crimpy and really nice. It's not uniform all the way around her body, but I can always skirt those parts out But I love her neck. The wool there is really fine and it is also longer than the rest of her wool. I'm gonna have to take a picture!

I really love WEBS.com. That is who I use and I find is very easy to maintain without coding HTML.

Isn't it? I love how easy it is and I like how nice their templates are.

Nice website. I did see some grammar mistakes on a page though.

DISEASE TESTING: We currently do not test for any diseases (i.e. OPP, Johne's, etc). If you want are interested in buying an animal from us and you want our stock tested, we welcome that--at your expense.

NEW STOCK: When new sheep come in (usually only rams), we quarantine them for at least 30 days and we hit them with three classes of dewormers, we trim their hooves, and we put them through a foot bath.

1st spot italicized should read: If you are interested in buying an animal from us and want our stock tested, we welcome that--at your expense.

2nd spot italicized should read: When new sheep come in (usually only rams), we quarantine them for at least 30 days, hit them with three classes of dewormers, trim their hooves, and put them through a foot bath.

Hopefully I didn't offend you by correcting your grammar. It comes natural to me.

Nope I appreciate it! Thank you I will go make the corrections now lol

 

[Southern by choice]

I really like the lead in about how they are not show sheep. Nothing wrong with the showing but I see the same with the ND goats.
Maybe a bit different...kind of in reverse. I am seeing the ND's being bred to be on the smaller side and titles and blah blah blah, when my kids are going to the family farm that WANTS a goat that can produce good amounts of milk, excellent parasite resistance, good moms, no interference and no bottle babies a $350-$450 doe is ridiculous. To me showing just exposes them to everything on everybody elses farm. NO WAY!
Showing is fun but I've met very few who know anything about their own goats parasite resistance.

 

[Pearce Pastures]

I like showing for my son's sake, and we have both registered and grade animals (both are awesome!). He is a very shy, timid kid and for whatever reason, as sweet and as much as everyone likes him, he is not very confident in himself. We tried baseball, pop warner football, boy scouts---he put up with it but was no more confident for it all and was not enoying himself. Then we started 4H and he is a changed kid. He learned everything he could about his animals, from the parts of a chicken egg, to the process of kidding, to the history of the breed and he was beaming with pride when he showed his babies.

BUT it does make me nervous and there are ridiculously uneducated folks out their bringing their animals to these same shows. Last year, one person's kid was disqualified from the show---why? Because they were showing a pygmy goat as an alpine. You would think that would be one of the basics

 

[SheepGirl]

Rained all day today. So I put some straw in the shelter where it started to get muddy and whaddayaknow. I found my blue marking crayon!! I guess my mom put it in the garage with all my sheep stuff. so hahaha now I can change out the green for blue

 

[SheepGirl]

I got a 100% on my presentation of my business plan and a 96% on my actual business plan!!

So I will edit it some (like names and such) and post a template version of it, probably tomorrow.

 

[Bridgemoof]

Yes! I am anxious to see it. I guess I have to wrote some kind of business plan for tax purposes and I've never even seen a farm business plan before, so this will be great! I need to do it for myself, too, so I can plan what I want to do with all these sheep this coming year, besides pet them and put coats on them.

 

[autumnprairie]

congrats, great job

 

[Pearce Pastures]

Great job!! That is something to be very proud of!

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

I got a 100% on my presentation of my business plan and a 96% on my actual business plan!!

So I will edit it some (like names and such) and post a template version of it, probably tomorrow.

Awesome!!