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

[SheepGirl]

LOL she has offered to let me intern with her BUT I just don't have the strength to throw around 150-250 lb critters lol. But she, she is ripped. And she told me she can no longer feel her back. lol not exactly something I want!

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

LOL she has offered to let me intern with her BUT I just don't have the strength to throw around 150-250 lb critters lol. But she, she is ripped. And she told me she can no longer feel her back. lol not exactly something I want!

From bending over so much I'm guessing?

 

[SheepGirl]

Pretty much.

But I think in the future I might buy some electric shears and try to shear my sheep myself. They'll be my test dummies I will give them lots of grain afterwards so they'll forgive me.

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

I shouldn't be that hard to at least get it done...

 

[SheepGirl]

I have a hard time tipping my ewes. It's so hard. I can do it up until they're about yearlings, but when they get more mature and put on the 'adult sheep body weight,' then I can't throw them around anymore lol.

Wait until SBC's lambs are full grown and then maybe you can try!

 

[Pearce Pastures]

Sounds like a great idea for workout video for farmers. I can see it now....Jillian Michaels tossing around sheep to cruddy workout music

 

[HankTheTank]

Sounds like a great idea for workout video for farmers. I can see it now....Jillian Michaels tossing around sheep to cruddy workout music

And a one! and a two! And a three! now TOSS! *faint baa-ing in the background*

 

[Straw Hat Kikos]

Sounds like a great idea for workout video for farmers. I can see it now....Jillian Michaels tossing around sheep to cruddy workout music

LOL!!!!!!!

 

[SheepGirl]

hahaha that would actually be a GREAT work out video!!!

 

[SheepGirl]

Well I went and got my hay today, a round bale and 6 bales of straw. It's all that would fit in my truck And one of my hay guy's sons looks like Tom Cruise haha jk. but he is cute though. ANYWAY...let me stop talking about boys. Sorry that's the teenage girl in me

I spent about an hour outside tonight, I got some hay put out for the sheep since we're supposed to get 3-4" of snow overnight and I put some straw in their shelter and in front of their shelter since it's all muddy and goopy and nasty. I also took a T post and smashed through their frozen water.

I wasn't planning on giving my ewes & ram any grain but they were standing at the gate BAAing at me so I gave in. I. Won't. Give. Them. Any. Tomorrow. jk I probably will because they will beg, but I will definitely not give them as much. I need to wean them off of it so they don't get too fat. This is their third day of 1 lb of grain each. My sheep are pretty tolerant of drastic grain additions in their diet, which is nice. They're not so tolerant of grain reductions, though!! They complain so much.

But I was able to catch Ciqala. She stood right next to me as I was holding the feed pans so I set the pans on a post, grabbed her around her neck and gave her a big hug and lots of kisses and told her she was my favorite. And then she wouldn't let me touch her anymore, even when I had grain. Guess the feeling wasn't mutual!!

Soooo I think that's it for my update for now.

Oh jk. The store manager at my McDonald's is (I think) Jamaican and he said the only meat he eats is lamb and he asked me if I had sheep and I was like yes, so I think he might buy a lamb off of me? He was really interested in my sheep lol.