SheepGirl's Journal - Photos of the sheep 4/25
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The Kiko Cowboy
For real??? Awesome!
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Thanks I think it's pretty cool 
Southern by choice
Herd Master
Me too!SheepGirl said:Thanks I think it's pretty cool
So it's not enough to have POW, what 7 x.... now magazines too!
Sheepgirl I thinkif you took your sheep to NYC with you they'd of ended up in PRADA... little fashion models!
Bridgemoof
Overrun with beasties
That's fantastic Sheepgirl! Did you submit the photo to them? Is that Ciqala? Do you get a subscription to that magazine? I am always wondering if it was worth it to get a subscription. If you do, do you like it?
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Southern by choice said:Me too!SheepGirl said:Thanks I think it's pretty cool
So it's not enough to have POW, what 7 x.... now magazines too!
Sheepgirl I thinkif you took your sheep to NYC with you they'd of ended up in PRADA... little fashion models!
Probably!! They could fashion any wool sweaters
Yep, I submitted the photo to them I think sometime in January. And yep, that is CiqalaBridgemoof said:
You know my sheep better than my mom!! lol Yep, I got either a 2 or 3 year subscription. (I also subscribed to sheep! magazine but I'm not sure if it was the 2 or 3 yrs lol.) The Shepherd comes out monthly and sheep! comes out bimonthly. I think sheep! has a lot of great articles in it that are easy to understand. They are more geared to hobby farmers. The Shepherd is more industry-focused and has a lot of technical-type articles in there, but there are some easy to understand articles. I read both magazines cover to cover 
EllieMay
Loving the herd life
I just saw the video. Awesome aid for folks who need to see a visual tutorial!!! 
And kudos to you for the magazine photo!!
And kudos to you for the magazine photo!!
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Thanks!!
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So yesterday while I was getting some stuff set up for lambing (brought the dog kennel panels--they are 4' long and about 3' tall--over to the sheep shack to use as the walls for a lambing jug), I saw a fresh pile of fully formed poop pellets strung together with brownish tinged mucous. Don't know who it came from, but it came from one of the ewes. So I looked around this morning at fresh piles of poo and they all looked normal.
And Ciqala started limping yesterday. Tried to catch her to check it out but with no luck. So I went out later to feed and I finally was able to catch her--nothing is swollen and her hooves look okay. So it's probably an injury. But I don't know what she could've injured herself on because there is nothing to trip over or jump over in the pen. Then again we did have some snow and ice the night before yesterday so maybe she slipped. But she was better this morning, still limping, but definitely not as bad.
Sheep.....normally I wouldn't worry about random little things like these but these girls are about to have babies! So I want them to be in the absolute best shape possible :/
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So yesterday while I was getting some stuff set up for lambing (brought the dog kennel panels--they are 4' long and about 3' tall--over to the sheep shack to use as the walls for a lambing jug), I saw a fresh pile of fully formed poop pellets strung together with brownish tinged mucous. Don't know who it came from, but it came from one of the ewes. So I looked around this morning at fresh piles of poo and they all looked normal.
And Ciqala started limping yesterday. Tried to catch her to check it out but with no luck. So I went out later to feed and I finally was able to catch her--nothing is swollen and her hooves look okay. So it's probably an injury. But I don't know what she could've injured herself on because there is nothing to trip over or jump over in the pen. Then again we did have some snow and ice the night before yesterday so maybe she slipped. But she was better this morning, still limping, but definitely not as bad.
Sheep.....normally I wouldn't worry about random little things like these but these girls are about to have babies! So I want them to be in the absolute best shape possible :/
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Well she wasn't limping when I went out to feed tonight. So that's good. Still don't know who the mucousy poop came from and I haven't seen any piles of it except that one yesterday. Good thing my ewes are all penned up otherwise I'd be scouring (no pun intended ) over the entire pasture looking for POOP! Of all things lol....
I had a pleasant surprise when I got home today. There was another layer of snow! At work it has just been raining all day (I only work 15-20 minutes from home...so weird how it RAINED there and we got snow here).
I was at work all day in the first window of drive thru, taking orders and taking money
We were SO busy--much busier than usual and we had FOUR buses pull in when we had only TWO people in the grill! That and the drive thru line was stretched out into the road 
Normally about every 20-30 minutes things slow down enough that I can walk out of the hole and go talk to my friends who are on frontline, taking orders for the lobby. But I wasn't able to escape at all! For 8.5 hours straight (I didn't get a chance to get a break today, that's how busy we were) I was in the hole. It was awful! And I had to stay an extra hour and a half. I like Mondays and Tuesdays and Wednesdays. They're the slowest days. So once everything is all stocked and all cleaned, once there are no customers you can get paid to stand around and do nothing Oh yeah before I forget--GUESS WHO came through drive thru? 
My Tom Cruise hay guy Omg I was so nervous I dropped some of his change on the ground I'm such a dork lol I felt so bad but he just laughed at me.
Also I got my ear tags in the mail today
I got the sheep mini tags, they are the same style as the scrapie tags I got in the mail. I had ordered them a month ago, but they sent yellow tags. So I emailed them and they sent the right color! (and let me keep the yellow too lol--if anyone wants them I will sell them for $15--PM me if you are interested...I also have medium allflex blue tags blank I will sell for $15) Now I feel completely ready for lambing--have all my tags (farm & scrapie), all my castration/docking equip (I bought a new pack of O rings since the other ones are a couple years old and I just felt better spending $2 on a new pack of 100 rather than using the old ones my neighbor gave me), all my medicines (bought new bottles of the expired stuff my neighbor gave me), and that's about it. I really don't need much to lamb out ewes. They do all the work themselves! I just have to process the babies--which takes less than 5 min/lamb. I'm so excited!!
) over the entire pasture looking for POOP! Of all things lol....I had a pleasant surprise when I got home today. There was another layer of snow! At work it has just been raining all day (I only work 15-20 minutes from home...so weird how it RAINED there and we got snow here).
I was at work all day in the first window of drive thru, taking orders and taking money
We were SO busy--much busier than usual and we had FOUR buses pull in when we had only TWO people in the grill! That and the drive thru line was stretched out into the road Normally about every 20-30 minutes things slow down enough that I can walk out of the hole and go talk to my friends who are on frontline, taking orders for the lobby. But I wasn't able to escape at all! For 8.5 hours straight (I didn't get a chance to get a break today, that's how busy we were) I was in the hole. It was awful! And I had to stay an extra hour and a half. I like Mondays and Tuesdays and Wednesdays. They're the slowest days. So once everything is all stocked and all cleaned, once there are no customers you can get paid to stand around and do nothing Oh yeah before I forget--GUESS WHO came through drive thru? My Tom Cruise hay guy Omg I was so nervous I dropped some of his change on the ground I'm such a dork lol I felt so bad but he just laughed at me.Also I got my ear tags in the mail today
I got the sheep mini tags, they are the same style as the scrapie tags I got in the mail. I had ordered them a month ago, but they sent yellow tags. So I emailed them and they sent the right color! (and let me keep the yellow too lol--if anyone wants them I will sell them for $15--PM me if you are interested...I also have medium allflex blue tags blank I will sell for $15) Now I feel completely ready for lambing--have all my tags (farm & scrapie), all my castration/docking equip (I bought a new pack of O rings since the other ones are a couple years old and I just felt better spending $2 on a new pack of 100 rather than using the old ones my neighbor gave me), all my medicines (bought new bottles of the expired stuff my neighbor gave me), and that's about it. I really don't need much to lamb out ewes. They do all the work themselves! I just have to process the babies--which takes less than 5 min/lamb. I'm so excited!!
