Teresa and Mike Lambing Thread Winter 2019 Part2

[Mike CHS]

Mike should be home tonight with Maxwell!

I just got in. The farm that Max came from has mostly solid colored lambs with blue, red, brown and a couple I couldn't come up with a name for and all of those come from white ewes. It was a long day and the 9 hour trip took almost 12 hours. I don't know the DOT budget for road repairs in Illinois and Kentucky but it isn't big enough. I had to drop it down to 55 MPH to keep from throwing the poor ram all over the trailer.

 

[Baymule]

We are glad that you and Maxwell got home safe. I bet you are tired after that trip. Now you can start spoiling that boy!

 

[Mike CHS]

He is pretty calm but has had very little hands on so it's up to him how far we go and how fast. There has been so much rain in the last couple of days that I may have to drop the trailer and then hook it up to the tractor to be able to get it to the field he is going to be in. I crashed last night right after I posted plus I had to get him settled in for the night. Rather than try and move him in the dark, I made sure he had plenty of feed and water and a light in the trailer.

 

[Baymule]

That was the best thing that you could have done. You had a hard trip, made worse by bad roads. When we left with Ringo, BJ drove it hard, but we were on interstate all the way. That's why we wanted to load up so early, so we could get home before dark and get him unloaded. We were pretty wiped out the next day.

 

[misfitmorgan]

Glad you made it back safe Mike. Hope you got some good rest last night.

 

[Mike CHS]

It has been busy enough that I have been remiss with lambing info. There are now 14 lambs on the ground in this group with three ewes left to lamb and 14 lambs in the dry lot being weaned and fattened from the first group. If the last three have singles, we will be at 52 head total.

 

[Rammy]

Ringo sure left you one heck of a bunch of nice lambs.

 

[misfitmorgan]

No shortage of lambs there! Congrats on all the healthy lambs.

 

[animalmom]

Yes....... but where are the pictures?

 

[Rammy]

Yes, where are the pictures? You know how we loves pics of baby anything!