Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

We had hoped for a faster lambing time but it is what it is. We are at almost a 200 percent lambing rate so that is good.

The new ram still doesn't have an official name but he is getting really well into the program so I will temporarily call him Rambo. I'm guessing that he is at 300 pounds so he and I will not be having a competition. I have him coming in several times a day and he is calm and with no reaction when I approach and put hands on. I have made a point of closing the gate after he is in and he doesn't react at all.

He has tried to be aggressive a couple of times but I am more aware of how sensitive his nose is and it is working.

 

[Baymule]

That boy is BIG. He is in the right hands, Mike's Ram Training School.

 

[Mike CHS]

Ever since covid started, we have been getting our COSTCO basics via shipping but there are a lot of those "wanted" items so we made a run into Franklin this morning. I think we took care of those "wants" big time. We still had to go into town to get some dairy products for the lamb since we use buttermilk in our recipe and the COSTCO buttermilk is big enough to feed our whole herd of lambs.

Pistol is getting small amounts of feed a couple of times a day and we have cut him down to three bottles a day.

 

[Mike CHS]

I'm broadcasting lime but I had to come in and get some water. It's in the low 80's right now. I use my riding mower to pull the spreader and it doesn't create a lot of wind while it's going. Putting out lime is an easy job but it's time consuming since my spreader only holds 150 lbs so I wind up making numerous trips back to the truck to get more lime.

 

[Ridgetop]

When we had Dorsets, at night if the lambs hadn't nursed enough the ewes would paw them to make them get up to nurse before the ewes lay down to sleep. No middle of the night feeding for those moms! LOL

 

[Mike CHS]

When we had Dorsets, at night if the lambs hadn't nursed enough the ewes would paw them to make them get up to nurse before the ewes lay down to sleep. No middle of the night feeding for those moms! LOL

I have been out with them when they bedded down at night and the next morning when I went out, they had not moved so that told me not to worry about night feedings. I figured that if they didn't do it, I sure was not going to.

 

[Mike CHS]

We have frost in tonights forecast so we stripped all of the peppers off the plants and went ahead and pulled them and the support posts up

 

[Baymule]

Those were some bodacious pepper plants, just loaded when we were there!

 

[Mike CHS]

I'm really surprised at how much separation there has been in lambs being born but it has been this way ever since we started doing spring/summer breeding so it goes with the territory. We pretty much have most of the daily chores down to a routine since there has been NO rain. We have to drive to Arnold Air Force Base tomorrow to renew Teresa's military ID card that we only accidentally noticed was about to expire.

 

[farmerjan]

Forecasts for us to have frosts/freeze tonight and probably for Sunday night also. I went out and found a few peppers too... and got a few ripe tomatoes the deer left. I did not pick the green ones as there weren't many. If we have a breeze at all, it won't hurt them too much. I haven't dug the rest of the potatoes yet but it won't hurt them in the ground right now.