Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

I haven't posted many lamb pictures this year so here are a few from this latest batch:

 

[Baymule]

I remember your #92 ewe. I even remarked that she looked like a Texel. She is a real nice ewe, maybe it’s like @farmerjan said, she just needed that extra time to mature.

 

[Mike CHS]

Jan very well could be right. 92 is out of one of our first ewes that was about as big as a Katahdin can get and Maxwell.

 

[Mike CHS]

We brought the sheep in this morning and then headed to Costco in Franklin. On the way home we stopped and had lunch at a Cracker Barrel.

This has been a really erratic breeding season this year and nobody really knows if it was the unseasonal heat or the fairly lengthy drought. We talked to a friend south of Nashville this morning who is one of the larger sheep producers around and he said he wound up with over 100 ewes that did not get bred and he has talked to several other farms that had the same problem, only not as large as his.

We have 4 ewes that we are pretty sure did not get bred but two of those was intentional.

 

[Mike CHS]

Teresa harvested the last of her Kale this afternoon. That bed did amazingly well considering we had several days with a wind chill of -10. I am attaching a couple of pictures of how she covers the beds.

 

[Baymule]

Y’all get a lot of vegetables from your raised beds!

 

[Mike CHS]

Our ewe Kate had a long labor this afternoon. She spent almost two hours trying to figure out what was happening. Kate is the grand daughter of Pepper and is an awesome ewe. Kate was in the paddock in plain view of our living room and we watched and watched and Teresa was really fretting. I am always concerned but I won't interfere unless it is more obvious since we have had dozens of Lambings that take a long time. Kate finally had a huge lamb and we relaxed and quit worrying for a bit. That would have been the only single lamb born this season but I looked out about a half hour later and she was cleaning up another lamb so we have not had a single lamb this time.

 

[Ridgetop]

Big lamb was like a stopper in a bottle, once he was out the other one was easy. Luckily she did not need help.

 

[Mike CHS]

Kate had a lamb birthing timing completely new to us. When we went out with the sheep this morning, Kate had three lambs, two ewes and a ram.

 

[SageHill]

Kate had a lamb birthing timing completely new to us. When we went out with the sheep this morning, Kate had three lambs, two ewes and a ram.

Congrats!!! It doesn't get much better than that!