Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Bruce]

She'll go through when she feels a need to do so. I suggest putting a fox on the other side

 

[Mike CHS]

Bruce - I'm sure she will go if she feels the need. She doesn't like to do anything that isn't her idea so we didn't push it after she jumped through the final time. I made another frame for another 'gate' today and will use it on the fence that separates the two paddocks where the breeders are and will leave the one in the picture where it is. I'll be letting the ram in with the older ewes in another week or so and I'll move all the younger ewes through the ram paddock to get them into a couple of acres in electric netting so we can let the main paddock be fallow for a month or so. I already cut most of the tallest grass down to the good stuff and will broadcast some grass seed over a few areas that has some of the sparser graze. Overall the grass is filling in pretty good and looks much better than it did when we first put the sheep in there.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Are ya sowing orchard grass seed? I've gotta get some rye grass next week to sow, so the goats, chickens, and ducks will have something to eat on thru winter here.

 

[Mike CHS]

I'm putting some rye grass in this paddock and some oats. Our sheep eat orchard grass hay but it isn't their favorite. I need to get the extension agent out to figure out exactly what I have because that stuff they devour when I was cutting it.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Either that or dig up a patch next time ya go by there and stop, show it to them and ask...that's what I have to do most of the time....especially with unknown plants or grass. Around here I'd be waiting for months for them to show up...

 

[Baymule]

Yeah, just what is that lush green grass in every picture? I have serious grass envy.

 

[Bruce]

Play "Brer Rabbit, Brer Fox". Tell Maisy that under no condition is she to go through that portal.

 

[Mike CHS]

We finished running electric wire on the inside of the breeders paddock and let Ringo join the ewes. They have been bedding down on opposite sides of the fence so they are already used to each other. We can finally start calling the fences that we have in DONE. We will be letting the younger bunch into the boys pen now that Ringo has moved and they can also graze on the hay field for another month or so. We can then let the others except our spotted ewe and her lambs in with Ringo so they can all be in the same paddock until just before lambing starts. By then the spotted ewe and the ewes we are buying share a paddock with Ringo.

We are going to the Fall Classic Katahdin consignment sale at Middle TN State University tomorrow but not really planning on buying anything. This will be another networking trip for us.

 

[CntryBoy777]

 

[Baymule]

Are you ready for Irma? Most of the projections have her coming to visit your neck of the woods, or near to it. Got everything put up and tied down? Irma might be just a tropical storm by the time she gets close to you and you might be on the edge, but I bet she's bring a lot of rain.