Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Bruce]

I do have to ask since the arm doesn't always want to go where I need it to.

She drove us into Nashville for the first time ever today since I normally do all of the driving but can't move the gear shift so she is doing her part and I'm getting to gawk at some pretty scenery that I haven't been able to check out before now.

You might get used to enjoying the scenery as you pass by. Shall we call you "Miss Daisy"?

Did Jay get his lambs yet?

 

[Mike CHS]

I'll pass on the Miss Daisy.

Jay took his sheep home early last week and they seem to be settling in pretty good. Their pen is adjacent to the road into town and I stopped the other day and said "Hi girls". The ewe started bawling for me to come get her.

 

[Mike CHS]

Two of our yearling ewes each had a set of twins laying about 20' apart about an hour ago. We won't mess with them till the morning so no idea what they are yet.

That's 17 lambs on the ground with 6 more ewes due soon.

 

[CntryBoy777]

They must have heard about your "Cull List" and decided that they had best stay put, so started off with twins.....

 

[Mike CHS]

Our numbers right now are working good. The rest could be all rams and it wouldn't bother me at this point. Some of the really solid three year old ewes will be bred back and sold as I don't want to go into winter with more than 30. Depending on how he grows out we may work the big ram lamb into the rotation but we have a ram lamb on reserve from Tavalin Farms here in Tennessee so who knows.

 

[Baymule]

Three rams wouldn't be a bad idea. Then you could sell "starter flocks" of a ram and 3-5 ewes.

 

[Mike CHS]

Our #7 yearling had a single ewe lamb during the night. I'm going out to cut the grass on our perimeter lane and will try to take some pictures if I can get my camera to cooperate.

Five more to go.

 

[Mike CHS]

Here a few pictures of the single ewe and one set of twins. The other ewe and her twins are still off in the far paddock.

 

[Mike CHS]

Both of the twins are right at 10.5 and each has some brown coloring mostly on their ears. The single ewe lamb is 11.2

There is another set of twins just born as well as another single. Momma ewes were getting stressed out so we'll give them some bonding time before messing with them. At least one of the newest twins is a ram lamb but we'll check them out later.

 

[Mike CHS]

The latest set of twins and the single are all ram lambs. The twins are the smallest we have so far but they are out of a ewe that we almost didn't breed because of her size. The twins are 6.2 and 6.6.

The single ram lamb is 11.4 lbs.