Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Bruce]

If his dogs are anything like mine (past and present), placing anything in the pasture means offering a new toy for them to chew up and play with... Unless there's some way to mount it high enough to still trigger, without being within reach (and those dogs can JUMP... HIGH), the gamecam will become a very expensive doggie chew toy.

Oops, I guess he needs to plant a 10' tall post and mount the camera REAL high.

 

[Baymule]

Oops, I guess he needs to plant a 10' tall post and mount the camera REAL high.

Those dogs are so smart, they'd grab a ladder, climb it and Maisy would use that drill she has stashed to take down the game cam and rehang it so the dogs could watch what the people do!

 

[CntryBoy777]

I may be mistaken, but wasn't it Maisy that got a light or camera off a 7' pole last yr when ya was watching for lambing? That is something about the hoop house....hope it isn't Thor, but ya never can tell about those things....I like the front end of your new ATV looks really good....

 

[Mike CHS]

Those dogs are so smart, they'd grab a ladder, climb it and Maisy would use that drill she has stashed to take down the game cam and rehang it so the dogs could watch what the people do!

That one had me laughing.

It was Maisy that took down the camera but we got to it before she had a chance to hide it.

 

[Mike CHS]

We put an ear tag on the latest ewe lamb today and her weight at 3 days old is 15 1/2 so she would have been right at 13 1/2 lbs at birth. She is skittish like her mom used to be so I guess those type of things are in the genes. It took me a couple of months to be able to handle the dam without her seeming to be terrorized. The lamb is a pretty girl though.

 

[Bruce]

The ewe has definitely settled down if she's letting you hold the lamb. Of my 2017 chickens, Oreo (Exchequer Leghorn) was the one that would run if I came near, just walking through. Now she thinks I am the bringer of goodies and will eat scratch and BOSS from my hand. Bribes work Of course you don't have anything the lamb wants just yet so it will be a while for her.

 

[Mike CHS]

We got one other picture of the ewe and her lamb that I think is pretty cute because it has both the lamb and my Baby when we were tagging the lamb. Some might remember that this ewe came to us from the same farm that our ram came from a year and a half ago. They needed to sell her to a farm with more secure fencing because they used electric poly rope and it couldn't keep her in. She would just run through it knowing it wouldn't hurt very long.

There are no low insulators in this pen since it is our dog training pen. The sheep do get in it to graze but just seeing the hot wire on the other side is evidently enough to keep them off of the wire.

 

[Bruce]

I expect that fence would keep her in hot wire or no. Though I guess if she rubbed on it enough in the right places she might push the T-posts a bit.

 

[CntryBoy777]

That is definitely one large girl!!....and just so ya know for sure....I'm not referring to your Baby....

 

[Mike CHS]

Last year this ewe had twins that were 9.2 & 9.4 so she has the capacity. When she isn't carrying the extra weight from lambing her normal weight is around 165 pounds.