Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

The grass is growing so fast it is finally getting ahead of the sheep. I cut and closed off our 2 1/2 acre paddock and I'll do the same to half of our 6 acre paddock since our friend and neighbor said he would cut square bales of hay on it when he gears up to do square bales for his. We only used 50 bales of the 100 that we put up last year and it was all cut on the area I'm letting grow.

I almost let my tomato plants get away from me so we got T-posts in the ground today for their support.

 

[greybeard]

Not wanting to go see Europe, unless they find somewhere else to put France and Germany.
IMO, the whole of Germany should have been handed over to Jo Stalin at the end of WW2. Would have saved us all a lot of trouble and $$ and he would have known what to do with them.

I liked Asia well enough that going back was one of the reasons I joined the Navy after getting done with my 4 yr hitch in the Marines, as well as one of the reasons I re-enlisted in the Navy at the end of my initial 2 yr term.

I didn't really care much for Japan or Hong Kong, but all the rest I enjoyed immensely and would (and may)go back again.

Canada? ehh, I have no interest in going there either, nor back to Old Mexico.

 

[greybeard]

The grass is growing so fast it is finally getting ahead of the sheep. I cut and closed off our 2 1/2 acre paddock and I'll do the same to half of our 6 acre paddock since our friend and neighbor said he would cut square bales of hay on it when he gears up to do square bales for his. We only used 50 bales of the 100 that we put up last year and it was all cut on the area I'm letting grow.

I almost let my tomato plants get away from me so we got T-posts in the ground today for their support.

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I keep mine locked up like wild wildebeests..in cages I made about 5 years ago from a 5' tall roll of concrete reinforcement net wire. Roll out a piece about 56" long, ....it wants to hold the round shape anyway from being in a roll, so all I had to do was tie the 2 ends together with hog rings and have a round 5' tall x 18" diameter cage.

 

[RollingAcres]

Your garden is looking good Mike! Mine are not in the ground yet.

 

[Mike CHS]

Thanks @RollingAcres Mine has only been in the ground about 10 days so we aren't too far ahead of you.

 

[Mike CHS]

I've used the cages. These are all determinate and I prefer staking them to be able to get at the weeds. We get a lot of visitors and the garden beds are the first thing you see when you pull up to our house so I keep them neater than some might.

 

[Mike CHS]

For any that are interested we got the break out of how the sale went. The two big boys went for $1.67 a pound so we now see that we want the lambs from now on to be at least 3 months old if possible and prime shape since you make more per animal even if the per pound price is higher.

The others varied from $1.93 for the 50 pounder and up to $2.10 but the average per head was $1.82 Considering we didn't creep feed and all gains were on milk and grass it was a decent day for us.

 

[Baymule]

How many lambs did you take? That is a decent day at the sale barn! The new ewes y'all bought are some nice girls. When will you pick them up?

 

[Mike CHS]

We took 14 lambs that day.

We are looking at one day next week since it's supposed to not be as hot as this week. They are a bit west of Chattanooga so it's a couple of hours away.

 

[Bruce]

OK, I'm confused (so what else is new). Why did the "big boys" go for less than all the others? Were they the ones that were not prime?