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Mike CHS
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My favorite cousin posted a picture on Facebook of me that I didn't even know still existed. I was 19 years old and we were going into the Med for a ten month deployment.
Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal
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greybeard
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Mike, my father, many years ago (when I was barely a teen) were going into a cafe here, and he told me "Take that coat & cover that rifle up in the back seat son..People will steal a gun when they would never steal anything else".
I think there is something to that too...
greybeard
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Black shoe Navy Mike?.. Before you had the bird on your sleeve?
1970-1971 a few very tough months apart, and as my sister once said, it showed.. it was the best of times/it was the worst of times....
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Mike CHS
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GB - Brown shoe and that picture was my first duty station on Independence in 1969. I went straight to AC school that was in Brunswick Georgia at that time right after Boot Camp so my experiences were all in ATC and never too bad.
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Mike CHS
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I thought I would tell you how easily I get sidetracked. Teresa set out some ground beef to use to throw something together for supper. I was cutting grass and it started to do a light rain so I figured I would come in an make a big pot of chili or pasta sauce. As I was cutting up the onions I was looking in the freezer for some of the red bell peppers from our last years garden and saw a big gallon bag of okra.
That morphed the chili or pasta sauce into a big pot of Jambalaya.
And since I used Cajun sausage I still need to figure out what to do with the ground beef.
That morphed the chili or pasta sauce into a big pot of Jambalaya.
And since I used Cajun sausage I still need to figure out what to do with the ground beef.
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CntryBoy777
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Just put it in the fridge til tomorrow....that'll give time for something to come to mind....
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Mike CHS
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Since we have weaned the majority of our lambs we are starting to take a close look at who will be sold for meat and who is still good enough to be bred again and sold. We are still learning but we have had firm short term and long term goals since we started with sheep. Every one of our yearling ewes look better than our original ten that we brought home in November of 2016 and those that we bred look like our full blooded Katahdins and have the size that we want to maintain. As expected, most of our culls (7 ewes) are from the original 10. I'm not sure how people can remember names when their numbers start getting up there so we save the memory and use pictures to capture numbers and dates so we can compare their condition over the next month. I call them up to our back yard to feed twice a day and will take pictures every few days to see how the ewes are recovering from 2-3 months of nursing. I let myself get too attached to some that will be culled but it is what it is. My favorite wether is going to the processor tomorrow so he has been getting pampered the last couple of weeks. I'm not posting all of the pictures we are using for reference but thought I would post our thought process about culling or keeping.
02 is a Jan 2017 yearling ewe is pretty typical of most of the yearlings and she is holding her condition really well through the season. She has been on grass only since her lambs were weaned until this week.
07 is one of our original ewes. She is one of the most pet like but she has to be kept on feed to maintain her weight so she is going to be culled. I'm going to list her on Facebook as a pet and offer to breed her back but I'll at least try to give her another home before going to auction.
02 is a Jan 2017 yearling ewe is pretty typical of most of the yearlings and she is holding her condition really well through the season. She has been on grass only since her lambs were weaned until this week.
07 is one of our original ewes. She is one of the most pet like but she has to be kept on feed to maintain her weight so she is going to be culled. I'm going to list her on Facebook as a pet and offer to breed her back but I'll at least try to give her another home before going to auction.
mystang89
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Some hard decisions but at least you realize they can't all be kept. It's something I'm still trying to get my family to understand.
Baymule
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You have an outstanding flock. Beautiful sheep.....well cared for. The culling part is hard. I kept some ewe lambs that were singles and to no surprise, they also have single lambs. Duh.
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Mike CHS
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@mystang89 Fortunately we have only ourselves for those decisions but I have to do my share of fretting about them. The processor just kind of shakes his head as I walk my critters off the trailer and tell them goodbye.
Bay we are shooting for twins or trips but we have some that had twins last year but just had huge lambs this year so it's pretty much a wash on those. Those big singles are bringing a paying the way for some of those 'prime' small lambs. Our #11 ewe was a bit smaller than what we like and had small twins so she was being considered as a cull. In the last month though both she and her babies have gone into growth over-drive like they knew it.
The processor just kind of shakes his head as I walk my critters off the trailer and tell them goodbye.Bay we are shooting for twins or trips but we have some that had twins last year but just had huge lambs this year so it's pretty much a wash on those. Those big singles are bringing a paying the way for some of those 'prime' small lambs. Our #11 ewe was a bit smaller than what we like and had small twins so she was being considered as a cull. In the last month though both she and her babies have gone into growth over-drive like they knew it.
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