Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[goatgurl]

@Bruce you need to come down so we introduce you to fahr ants. they are a lot of things but easy to kill isn't one of them. they are mean sum britches.
@farmerjan cool on the deer but not so cool on the bear. I had a sow bear with 3 cubs go down the creek bed below my house a few years ago and I really worried about them coming back for a snack. we have a lot of deer around here this year too. @Mike CHS I love the just because picture, such a pretty boy.

 

[Bruce]

they are a lot of things but easy to kill isn't one of them. they are mean sum britches.

That's why I thought it was nice they collected in the pipe. Pour some kerosene down there, let them soak a bit and toss in a match. There would be some collateral damage to the tree of course but hey, ya gotta do what ya gotta do!

 

[Mike CHS]

I got a chuckle out of that one but I'll keep using chemicals.

 

[greybeard]

Setting the solvent (kerosene or diesel or gasoline or jp-7, or avgas or lox-kerosene mixture or liq hydrogen or nitro methane....whatever you happen to have handy) on fire is too quick. Let the fumes settle and they will go down into the nest and kill every ant plus all their larvae.

 

[Bruce]

Oh, less damage to the tree! Though less fun for the pyromaniacs.

 

[Mike CHS]

When we were out putting up some new mineral feeders yesterday we took a few pictures of the ewe lambs that we are retaining. The two month gap between the main lambing and the two that dragged their feet really shows. We aren't keeping him but the last set of twins was a ram and ewe lambs both small compared to the rest of the herd. The ram lamb is 70 days old and weighed in at 67 pounds yesterday so he is bigger than he looks. He has Ringo's personality too which makes me want to keep him but I know better.

The ewe lambs are all bigger than the previous generation and are all at or above 120 pounds now. The black lamb is from our spotted lamb and she is the biggest of them all. Her mother is obese and squat but the ewe lamb has her size but Ringo's height.

 

[Bruce]

Fine looking animals Mike. And wonderful that your breeding and cull selection is improving the herd.

 

[Mike CHS]

Thanks Bruce. I'm pretty satisfied.

 

[RollingAcres]

Nice looking lambs!

 

[Mike CHS]

The grass outside the fence finally dried enough from our 4 1/2" rain the other day so I was able to get it mowed. We made a run down to Ardmore, Alabama and picked up 1000 pounds of feed. It will take take a fairly long while to use that much since we will quit feeding once the girls are all back in excellent condition. They are all getting there except for three which have been added to the cull list. Those three are some of our best looking sheep (as far as size) but it takes a lot of input to get them there and they all 3 had singles two times in a row. We are going to bring all of them in this afternoon to decide on the last few that need to go. We have one that should be culled since she doesn't meet our size requirements but she made pretty (although smallish) lambs and she will come over to get petted rather than eat grain. Her lambs follow her lead and are some of our tamest sheep.

Teresa is going over the sheep's numbers and since all of the rest of the ewes are in great sheep we decided that any ewe that had singles two cycles in a row will be the ones that go up for sale. I'll run ads for the best as commercial ewes but the rest go to the auction.