Bruce
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Clear progress on the herd Mike. My dad did the same thing, kept those with good form that twined and when the breeding flock could support it, sell off the ewes that always gave singles.
Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal
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Baymule
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You have some VERY nice sheep! I love the Just Because picture, I have a weakness for Blue Merle Aussies. Funny how the Catahoula pup we have now is also a blue merle. things just sorta worked out that way.
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Mike CHS
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We processed an almost full 8 quart pan full of chopped cucumbers, onions and peppers. We were using one of those Chop Wizards that we have been using for years and we found they do have a shelf life. One corner of the hard plastic container had broken at some point and the pieces were among the pan full of veggies that were going to be relish but instead got pitched out.
At that point we headed in to the 4H Chicken show and sale. We did get 4 very nice Black Sex-Links. There was five in the sale but a friends son had bought 5 Barred Rocks and wanted a Sex-Link so we swapped for one.
At that point we headed in to the 4H Chicken show and sale. We did get 4 very nice Black Sex-Links. There was five in the sale but a friends son had bought 5 Barred Rocks and wanted a Sex-Link so we swapped for one.
greybeard
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Shoulda listened to Ron.........the one & only, easy to use, a snap to clean, World Famous (as seen on TV) Ronco Veg-O-Matic.
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Mike CHS
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I think we have every gadget know to man but not that one. I like the ones we have but I guess every piece of plastic has a stress limit. The one that broke has literally been slammed down on veggies of various kind probably 10's of thousands of times. We weren't really wanting to heat the kitchen up anyway. 
RollingAcres
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Nice! I currently have lots of green peppers. I need to get them cut up and freeze them.
greybeard
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Actually, that was a tongue in cheek reply. Those veg-o-matics were pretty much a running joke for years...kinda like the Ronco pocket fisherman.
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Mike CHS
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I ran Teresa out of the living room. There was a slice of leftover pizza that seemed like a filling breakfast. She was fine with it until I opened a can of anchovies to put all over that one slice of pizza.
It's going to be a long day. We have to load up one sheep to take to the processor and then we are going to worm both groups of sheep. Fecals showed some Barber Pole worms in two of the girls so we are going to hit them all today. I know the ideal way is to isolate but we don't have the acreage to do so. I'm hoping the group of lambs will come in but I have my doubts since they haven't been handled as much as the older group.
It's going to be a long day. We have to load up one sheep to take to the processor and then we are going to worm both groups of sheep. Fecals showed some Barber Pole worms in two of the girls so we are going to hit them all today. I know the ideal way is to isolate but we don't have the acreage to do so. I'm hoping the group of lambs will come in but I have my doubts since they haven't been handled as much as the older group.
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RollingAcres
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Mike CHS
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I wimped out and ran out of steam a little while ago so we put the girls back in their pen and let the boys and dogs out of jail and everyone is back to normal. We will do the lamb herd on Thursday since I ran out of steam today. Man handling those girls doesn't get easier with age and I couldn't figure out why I wore out so fast when it dawned on me that we had always had a helper with the sheep until this time. Our smallest ewe was 112 lbs but she is a cull while the rest ranged from 135 - 170. The spotted ewe is the obese one. We got the breeder group scored and only had to worm the 3 that we had ran fecal samples on. We have 6 that we are either going to take to market or outright sell.
