Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Bruce]

X2!!

 

[goatgurl]

so, ok I am catching up on reading your journal and I get to the part about taking the trailer to the sale to bring animals home for others and i'm thinking, oh sure, wonder what he's gonna buy. no way he's gonna come home with an empty trailer. yup, she is quite the lovely young lady. congrats, she is going to make a great addition i'm thinking. is that handsome ram in the picture her sire? they sure marked the same.
glad your young protégé is staying out of trouble. hope he has learned a lesson from all his escapades. if earning and spending wisely that kind money is any indication maybe he is finally growing up a little.

 

[Mike CHS]

The ram isn't related but he may have some of the same ancestry since that farm is one of the biggest around.

 

[RollingAcres]

She is easy to pick out seeing as she is the only one with a recent bath.

But you didn't wash her feet.

 

[RollingAcres]

Mike, since I don't know anything about sheep and sheep keeping, I'm going to ask:

• Do you have to shear them?
• How often do you shear them?

 

[Mike CHS]

We have Katahdins and some Katahdin/Dorper cross which are hair sheep (no wool). They shed pretty clean but you can see on some of our pictures that some don't shed perfectly. They are usually better at it by the time they get into their second year.

 

[RollingAcres]

Ohhh ok. Thank you for answering.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

@RollingAcres wool breeds need sheared yearly in the spring.

 

[RollingAcres]

Thank you @Wehner Homestead .
Just in case you are wondering, I am NOT getting any sheep (yet).

 

[Latestarter]

Love the qualification at the end... "yet" <---That's the killer!