Baymule
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It looks good!
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Bruce
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Could you spell it?
RollingAcres
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We went down to Alabama to pick up another couple of bushels of apples so we had to stop at what is now my favorite place to eat - Pho Nam. We shared their Facebook page with ours the last time we went and since then several other people have done the same so we are hoping they get enough business to do well. Vietnamese food is my favorite and this couple does it perfectly. They spent a lot of time at the table with us looking at pictures and we agreed to bring them some sheep meat the next time we go so they can try it out. They told us what we were eating but I couldn't pronounce it.
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Nice pic Mike. The pho looked good.
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Mike CHS
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CntryBoy777
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I'd need more details, before trying.....but will accept your word for it.....it reminds me of hog-maw soup.....
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Mike CHS
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There usually isn't that much meat and more pasta than this bowl had. Her husband said she liked me and threw in some extra.
We had to come in and take a break from working sheep. We're doing hooves and pulling random fecal samples on the ewe lambs. We are thinking about selling the tilt table and just do their hooves by putting them on their butts. They go in the chute on their own since they can see through the guillotine gate rather than the solid metal of the tilt table and I think it actually went faster for this group.
We had to come in and take a break from working sheep. We're doing hooves and pulling random fecal samples on the ewe lambs. We are thinking about selling the tilt table and just do their hooves by putting them on their butts. They go in the chute on their own since they can see through the guillotine gate rather than the solid metal of the tilt table and I think it actually went faster for this group.
Guess you could also build something like a milking stanchion with head gate... Get them "elevated" a bit so you don't have to stoop over or kneel down... Just walk them up and on for some treats and trim the hooves, then release them and let them walk away... Patting the goats while they are standing up on the deck of the new goat mansion (to be) has me determined to have a milk stanchion by kidding time next spring. I could milk them standing, vice getting down on one knee. Trimming hooves would be a breeze, not clipping them to the fence and bending over holding up the hoof and trimming it while looking at it upside down (standing on my head almost).
Wehner Homestead
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If you sell the tilt table, I have someone interested in a used one.
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Mike CHS
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I'll let you know after we work the older ewes in the next week or so. They are a bit larger so we'll see how the manual process works with them. The 13 ewes we did today weren't stressed out the least bit when we were all done and even kept wandering back into the chute system.
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Mike CHS
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We had a milking stand but sold it last year when we decided we were working hard enough and decided not to get goats. I have several ewes that I wouldn't even think about trying to get up a ramp.
It's easy to sit them on their butts but I just ordered a Sheep Deck Chair from Premier1 and should have it in time to work the senior ewes in a few days. Most of them are tame enough I can just raise their legs up and trim that way. Ringo I can just walk up to and lean him in to me and pick his leg up to do his. He has only needed minor trimming since we have had him. We bought a head gate just for Ringo but haven't had to use it.
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