Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[misfitmorgan]

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I looked on the net this morning and it wasn't a fluke and prices are all over the place. I expect to pay more for smaller sizes as a convenience factor but I guess I have never bought the shorter rolls.

Those were the prices at our TSC...weird your TSC has the 1/4 mile roll priced so high. I know smaller you pay more per length or unit but that much more is ridiculous.

 

[Wehner Homestead]

@Mike CHS you’ve mentioned using garlic and DE for your sheep. Would you mind sharing more details? I’m thinking that making these a part of our program would be helpful. I realize that they can’t be solely relied on to eliminate worms BUT if I can keep counts down without actual wormers that means more milk for DD2 as I don’t have to worry about withdrawal times.

 

[Mike CHS]

@Wehner Homestead we use the garlic concentrate (drench) when fecals show up to 700 and if they hold steady there we don't worm. When fecal shows climbing we do worm those. I add DE to our bulk feed as I empty it out of the bags not only to use for the sheep but it kills any bugs that might have come in with the feed and I add enough to lightly cover the feed when I put it out.

When we bring them in to check hooves, we drench every one of them and we also add the garlic to the feeders about once a week and I put feed right on top of that. They really seem to love it as none is left behind. We do fecals in batches driven as much by body score as anything else and we now have enough history on the adults that we mostly do those that have shown high counts and random on the others. I like to maintain our ewes as near to prime as possible without letting them get fat and it seems to work for us now after that last never ending rain cycle. Those that have shown a high worm load over the last couple of cycles will be culled when the lambs go to market.

What we are doing is not the least bit scientific but it seems to be working after turning my white hair even whiter with the parasite loads late last summer. We have only had to worm a few of the 32 adults in the last 6 months.

 

[Hens and Roos]

So what dosage amount are you using per pound of sheep? Wondering if the garlic will end up in the milk and give it a garlic taste as we milk our does.

 

[Bruce]

Garlic milk, best way to keep the vampires away at night!

 

[Baymule]

I can vouch for the great condition their ewes are in. Their sheep are healthy and well cared for. And Teresa showed me how to run fecals! @Devonviolet asked me to show her, so Teresa’s teaching is already spreading out to teach others!

 

[Baymule]

Garlic milk, best way to keep the vampires away at night!

Not to mention getting a good dose of wormer for yourself and family LOL

 

[Bruce]

Oh, good point!

 

[Mike CHS]

So what dosage amount are you using per pound of sheep? Wondering if the garlic will end up in the milk and give it a garlic taste as we milk our does.

We give a tbs each plus whatever they pick up with the feed. I don't know about the garlic taste but I know when I was a kid and if there were a lot of wild onions sprouting, that milk could pick up an onion taste. Considering how big our sheep are though that is a smaller amount than Teresa and I eat on average. I use garlic by the scoop almost when I'm cooking.

 

[misfitmorgan]

We give a tbs each plus whatever they pick up with the feed. I don't know about the garlic taste but I know when I was a kid and if there were a lot of wild onions sprouting, that milk could pick up an onion taste. Considering how big our sheep are though that is a smaller amount than Teresa and I eat on average. I use garlic by the scoop almost when I'm cooking.

Where do you pick up the concentrate?