Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[CntryBoy777]

Glad to hear things are settlin in for ya over there.
Now that ya have Growth, ya are already thinking about the Next time....a sign of Success!

 

[Mike CHS]

This was a good learning season (which is what we wanted). I think it was @norseofcourse that noted we got some good experience. We did and I know we have a lot yet to learn but it gives us a way forward having a better idea of the reality of what it takes.

 

[Bruce]

Always something to learn but it seems so far you have an A in the class!!

 

[CntryBoy777]

Hopefully that spritz of showers won't set ya back too much, getting the tractor in the field.

 

[Mike CHS]

We are going to an auction this weekend and hope to score a few chickens. We had not planned on getting the barn type coop but it was a Managers Special (clearance) item at TSC so we grabbed it yesterday.

The lambs are growing like weeds and the oldest are putting on almost a pound a day and spend some time in the creep feeder.

We are having the vet out in a couple of weeks to castrate the rams and check everyone out. We decided not to band since we were having the vet come out anyway and he only charges $10 a head.

 

[Hens and Roos]

Nice coop! That's not a bad price for the vet....wish ours charged only that much!

 

[CntryBoy777]

There ya go, now ya can get More!...."Chicken Math".
Hard to believe they have Grown so Fast!
Glad ya have a Vet to call....and the price is well worth the Experience of watching a Pro do it, so ya have more Confidence when it is Faced next time.

 

[Goat Whisperer]

Love the coops.

The vet sounds good already
Will the vet be teaching you how to castrate? You having them cut? If so, the vet should be able to teach you. It is very simple and my preferred method.

 

[Mike CHS]

Yes he is. For the small price tag we figured it would be more than worth it long range.

 

[Mike CHS]

We got caught up on a lot of little thing and got started on fence again. We got the corner and line post in for another 500' of run which will be 1500' total when finished. It incorporates a little over 4 acres which will be subdivided with electric fence later. I'm still not cold hardy (and probably never will be) and we quit about 2:00 today.

This paddock is across the drive way from the pen our sheep are in now and includes a 200' x 150' which will serve as a catch pen for handling the stock later and double as a training pen for herding dogs since we want to get another Border Collie pup next spring.

No good pictures since it makes a left turn at the top of the second picture. The lay of this fence makes a lot of short turns to keep us relatively straight but lets us avoid an area that is parallel to the fence line but is sold rock about a foot under the surface.

We want to get this done by the middle of next week so we are laying out and planting all of the wood posts and marking and laying out all of the T-posts.

They say you are supposed to work smarter, not harder so once all of the wood posts are in the ground we are hiring two of our neighbor sons to drive T-posts.