Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

We just finished processing the shoulders. We vacuum seal one pound portions so we are probably good till pork shoulders go on sale again. One of the shoulders went to a neighbor who loves my BBQ and recently did a bit of welding for me. He wouldn't take anything for his time as expected but he was happy to get the shoulder unexpectedly when we took it over tonight.

 

[Baymule]

You give the cracklin's to the dog? oh NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!

 

[Mike CHS]

Teresa and I brought the sheep in this morning to give them all a garlic drench and a few of them are getting pulled down by the nursing lambs so we gave them a dose of vitamin. A couple of times after I pushed more of them into the crowd pen to load the chute again it looked like the number left to go was growing instead of getting smaller.

All of the lambs also got their CDT shots and we marked those that will be sold soon.

 

[Mike CHS]

We have one lamb that has swollen knee joints. From our reading we are pretty sure it is a bacterial infection and we have meds to treat it. I'm just posting in case anyone else has this issue crop up as this is the first time that we have had it.

 

[Bruce]

That lamb has 6 legs!!!! And two of them aren't like the others. I hope you can get those front ones fixed up quickly.

and Maisy gets a whole bunch of cooked pork treats when the fat cooks down.

And she deserves those treats!

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Hope he gets better fast!

 

[Baymule]

Poor lamb! Good thing that y’all are right on top of it. I bet y’all will be glad when you get your covered work area!

 

[Mike CHS]

Poor lamb! Good thing that y’all are right on top of it. I bet y’all will be glad when you get your covered work area!

Hopefully it will get done in a couple of weeks. The contractor had to order metal struts and the manufacturer wasn't able to get them done quickly because they had to be custom engineered. It was 92 degrees out today and it took us almost 3 hours to run them all through but the sheep make it fairly easy. All of them except Wild Thang and her sibling will walk into the crowd pen and straight into the chute as soon as I open the gate.

 

[Mike CHS]

Some random pictures around the garden beds. I'm not sure why but the chickens have never been a problem in the garden before this year but this spring they have been doing more damage than ever. We wound up putting chicken wire around every bed or we might as well not garden. We could pen them up but we don't want to do that.

The pepper plants are starting to show signs of recovering and the tomatoes are putting on fruit. The dwarf cherry trees are covered with fruit but they are small. I have been eating my fill of them as I'm working around the yard.

The peach, apple and pear trees are covered in fruit. There are two that don't have anything on them so they are going to be cut down.

You can't see them well but there are 3 raised beds terraced between the fruit trees and another outside the garden that holds a bunch of yellow squash. Since they don't get beat up with the sun and it stays a bit cooler in them, they have zucchini, Sugar Snap Peas and cucumbers.

 

[Baymule]

Beautiful garden! That cherry tree really catches my eye, cherry pie is my favorite. All I've ever had is the frozen-heat-em-up-kind. I planted a cherry tree here, but it didn't survive. I guess it didn't like the sand. I'll have to try again. The picture of your loaded tree inspires me.