Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Baymule]

That looks so nice! All under cover, no hot sun beating down on you. That's just freakin' awesome.

 

[Mike CHS]

This is one of those TMI posts so don't read further if the results of working sheep hooves all day bothers you.











We use the regular hoof trimmers on the sheep but in most cases if it is a sheep that is fairly calm, I will use an angle grinder. It only takes a half minute or so per hoof and does a super job. I was finally able to blow my nose and the results were gross. What came out looked like a batch of sheep manure and hoof dust. I go in and sweep up their manure in the holding pen every 20 minutes or so but they still have a lot of stuff on their feet.

 

[mystang89]

This is one of those TMI posts so don't read further if the results of working sheep hooves all day bothers you.
We use the regular hoof trimmers on the sheep but in most cases if it is a sheep that is fairly calm, I will use an angle grinder. It only takes a half minute or so per hoof and does a super job. I was finally able to blow my nose and the results were gross. What came out looked like a batch of sheep manure and hoof dust. I go in and sweep up their manure in the holding pen every 20 minutes or so but they still have a lot of stuff on their feet.

Mmmm, yummy! Lol

I've seen people on YouTube use an angle grinder and thought about it myself but since I don't have one of those chairs, and it's just me trying to last then down and maneuver them, I haven't tried it.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Ahhh yes, the yucky nose blow after cleaning up goat house and animal pens.....and breathing the dirty lime rock dust that floats toward us in clouds from the un paved roads around us...gotta love it....and the dust that settles inside the house.....yikes

 

[Baymule]

So what you are saying is, if you value your lungs, wear one of those annoying, hot, hard to breathe through, face masks. Or you can snarf all that crud deep into your lungs. I worked in a welding shop, making oil field pumping units, when I was in my 20's. It took a 3 day weekend of blowing my nose before all the black nasty boogers cleared up.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Lungs sure do put up with a lot of crud, thank god we get two of them !

 

[Bruce]

Our new helper is an excellent worker and doesn't wait to be told what to do. I'm glad he was here since we have several that are over 170 pounds and it's a bear getting them in the chair to check hooves.

Yay for J. Mike!!! How old is he? Can you "keep" him a few years or will he be heading off to college?

This is one of those TMI posts so don't read further if the results of working sheep hooves all day bothers you.

Yep, good time to be wearing a respirator. I've finally gotten to where I remember to do it when I (rarely) sweeping out the little rooms down in the lower part of the barn. Light dust a quarter inch thick will mostly end up in my nose and lungs. And I was REAL sure to use tit when I cleaned out the coop before the chicks arrived. Can't imagine the ammonia smell I would have had otherwise.

Lungs sure do put up with a lot of crud, thank god we get two of them !

Except that you are doing them both in at the same time!

 

[Mike CHS]

The young lad is a Sophomore and likes to work. He is in demand by a number people so he just about works full time during the summer. We were having trouble getting Wild Thang backed up to the chair so he just picked her up and put her in it. That ewe weighed in at 164 pounds.

 

[mystang89]

Young people who know want to work!? Send him this way! That is a rare commodity.

 

[Mike CHS]

It may just be because it is so rural here and these boys all grew up on farms but we have used several young men on our place and they have all been good. There are a couple that we won't use again but they were the exception overall.