Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

I post about all our rain but it is never griping. I'm just wondering if the morning spent spraying the grass in the driveway was wasted.

Did @Beekissed ever say how much they spent on the sheep they got. I looked back over the thread we were posting in but didn't want to hijack it anymore than we already had. I'm not being nosey but there are some surprises in the cost of some real nice commercial ewes. I was going to send a PM but this topic might help a few more people.

 

[Mike CHS]

I took a couple of pictures of the ram lambs when I was out giving them a bit of feed. They are on nice grass and don't need it but we are taking a couple to our Association meeting and sale in November so we want to keep them coming to us. The first picture is Percy and his shadow 66 who would make an awesome pet but he is slated for the freezer. I've said before but all except one of the group has their sire's calm manner. They like attention but have never been pushy and were fairly easy to work with halter training.

 

[Senile_Texas_Aggie]

Beautiful pictures. Say, if you don't mind, could you post a Google Earth picture of your place? Oftentimes, when you post pictures of your beautiful pastures, I wonder just where on your property the picture is taken and where the view is pointing. If you don't want to do that for privacy or other reasons, I understand. I would have a better idea just where we are looking when we see a picture posted. Also, can you post some pictures of your property boundaries as they look at the moment? You mentioned that you are starting to clear out around the boundaries and I am wondering just what kind of battle you are facing, such as if you must battle Miss @Baymule's favorite plant -- green briars.

Senile Texas Aggie

 

[Mike CHS]

If you don't want to do that for privacy or other reasons, I understand. I would have a better idea just where we are looking when we see a picture posted. Also, can you post some pictures of your property boundaries as they look at the moment? You mentioned that you are starting to clear out around the boundaries and I am wondering just what kind of battle you are facing, such as if you must battle Miss @Baymule's favorite plant -- green briars.

Senile Texas Aggie

I'm not concerned with privacy since we aren't that hard to find. @greybeard came up with a map of our place once even though Google Maps thinks we are on a different road. I'll take a couple of pictures today from a couple different angles as you can see from one end to the other from the south drive. I can't use Google Earth but Maps still has the satellite image from before we moved here.

I have already started cleaning out the property line but it's nothing near as bad as Bay or you had to deal with. I have kept the fence line sprayed 2 or 3 times every summer so the only thing I have to deal with is saplings and trees (most of which are from 3" to 8" in diameter).

 

[Mike CHS]

As I was going around the perimeter, I took a few pictures that are typical of what needs to be taken down. The first picture is my northwest corner adjacent to my neighbors barbed wire. It doesn't show well but looking east is what used to be a big garden (a little over an acre) that we will fence in this fall. It was almost barren but I have limed it and been treating it so now there is some decent graze.

The second picture is about where I took the picture of the ram lambs this morning. I have 6 paddocks starting at the north end. The last picture is adjacent to my paddock

 

[Mike CHS]

@Senile_Texas_Aggie let me add this so it makes better sense. Our paddock numbers start at the north end with P1 being the northeast end and P2 the Northwest. Heading south we have the dog training pen and Paddocks 3 and 4. South of that is paddock 5 and 6. 6 is divided into 3 paddocks with hot netting and poly rope. Paddock 7 is our south most paddock and right now contains the steers and the ram.

 

[Mike CHS]

We went to town this afternoon to pick up a few things and when we got home, the chickens were having a fit. We went around and didn't see any of the chicks so we figured something had gotten them all, I wandered around looking for sign of what might have happened and found nothing. About a half hour later, Teresa was outside and heard chicks peeping. The Barred Rock hen was in one of the shelters and she had the chicks up under a concrete ledge hiding. We didn't lose any of the poultry but something scared the bejeebers out of them. I found it interesting that the hen that had adopted had stayed with the chicks.

 

[Baymule]

That hen is a good foster Momma! No soup pot for her! Hope you find what scared them so bad, it might have been a hawk.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Sounds like ya arrived just in time to send them running, or flying off.....glad she is a Great momma....whether she hatched em or not.....

 

[CntryBoy777]

Oh, @Senile_Texas_Aggie , I can atest that the pictures, just don't do it "justice"....nuthin like having your feet on the ground, itself.....