Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[CntryBoy777]

I will tell ya the truth....I was wanting to get Hoss from ya, along with a couple of more....to help out with the previous place....but, things fell apart on me....so, I had to bite my tongue, when ya started talking about selling him....
I think your attention to "detail" is being revealed....and as the old saying goes.....the Proof is in the Puddin'.....

 

[Mike CHS]

I will tell ya the truth....I was wanting to get Hoss from ya, along with a couple of more....to help out with the previous place....but, things fell apart on me....so, I had to bite my tongue, when ya started talking about selling him....
I think your attention to "detail" is being revealed....and as the old saying goes.....the Proof is in the Puddin'.....

You had enough going on that it was never a big deal, I lost track of who got which one but Joe got the sibling of Hoss. I think Hoss wound up in our freezer after he threw my shoulder completely out of shape.

 

[promiseacres]

[QUOTE="Mike CHS, post: 617235, member: 8491"? We have been going through our records and we have pretty much decided that we are going to go with mixed breed sheep and back off of the registered sheep. We have registered ewes from several of the most prestigious farms in our area and they don't maintain condition like our mutts. We have sold some of our mutts for about the same price as the registered stock since they have a documented history of growth, parasite success (both tolerance and resistance) and just plain being healthy. Not to mention they like human contact and are never aggressive.[/QUOTE]
Do you know what they are crossed with? Just curious. Sometimes I miss my sheep...but I like my camper better... miss the lambs and spots.

 

[Mike CHS]

The original 10 were a Dorper/Katahdin cross with the ram being the Dorper but even the Katahdins had been crossed with a Dorper a couple of generations earlier.

 

[Mike CHS]

We brought the ewe herd in for routine checks and a couple of them needed some work on their hooves. We pulled fecal samples on 18 of them that we have been tracking egg counts on for the last several months. We usually put electric netting up at the end of the chute to guide them back into the paddock but we already had 10 or so in the holding pen before we thought about it. It was faster to put a couple of our PVC feed troughs inside the gate so I put some food out while Teresa opened the gate to let them out.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Y'all are so Brave to venture in with such "vicious" animals............I'm surprised ya neighbors haven't turned ya into the TWRA.....

 

[Mike CHS]

Y'all are so Brave to venture in with such "vicious" animals............I'm surprised ya neighbors haven't turned ya into the TWRA.....

We treat them rough so they stay scared of us.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

 

[Mike CHS]

We put up 10 quarts of tomatoes this morning and picked enough today to probably be close to another 10 quarts but the determinate plants are about to quit on us. The cherry tomatoes are still going strong so we will have them probably until frost.

We're giving as many squash away as we are keeping so the neighbors are all happy. There is quite a few melons out there double the size of the one in the picture.


The picture is from this afternoon.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Just..wow!