Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

We moved the ram lambs into a holding pen and brought the ewe herd into the handling chute to worm 12 of them that had high egg counts. All of the sheep have gotten conditioned to moving to the various paddocks that I don't even carry a bucket anymore. We make sure they get fed at the destination of wherever they are moving to so all I have to do is open gates and they gang up around me. We moved the boys, then moved the ewe herd, worked them all through the chute for sorting and then moved them across the paddock on to fresh graze and it took a few minutes short of an hour.

I went on to cut grass and Teresa and JMike worked on fixing a runoff problem we had in the chicken pen. There isn't a gig slope but it is 3 or 4 degrees with a whole lot of 10 degree beyond that that really brings a lot of water through the pen. We had a piece of 10" lumber to divert the water but the runoff had brought enough dirt down that the dirt was level with the top. They dug out part of it then put T-posts with palets to make a crude but effective retaining wall. That 10: lumber is on the back of the pallets and if that starts to fill in we can just add more lumber. That lumber has been there for a couple of years so it should work for awhile.

The cat has appeared to have claimed a spot in the hay shed and will get a name at some point when we are sure she is going to stick around.

 

[Bruce]

My bet is she has no plans to move on, she's found a great home.

 

[CntryBoy777]

She is a real Cutie!!....hope she does stick around....

 

[RollingAcres]

She is cute and I think she won't be leaving anytime soon.

 

[Mike CHS]

Fingers still crossed but our sickly ram lamb that we threw the medicine chest at yesterday seems to be on the mend. He came running today when I called them in for feed and he is grazing and eating normally. I'm going to move them to the dry lot tomorrow to make sure they all put a bit more weight on to go to the sale barn for a few of them and the registered boys will be going to the KHSI sale coming up (assuming they get better on halters).

The Watermelons out of the garden are some of the best tasting yet. We gave quite a few away since there is more there than we can eat but we have been going through two or more a week.

 

[Bruce]

Great news on the ram lamb!

 

[Baymule]

Cute kitty, I like the smudge on her nose. That’s a pretty good retainer wall for the chicken coop.

So those calm easy going lambs disappeared when you brought out the halters?

 

[CntryBoy777]

Something that mom would do is to cut it up and freeze it in ziplock bags and then thru winter would put some in a blender to make watermelon slushes every once in a while....they liked em pretty good....

 

[Mike CHS]

Cute kitty, I like the smudge on her nose. That’s a pretty good retainer wall for the chicken coop.

So those calm easy going lambs disappeared when you brought out the halters?

We just did two of the registered boys but they are already over 90 pounds at three months old. I didn't push it since I have yet to create any fear in these boys but the big boy with all of the color just lay down after figuring out he couldn't get loose.

 

[Mike CHS]

Something that mom would do is to cut it up and freeze it in ziplock bags and then thru winter would put some in a blender to make watermelon slushes every once in a while....they liked em pretty good....

I'll have to try some of that but we can't do a bunch since freezer space is going to be at a premium. We are going to pick up another freezer in the next week or so to replace the one that died. But we are also going to have one of the cows processed in the next couple of months. We haven't found anyone yet that wants a half and over 600 pounds of beef is more than we can handle.