Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

Teresa worked at the kennel this morning and I cut our neighbors pasture that joins our drive so it was a fairly routine day. I have quit giving the ewe herd any feed since they are already fat. I have one girl that was one of the most flighty ewes that we got from a farm in Georgia that has become as sweet as they get. I feed Maisy close to whatever gate she is at when I go out to feed the cows and this girl will always run that way no matter where she is. I'll put the feed bowl down for Maisy and 18-80 (I have to come up with a name) will come up and just stare at me until I give her scratches. Yesterday when she came running I opened the gate and let her out and gave her some of the food I was taking to the cows.

She was content so when I opened the gate to get Maisy's bowl, she went right back in.

 

[Baymule]

Have you ever been any happier in your life?
We count our blessings every day.

 

[Mike CHS]

Have you ever been any happier in your life?
We count our blessings every day.

If I have it is a distant memory. I am perfectly happy and content to spend the rest of my days doing exactly this.

 

[Mike CHS]

We have something going on with our kitchen faucet that started all of a sudden. It is a pretty high end Moen faucet and we installed it over four years ago and don't have the receipt so Teresa checked their website. She found a CSR email address and noted what was going on with the faucet. A day later (today) she checked and saw that she had emails from Moen with shipping information about when the parts would get here, a PDF with installation instructions and all of the part number info in case we needed anything else. It looks like they do honor their lifetime warranty and did so pretty fast with no sales info from us.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

That's awesome! Customer service like that is few and far between these days.

 

[Mike CHS]

I was out trimming some leaves off the okra plants and the ram lambs were getting as close as they could to let me know it's feeding time so I got a decent picture of the two that will be registered. The other smaller lamb is a wether that will be going in the freezer at some point. The ram on the right has almost identical markings as the bottle lamb Taffy. I kept his name as Percy for the time that he is hear since he answers to it.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

They look awesome - and love the markings on the one on the right.

 

[Baymule]

Just look at the hangy-downy thangs on that boy! He’s got lots of baby lambs in there! Whew-doggie! He’ll make a fine flock sire!

 

[Mike CHS]

We moved and brought both herds in to check over and we had quite a few that needed a follow up worming. Those that didn't need wormer got a dose of garlic concentrate. We have quite a few that had a minor parasite load over the last few months but we have gotten fecal samples on them twice before and did not worm. We can hopefully get a better idea of how the garlic is working since we pulled fecals on them again today.

 

[AmberLops]

Beautiful sheep!