Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Beekissed]

I love that! I love these sheep. I have a ewe like that...she takes no nonsense of any kind. She's my favorite.

 

[Baymule]

You got lucky on those two lambs. Good girl Maisy on the alert. Animals talk to you, but you have to listen.

 

[Mike CHS]

I'm going to remove the fence around what was our chicken area a couple of years ago. It was convenient to use for the LGDs when we were working sheep but other than that it doesn't get used and it's just another area of fence that needs to be trimmed. I called the sheep in to eat the grass down for a few minutes before I start that.

 

[Bruce]

My 33 ewe (Wild Thangs sister) was pretty close and after he pushed his weight into me one last time, she head butted him to make him stop

A Shepherd Guardian Ewe!!

 

[Baymule]

Mike, how are you and Teresa doing in this Coronavirus madness? I hope y'all are hunkered down and doing ok. I know your freezers are stocked! LOL LOL

 

[Mike CHS]

Our lifestyle hasn't changed much other than we quit going to restaurants. We are semi preppers anyway so there hasn't been any impact from the commercial world since we could probably go many months without leaving the farm if we felt that concerned. Two of the freezers are full and the third is awaiting half of Fred any day now.

What's funny is that the folks in the metro area are acting nuts while all those we know in our rural area act like nothing is going on. At least it did seem that way till they shut the schools down yesterday.

Are things that nuts in Texas also?

 

[Mike CHS]

It seems I have to be reminded that our fences are hot on a regular basis. I was re-configuring some gate connections to portable netting that was tied to a step in post and the galvanized gate by baling string and managed to touch the gate with the contact on the netting and of course this was done just as the gate touched the top of my head.

 

[B&B Happy goats]

Ouch

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Ouch.... I know the feeling and I just did it yesterday. One of the wires that crosses a gate sags a bit. If I'm not careful to open it all the way it will stop swinging right under that wire and invariably my hand is still on the gate. I know it's there - I know it can happen - but it happens anyway...

 

[Mike CHS]

I know it's there - I know it can happen - but it happens anyway...

I have to make sure it stays hot because of the lambs when I move them. They seem to go directly to the fence when I change paddocks and of course it it isn't hot, they stick their head through it (or try to).