Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Baymule]

Sorting and marking a few at a time may take longer, but you don’t have to do all of them at once-that’s just too much!

Sorry the shoulder is giving you trouble. Didn’t you have surgery on it?

 

[Mike CHS]

Sorting and marking a few at a time may take longer, but you don’t have to do all of them at once-that’s just too much!

Sorry the shoulder is giving you trouble. Didn’t you have surgery on it?

I did two years ago last month. The doc said he could make it less painful but not completely fix it and that's how it is. It is still nothing compared to the way it hurt before but it's easy to stress the shoulder. Most things are no problem but we seem to have a couple that decide they aren't staying in the chair and that's what does it. That is also why we are taking our numbers down to something more manageable.

 

[Mike CHS]

We got all of the raised garden beds tilled yesterday and ready to plant but it will be a couple of weeks before I'll bet on no more frost. It's supposed to get down in the high 30's next week which is frost range here. I have started seed for our tomato and sweet pepper plants. I'm not going to plant any hot peppers this year since we have enough canned and frozen already.

 

[Mike CHS]

I needed gasoline so we took the gas cans and filled them and topped off the truck. Gas was $1.16 a gallon and I can't remember when it was that low. We also stopped at the Farm Supply to pick up some potting soil and that was the extent of our off farm business today.

I made another raised garden bed using landscape timbers that we already had. That bed was leveled into the slope so it serves as a bed and also takes care of an erosion problem we had.

 

[Baymule]

BJ’s shoulder replacement gave him a new life. It popped out of socket 1-3 times a day. Just getting rid of the terrible pain was worth it. It still gets sore and it still hurts, but nothing like it was. It has been hard to scale him back to a level he can manage. LOL

I understand scaling back the numbers. The good part is that you have some VERY good ewes to pick the best from.

We have been working in the garden, it is time to plant. Pecan trees are leafing out, no frost now!

 

[Bruce]

Gas was $1.16 a gallon

Geez and I thought it was REALLY GOOD when I saw gas for $1.99 today. Might get some tomorrow.

 

[Mike CHS]

BJ’s shoulder replacement gave him a new life. It popped out of socket 1-3 times a day. Just getting rid of the terrible pain was worth it. It still gets sore and it still hurts, but nothing like it was. It has been hard to scale him back to a level he can manage. LOL

I understand scaling back the numbers. The good part is that you have some VERY good ewes to pick the best from.

We have been working in the garden, it is time to plant. Pecan trees are leafing out, no frost now!

We are likely to get some frost but the fruit has set and should be OK. We have more fruit set this year than we ever had.

 

[Mike CHS]

We continue to plug away with the sheep. 52 of them have gotten whatever was needed and we will finish up hopefully tomorrow as we are down to 10 lambs and 10 ewes. Even the lambs have gotten so used to the routine that I don't even need to call them but rather just open the gates. It doesn't take really very long but since we have to bring the whole herd in, it does take time to sort them.

 

[Mike CHS]

We got a late start this morning because we were wimps and didn't want to go out and play in the cold since it was so windy. We got the last of the lambs taken care of and half of the ewes hooves looked to. It took awhile since once we decided which of the ewe lambs were keeper candidates we traced our records going back to our first sheep to also have some history on them.

We pulled one of the two month old ram lambs and put him in with the ram and wether. He just turned two months old and is a bit over 50 pounds on grass only so we will fatten him up for a couple of months. There is another ram lamb just as big and two weeks younger that we will pull him the next time we bring them in to separate all the keepers from the market sheep. That will give us three to have for the freezer

 

[Mike CHS]

The weather guessers made some bad guesses about this morning. Last night the forecast was for thunder showers starting around noon today but I woke up to thunder around 4:30 this morning and raining. I had the sheep and the dogs in the one paddock that doesn't have a shelter so I went down to the barn shelter and put some feed in the troughs and filled the creep feeder. Of course they were all standing at the gate by the time I got out there so the move only required opening the three gates. I don't worry about the sheep in the weather but I like to give Maisy and Mel the choice to be in or out of the weather.