Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[CntryBoy777]

Obviously...somebody sure didn't have a good day at work that day....

 

[Baymule]

At least you got the dog food.

 

[farmerjan]

I hate to even ask this, but is there an expiration date on dog food? Maybe this shipment was pulled from old stock and someone else was supposed to get it and they put the wrong shipping label on it? I can't imagine how they got it so messed up, with stuff that looked old.... maybe sun bleached from being in a window, or something. I would be a little concerned about "fresheness" of all of it.

 

[Bruce]

I suspect the Amazon warehouse people are WAY over worked. Mistakes happen.

 

[Mike CHS]

I hate to even ask this, but is there an expiration date on dog food? Maybe this shipment was pulled from old stock and someone else was supposed to get it and they put the wrong shipping label on it? I can't imagine how they got it so messed up, with stuff that looked old.... maybe sun bleached from being in a window, or something. I would be a little concerned about "fresheness" of all of it.

The dates on the dog food is good. There is no esplanation for all of the other things. Somebody had a funny moment while packing to get rid of the trash.

 

[Mike CHS]

We got our payment and the breakdown on the quality of the lambs we took in the other day. The ewes were graded as one thin and one fat but we expected that (which is partly why they were being culled). Of the 14 lambs that we took, 9 were graded as choice and the rest were prime. We didn't weigh them the day we took them in but we had weighed them 10 days before. They had all put on 10-14 pounds in that 10 days so it was a fair trade for us based on the prices for them.

 

[Mike CHS]

It looks like this is going to be our first day in the 80's but it has been a pleasant spring. We are getting ready to bring the sheep in tp pull all of the lambs for weaning and finish up the sale list since they are all in that ideal weight range right now.

 

[Baymule]

Going to be lots of BAA BAA BAAING going on at your place!

 

[Mike CHS]

We finished with the sheep right at 1:30 so it wasn't too bad since we had to wait for a neighbor right in the middle of it and move them again. He wants to buy a couple of exposed ewes and as luck would have it, the two that he wanted were among the first batch which was already our of the handling area. We pulled fecals on all of the adults that we are retaining. We changed our mind on some of the replacement ewes that we had thought to keep and we are keeping a couple that wasn't in the plan since their rate of growth is super.

 

[farmerjan]

We do the same thing as far as keeping replacement heifers. They actually get looked at 3 times. Initial looking over, "I like that one, I don't like that one. that one is a bit cow hocked, that one has a narrow front end or rear end" etc. Then after making the initial cut, and selling them, then the next time is a few months after weaning, and re-evaluating and maybe picking out some other things. Disposition also always being considered. Then there is the yearling look over to be sure before they get put out to then go into the breeding group. I have changed my mind a few times over the years for who to keep. And some depends on whether we are keeping certain cows, say if one has some age and comes up open, we might keep her heifer to keep the "line " going if she is decent but maybe not outstanding, because the line has always had consistently good calves.
Hope all your picks to keep do what you want in the future.

Are prices that good there? I understand that here they have fallen off with all this virus crap..... because the one sale that usually has the best prices and biggest number of buyers has been restricting attendance..... But I haven't really heard what "fallen off" is in comparison.