Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

Sheep and goat prices are actually up with goats being especially higher than normal. Meat goats last week were going in the $3.50 range for prime. Sheep were bringing from $2.25 to $2.45 for the 40-60 lb range but most of those get shipped to Virginia.

We have sold several 2 year old ewes but they will stay here for a couple of months to be bred back. We placed a flyer at the feed store and have had several call from virus panicked people but after talking to them we pulled the ad.

@farmerjan I don't remember if I posted about the sale barn before but they are allowing only buyers in to the sale and no spectators. Farms drop their animals off before the sale and they give you the option to get your check mailed or you can go back to pick it up. We usually opt for mail since you normally get it no later than two days after the sale and we can avoid another 45 mile drive. Up till now, you would pull in the drive through chute, go back and open your trailer and they would come help get them out. Now you drive in, stay in your truck, they stand back to get your account number and you drive off. Seems to work for them as they haven't missed a sale yet.

 

[Mike CHS]

I don't have a picture of this so you will have to use your imagination. I think most people have seen the circus routine where a car pulls up and clowns start getting out. It seems like they will never stop getting out.

As we were working sheep down in the chute, I saw some movement above us where there shouldn't have been any white critters yet. I saw that it was Mel coming out of the dog house literally on his belly because the door is only about 20 inches high. I'm watching him slowly almost crawl out and it seems like he just keeps coming, and coming, and coming until he is all the way out. The first thing I though of was the clowns in the car.

I'm attaching a picture of the dog house with Mel beside it for scale.

 

[Baymule]

Sounds like the sales are giving y’all a good price. Curbside auction barn. LOL LOL Pandemic pandemonium, everybody suddenly wants to be a farmer, without the foggiest idea of how to go about it. You would have been sending your lambs to a certain death due to ignorance.

 

[CntryBoy777]

.....I don't know if Barb ever told ya about our "adventure" of getting him in the backseat of her truck @ 3am....but, just think about squeezing Babar into a small space and he isn't enthusiastic to fit.........we knew we didn't wish to face that very many times along the way.........glad prices are up for ya and the demand should increase some with the plants shut down as people look for alternatives.....pork and chicken is pretty thin in the meat cases and noticed the 10# bag of legqtrs have jumped from $4.90 to $6.47 and the beef stew meat is close to $7/lb....we got a 40# of legqtrs for $23 thru a meat mkt....so we have meat for a bit....one thing about chicken...it can be fixed in so many ways ya can always think ya are eating something different....

 

[Mike CHS]

.....I don't know if Barb ever told ya about our "adventure" of getting him in the backseat of her truck @ 3am....but, just think about squeezing Babar into a small space and he isn't enthusiastic to fit.........we knew we didn't wish to face that very many times along the way........

That is why we are seriously looking for a bigger truck. That poor boy has to tuck his head and shoulders down to rife in my Tacoma but he jumps right in (with some help on the back end)

 

[Mike CHS]

Sounds like the sales are giving y’all a good price. Curbside auction barn. LOL LOL Pandemic pandemonium, everybody suddenly wants to be a farmer, without the foggiest idea of how to go about it. You would have been sending your lambs to a certain death due to ignorance.

I'm sending them to their death when we take them to market but they had a good life till that last day. I won't let someone take them that will sentence them to a slow death.

 

[Beekissed]

My fence post guy asked me if I had any "cheap lambs" for sale as his neighbor wants a few. I didn't quite know what to say...cheap lambs? I almost suggested that he sell his neighbor one of his cheap calves, instead. There are no cheap lambs on this place.

It will be interesting to see what market prices for lamb are when mine are finished...I think everything is going to be going pretty high.

 

[Baymule]

Slaughter death is better than abuse, ignorant starvation death.

Cheap lambs? Like what? Twenty bucks? What a moron. You can’t fix stupid and they keep breeding more of themselves.

 

[Bruce]

Pandemic pandemonium, everybody suddenly wants to be a farmer, without the foggiest idea of how to go about it.

Oh come on Bay, it is EASY! You just stick seeds in the ground, doesn't take much smarts to farm. Bloomberg told us so.

 

[farmerjan]

Yeah, MR KNOW IT ALL.....They all ought to get hungry and find out how easy it is..... except he has so much money he will never get hungry....SOB