Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Baymule]

Hmmmm……. I got an air fryer for a White Elephant Christmas gift and have never used it. I guess I should get it out and try it. Greasy fried foods are high on my list of edibles. All my life I was skinny (not now, just somewhere between slender and not fat LOL) and people asked how I stayed so slim. My answer was fried greasy foods, lots of red meat and chocolate. Sadly, now I have to watch what I eat -- right up to my lips. OK, I do try to eat healthier, lots of veggies, less carbs, but the call of fried foods is pretty danged strong...…. now where did I put that air fryer?

 

[Mike CHS]

The 10 ewe lambs have now been without any adult ewes around now for three days and are starting to act less flighty. They are all 12-14 weeks old and have only been weaned for 2-4 weeks. When there were adults around, all I had to do is yell "here sheep" and they would all come including the lambs. Monday I was getting real close to going to get Lance when they decided getting fed wasn't such a scary thing to do. We had to drive them in again in the afternoon but this time they went straight to the feed troughs once we gave them a nudge. Now as soon as they hear the Ranger coming down the hill they are waiting at the troughs for me to put feed out.

 

[frustratedearthmother]

Doesn't take 'em long to figure out that the previously scary human isn't so scary when they bring the feed!

 

[Baymule]

Feed is a great motivator for sheep. I think you could almost teach them to do a back flip for feed. LOL

 

[Mike CHS]

I haven't been taking as many pictures as I used to but I did grab a couple when I was down feeding this morning. The lambs are the 10 that we retained. They all have that long legged/long body look that we have been working toward. A couple of them are smaller but they were the last born and were triplets.

Mel was being called out of the shop after eating and you can tell how excited he is to be leaving. The other is just because I love this big boy. That is the look he gets when he is being petted and has his big paw over my legs.

 

[Mike CHS]

I'm assuming that we have had our last freeze but either way, we got 20 tomato beef steak type plants in the ground as well as a couple of cherry tomatoes. We have lettuce ready to harvest and green beans and potatoes growing well. I'm still not sure how the frosts that we had over the weekend didn't kill them unless the wind we have been having kept the frost off them. The beds the tomatoes are in is a little over 5' wide so we will inter-plant radish and onions around the tomatoes to make use of it till the tomatoes get more size to them.

 

[Mike CHS]

We got the results from the sheep and goat sale Monday. All of the lambs were Prime or Choice and one of the cull ewes was listed as fat. I've never quite understood that classification, especially with this ewe who just weighed 112 pounds which is 20-40 pounds lighter than most of our sheep.

 

[Bruce]

Good condition on those sale sheep

Monday I was getting real close to going to get Lance when they decided getting fed wasn't such a scary thing to do.

Poor Lance, cheated out of his fun.

 

[Mike CHS]

I got a message on Facebook this morning from the folks that bought all of our market ewe lambs. We were already Friends on there but he looked up the ear tag number on the lambs and saw that they came from here. He was happy that he was able to get all of the history on the lambs and I was happy to see they went as breeders and not market lambs.

 

[CntryBoy777]

I can't remember if I ever told ya, but the trip to ya that I had the accident....I was going to talk to you about arranging a deal on some stock....Hoss was the "target" I was aiming for and a couple of ewes. I was gonna use them for maintaing the fields....but, looking back at it all now....guess the wreck had a reason for happening.....I will always wonder "what would've been", but wasn't meant to be.... ....in saying that, I for one, wluld like ya to know that the quality of your animals has been noticed for awhile now....and it truly reflects your management practices...and both yours and Teresa's hard work, along with your attention, dedication, and decisions in the improvement of your herd.....

I have "experienced" the Mel treatment myself....my leg went to sleep on me....