Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

I ran across a moth that I had never seen before while I was running the weed eater around a power pole. Looked it up and it turns out to be a Giant Leopard Moth.

 

[Baymule]

That’s pretty!

 

[farmerjan]

It is interesting.... what does come from? Type of worm/ whatever....

There were 2 huge Luna Moth's at my parents house after the funeral... on 2 separate posts on the porch.... They stayed there for the better part of the day....

 

[farmerjan]

I looked it up... a giant "wooly bear" that is basically all black with little bits of orange seen when they roll into a little ball. I will have to take note of the black wooly bears this fall.... Neat....

 

[Mike CHS]

I looked it up... a giant "wooly bear" that is basically all black with little bits of orange seen when they roll into a little ball. I will have to take note of the black wooly bears this fall.... Neat....

I did a bit of reading when I was trying to see what they were and they are interesting.

 

[Mike CHS]

We pulled fecals from half of the lambs and two of those will be wormed tomorrow. The others all look great but we will pull fecals on them when we bring them in again. So far that is 6 of the 8 lambs that have not needed worming and they are in the paddock that has given us the most problem. I did spray nitrogen in that field which may have made a difference so my unscientific approach may have an affect. One of the two lambs are from a line of registered sheep that we haven't had a lot of luck with. We took two of them to auction and cut off their original farm tag. They make beautiful lambs and their parasite resistance is better with the rams added genes so they still have some time plus I like them. That puts things in their favor.

 

[Bruce]

And last is the ewe lambs and Pete the wether along with Mel waiting for breakfast.

Say ... has anyone ever noticed that Mel is one BIG boy?

 

[Mike CHS]

Say ... has anyone ever noticed that Mel is one BIG boy?

Most everyone knows Mel's personality but folks don't assume that he is a big teddy bear since he is so vocal with strangers anymore. There was a contractor crew from the power company that came on to our place awhile back to trim trees close to the power lines. All of the power lines on our place are in my outside lane so they never had to go into the paddocks. Only the boss spoke English and not very well at that but when I was taking him out to show how to get to the lines, I pointed to Mel and said "Make sure none of your workers get near that big dog" He then asked does he jump the fence and I pointed to the hot and ground wire above the fence and told him that was why we had the hot wire was to keep him in since he could be so dangerous. Mel and Maisy both sat by the fence and stared at them the whole time they were out there but I never saw anyone go near the fence. I may have already posted about this.

 

[Mike CHS]

It is interesting.... what does come from? Type of worm/ whatever....

There were 2 huge Luna Moth's at my parents house after the funeral... on 2 separate posts on the porch.... They stayed there for the better part of the day....

It starts life as a caterpillar that can get up to two inches long.

 

[Mike CHS]

I don't think I mentioned but when we were working the ewe lambs the other day we went ahead and put Pete the wether on the weight scale and he was 197 pounds. It's a good thing he has a job since he would have some big chops.