Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Baymule]

That’s a pretty good arrangement. Teresa doesn’t have a lamb peeing and pooping in the dog crate for her to clean up after. I used extra large potty pads for our two bottle lambs in February. Overnight they must have peed a couple of gallons each and pooped a pile. Clean up dog crate before I even had morning coffee!

I’m glad he is doing so well.

 

[Mike CHS]

We also use the large pads in the crate but he rarely made a mess in it. When he would wake up from a nap he would stand there yelling and we would take him out in the yard.

 

[Baymule]

That is one smart lamb!

 

[Bruce]

Maybe he's a dog in sheep's clothing?

We have an invasion of Asian Lady Bugs and they are everywhere. They look mostly like regular Lady Bugs but these things bite.

We get those too but they don't bite. Look like a ladybug with white cheeks. Some years we have them in the house in the winter.

 

[Mike CHS]

This seems to be the season for singles. We have 4 single lambs and one set of twins. The latest to lamb is a ewe that has had trips two times in a row but she had a 10.5 lb ram lamb so I'm glad she had a single.

The co-parenting with Little Bit is working for us as he will immediately leave his dam as soon as he hears our voices. He is still getting the milk he needs and we don't have any mess to clean up in the house. His momma isn't crazy about the situation since anytime we are out there he follows us and leaves his momma. As he gets bigger, Little Bit will have a name change to "Billy" since he acts more like a billy goat when he gets frustrated in not getting what he wants, when he wants it.

 

[Mike CHS]

Some may remember the colorful ram lamb (Percy) that we sold a couple of years ago as a lamb. We don't normally sell lambs as herd sire but this boy looked good enough at 4 months old that there was a couple of farms that wanted him. He was already at 125 pounds and on grass when he went. He was our tamest lamb up until the day we hauled him to his next home and he turned his back on me after we unloaded him. He is a Ringo son and has the calm manner of his sire. The farm that he went to posted a current picture and I thought to share.

 

[Finnie]

What a beautiful ram!

 

[Baymule]

Percy is outstanding! What a pretty boy!

 

[Mini Horses]

Wow!! That should make you proud of your breeding program. What a looker!

 

[Bruce]

Well done!