Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

Grace the cat has gotten where it really enjoys being handled and in the process of working with it we discovered that Grace is a male. He responds to his name so he is stuck with Grace.

 

[farmerjan]

Call him Grayson.... close to grace....

 

[Mike CHS]

Somehow we got our lamb status out of whack as we thought we had all of the ram lambs gone. I was out walking with the sheep this morning and noticed one of the lambs had an ear tag in its left ear and said oops. The ear tag in the left ear indicates that it is a ram. We are due for some meat in the freezer so we will band him for later. As much as we are around them I'm not sure how we missed this one.

 

[Bruce]

Because that one is trans, presented as a ewe lamb

 

[Mike CHS]

With all of the rain today, we broke out our planting supplies and seed and got the majority of our spring garden seed planted in flats.

 

[Baymule]

Those are good prices for the lambs! Higher than what I get for them here. Here they sell by the head. If I wanted to make a 5 hour drive one way, I could probably find those prices or darn near to it. West/Central Texas is good goat/sheep country, east Texas-they are catching on, but lag behind.

Congratulations on the super nice lambs, that bring such prices.

I'm not even settled in here yet, still have to go get sheep and dogs (Friday) and I'm already itching to find a farm with lots of GRASS so I can have MORE sheep! Hahaha!

 

[Mike CHS]

We had Lance groomed today which surprisingly he really likes. He also likes to pose for pictures since there is usually a treat involved. I had him out working sheep yesterday since he was scheduled for grooming anyway and he was completely muddy. He is my boy!

 

[Mike CHS]

We actually had a day of full Sun today for the first time in a couple of weeks.

We took the last ram lamb to the sale today and the prices are still holding right at $4.00 a pound for Prime since there are very few sheep available for sale. It looks like the same producers have sheep ready for the early market as last year but that will change over the next several weeks since the majority of producers will start to have lambs ready for sale at the "normal" time frame. We plan on putting the ewes in with Cooper in mid April which is a few weeks earlier than last season and hopefully we can beat the hot temps. We are just breeding 20 ewes this time and we have 13 replacement ewes that won't be bred yet.

 

[Baymule]

Ewe math. Just can’t let those pretty ewes go, gotta keep’em. I am sooooo afflicted!

 

[farmerjan]

Guess that you decided that the prices were good enough to make a trip rather than band and put in the freezer???? I don't blame you one bit. That is why we have sold down on so many heifer calves this year. Prices dictate that we are VERY picky about keeping one for a replacement with what they are bringing. That and problems with getting kill dates means that you don't want to feed too many for too long and cull and then not have dates to kill.