Bruce
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As long as you don't let Jan choose the rehab place
Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal
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Ridgetop
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Mini Horses
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Not enough nurses to control that!!
. Elderly patients would be calling 911 for disturbances, hall racing, partying and just general chaos. Video hall cams would show up on TikTok! 
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Mike CHS
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We are going to have what I hope is our last freeze tonight. We have the beds covered that are planted plus there is a bunch of Asparagus coming up that we want to harvest.
We worked the lambs this afternoon to check them out and pulled fecals on a couple that don't seem to be thriving. Their average age is 5 months now and none of them have needed worming so far but we will see what the fecals show.
We worked the lambs this afternoon to check them out and pulled fecals on a couple that don't seem to be thriving. Their average age is 5 months now and none of them have needed worming so far but we will see what the fecals show.
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Mike CHS
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We did the fecal samples that we pulled from the lambs and a couple have coccidia but no barber pole. I don't need a fecal to diagnose coccidia since I can usually tell by the smell and look of their feces.
Baymule
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That sounds like the results of an extraordinary breeding program!
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Mike CHS
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I think our ram Cooper is setting me up. It has been well over a year now since he has made any sign of aggression, so he is probably just waiting for me to quit looking. He loves attention and will even raise his head high so I can scratch his neck. I spent probably more than a half hour this morning pulling his hair off in clumps and he just stands there. He has that kind of coat when the hair is mostly not attached to his hide but it is so think that it doesn't just fall off quickly. Of course all the ewes do the same thing and almost get in a line waiting their turns.
He loves attention and will even raise his head high so I can scratch his neck. I spent probably more than a half hour this morning pulling his hair off in clumps and he just stands there. He has that kind of coat when the hair is mostly not attached to his hide but it is so think that it doesn't just fall off quickly. Of course all the ewes do the same thing and almost get in a line waiting their turns.
Baymule
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I have some that shed well, some that don’t. I ordered hand shears last year and clipped the “don’ts” LOL I’m looking at my one registered ewe, she has a thick coat of fur. She looks hot.
Cooper has learned that you are the guy that brings treats and does scratches. He doesn’t want to mess that up!
Cooper has learned that you are the guy that brings treats and does scratches. He doesn’t want to mess that up!
Ridgetop
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I have a mixed flock of shedders. Some are complete sheds and look like they have been prepped for a show, some carry patches of wool on the sides and top as if they have some horrible disease, some have mohawks along their spines, some have wool except on their bellies, chests, etc. The funny thing is that they do not shed the same way each year. Some of the complete sheds carry wool on alternate years. I really can't make a true determination until the second shedding to cull out those that don't shed. I have at least 6 or more that completely shed out each year. I can't add the lambs into the shedding statistics yet since they don't shed their baby wool until the following spring. I do notice them scratching on the big brush roller in the pen. I need to get it set upright so they can all scratch on it. It is a roller off a street sweeper and needs to be mounted on a post through the center hole to stand upright. Or maybe on a cross bar so they can scratch their backs. Right now it is flat in the pen and they rub their sides on it. The weather has just now gotten warmer so I expect the sheep to start really shedding out soon.
Bruce
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"Just now"? Dad said it was 104°F in Fullerton a couple of days ago
