Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Mike CHS]

The sire of our dog had a garnet and a amber eye and her dam had multi colored eyes.

There has been more than a few occasions where dogs would act aggressively to the Aussie for no reason other than the look. As a result she has a hair trigger with pushy dogs.

 

[Baymule]

I've had several Aussies. I had a red merle with amber eyes, have had several blue merles with blue eyes and one black tri color with 2 brown eyes. A friend had a blue merle with a lot of white and she was deaf. Too much white is a fault, some breeders will put down a puppy with too much white, as they are usually deaf.

 

[babsbag]

Too much white is a fault, some breeders will put down a puppy with too much white, as they are usually deaf.

why don't they just have the hearing tested? I tested many pups when I raised Dalmatians; it is a common trait.

 

[Mike CHS]

I got the last long leg of fence finished today but have to finish up the last 50' in the middle of one run. I had several small turns on the first section that I did that I skipped a 50' piece because I needed to pull on both ends of that area. I had (I thought) a 60' piece that I rolled out today after fastening it to the corner post and it wound up being 10' to short. I'll go out in the morning and put crimp sleeves to add the needed length then pull and finish. The only thing left is hanging the gates (3 of which I won't get to pick up till Friday).

It hasn't been really cold but it has been in the 40's and on our hill top the wind is always blowing 15 -25 mph for most of the winter.

 

[CntryBoy777]

Been a bit chilly here with the wind too.....the sun has been nice to have, but clouds coming back in as rain chances are going up....the best chance tho is this wknd. I know ya will be sooo ready to hang up that stretcher for a long while, when ya finally get it done....

 

[Flock Master64]

hello

 

[Mike CHS]

hello

Nice to see ya.

 

[Flock Master64]

you too

 

[Mike CHS]

The fence is all up and all of those little things that you leave and have to go back and finish. I hung 4 gates and ran out of battery power so I will hang the last one that is on hand in the morning. The last two 8' gates (for one of the 16' openings) won't be in until Friday so they will get hung then or Saturday. There is a lot of hand clearing of a hill side before I can get the adjoining 2 acres started but it will make rotating the sheep easier.

Jay is coming over tomorrow and we will drive T-posts to divide this field into 3 paddocks for rotation.

Then I can get back to cleaning out a storm ditch that previous owners used as their dump.

 

[Devonviolet]

Wow! Will you come and do our fencing??? You can sleep in the guest bedroom & I'll cook you anything your pea pickin' heart desires! Pretty please???

You can bring Theresa & we can kibbutz in the house, while you & DH work on fencing. I'll even teach Theresa how to milk goats & make cheese.