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I’ve divided up ewes between 3 rams. Cooper has 6, Ringo 2.0 has 2, Rocky has 5. So that will be 13 ewes lambing in October. Bottle babies are full time outside, in a small pen. I take them their bottles. I’m going to put them back in with the ewes and lambs. I’ll take their bottles and call...

You aren’t going to believe this! Last year in hard drought, big round bales were $150. I found some of the small size, 4’x5’ for $65 and bought 31 bales. It looked like it came out of a “low bottom land” field. You know, land too low to cut for hay because it’s wet. But not in a drought! Lots...

Lambing has concluded. 32 lambs born, one dead, 31 live lambs. Sheba has been a Champion. Her laid back attitude has been reassurance to the ewes. I haven’t seen a ewe stomp her foot one time at Sheba for getting too close to their lambs. Ewes are completely at ease with her. Ewes trust...

The last 3 ewes lambed. Twin rams, twin ewe and ram and lastly a single ewe. The ewe with twin ewe and ram, rejected the ram. Oh no you don’t! I penned her up, she beat the ram lamb up, butting him away. So I put a dog collar on her and tied her up. Now he can nurse. The witch kicks him off...

Coffee is ready! I’ve been busy over the past few weeks. I slaughtered 37 Cornish Cross chickens and all went to freezer camp. A customer ordered 20 and I was happy to oblige. Lots of hard work though. At same time, ewes were lambing, I have 3 bottle lambs, for a total of 30 lambs plus one ewe...

Don’t rock the boat!

Those pesky lambs are trying to sneak up on me!

I finished ALL the meat chickens on Tuesday. I sent a text to my buyer and we are meeting up on Friday evening for her to pick up chicken and hand over cash. Hay money! Yesterday evening my son and a neighbor loaded up 6 sheep I’m taking to auction this morning. More hay money. Going to closest...

I started the bottle lambs on pellets, alfalfa, azomite mineral, dolomite lime and stock salt trace mineral, yesterday. This morning they ate on it better than yesterday. I went to town to get ice and took these pictures from the road in front of my place. Sheba is on watch!

Yesterday I slaughtered 6 more of the Cornish Cross chickens and hand picked them. They have gotten so big, the picking drum machine would have broken wings and legs. I got 4 processed and in the freezer. Going to get the last 6 slaughtered today and as many as I can processed and in the...

Thursday night, I think Carson was missing the lambs. He went to the towel I had under the dog crate and sniffed it all over. Then he laid down on it. I went to the sheep seminar and had a great time. I took a black ewe that a friend wanted and she brought me a red ewe to trade. I got...

Coffee is ready. Leaving this morning to go to Gatesville for a sheep seminar tomorrow. I’ll be back tomorrow evening. Neighbor took bottle lambs home yesterday to take care of them while I’m gone.

Oh I do!

TEG, BYH and SS are real slow.

I sure miss a garden! Buying this place, it needs everything. Major everything.

Wednesday after the rains, they got to go outside. They nibbled the grass, at 6 days old, still too young to actually eat it. They followed me around. But Carson proved to be their trainer, teaching them how to go up and down the steps. They wanted to follow him around. Monkey see, monkey...

Lambs chew everything. Shoes, blinds, my expensive leather sleeper sofa, electrical cords, you name it. Toddlers with 4 legs. Have to constantly watch them! Pouring rain, still dark, waiting on daylight so I can go check on sheep.

Coffee is ready, on my second cup. I have 3 bottle lambs, they get fed before I get coffee. Adorable, cute, and must be fed every 2 hours. I’ve had 27 lambs, 1 dead, so 26 live lambs. 6 sets of triplets! Have 3 more ewes to lamb, next week. Pouring rain, storms with hail, tornado, and flood...

Storms woke me up several times last night. I was glad my bottle babies were in the house. More stormy weather through Wednesday night.