Took granddaughters to meet my daughter and oldest granddaughter at my sister’s house Friday. We visited, then home to sort ram lambs, hitch stock trailer and wait on neighbor to come help
Load them. We loaded 5 rams Lots lambs and 8 ewe lambs, which consisted of crowding them up in a small space, him picking them up and me opening sliding end gate on trailer and him stuffing them on the trailer. Then, ice water!
I left out for Emory at 4:30 yesterday morning. 3 hour drive made a little longer because I drive slower when pulling a trailer.
The auction was busy! Over 600 sheep and goats were sold! That’s the most I’ve ever seen! The front 2 rows were buyers. I sandwiched myself between 2 of them on the front row. One was from Oklahoma and bought for 4 people/places. The auctioneer knew him and asked which one to put the goats/sheep under. The place was packed with sellers and buyers, not an empty seat, I’ve never seen it so full. There were people sitting on the raised platform in front of the front row. I couldn’t stretch out my legs or I’d be kicking a couple of guys in the butt. Crazy!
The same buyer bought most of mine, it was so fast and furious that I couldn’t keep up! The sheep and goats go before the cattle and 9 to 11 is the time allotted for them. Many times there is time left over. The run horses through after sheep and goats, before cattle. Usually not many and most go to kill buyers. I didn’t stay for that, the sheep and goats lasted until 12:00! I got my check in my hot little hand and headed home.
My truck is still leaking oil. The shop fixed a leak, but not this one. There was droplets of oil blow all over the front and fenders on my stock trailer. Well, crap.
My AC started blowing hot too. It does that periodically, makes for a miserable summer drive.
With hot air and oil fumes that I couldn’t breathe, windows were down for fresh air! I found a good classic rock n roll radio station and cranked it up. Wind blowing my hair into tangles, singing along with the songs and beating time on the steering wheel, I hauled A$$ for home. I stopped in Crockett and washed out the trailer. Got home at 4:00, exhausted. BUT I was out of feed, so got in car and went to Atwoods in Lufkin for 2 bags of all stock and my monthly 3 bags of dog food. I only unloaded 1 bag of all stock, rest is still in the car.
I’m teaching the children class Sunday school this morning, other teacher is out of town. I doubt that I’ll do much this afternoon, I just don’t care.
Oh, I talked to the auctioneer before the sale to let him know that I brought 8 commercial Katahdin ewes, average age 4 months, all twins, a couple of triplets and out of registered rams. He took down the numbers. Fat lot of good that did. It was so wild and crazy, he called out ONE number and it was a RAM! He said, there’s one, then he told the crowd that they were commercial lambs, a lady brought them in, all out of registered stock and only one in the whole bunch were actually mine. And they were all rams! Oh well, I tried. I’m happy with what they brought, they are gone and I have a check to deposit in my farm account.
