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Hi @Collector !!!! It’s good to see you! Currently I have 33 ewes, 3 rams and 33 lambs with 7 more ewes to lamb. So 69 head and the number will rise. Out of this bunch I’ll sell 4 ewes when lambs are weaned. So far I’m keeping 10 of the ewe lambs. I won’t know my numbers until all have...

Today is a drizzly wet day. Buford and Sheba are together in the front field. As long as it’s a drizzle or soft mist, the sheep and dogs are happy to be out on the field. When a hard shower blasts out of the clouds, the sheep run for cover. Shower over, they trickle back out on the field...

Got a fog white out here. Gonna rain and storm today and tomorrow. Guess I’ll finally stay inside and clean house. LOL

I slept till 6:45. Finishing my second cup of coffee, then outside to work sheep through the chute. I need to sort 2 ewes with their lambs out of the middle field and put them in the front field.

I like it! Bambi it is! And here she is, with her mom, under the watchful eye of Carson. Newborns bring out the hunting dog genetics. Sometimes he stares intently. They are about the size of a cotton tail rabbit, which is why he is not allowed in the field. This evening I noticed Bambi...

Coffee is good this morning! It’s another 80F degree day…. in FEBRUARY! I got mosquito bites yesterday! NOOOO……. Only 3 more days of this madness, then highs will be in the low 60’s. That’s more like it.

Two new moms yesterday . One was Bon Bon, in the middle field. Buford is in the pen at night with Cooper the ram, next to, but not in with the ewes in the next pen. When I turn him and the ewes out in the mornings he always goes to check on new moms and babies. About a week ago, Buford put...

B40 had a tiny ewe lamb yesterday morning, Little Ringo is the sire. I did not jug her, she was being attentive and making sure the lamb fed. I caught her and tagged her with a scrapie tag. When I fed ewes there was a mad stampede of greedy girls, the lamb was crying for her mother, but mom was...

I got the panels even, hog ringed and put bricks under the other end, then stapled it. Last hog panel. Oops. I miscalculated and the cross member needed to be moved over. I unscrewed it, moved it out so the last panel would fit, then screwed it back to the runner pieces. Then I put on the...

I got my dirt pile Friday. I moved dirt Saturday and got the dirt pad for the chicken hoop coop to be built on. It may not look like much, but that’s between 30 and 40 trips from dirt pile to dirt pad on my little 23HP Kubota tractor. Plus raking it smooth periodically. Sunday was church...

Coffee is ready! I’ve got to run sheep through the chute this morning and sort some and worm some. Then go scrap out some lumber for a hoop coop.

Carson has a real hard life. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

On January 25, 2025, a ewe, Specks, had a rough birth and dead lamb. I left the lamb with her instead of whisking it away so she would know it was dead and not be looking for it. I gave her shots of antibiotic and B vitamins and a bucket of warm molasses water. She didn’t drink it, but eagerly...

That makes sense and I love this guy’s humor.

Seed swap looks like fun.

I’ve watched these videos, I get a kick out of Recon Cat.

When I go out to feed the sheep, cardinals come flying in to swoop down, grab a morsel and fly away to consume it safely away from trampling feet. I enjoy them in their beauty. In this picture, on the post cross bar, is a tiny brown speckled bird. Don’t know what it is, but a bunch of them...

Well today didn’t go at all like I thought it would. I went to the post office this morning , came back and Specks was laying out in the field. She hasn’t been too perky the last couple of days so I was concerned. I went inside, came back out and Specks was in the newest pallet palace I built...

Yesterday was sunny, gorgeous and I played outside. I cleaned out both round bale spots, and set new bales. I have only run son’s big 100 HP Kubota tractor twice, with son walking along beside me, telling me what controls to use. That tractor has so many fancy fangled controls, buttons and...

It has warmed up to 36F DEGREES!! I bundled up to go outside st 32 degrees and actually got hot and had to shed my Carhart jacket. 😃😃😃 I only had to carry one round of boiling water. Supposed to warm up to 52 degrees today and only 26 tonight. I’m gonna turn my water back on this afternoon at...