Baymule’s Farm

[SPedigrees]

I put the plastic sleeve over his man part and collected semen

Nothing you do would surprise me, Baymule! Now we all want puppy pictures when the time comes.

It reminds me of a photo a lady from an organic farm posted once on FB of her 3 children witnessing for the first time a cow being artificially inseminated. Each had a reaction that she said captured their personalities perfectly. The girl was watching intently with scientific curiosity, one of her younger brothers was hiding his face, and the other laughing. Too funny!

 

[flowerbug]

i'm laughing that @baymule can't say penis but can deal with all the rest of it.

 

[Marie2020]

i'm laughing that @baymule can't say penis but can deal with all the rest of it.

Trust you to say that word

 

[baymule]

i'm laughing that @baymule can't say penis but can deal with all the rest of it.

Oh I can say it and a whole more, just trying to be polite here!

 

[Marie2020]

Oh I can say it and a whole more, just trying to be polite here!

Really, you being polite. There's hope for you yet.

 

[flowerbug]

Oh I can say it and a whole more, just trying to be polite here!

ok! but it is still funny!

 

[flowerbug]

Trust you to say that word

i've worked in construction and Mom was in the trucking industry for 30yrs so i've heard it and probably said it but i also can not swear in polite company.

around here we are pretty much "think it and say it" sorts of people.

 

[Marie2020]

i've worked in construction and Mom was in the trucking industry for 30yrs so i've heard it and probably said it but i also can not swear in polite company.

around here we are pretty much "think it and say it" sorts of people.

I wish I could hold my tongue at times. Not always but at certain times. I could make a sailor blush

 

[baymule]

It's been nuts here. Ewes having lambs, final count is 41 lambs with 2 ewes still to lamb. Lost 3 lambs, wound up with 5 bottle babies. Worms hit hard, even with administering worm medicine, I lost 3 ewes to internal parasites. Granny died too, to bloat. She was one of my favorites. She was fine the night before, she must have bloated during the night and was dead the next morning. I grabbed her lamb Avon and had to force feed her the bottle for about a week before she caught on.

January 23 we got a ice storm. I did all my preparations, pine shavings in the sheep shelters for them to bed down in. I filled a 300 gallon galvanized stock tank for dipping water out of. I turned off water at the meter to avoid busted pipes. Did everything I could, then just had to hunker down, go out in the mess to feed and haul water to the animals. Bust ice in the water buckets and the big tank. I was glad when it was over and the sun came out to melt it away. East Texas is not set up for winter storms, snow and ice sent shock waves and panic sends people to the grocery stores to strip the shelves of bread and milk. It's a shark feeding frenzy. Crazy.

February 3, I pulled a muscle in my back and took a trip to ER on a Monday. My son took me, I was crying in pain. Hospital gave me hydrocodone that made me so sick that I couldn't take it. I went to a PA on Thursday, got a xray on Friday, he wouldn't give me something different fpr pain, Saturday I just laid in bed in tears. The preacher is a PA, so I called him, he took my information and entered me in as a patient, gave me a prescription for Tramadol. Finally I got some relief. As the back has gotten a little better, it's obvious that I pulled something in my groin and probably pinched a nerve, my thigh is numb. I have an appointment with a better doctor, but not until March 31, guess I'll have to go back to the PA I don't like, probably for a MRI.

My son has come twice a day to take care of my sheep, dogs, horse and feed the 5 bottle babies. I am so grateful. He finished out the horse pen I was working on and put Max in it. At my son's suggestion, we used the open front shed that I was going to tear down, for a shed for Max. Max is right out the back door, he's happy, I'm happy and I can go outside and pet him. Not much else right now but at least I can pet him.

In the last couple of days I've been able to feed the dogs and the horse but I'm not up to dragging a water hose or tote buckets of feed.

I'm keeping 17 ewe lambs from this bunch. I've made a list of older ewes to sell, so far it's 13. The 3 ewes that died were on the sell list. A friend told me that I didn't want their genetics in the flock anyway, which is true, but I didn't want them to die. I tried everything, but worms build up a resistance to the medications used on them. Nothing worked. I will take ram lambs to auction when they are weaned. Maybe. I might have to have somebody else take them. Nearest decent sheep and goat auction is 3 hours away. I have some of the ewes already spoken for, they will be picked up after their lambs are weaned.

I have a lot going on and I can't do any of it. Bummer.