Well now... I just wanted to show y'all that in my more lucid moments I have a rather expansive and rational thought process that I often try diligently to ignore. 
Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal
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Mike CHS
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Teresa has been busy doing a search for stock trailers to replace the one the storm destroyed. We thought we had found one today but while enroute to look at it we looked at the pictures again and it had a drop down ramp instead of gates. That doesn't work for sheep where we load so we turned around and came back (we did call the seller and tell him we weren't coming). She found another in Huntsville, Alabama (an hour south) that we will look at tomorrow and will probably get. We need a trailer to bring home the ram we already paid for.
If the weather cooperates I will get the High Tensile wire ran in the next couple of days to keep the ram away from the rest of the flock (hopefully) except for the ram lambs which will be with him. We don't want to breed again until July with the older ewes. The ewes born this season will be bred starting in November.
If the weather cooperates I will get the High Tensile wire ran in the next couple of days to keep the ram away from the rest of the flock (hopefully) except for the ram lambs which will be with him. We don't want to breed again until July with the older ewes. The ewes born this season will be bred starting in November.
CntryBoy777
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Good thing ya double checked the pics and recognized it before ya got all the way there. I have kin in Huntsville, they live on the mountain that the cross in on...if it is still there. I haven't been over that way in yrs and the last time I saw the folks from there was just before Mom passed. They came here to see her before she did.
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Mike CHS
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Today was a wasted day as far as the farm goes but it was productive. We found (actually Teresa did) a 14' trailer that had a price and a condition we liked so went into Huntsville, Alabama first thing this morning to look at it and bring it home. Right after we got home we got a call from the meat processor that our half of our steer was ready for pickup. This processor is great and all cuts of meat are trimmed exactly like we asked and vacuum sealed. We wound up with 198 pounds of beef with our half.
I don't think I posted a picture of the tilt table we wound up with and hopefully our chute system should be here by next week depending on how bad the roads are in Maryland where it is shipping from.
Last but not least, Maisy and Hoss along with my favorite ewe were sharing the residue of the grain that we feed in the afternoon. We have to tie her up (and feed her) while the sheep get their grain because she will run them off and try to eat it herself. Other than that she has been free since the last time I mentioned her. I was reluctant to post anything about her since she seems to get into trouble right after I post praise. Her and the sheep seem to have developed a bond and they don't even bother scattering when she comes bounding by them on the way to scare off some new threat.
I don't think I posted a picture of the tilt table we wound up with and hopefully our chute system should be here by next week depending on how bad the roads are in Maryland where it is shipping from.
Last but not least, Maisy and Hoss along with my favorite ewe were sharing the residue of the grain that we feed in the afternoon. We have to tie her up (and feed her) while the sheep get their grain because she will run them off and try to eat it herself. Other than that she has been free since the last time I mentioned her. I was reluctant to post anything about her since she seems to get into trouble right after I post praise. Her and the sheep seem to have developed a bond and they don't even bother scattering when she comes bounding by them on the way to scare off some new threat.
CntryBoy777
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Nice trlr, really nice table, and so good to hear things are settling down between the sheep and Maisy. Now all ya need is Ringo, and a bit of fencing, then ya can take a breath or 2 before the Garden will be "Calling" to ya...
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Mike CHS
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Nice trlr, really nice table, and so good to hear things are settling down between the sheep and Maisy. Now all ya need is Ringo, and a bit of fencing, then ya can take a breath or 2 before the Garden will be "Calling" to ya...
We have family coming to visit the week before Easter and we REALLY want to have everything in place before then. We have the helper both tomorrow and Saturday so we should get done with the fence on this pasture. We want to subdivide that one before we get the ram since we don't want to breed until July.
Have to agree with Fred, that's a great looking livestock trailer. Would you mind disclosing what you paid for it and how old it is? I've been looking for one myself but am thinking I'd like a 16' vice the 14'
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Mike CHS
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We got this one for $1250. The age is unknown but there is no rust other than surface, all new wood on the inside and the brakes have been redone. It pulls great and actually has more open area inside than the 16' the storm got. That one had an inside gate that could be closed for weight distribution so you could lose 4'. Our 10 ewes just about maxed that one out but this one is better centered over the wheels. We looked at some that were newer but they weren't in as good shape. We found some real good buys on two horse trailers but they had ramp style gates which can be problematic loading sheep so they were a no-go.
Bruce
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All sounds good Mike and Teresa!
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Mike CHS
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@Latestarter if you were closer we would make you a good deal on our other trailer. Our neighbor does some body work and he brought our red trailer back to us good as new. You can't tell it was rolled in a tornado. I still have to see if the frame is square enough still to put the floor back in.
We did get the final touches on our chicken pen (like the gate and wire wraps) so like I said earlier, the 1st rainy day we have will include a road trip over to the poultry hatchery.
To the right of the chicken pen we decided to add another catch pen so we did get some fence put in today. Just not the section we were planning on. There is no good camera angle but it is roughly a rectangle that is 100x50'
We did not get the last run of fence finished since we have been waiting on our neighbor to have time to do some ground work for us. We have a dry pond that we want filled in and we will turn that into another garden spot. He does good work and only charges $30 an hour.
I went down to the end of our drive to take that picture after I saw Bruce's picture with the spring snow.
We did get the final touches on our chicken pen (like the gate and wire wraps) so like I said earlier, the 1st rainy day we have will include a road trip over to the poultry hatchery.
To the right of the chicken pen we decided to add another catch pen so we did get some fence put in today. Just not the section we were planning on. There is no good camera angle but it is roughly a rectangle that is 100x50'
We did not get the last run of fence finished since we have been waiting on our neighbor to have time to do some ground work for us. We have a dry pond that we want filled in and we will turn that into another garden spot. He does good work and only charges $30 an hour.
I went down to the end of our drive to take that picture after I saw Bruce's picture with the spring snow.
