Recent content by Ridgetop

When we had Weimaraners the old dogs would get hematomas from shaking their heads usually from fleas or ear mites. Drop ears are hard to keep clean of those. The ear would swell up like a sausage and had to be surgcally drained. Those blac and white trips are wonderfull keeper prospects...

Big loss on the bull. Particularly hard since it was a nicely tempered and tractable bull. Any loss is hard but if it had to happen, can't help thinking it's a shame it wasn't Roscoe.

Good day's work, and $$$. Long trip but if the prices are better in Hamilton it is worth it, especially for a truckload. I have a rancher friend in southern Utah. He breeds both registered show stock and commercial White Dorpers. He also farms lots of hay and grain. There are no slaughter...

Sunday: HWH is in now and finally a nice HOT shower! Since we are selling the house the cost of the HWH and all other repairs/painting, etc. costs will be deducted before taxes are estimated so no problem. Finished the 2nd bedroom yesterday but had to touch up the ceiling in a few places...

There is some sort of virus going around. Starts out with a sore throat, headache, becomes a cold, sometimes develops a mild cough, loss of appetite, loose stools, lasts for several weeks. Not enough to put you in bed for more than a day but you feel tired and it slows you down. Sounds like...

:fl :fl :fl :fl Good thoughts for good prices in Hamilton.

Update: Patches are dry but the paint was for the MBR that DS2 painted not the nursery. Back to Lowes for more paint. Decided to paint that room white since it has natural oak molding. Unfortunately one coat did not cover so had to put on a second coat. Luckily I dd have a second gallon of...

Yes, but in her family's defense, she is one of 6 girls and 1 boy. She is the only one married and having babies. Two of her sisters are in partnerships with other women and her brother is also gay. The chances of more grandchildren are slim. Plus, with 6 daughters and only one son, her dad...

It's been 2 1/2 weeks since I posted so a lot has happened. The weather started out raining but cleared up and has been nice. (It's California so good weather is expected here LOL.) We left on Monday 5 am February 16 (?) and arrived Tuesday at 9pm. Exhausted but ready to work on house. Big...

We use 5 empty protein tubs to do the lye and grain treatment to make sure they all get enough. I purposely make more than I would to just grain them in their regular proportions. So far I have only done 2 treatments, but we will see how it goes. Additional Iron supplement vax may be...

DS2 raised LaManchas and DS3 had znubians. Both of those breeds have the best milk. Our LaManchas used to sneak up on the Nubians and suddenly reach out and bit their floppy ears. Sudden screams from the goat pen became commonplace after getting LaManchas. :lol: The children said the...

Another registered lamb with color. Wonderful success on lambing this year. Poopa said on his lye treatment video that he uses injectable iron to offset damage from worms. I have a bottle in the fridge along with the many other bottles of meds I keep for sheep.

DH and I miss BJ. One of the fun things we looked forward to about moving to Yantis was our proximity to you and BJ. He was a larger than life figure, impossible to ignore in a crowd, and we are so grateful to have met both of you while he was still with us. His passing left a big hole in the...

We always bought the red mineral block for our horses, goats and sheep. Everyone had one in their pens with no bad effects. In fact I need to buy a couple more, particularly for the horses whoe block was totally consumed a couple months ago. I prefer using the blocks because they don't...

After our disastrous last year with Barberpole worm losses I looked into methods of parasite control. I saw that some people were using copper boluses and wire in goats and cattle for worm control. Since most sheep people practically have a heart attack if their feed contains any copper, I...