Recent content by Schatzl

I know, I know ... but change is HARD! I've spent a lot of time getting away from the "paint every hair" mentality ... I wish I was even looser but I've decided to just embrace how my brain wants to do it. I'll upload a detail out of the painting and you can see that while it looks pretty...

Hi all. So last weekend I found two abscesses on one of my ewes. I isolated her and took her to the vets Monday morning. Of course my first thought (and the vet’s best guess) was CL. They FINALLY got the culture back as strep (if you need more info than that, I don’t have it- yet). I’m going to...

Thank you! It’s one of my favorite paintings I’ve done :)

I did!!! That’s awesome! Thank you!

I work in acrylic. The funny part is how hard I try to make it LOOK like oils ... I should probably try them one of these days :)

Maybe something different? Here's a painting I recently finished of some of my girls :)

THAT is going to be Smith (he's my jumper). We have to put all the fence up so, while it will take time before it's done, at least I'll know it's done right, and hopefully escape proof! But even when he did get over, he stayed close. He doesn't run away but there are an awful lot of pit bulls...

Yes, my girls are VERY food driven! And I probably have the same red Folgers can in my feed tub! Anyways, I'm sure once they know where they are supposed to go across the dirt road to the new field I probably won't need to put up a corridor of fence panels, but until they do, I'll feel safer...

Wow, BrendaMNgri. I really don't know what to say. You have reacted very strongly. I've really debated on whether or not I should reply because simply put, your response has me rather upset. But I have decided to discuss what you have written just so that there are no misunderstandings...

Thank you, Southern by Choice for reading my posts and giving real advice. My GPs are very easy going and they trust us. I can't imagine not being able to transport them if they are in such a state that I'd have to rush them to the vets - it might not be pretty but it would happen! We did...

Once the fences are up I will definitely walk the perimeter with them but they are not really the "take for a walk" kinda' dogs. They are very friendly, allow us and the vet to handle them and accept being locked up while I'm working with my herding dogs (3 BCs) but I haven't worried too much...

Hi all, I was just reading through the comments and thought I'd share a website I found. I was able to work for several years with a local trainer that got me started on sheep herding but she is travelling a lot now so I looked online and found this website from Andy Nickless in the UK. It...

Thank you for your replies! About 10 of the ppty is adjacent so I will fence that in first ... that way they'll see the world is a little bigger than what they've known. The other 50 is unfenced. I'll have to wait and see how long it takes before I can cross fence that pasture with electric...

Hi All! We are in the process of purchasing 60 acres "kind of" adjacent to our current sheep pasture (I will have to fence it so that I can use gates across a dirt road to move them around). They are protected by 2 GPs. My question is, how well do the LGDs take it when they are suddenly moved...