Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

Mike CHS said:

I post about all our rain but it is never griping. I'm just wondering if the morning spent spraying the grass in the driveway was wasted.

Did @Beekissed ever say how much they spent on the sheep they got. I looked back over the thread we were posting in but didn't want to hijack it anymore than we already had. I'm not being nosey but there are some surprises in the cost of some real nice commercial ewes. I was going to send a PM but this topic might help a few more people.

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Mike, I paid $125 ea. for those sheep. I know, I know....you get what you paid for, but I'm hoping to breed up a little with a good ram lamb I'm getting from another flock. Or, if it produces nothing I really think worthy of keeping, I'll sell those girls and use the money to buy one good ewe and start over.

Beekissed said:

Mike, I paid $125 ea. for those sheep. I know, I know....you get what you paid for, but I'm hoping to breed up a little with a good ram lamb I'm getting from another flock. Or, if it produces nothing I really think worthy of keeping, I'll sell those girls and use the money to buy one good ewe and start over.

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Sometimes you just gotta get started with what you can find. It's better than not doing anything. I am happy that you now have sheep, I know how badly you have been wanting them.

Mr. @Mike CHS,

Thank you so much for the pictures! That helps quite a bit. You definitely have a beautiful place. All of your hard work shows. I know you and Teresa must be proud AND feel blessed.

Do you think you could include a Google Maps satellite view of your place? That helps me understand just where everything is. Thanks again.

Senile Texas Aggie

Beekissed said:

Mike, I paid $125 ea. for those sheep. I know, I know....you get what you paid for, but I'm hoping to breed up a little with a good ram lamb I'm getting from another flock. Or, if it produces nothing I really think worthy of keeping, I'll sell those girls and use the money to buy one good ewe and start over.

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I'm also happy you now have sheep. The only reason I asked was you might be surprised at the price for some good commercial sheep. Our weaned lambs go for market cost (auction) up until they are around breeding age. Then the cost goes up a bit but it still isn't far above market cost so that same $125-$150 can still get some nice sheep.

Some of ours weren't in the best shape when we got them but those that are left of the original girls are my favorites so enjoy your new flock.

Senile_Texas_Aggie said:

Mr. @Mike CHS,
Do you think you could include a Google Maps satellite view of your place? That helps me understand just where everything is. Thanks again.

Senile Texas Aggie

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Our property is to the right of the railroad tracks that has the house with the red roof. It runs to the north to right at the mobile home and storage trailer.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3043479,-86.8611017,589m/data=!3m1!1e3

Mr. @Mike CHS,

Thank you SO MUCH. I guess that your place is somewhere in this picture, and that the paddocks you described are somewhere around I have placed them, more or less? The picture is almost certainly before you removed the brush and improved the pastures, right?



I'm sorry, I don't know why it is important to me, but when I see all of these beautiful pictures of your property, I try to get oriented and am unable to do so.

I am glad you had no losses of your chickens. Poor Miss @rachels.haven is having to deal with that at the moment.

Senile Texas Aggie

Yay! Found a new journal to follow along. Thanks @Senile_Texas_Aggie .

Good adoptive momma hen!

@rachels.haven it can be some pretty dull reading.

@Senile_Texas_Aggie Paddock 7 is the only one that covers the whole width. 3 & 4 are side by side as is 5 & 6. There are holding pens and training pens that I didn't show that are used to graze also but it just confuses a post. The chicken pen is a wedge shaped pen to the right of the driveway and contains the wooded area shown in the satellite image.

The rock ledge that goes around our house is pretty clear in that image also. It runs in a semi circle all the way around the house. I guess it shows how rural we are as that image is over 6 years old.

Mike CHS said:

I'm also happy you now have sheep. The only reason I asked was you might be surprised at the price for some good commercial sheep. Our weaned lambs go for market cost (auction) up until they are around breeding age. Then the cost goes up a bit but it still isn't far above market cost so that same $125-$150 can still get some nice sheep.

Some of ours weren't in the best shape when we got them but those that are left of the original girls are my favorites so enjoy your new flock.

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Mike, if you had lived closer, I would have been stalking your flock like a mad woman! The worst of your flock are better than the best of the 4 flocks I've traveled in this area to see....one flock as far as 4 hrs away. The culls from the "best" of those flocks were going to cost me $180-$200, so when these girls were offered for this price, I jumped on it a little too fast, figuring that was the lowest price I'd get for the culls in this area and, if one is going to have to deal with another person's culls, then they may as well be cheaper ones that are proven breeders/producers.

I'd sure love to source the sheep wisdom on your thread and that of others who also have hair sheep, if I may, about many things sheep....the last small flock I had wasn't for longer than a year or so and I didn't get to learn much at all.

We still consider ourselves newbies but if we can't get the answer to something on BYH we have several other sources to go to.