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The vet was right on time this morning and we had brought the whole bunch in so we could sort them out and only have the sheep that needed to be worked on in the chute. We had one ewe that needed worming so we got her done as we sent them through. When the vet got here, we had the young ram...

Our neighbors son is either going to or already at that roadeo.

I watch him the whole time that I'm out there. :)

We have a couple of things that need to be checked out by a vet so we have her coming out tomorrow around 9:00. We have a ram lamb that needs a health check for traveling and while she is here, Oshi has a spot on his back that we want to have checked out. The way we are set up, we have to...

Her sibling is just as bad. He hasn't been handled much and when Teresa got close to him to run him back to the stall, he freaked out and rammed the fence which was loose at the bottom. It was loose enough that he was able to get out and run all the way around the paddock looking for a way to...

This was a get a bunch of little things done mornings. We brought one group in and pulled fecals on two of the ewes and we had two lambs that needed their shots. One of the lambs wanted to make sure I got my exercise done so she was one of those that kept running from one end of the interior...

Three of the sheep that we pulled fecals on need to be wormed so I'll bring the whole group back to the shop paddock tomorrow. That works out well since I haven't been able to entice Wendy's ram lamb back in so we will do that tomorrow. The lamb and Babs will be confined to the stall so that I...

That one lets me go to bed with a smile and good memories.

I was on the receiving end of that ram power once and it was enough to make me keep my eyes open but that time was where he got his name and it fits. We are way behind in registrations for the sheep. We have about a dozen ewes that we will be sending registeration papers on and a bunch that...

We got all of the sheep sorted although it didn't happen the way that we had planned on. When I went down to let the big bunch of ewes into the stall, I was surprised to see that Oshi was with them. He obviously didn't agree with what we had planned so he forced his way through the gate to get...

We had planned on working the big herd today but we had to do some work on the chute to get the ground level enough so the scale would work. The new scale is longer and heavier but it is less forgiving of unlevel ground. We have a couple of ewes that we want to pull fecals on but other than...

They do a lot of good things for a whole lot of people and this is an annual event.

This must be the season for fund raising. Teresa helped at the church this afternoon handing out meals for folks that had been part of their annual trail ride (horses). They had over 320 people and their horses take part and it is supposedly the biggest in the state. I'm not sure how they...

That is a little lower than we got for our last bunch but overall I was pleased with our last sale. They listed two of our cull ewes as fat (they weren't) but they always list our adult ewes as fat since they are bigger than most of the sheep around here.

We had a light rain on and off for most of the day with a nice high temp of 75. The Volunteer Fire Department not far from us was having a fish fry as a fund raiser this afternoon and it turned out to be some of the tastiest fish meals I have had in quite a time.

Many years ago, we had a stove with a glass top so we bought a nice propane camp stove that let us do our canning work outside.

I had another session in teaching me how intelligent Great Pyrenees are this afternoon. Maisy has one hot spot on her hip that needs spraying meds on a couple of times a day for a few more days. She doesn't like it and will fight with me to get away from the sprayer so two days ago, I hid the...

Now that the lambs are all gone, we will move the ewes to another paddock where Oshi can't smell the girls that are ready. He has been hanging out at a gate that Missy (the ewe that had a C-section) has decided is the place to be since she is obviously ready. I will go out tomorrow and move...

Once he got it back in the shop and broke it down, he found a really small screw in the tire. It was barely long enough to penetrate which I guess is why it was such a slow leak.

The lambs were the last of the Oops lambs and they sell by the pound. When we settled on this yard almost 7 years ago we stayed for a couple of the sales but this company does an excellent job of managing the sales that we don't worry about kinky bidding. We do occasionally watch a bit over...