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    Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

    @Mike CHS, we use Chaparral here, it works great on all broad leaf weeds, note it will kill your clover also so if you like the clovers don't use, but it will kill your weeds and could be a good spot spray option for you....
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    Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

    Mike, did your ewes graze red clover pastures or eat hay with red clover in it during breeding season? Red clover causes infertility/lambing issues in sheep, just thought I would mention it...
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    Ridgetop - our place and how we muddle along

    The three rams and ewes lost ear tags, we order ours from Premier One, if we lose one we can reorder them from Premier One, but it will come with a Letter R in front of the original number, the Letter R stands for Replacement tag. If these are rams that where not born on your place, you can go...
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    Keep or Sell? Names?

    Hi Bay, just wanted to say a few things, first very nice lamb and she looks nice and thick, also straight/correct in form as far as legs and such. Now I want to say and remind you of wanting to go to pure Katahdins, if you sell her that money you make can go towards the purchase of a nice...
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    Coronavirus Covid-19 Is it Affecting You and How?

    Maybe some of you have already been vaccinated?
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    Feral pig + first time owner

    I recommend you contact someone who raises piglets or a vet to get her fangs clipped/trimmed, they do this on most piglets you purchase for raising as feeder pigs/pets ect…… I am not sure what age they do the first trimming but necessary I believe.... With that being said, we raise one pig a...
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    Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

    Mike, like you we DO SHEEP, but had a good deal offered to us last summer of trading some sheep for 2 cows, sure why not right...…… Well we were not set up to handle cows or not sure how we were going to get them loaded when the day came. This is what we did, we put the trailer in the pasture...
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    Ringo’s Lambs! Baymule’s 5th Lambing

    Just thought I would post this for folks, more info on line if you care to do research..... https://www.pipestonestar.com/articles/mosquito-spread-virus-affecting-lamb-crop/
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    Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

    How do I say sometimes in comes down to money for some folks, ;) but truth is we each live in different states and year to year it changes and we may go through a very wet (flooding year) and then normal precipitation other years. I hope your sitting down for this IMHO foot rot is not kept in...
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    Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

    @Mike CHS Seems Doc Kennedy wants folks to use an additional 1 cc per ewe and ram verse what I posted.....There is a word in the link below, eradicate foot rot, eradicate as we all know means gone, this is not a band-aid med, its not for a six month cure, it eradicates it in your sheep and it...
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    Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

    @Mike CHS Wish I would of caught you before you purchased all the items from Premier One..... Yes there is no reason to have hoof rot issues on any farm these days.... Here is the link below, this antibiotic was originally for cow respiratory issues, Good ole Doc Kennedy told us about this for...
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    Ref - Dr. Kennedy (Pipestone Vet)

    Thanks @Baymule @Latestarter , Truth is I won't be staying, but a quick update is we are still running a big flock of Katahdins and are breeding 185 head currently, in addition to that we are wintering 90 head of ewe lambs, still working full time jobs and lovin life with our sheep.....If it...
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    Ref - Dr. Kennedy (Pipestone Vet)

    @Mike CHS, Just wanted to join BYH (again) to say thank you for posting this, Doc Kennedy is a world of information for folks like us and he will be sadly missed by thousands of folks, I have met him in person at the North American Katahdin shows and he goes out of his way to talk to anyone who...
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