Bruce
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Ohiogoatgirl's Escapades & Adventures- Pulse check! pg14
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ohiogoatgirl
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The chickens are growing. Which means they are eating alot and seems like pooping even more. The poultry netting is on back order, supposed to be back in a few days so I'll be checking it. Need to order some before they're out again quick I'd bet.
The sheep are doing good. Next week I'll be on lamb watch. I'm estimating the 19-25th will be the busy time, based on when I pulled CIDRs for the original group and counting out heat cycles from then on. We'll see how the actual lambing dates fall though. The two March born ram lambs are looking awesome and huge, I need to get another weight on them.
Today we go to pick up the bottle lambs. It's going to be a long day. It was difficult finding a day to go, everything seemed to be against me, I'd get one thing worked out and another would pop up. I'll be much relieved when we're home and I can focus on getting the lambs settled in. I got the two nipple setup from premier1 for bottle lambs. After having to feed all the ones last year I wanted to get it just in case. Now I'm really glad I got it! It wasn't expensive either.
It's forecast to rain or chance of rain for a solid week. I'm hoping it'll clear up at least one day because I need to setup the canvas tent. I'll be just about living in it for lambing. Plus side of lambing now, will be much shorter walk for barn checks.
The sheep are doing good. Next week I'll be on lamb watch. I'm estimating the 19-25th will be the busy time, based on when I pulled CIDRs for the original group and counting out heat cycles from then on. We'll see how the actual lambing dates fall though. The two March born ram lambs are looking awesome and huge, I need to get another weight on them.
Today we go to pick up the bottle lambs. It's going to be a long day. It was difficult finding a day to go, everything seemed to be against me, I'd get one thing worked out and another would pop up. I'll be much relieved when we're home and I can focus on getting the lambs settled in. I got the two nipple setup from premier1 for bottle lambs. After having to feed all the ones last year I wanted to get it just in case. Now I'm really glad I got it! It wasn't expensive either.
It's forecast to rain or chance of rain for a solid week. I'm hoping it'll clear up at least one day because I need to setup the canvas tent. I'll be just about living in it for lambing. Plus side of lambing now, will be much shorter walk for barn checks.
Baymule
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Baby lambs are so cute. I love their tails going like airplane propellers when they are nursing. LOL
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Slurp-slurp-slurp! Bucket lambs.
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Tent is up. Soon I'll be there almost full time while the sheep graze this field and lambing.
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Guess whaaaaaat???
White ram lamb 5#
Mom is 230, a 75% shetland 25% border Cheviot. Sire is Chonk, mini Cheviot.
So this lamb is 50% mini Cheviot, 37.5% shetland, 12.5% border Cheviot.
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I'm going to be at my moms tomorrow for dinner so I'm hoping the rest hold off a little and don't lamb while I'm gone. I'm happy that she had it on her own and doesn't seem to have had any problems.
katie lunemann on Instagram: "🐑 *slurp-slurp-slurp* 🐑 #charactercrossbreed #sheep365 #lambing2021 #bottlelambs"
2 likes, 0 comments - homesteadnowhere on May 6, 2021: "🐑 *slurp-slurp-slurp* 🐑 #charactercrossbreed #sheep365 #lambing2021 #bottlelambs".
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Tent is up. Soon I'll be there almost full time while the sheep graze this field and lambing.
katie lunemann on Instagram: "🐑⛺🐑 #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #regenerativegrazing #sheep365 #charactercrossbreed #rustbeltfibershed #sibleytent #canvascamp #camplife #farmher"
4 likes, 0 comments - homesteadnowhere on May 7, 2021: "🐑⛺🐑 #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #regenerativegrazing #sheep365 #charactercrossbreed #rustbeltfibershed #sibleytent #canvascamp #camplife #farmher".
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Guess whaaaaaat???
White ram lamb 5#
Mom is 230, a 75% shetland 25% border Cheviot. Sire is Chonk, mini Cheviot.
So this lamb is 50% mini Cheviot, 37.5% shetland, 12.5% border Cheviot.
katie lunemann on Instagram: "Guess whaaaaaat??? 🐑 White ram lamb 5# Mom is 230, a 75% shetland 25% border Cheviot. Sire is Chonk, mini Cheviot. So this lamb is 50% mini Cheviot, 37.5% shetland, 12.5% border Cheviot. #charactercrossbreed #sheep36
12 likes, 0 comments - homesteadnowhere on May 8, 2021: "Guess whaaaaaat??? 🐑 White ram lamb 5# Mom is 230, a 75% shetland 25% border Cheviot. Sire is Chonk, mini Cheviot. So this lamb is 50% mini Cheviot, 37.5% shetland, 12.5% border Cheviot. #charactercrossbreed #sheep365 #lambing2021".
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I'm going to be at my moms tomorrow for dinner so I'm hoping the rest hold off a little and don't lamb while I'm gone. I'm happy that she had it on her own and doesn't seem to have had any problems.
Bruce
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You KNOW that isn't how it works!
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ohiogoatgirl
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Shhhhh! 
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Well they held off on Sunday. Yesterday I went to the feed mill and by my friends to look at her ewe lambs. Sure enough got home and look out at the pasture and there is a ewe with a little white spot next to her. 228 is a first timer, bred as a ewe lamb. This is the first ewe lamb of the year and it's the smallest live lamb I've ever had! 2.23#! Sire is Chonk, mini cheviot. I had some bulky acrylic yarn and knit up a quick little sweater for her. They are in a temporary pen in the shed. The lamb is sooo tiny I don't trust her to be able to keep up with mom. Plus it's been cold and windy here, I don't want the lamb to get chilled. Thankfully the ram lamb from a few days ago is doing great and the ewe is very attentive. Psshh, heck I was keeping my eye on that 5# lamb and then this one comes along half that! I'm waiting to see how they do before I decide about moving them to the barn, where the bottle lambs are.
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Which brings me to the two new additions. 263 and 269, ewe lambs. They are 3/4 shetland, 1/4 border cheviot cross, same as the five I bought from her last year. These are the last that I'll be buying. I need to buckle down on what I have now and cull hard and keep replacements that do better. I'm hoping for a few ewe lambs to keep on but with one tiny ewe lamb to four ram lambs born I'm guessing it's a ram year! That's fine I hope they'll sell well. The two from March look terrific and I never even got a creep setup for them. They're too big for the creep gate now. And these bunch now I probably won't even set it up, there is so much grass. Knock on wood! Don't want to jinx the weather.
The bucket lambs are doing well. I'm putting more replacer in by the day it seems, their appetite ramping up. They have feed available. I'm going to cut some grass to give them to start nibbling on along with the hay. I know bottle lambs won't do as well grazing but their offspring will. I'm going to be setting aside money for next year, I want to talk to the person I got them from about setting up ahead of time for me to come get their bottle lambs next year. Then they won't have to mess with them and I can get some more commercial stock for a price more manageable for me. Don't know for sure but it could work out for both of us.
I'm waiting on more lambs. The first timers so far have all been suprizes. Some have nice udders and I'd think they'd be the ones to go first but ya never know with these guys! Next week I'm guessing will be the busy time. But there is five ewe lambs I had down for udder development on 4/20, and these two that have lambed were not on that list. Then the proven ewes have udders, Kitty has the least udder but I want to say she just had a smaller udder. I need to make notes of the ewes and their udders so I'll know next year and not be guessing and trying to remember. Getting pics showing their udders might be too much to ask, they don't like to pose!
I'm trying to talk dad into clearing out the barn so I can revamp it for the sheep. Right now I'm using less than a quarter of it for feed storage and it's very inefficiently. The rest is just filled with junk and dad doesn't even go in it. He was using the top corner to hang deer but even that he hasn't kept up. It'll be alot cheaper to rework that barn then buy and build something new. It won't be anything like a commercial barn, haha! But it will be much more manageable than the one sheep shed now. And the small shed has the pig in it and will be taken down this year, plus it's too small for anything but a run-in from the pasture.
I'm making tentative plans for fall. With the late lambing now, any ewe lambs I won't want to breed in October. I'm considering either not breeding the ewe lambs or running the proven ewes breed in October, then the ewe lambs breed in November. If I can get the barn cleared out and worked on then I'll be able to separate groups much easier. I could put the commercial ram with those ewes, then the rest of the ewe lambs would get the mini cheviot and cross rams. Depends on how big the commercial sheep are then.
Mary is quite big. She underestimated the distance it takes her to slow down and I thought she was going to bowl me down the hill with her.
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Sheep move today.
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katie lunemann on Instagram: "Smallest lamb I've ever had!!! 228 lambed just before I got home. Single ewe lamb. Chonk is the sire. Birth weight 2.23#!!! #charactercrossbreed #sheep365 #lambing2021 #farmher #farmlife #rustbeltfibershed"
11 likes, 3 comments - homesteadnowhere on May 10, 2021: "Smallest lamb I've ever had!!! 228 lambed just before I got home. Single ewe lamb. Chonk is the sire. Birth weight 2.23#!!! #charactercrossbreed #sheep365 #lambing2021 #farmher #farmlife #rustbeltfibershed".
www.instagram.com
Which brings me to the two new additions. 263 and 269, ewe lambs. They are 3/4 shetland, 1/4 border cheviot cross, same as the five I bought from her last year. These are the last that I'll be buying. I need to buckle down on what I have now and cull hard and keep replacements that do better. I'm hoping for a few ewe lambs to keep on but with one tiny ewe lamb to four ram lambs born I'm guessing it's a ram year! That's fine I hope they'll sell well. The two from March look terrific and I never even got a creep setup for them. They're too big for the creep gate now. And these bunch now I probably won't even set it up, there is so much grass. Knock on wood! Don't want to jinx the weather.
The bucket lambs are doing well. I'm putting more replacer in by the day it seems, their appetite ramping up. They have feed available. I'm going to cut some grass to give them to start nibbling on along with the hay. I know bottle lambs won't do as well grazing but their offspring will. I'm going to be setting aside money for next year, I want to talk to the person I got them from about setting up ahead of time for me to come get their bottle lambs next year. Then they won't have to mess with them and I can get some more commercial stock for a price more manageable for me. Don't know for sure but it could work out for both of us.
I'm waiting on more lambs. The first timers so far have all been suprizes. Some have nice udders and I'd think they'd be the ones to go first but ya never know with these guys! Next week I'm guessing will be the busy time. But there is five ewe lambs I had down for udder development on 4/20, and these two that have lambed were not on that list. Then the proven ewes have udders, Kitty has the least udder but I want to say she just had a smaller udder. I need to make notes of the ewes and their udders so I'll know next year and not be guessing and trying to remember. Getting pics showing their udders might be too much to ask, they don't like to pose!
I'm trying to talk dad into clearing out the barn so I can revamp it for the sheep. Right now I'm using less than a quarter of it for feed storage and it's very inefficiently. The rest is just filled with junk and dad doesn't even go in it. He was using the top corner to hang deer but even that he hasn't kept up. It'll be alot cheaper to rework that barn then buy and build something new. It won't be anything like a commercial barn, haha! But it will be much more manageable than the one sheep shed now. And the small shed has the pig in it and will be taken down this year, plus it's too small for anything but a run-in from the pasture.
I'm making tentative plans for fall. With the late lambing now, any ewe lambs I won't want to breed in October. I'm considering either not breeding the ewe lambs or running the proven ewes breed in October, then the ewe lambs breed in November. If I can get the barn cleared out and worked on then I'll be able to separate groups much easier. I could put the commercial ram with those ewes, then the rest of the ewe lambs would get the mini cheviot and cross rams. Depends on how big the commercial sheep are then.
Mary is quite big. She underestimated the distance it takes her to slow down and I thought she was going to bowl me down the hill with her.
katie lunemann on Instagram: "Mary miscalculated her brake time and thought she was going to bowl me down the hill. Goofy girl. She's big but she can be big for a while before she lambs. #charactercrossbreed #lambing2021 #sheep365"
9 likes, 0 comments - homesteadnowhere on May 11, 2021: "Mary miscalculated her brake time and thought she was going to bowl me down the hill. Goofy girl. She's big but she can be big for a while before she lambs. #charactercrossbreed #lambing2021 #sheep365".
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Sheep move today.
katie lunemann on Instagram: "Sheep move 🐑 #charactercrossbreed #sheep365 #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #regenerativegrazing #rotationalgrazing"
3 likes, 0 comments - homesteadnowhere on May 11, 2021: "Sheep move 🐑 #charactercrossbreed #sheep365 #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #regenerativegrazing #rotationalgrazing".
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Baymule
Herd Master
A barn! By all means, convince your dad to let you clean it up so you can use it. Congratulations on the new lambs.
Bruce
Herd Master
Sounds like you are going to be busy. Then after you convince your father you will be extra busy cleaning out the barn.
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5/12, 229 had a ram lamb. Just over 7#. I had to assist because she looked worn out. I just helped get past the head and was right out.
I also came out to 231 cleaning a lamb that was dead. I'm guessing that she stalled out too long because the lamb looked fine and had been about 3#
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5/13, 185 had a ewe lamb! Biggest of the year at 8.66#
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5/8 broadcasted seed mix in a small paddock, it rained all the next day. Then we didn't get any rain until yesterday, and not even that much. So going to see if much of it comes through or not.
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5/15 Two ewe lambs came home earlier this week. They are 3/4 shetland and 1/4 border Cheviot. Some of this year's half sisters to five I bought last year.
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Spotlighting 90 & 91, the March born ram lambs. Getting big and looking good. Considering keeping both.
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5/16 Was a darn long day. I couldn't sleep and a sheep was consistently hollering so I went out to check at 5:30am. It was 225, a bred ewe lamb. It was Sunday and very early still and after leaving a message then talking to the on-call vet I decided to wait a bit more. No progress and many hours dad helped me put her down and rush to open up and see if there was a lamb to be saved. The lamb was dead and after thinking over the whole thing my hypothesis is that the ewe probably was going into a very slow labor about midnight when I checked the night before and there was trouble and the lamb was dead late at night. By the time I got out there, nothing could have been done. Ring womb. There was one leg forward and I could just barely touch the other hoof. The ewe was so small back there that I could only get three fingers in to attempt to assist anyhow. I did learn from this though that the problem ewe I had last year, a pure shetland lambing the first time at 2y/o, had to have been ring womb also. In that case I didn't understand that and she gave no signs of anything at all so had gone in labor and gave up before I was out in the morning. Then I didn't figure anything was up until a week later.
5/17 After alot of catchup sleep I came out in the morning to 75 and a lovely black ewe lamb. 6.4# with a little spot of white on the head.
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84 always strikes a pose. Usually she moves before I get a picture! This time I was quick!
I can't guess if she's hiding a lamb in that long body or not! If she's got an udder it's quite high and tight to her but she also has that cheviot to her and is watchful of me. If I get around behind her she is fast to move and keep me from seeing anything. Midget's daughter.
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I may have taken to calling the smallest lamb "bite sized". She was two and a quarter pounds at birth. Calling her "quarter pounder" seemed rude.
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Meat birds are out! Finally. Even aside from lambing I've been busy with alot of background projects. Lumber of course is skyrocketed. Luckily there is some amish near me that run a sawmill and my rough cut lumber should not cost me a fortune. In the mean time the meat birds are setup with a reworked shelter. They haven't learned to get on the roosts I put in but they are utilizing the shade.
I didn't see it happen but I did catch one escapee. Fingers crossed that doesn't become an issue.
~The day after this post I grabbed up, I'd guess the same bird, and put it back in the net. It hasn't happened again. I can't exactly count them now as much as they move around so I'm hoping that means it decided to stay put and not that it got out again and went MIA.
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No lambs. Only scritches.
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I also came out to 231 cleaning a lamb that was dead. I'm guessing that she stalled out too long because the lamb looked fine and had been about 3#
katie lunemann on Instagram: "229 had a ram lamb yesterday. Just over 7# #charactercrossbreed #sheep365 #lambing2021"
8 likes, 0 comments - homesteadnowhere on May 13, 2021: "229 had a ram lamb yesterday. Just over 7# #charactercrossbreed #sheep365 #lambing2021".
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5/13, 185 had a ewe lamb! Biggest of the year at 8.66#
katie lunemann on Instagram: "Yesterday 185 had a ewe lamb! 🎉 Biggest of the year at 8.66# #charactercrossbreed #sheep365 #lambing2021"
8 likes, 4 comments - homesteadnowhere on May 14, 2021: "Yesterday 185 had a ewe lamb! 🎉 Biggest of the year at 8.66# #charactercrossbreed #sheep365 #lambing2021".
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5/8 broadcasted seed mix in a small paddock, it rained all the next day. Then we didn't get any rain until yesterday, and not even that much. So going to see if much of it comes through or not.
katie lunemann on Instagram: "From 5/8. Broadcasted cover crop seed in a paddock after the rams moved off. #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #regenerativegrazing #rotationalgrazing #sheep365"
4 likes, 0 comments - homesteadnowhere on May 15, 2021: "From 5/8. Broadcasted cover crop seed in a paddock after the rams moved off. #regenerativeagriculture #regenerativefarming #regenerativegrazing #rotationalgrazing #sheep365".
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5/15 Two ewe lambs came home earlier this week. They are 3/4 shetland and 1/4 border Cheviot. Some of this year's half sisters to five I bought last year.
katie lunemann on Instagram: "Two ewe lambs came home earlier this week 🐑 They are 3/4 shetland and 1/4 border Cheviot. Some of this year's half sisters to five I bought last year. #charactercrossbreed #sheep365 #farmher"
8 likes, 0 comments - homesteadnowhere on May 15, 2021: "Two ewe lambs came home earlier this week 🐑 They are 3/4 shetland and 1/4 border Cheviot. Some of this year's half sisters to five I bought last year. #charactercrossbreed #sheep365 #farmher".
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Spotlighting 90 & 91, the March born ram lambs. Getting big and looking good. Considering keeping both.
katie lunemann on Instagram: "Spotlighting 90 & 91, the March born ram lambs. Getting big and looking good. #charactercrossbreed #sheep365 #rustbeltfibershed"
6 likes, 1 comments - homesteadnowhere on May 15, 2021: "Spotlighting 90 & 91, the March born ram lambs. Getting big and looking good. #charactercrossbreed #sheep365 #rustbeltfibershed".
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5/16 Was a darn long day. I couldn't sleep and a sheep was consistently hollering so I went out to check at 5:30am. It was 225, a bred ewe lamb. It was Sunday and very early still and after leaving a message then talking to the on-call vet I decided to wait a bit more. No progress and many hours dad helped me put her down and rush to open up and see if there was a lamb to be saved. The lamb was dead and after thinking over the whole thing my hypothesis is that the ewe probably was going into a very slow labor about midnight when I checked the night before and there was trouble and the lamb was dead late at night. By the time I got out there, nothing could have been done. Ring womb. There was one leg forward and I could just barely touch the other hoof. The ewe was so small back there that I could only get three fingers in to attempt to assist anyhow. I did learn from this though that the problem ewe I had last year, a pure shetland lambing the first time at 2y/o, had to have been ring womb also. In that case I didn't understand that and she gave no signs of anything at all so had gone in labor and gave up before I was out in the morning. Then I didn't figure anything was up until a week later.
5/17 After alot of catchup sleep I came out in the morning to 75 and a lovely black ewe lamb. 6.4# with a little spot of white on the head.
katie lunemann on Instagram: "A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down. This morning 75 had a lovely black ewe lamb waiting for me. All clean and fed and healthy. #sheep365 #charactercrossbreed #lambing2021 #farmher"
11 likes, 1 comments - homesteadnowhere on May 17, 2021: "A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down. This morning 75 had a lovely black ewe lamb waiting for me. All clean and fed and healthy. #sheep365 #charactercrossbreed #lambing2021 #farmher".
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84 always strikes a pose. Usually she moves before I get a picture! This time I was quick!
I can't guess if she's hiding a lamb in that long body or not! If she's got an udder it's quite high and tight to her but she also has that cheviot to her and is watchful of me. If I get around behind her she is fast to move and keep me from seeing anything. Midget's daughter.
katie lunemann on Instagram: "84 always strikes a pose. Usually she moves before I get a picture! This time I was quick! I can't guess if she's hiding a lamb in that long body or not 🤷♀️🐑 #sheep365 #charactercrossbreed #lambing2021 #farmher #farml
3 likes, 0 comments - homesteadnowhere on May 17, 2021: "84 always strikes a pose. Usually she moves before I get a picture! This time I was quick! I can't guess if she's hiding a lamb in that long body or not 🤷♀️🐑 #sheep365 #charactercrossbreed #lambing2021 #farmher #farmlife".
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I may have taken to calling the smallest lamb "bite sized". She was two and a quarter pounds at birth. Calling her "quarter pounder" seemed rude.
katie lunemann on Instagram: "I may have taken to calling the smallest lamb "bite sized". She was two and a quarter pounds at birth. Calling her "quarter pounder" seemed rude 🤫😇 #sheep365 #charactercrossbreed #lambing2021 #rustbeltfibershed"
9 likes, 2 comments - homesteadnowhere on May 17, 2021: "I may have taken to calling the smallest lamb "bite sized". She was two and a quarter pounds at birth. Calling her "quarter pounder" seemed rude 🤫😇 #sheep365 #charactercrossbreed #lambing2021 #rustbeltfibershed".
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Meat birds are out! Finally. Even aside from lambing I've been busy with alot of background projects. Lumber of course is skyrocketed. Luckily there is some amish near me that run a sawmill and my rough cut lumber should not cost me a fortune. In the mean time the meat birds are setup with a reworked shelter. They haven't learned to get on the roosts I put in but they are utilizing the shade.
I didn't see it happen but I did catch one escapee. Fingers crossed that doesn't become an issue.
~The day after this post I grabbed up, I'd guess the same bird, and put it back in the net. It hasn't happened again. I can't exactly count them now as much as they move around so I'm hoping that means it decided to stay put and not that it got out again and went MIA.
katie lunemann on Instagram: "Meat birds are out! Finally. Even aside from lambing I've been busy with alot of background projects. Lumber of course is skyrocketed. Luckily there is some amish near me that run a sawmill and my rough cut lumber should
4 likes, 0 comments - homesteadnowhere on May 18, 2021: "Meat birds are out! Finally. Even aside from lambing I've been busy with alot of background projects. Lumber of course is skyrocketed. Luckily there is some amish near me that run a sawmill and my rough cut lumber should not cost me a...
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No lambs. Only scritches.
katie lunemann on Instagram: "No lambs. Only scritches. #sheep365 #charactercrossbreed #lambing2021 #farmher #farmlife"
4 likes, 0 comments - homesteadnowhere on May 19, 2021: "No lambs. Only scritches. #sheep365 #charactercrossbreed #lambing2021 #farmher #farmlife".
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