Ridgetop - our place and how we muddle along
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Same here! But, some idiots need to be kept in check.
I'm about as far from anti-gun as you can get. Grew up with them.
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I'm about as far from anti-gun as you can get. Grew up with them.
It’s not about being anti gun, I’m trying to make it clear that this guy is a stupid moron, knows it all. Actually stupid moron is a compliment, because there is no measurement for how stupid he is. Ridgetop is anti Son in law with a firearm of any kind. He’s the kind of guy that packs a pistol as a penis extension, it’s his manhood and he is ignorant on safety.
If I understood her post, I think we both agree with you on all of that. I know I do. I wouldn't want someone like him at my place, with or without a gun either. You can't always choose your family or extended family, but you can definitely school them.
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Yeah, my post was basically... "ridgetop saying"...... MY house, my rules, and if you brought a gun in when I said I did not want one, then you need to leave and take the gun... PERIOD.... hey, I am not anti gun either... like @Baymule said... he is a total DUMB A$$.... he certainly does not need it around the autistic child... he can't even take proper care of her by NOT going through a gate he was told not to for the safety of the child with the horses...
"because I wanted to" was his answer when told not to and then why did he do it anyway.... He's more immature than the 4 year old...
@Baymule 's description of the penis extension made me nearly spit out my drink... EXACTLY RIGHT.....
"because I wanted to" was his answer when told not to and then why did he do it anyway.... He's more immature than the 4 year old...
@Baymule 's description of the penis extension made me nearly spit out my drink... EXACTLY RIGHT.....
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Had a great visit with Ridgetop and her husband. They came Tuesday afternoon and stopped at Charles and Holly’s where we were unloading the U-Haul. Ridgetop brought in boxes and bags of groceries and stocked the pantry. Charles and Holly were overwhelmed by her generosity, by someone that didn’t even know them.
Ozel was glad to see her mommy and daddy! Lots of love, petting and hugs.
We visited, son got the last of heavy things in the new house, truck and trailer empty, and he came home. I fixed spaghetti for supper. Somewhere in there, I fell asleep in my recliner and they woke me up after midnight to go to bed.
Ozel was glad to see her mommy and daddy! Lots of love, petting and hugs.
We visited, son got the last of heavy things in the new house, truck and trailer empty, and he came home. I fixed spaghetti for supper. Somewhere in there, I fell asleep in my recliner and they woke me up after midnight to go to bed.
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Doofus is DD2's husband. He started to "grow up' but has regressed. 
We brought Ozel home - still a virgin sadly but now, knowing Buford and feeling comfortable at Bay's, we have great hopes for the future. Next time we will deliver her as soon as she comes in. I will be checking her everyday in May. Not sure if we will breed her in the summer (heat, flies, etc. bad for puppies outside) but I will make sure that she actually cycles.
We stopped in Trinity on the way home and got 28 pallets from the place Bay knows. That will be enough for a large shelter in the current breeding pasture. Of course it has been raining ever since we got home so we haven't even unloaded them. They were super heavy since they had been sitting out in the rain too. Bay suggested putting them up on pavers to avoid rotting too quickly. If stops stops raining we can put up a shelter in a day.
The well man came back this morning and installed the timer drain on the well. He will be back tomorrow to check the water. In the meantime we have no water at the barn. We filled all the jugs and sheep tanks this am before he disconnected the well pump. Then had another ewe lamb today and DS1 had to fill and carry a 5 gallon bucket of water from the house for her. One ewe had lambed in the pen with the breeding ewes and ram while we were at Bay's. She was one that I told DS1 was supposed to be in the bred ewe pen but somehw ended up with the open ewes. He said apparently my paperwork was right on that one. LOL He had to chase the little ram lamb around to catch it then loaded it in the "pig cart" (actually now the "sheep cart") and pushed them over to the barn. He said that cart is working out great. We use it to transport the rams to the ewes, transport sick or disabled ewes from the pastures, and now ewes with lambs.
Unlike our old pig cart this one does not have the slide up gate on both sides, but since our sheep will get in it easily (unlike hogs who have to see an opening on the other side) it works great. The tires are large solid rubber tires that roll easily over grass and dirt. We weren't sure whether DS1 would like it but he had mentioned needing one like this so bought it cheap in CA and trucked it back. So glad we did since it is working well for us.
Anyway we didn;t have a jug for her, but DS1 had set up panels in the barn to make a walkway arund the frot of the jugs so we didn't have to fight through the ewes to feed the jugs. We put her in that for tday and will figure out something else for tomorrow when more ewes are due to lamb.
DS1 and DH brought 2 of the old hay rolls into the side barn and I have been unrolling them to use them to bed out the jugs. This is saving us a lot of money on bedding. I am also putting a lot in the main barn pen for the ewes to lamb in before going into the jugs with their lambs. DS1 and I want to set up the lamb creep for the older lambs. If it stops raining we need to run the breeding ewes through the chute to check ear tags ad retag several of them. DS1 wants to set up the heat lamps in the barn over the jugs and creep in preparation for future freezing weather. We already had temps down to 30 degrees and he wrapped all the water pipes. It is supposed to warm up to the 50's in a week or so.
We have to make a trip to the new feed store for more of the 16% and 20% sheep feed. We are trying to get some weight on the lactating ewes. They will get free feed grass hay and an evening feed of alfalfa once they are out of the jugs as well as a grain feeding. The ewes in the jugs are getting alfalfa and grain am and pm. The lambs will have free choice alfalfa in the creep. Total so far is 3 ewe lambs and 4 ram lambs with one dead ewe lamb. She was stuck wth an ear out and the crown of her head like a stopper in a bottle. We were at church. Rick called as we drove home and said to hurry since he couldn't get his hand in to turn the lamb. When I got home I could hardly get my hand in to find a nose. I finally got the nose and head out out but couldn't find the front leg. I did find several hind legs along side the head! Very bad presentation -those rear legs belonged to the twin behind the first lamb. After DS1 turned the ewe from side to side i was finally able to get my hand in far enough to push the second lammb's butt back a bit and hold it while DS1 pulled the first lamb out by the head. I did the swinging trick but no response. The large ewe lamb was definitely dead. With her nose trapped inside the ewe she had probably suffocated. I have had lambs survive for over an hour with the head and nose out but this one was trapped inside. With the first lamb out of the way, the rear legs of the second lamb popped out immediately and he came right out. The big lovely ewe lamb I wanted out of that particular ewe died but at least the second lamb survived. So all good there. We will have to see how the lambs look to choose replacements for all the ewes I lost over the summer. This year will try to sell as many as possible instead of keeping so many.
Nature has culled my sheep for me so I will get another ram that has more parasite resistance. It will be a complete outcross but not a problem there. I would rather have good sheep that live than fabulous ones that die from barber pole. Our ewes are high quality and the rams I have found are grade 5 on the South African Dorper scale and from parasite resistant lines. Hopefully one of those rams will upgrade the flock with parasite resistance as well as meat qualities. Just have to get time to go get him in northern Missouri. It will be a 3 day trip. One day to drive up, one day to look over the 5 rams available and choose one, and the third day to drive home. We can't spend as much time on the road since the days are shorter and our truck lights are not that good. I also found another ram that has bloodlines I want that is half as much money. I don't particularly like that ram's conformation but it could be the poor photos of him. He is in the opposite direction in Arizona so maybe not as parasite resistant since he is in a drier area with less barber pole exposure. He is less than half the price but if there is less parasite resistance the survivability of the lambs may not warrant any price at all. The Missouri rams are out of proven parasite resistant bloodines so probably a better investment. I currently have a good ram in wth the ewes being bred, so no emergency yet but I need to be prepared wth a second stud ram.
We brought Ozel home - still a virgin sadly but now, knowing Buford and feeling comfortable at Bay's, we have great hopes for the future. Next time we will deliver her as soon as she comes in. I will be checking her everyday in May. Not sure if we will breed her in the summer (heat, flies, etc. bad for puppies outside) but I will make sure that she actually cycles.
We stopped in Trinity on the way home and got 28 pallets from the place Bay knows. That will be enough for a large shelter in the current breeding pasture. Of course it has been raining ever since we got home so we haven't even unloaded them. They were super heavy since they had been sitting out in the rain too. Bay suggested putting them up on pavers to avoid rotting too quickly. If stops stops raining we can put up a shelter in a day.
The well man came back this morning and installed the timer drain on the well. He will be back tomorrow to check the water. In the meantime we have no water at the barn. We filled all the jugs and sheep tanks this am before he disconnected the well pump. Then had another ewe lamb today and DS1 had to fill and carry a 5 gallon bucket of water from the house for her. One ewe had lambed in the pen with the breeding ewes and ram while we were at Bay's. She was one that I told DS1 was supposed to be in the bred ewe pen but somehw ended up with the open ewes. He said apparently my paperwork was right on that one. LOL He had to chase the little ram lamb around to catch it then loaded it in the "pig cart" (actually now the "sheep cart") and pushed them over to the barn. He said that cart is working out great. We use it to transport the rams to the ewes, transport sick or disabled ewes from the pastures, and now ewes with lambs.
Unlike our old pig cart this one does not have the slide up gate on both sides, but since our sheep will get in it easily (unlike hogs who have to see an opening on the other side) it works great. The tires are large solid rubber tires that roll easily over grass and dirt. We weren't sure whether DS1 would like it but he had mentioned needing one like this so bought it cheap in CA and trucked it back. So glad we did since it is working well for us. Anyway we didn;t have a jug for her, but DS1 had set up panels in the barn to make a walkway arund the frot of the jugs so we didn't have to fight through the ewes to feed the jugs. We put her in that for tday and will figure out something else for tomorrow when more ewes are due to lamb.
DS1 and DH brought 2 of the old hay rolls into the side barn and I have been unrolling them to use them to bed out the jugs. This is saving us a lot of money on bedding. I am also putting a lot in the main barn pen for the ewes to lamb in before going into the jugs with their lambs. DS1 and I want to set up the lamb creep for the older lambs. If it stops raining we need to run the breeding ewes through the chute to check ear tags ad retag several of them. DS1 wants to set up the heat lamps in the barn over the jugs and creep in preparation for future freezing weather. We already had temps down to 30 degrees and he wrapped all the water pipes. It is supposed to warm up to the 50's in a week or so.
We have to make a trip to the new feed store for more of the 16% and 20% sheep feed. We are trying to get some weight on the lactating ewes. They will get free feed grass hay and an evening feed of alfalfa once they are out of the jugs as well as a grain feeding. The ewes in the jugs are getting alfalfa and grain am and pm. The lambs will have free choice alfalfa in the creep. Total so far is 3 ewe lambs and 4 ram lambs with one dead ewe lamb. She was stuck wth an ear out and the crown of her head like a stopper in a bottle. We were at church. Rick called as we drove home and said to hurry since he couldn't get his hand in to turn the lamb. When I got home I could hardly get my hand in to find a nose. I finally got the nose and head out out but couldn't find the front leg. I did find several hind legs along side the head! Very bad presentation -those rear legs belonged to the twin behind the first lamb. After DS1 turned the ewe from side to side i was finally able to get my hand in far enough to push the second lammb's butt back a bit and hold it while DS1 pulled the first lamb out by the head. I did the swinging trick but no response. The large ewe lamb was definitely dead. With her nose trapped inside the ewe she had probably suffocated. I have had lambs survive for over an hour with the head and nose out but this one was trapped inside. With the first lamb out of the way, the rear legs of the second lamb popped out immediately and he came right out. The big lovely ewe lamb I wanted out of that particular ewe died but at least the second lamb survived. So all good there. We will have to see how the lambs look to choose replacements for all the ewes I lost over the summer. This year will try to sell as many as possible instead of keeping so many.
Nature has culled my sheep for me so I will get another ram that has more parasite resistance. It will be a complete outcross but not a problem there. I would rather have good sheep that live than fabulous ones that die from barber pole. Our ewes are high quality and the rams I have found are grade 5 on the South African Dorper scale and from parasite resistant lines. Hopefully one of those rams will upgrade the flock with parasite resistance as well as meat qualities. Just have to get time to go get him in northern Missouri. It will be a 3 day trip. One day to drive up, one day to look over the 5 rams available and choose one, and the third day to drive home. We can't spend as much time on the road since the days are shorter and our truck lights are not that good. I also found another ram that has bloodlines I want that is half as much money. I don't particularly like that ram's conformation but it could be the poor photos of him. He is in the opposite direction in Arizona so maybe not as parasite resistant since he is in a drier area with less barber pole exposure. He is less than half the price but if there is less parasite resistance the survivability of the lambs may not warrant any price at all. The Missouri rams are out of proven parasite resistant bloodines so probably a better investment. I currently have a good ram in wth the ewes being bred, so no emergency yet but I need to be prepared wth a second stud ram.
