Teresa & Mike CHS - Our journal

[Latestarter]

I feed them about 3:30 every afternoon and right at 3:00, this is what they are doing. They are right across from the house and will just stare at it trying to use thought waves to make the feed show up.

Sheep and goats... boy do they adjust to and love/stick with their routines! Mine all congregate up by the entrance to their night pen and the pasture entrance gate right about 5:30 pm, waiting for me to go out the back door around 6. Most lie down and wait patiently as they "trust me" to show up on time. Come 6:15, if I'm not on my way, they are ALL standing, staring at the back of the house and calling out to me. Boy don't they scream when I go then...

 

[Bruce]

They are right across from the house and will just stare at it trying to use thought waves to make the feed show up.

And it works EVERY time!!

 

[Baymule]

If you stick your head out the door do they start baa-baa-baaing? I swear mine have the sonic hearing of a bat, the eyes of an eagle, and know the moment my hand touches the door knob.

 

[CntryBoy777]

These shorter daylight hrs has "routines" a jumble right now...and today it was cloudy most of it....at one point it got dark and looked like the bottom might fall out....I went out on the front porch and the Boys started hollaring....it was about 2:30....I told them it wasn't time yet, but I don't think they believed me.....

 

[Mike CHS]

If you stick your head out the door do they start baa-baa-baaing? I swear mine have the sonic hearing of a bat, the eyes of an eagle, and know the moment my hand touches the door knob.

I'm not sure what I did different but this group is tamer than our previous ewes. They are calm and comfortable waiting till I come out and say "hi girls". If I don't speak to them they just keep eating grass or hay but they keep looking for a bucket.

 

[Baymule]

If I walk outside, the sheep yell at me. If I check on the chickens, the sheep run to their barn and yell at me. If I call the horses, the sheep answer. If I talk to anyone, they hear me and run to the barn, baa-baa-baaing all the way. If I actually call them, they darn nigh panic to see which one will be first to their feed pan. Since their barn and pasture #1 are not connected to other pastures, it sure makes them easy to move. They will follow me and a red Folger's can anywhere. LOL

 

[Mike CHS]

I just open the gate and say "here girls' and they just converge on me.

I almost hate to put them in the field with the older bully ewes since these are so sweet.

 

[Mike CHS]

A quick picture of the Buff that is raising 6 chicks. It seems like I can never get more of them in the frame at the same time. The chicks are really leggy and no telling what breed they are. She was determined to be broody so we picked up some eggs at a neighbor who had some they had been gathering for a couple of weeks and let her hatch them.

 

[Rammy]

How cute. I had three hens go broody on me this year but they kept changing nests and I had no where to put them to let them brood. Next year if that happens I can put them in the backyard now since I have it set up for the young chickies.

 

[RollingAcres]

My older hen when she's free-ranging, will run down the driveway when she sees my truck pull in the driveway. When I go to feed the chickens at the coop, I talk to them. Of course my cattle would hear me talking to the chickens and they'll yell at me. lol