Baymule’s Farm

[flowerbug]

sadly things like that do happen from time to time. i hope Specks recovers completely.

 

[AMKuska]

Sorry about the lamb, he was a beauty. I am glad the ewe survived though.

 

[ducks4you]

 

[baymule]

When I go out to feed the sheep, cardinals come flying in to swoop down, grab a morsel and fly away to consume it safely away from trampling feet. I enjoy them in their beauty.

In this picture, on the post cross bar, is a tiny brown speckled bird. Don’t know what it is, but a bunch of them show up, enthusiastically hopping around for dropped bits of feed.

 

[Marie2020]

When I go out to feed the sheep, cardinals come flying in to swoop down, grab a morsel and fly away to consume it safely away from trampling feet. I enjoy them in their beauty.

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In this picture, on the post cross bar, is a tiny brown speckled bird. Don’t know what it is, but a bunch of them show up, enthusiastically hopping around for dropped bits of feed.

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They have stunningly beautiful colours

 

[Marie2020]

Well today didn’t go at all like I thought it would. I went to the post office this morning , came back and Specks was laying out in the field. She hasn’t been too perky the last couple of days so I was concerned. I went inside, came back out and Specks was in the newest pallet palace I built. She was prolapsing.

I went back in, got a prolapse harness, spoon and supplies. I haltered her and led her to another pen. I have never used a prolapse harness and it took me awhile to get her rigged up. I called @Ridgetop for guidance but she was outside, I left her a message. I was trying to figure out the spoon when I noticed something black sticking out. Not a prolapse! Premature birth. It was a tiny ear.

Lambs head was tucked downward, so the top of the head crowned. @Ridgetop explained to me that was causing the bulging lady hoo-hah. Head was not backwards, the chin was tucked downward and the top of the head was coming first. The big bulge I was seeing looked like a prolapse.

I pulled when she pushed and the lamb came out. Dead. A ram lamb and beautiful color. I was sad to have lost him, but I still have Specks. Specks is from Texas Five White Dorper, Cleopatra and Cooper Katahdin ram. She was bred to Little Ringo, who is white except for 3 brown spots and 1 black spot on his ears. Specks was white, covered with red speckles. The dead lamb’s color looked like an American Blackbelly, and he had white patches on his back, white on top of his head and 2 white feet. Gorgeous.

I gave Specks Nutridrench, B vitamins shot and antibiotics shot. I drenched her with warm molasses water. She just laid there, probably in shock. I left the dead lamb with her and about an hour later she got up. She ate a little, walked around, a little worse for wear, but ok. I took the lamb and disposed of it.

Picture of her pushed out bulging lady part that looked like a prolapse to me until a tiny black ear sticking out told me birth was on the way. Then the head crowned.

I’m posting pictures of Specks, lamb crowning. The next picture is the dead lamb. So if you don’t want to see, stop here. I recognize that some people don’t like such things, so don’t look.













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Dead lamb. I put Little Ringo in the field September 13, at the earliest, Specks was 3 weeks early.

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27 lambs. Minus one.

I'm so sorry . Poor little thing

 

[baymule]

I got my dirt pile Friday. I moved dirt Saturday and got the dirt pad for the chicken hoop coop to be built on. It may not look like much, but that’s between 30 and 40 trips from dirt pile to dirt pad on my little 23HP Kubota tractor. Plus raking it smooth periodically.

Sunday was church, lunch, took the rest of the day off and watched a movie.

Yesterday I started on the hoop coop.

I worked sheep until noon. I ran both flocks, the middle field first, then the front field.

Then I proceeded with raiding the shed remnants. I got out my chainsaw. Filled it with chain and bar oil. Got a hammer and wrecking bar. Of course, I didn’t have the foresight to get the hammer or wrecking bar, which meant more trips to the portable building to get what I needed.

There were 2 boards laying on the ground, so I tossed them over the fence.

The back wall lumber was leaned on the back wall of the shed part that didn’t blow down. There were 4 sheets of heavy plywood leaned on it.

I pulled nails out of the plywood. Had to go get the hammer. Some wouldn’t come out, had to go get the wrecking bar. Put nails in my back pocket. Filled my pocket up.

I used my chainsaw to cut the bottom and middle 2x6 off the 4x4’s.

Then I pulled the 4x4’s and top 2x6 over, it fell on the plywood. I put blocks under the 2x6 to lift it off the plywood and cut it away from the 4x4’s.

I dragged the 2x6’s over the fence. I picked them up, 1 at a time and carried them to a table. I cut 2 nine foot pieces for cross members. I measured the 2x6’s from the back wall, they were 13 feet and some inches before I cut them loose.

I carried the boards to the front yard, laid them down and screwed them together.

I dragged up 1 cow panel and 2 hog panels. I laid them on the frame, popped up one end and dropped it in place, 3 times. I put bricks under one end of the cow panel and stapled it to the board. Then I did the other side.

I put a hog panel in place and stapled one end. It was uneven to the cow panel.

I started on the stapled end, using hog rings to even the panels up with each other.

 

[baymule]

I got the panels even, hog ringed and put bricks under the other end, then stapled it.

Last hog panel. Oops. I miscalculated and the cross member needed to be moved over. I unscrewed it, moved it out so the last panel would fit, then screwed it back to the runner pieces.

Then I put on the last panel, like I did the second one.

It’s hard for me to squeeze the handles on the hog ring pliers, so I mash the handles just a little to get the hog ring started.

Hog rings make wonderful fasteners.

And Ta-Da!! The hoops are up!

Next step is hardware cloth down both sides and plywood on the back.

Last night my step counter said 16,687 steps, 6.1 miles! No wonder I was so tired.

This morning I’m going to go get feed. I get super bags of 1,000 to 1,200 pounds, bail the feed into two 5 gallon buckets, then dump in metal trash cans. After yesterday, it will be a day of rest!

 

[Carol Dee]

@baymule I am exhausted just reading about your day. You sure got a lot done.

 

[ducks4you]

You are MAGNIFICENT!!