Dusty was all ears and alert as the trailer containing Neche pulled in at the end of his turn out area. Since we weren’t really expecting Neche till later on, the camera was in the house. Naturally!
But we did get it after supper and went out to get acquainted with Neche. The picture below is Dusty looking at Neche probably wanting to get acquainted with her. He now has a pasture-mate to play all the horsey games with. Maybe he will calm down a little more and not try to play his games with us.
The second picture is of Neche looking at Dusty. Doesn’t look very interested in making friends does she.
August 11th, 2007
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Since we are due to have a few new additions, hopefully about 4, to our small herd of sheep, we decided we better enlarge the pen before it was too late.
Last weekend, Bev built a “drive thru feeder”. Basically it allows Shari to feed without having to go into the pen and risk a small flock “walk-about”. She also built a “lambing jug”. The lambing jug is used to put momma and newborn into so they can bond. After a couple days to a week, it is safe to put them back into the herd without another momma stealing another momma’s lamb.
Below is a picture of the lambing jug. 4′x4′
The next picture is of the drive by feeder already put in place. It actually takes the place of a fence panel. It will also show the enlarged pen after it was finished.
The picture below is of the sheep pen before we enlarged it. The sheep are gathered in the corner of the fence.
We almost finished it just in time. Neche was delivered about 4PM. We took about a 45 minute break to get her settled in, watered and fed. Then we went back and finished up the pen. It was mostly clean up and turn out the sheep to their new area.
Cindy
August 11th, 2007
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For 50 some odd years, I always thought days off from a J O B were to relax and recuperate so you were ready for the next week. I guess I was wrong, again. I am going to have to go back to the farm work to rest up from the work around home.
We had 2 fairly big projects on the list for this weekend. One of them got cut down due to lack of equipment, but not eliminated. We got both projects done and managed to do it without killing each other.
Enlarge the lamb pen was the biggest. Last time we enlarged it, it took us 2 days. We must be getting better at this stuff cause we did 2x as much in only 3/4 of the day.
First thing this morning we had to reset the round pen. That’s not real tough but there is always minor adjustments to do on the last panel. Today was no exception. Everything went pretty easy till we got the last panel in and tried to put the “man gate” in.
I want it so it opens to the outside to facilitate a rapid exit in case I need it. Like I am about to get run over, kicked, bit, or some other event that may prove injurious to my aging body. It took more time to get that stupid man gate, or in this case a woman gate, to open out without getting caught on a pin from the adjoining panel than it did to put the other 9, 6′ panels in to resemble a round pen.
We had to get that done because our new mare was getting delivered this afternoon and we had to have somewhere to put her. Below is a picture of Neche in her temporary home.
Since this post is getting a little long, I will cover the lamb pen in the next post.
Cindy
August 11th, 2007
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