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TerriLaChicks should be in surgery now.
Hope all goes well Terri.
TerriLaChicks should be in surgery now.
Hope all goes well Terri.
"Louisiana "La-yers" Peeps"
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I know what you mean about wet, muddy AND nasty. The sheep and goat pens are a BLOODY MESS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mud all over. Will be putting wood chips in there to kinda dry it up and keep it dry. I don't like to see their hooves muddy.
The city workers were on our street today cutting limbs and branches and putting them in their shredder in the back of their truck. We asked them if we could have the wood chips and they said yes. They said it would take a load off of them being as though they don't have to drive to the "wood chip pit" and dump them. As soon as we get the load, we will place the wood chips in the sheep and goat pens. I posted a pic below of the sheep pen.
30ft x 30ft
I know what you mean about wet, muddy AND nasty. The sheep and goat pens are a BLOODY MESS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mud all over. Will be putting wood chips in there to kinda dry it up and keep it dry. I don't like to see their hooves muddy.
The city workers were on our street today cutting limbs and branches and putting them in their shredder in the back of their truck. We asked them if we could have the wood chips and they said yes. They said it would take a load off of them being as though they don't have to drive to the "wood chip pit" and dump them. As soon as we get the load, we will place the wood chips in the sheep and goat pens. I posted a pic below of the sheep pen.
30ft x 30ft
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My hubby works offshore, he is out there right now. Have fun with your new fuzzy friends!
My hubby works offshore, he is out there right now. Have fun with your new fuzzy friends!
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I know what you mean about wet, muddy AND nasty. The sheep and goat pens are a BLOODY MESS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mud all over. Will be putting wood chips in there to kinda dry it up and keep it dry. I don't like to see their hooves muddy.
The city workers were on our street today cutting limbs and branches and putting them in their shredder in the back of their truck. We asked them if we could have the wood chips and they said yes. They said it would take a load off of them being as though they don't have to drive to the "wood chip pit" and dump them. As soon as we get the load, we will place the wood chips in the sheep and goat pens. I posted a pic below of the sheep pen.
30ft x 30ft
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/6612_pen_cannon.jpg
Nice website, Kuntrygirl, we are not to far from each other. Are your turkey's pets or have you raised them for food too? What is it like having sheep and what do you use them for? I have thought of getting sheep a time or two.
I know what you mean about wet, muddy AND nasty. The sheep and goat pens are a BLOODY MESS !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Mud all over. Will be putting wood chips in there to kinda dry it up and keep it dry. I don't like to see their hooves muddy.
The city workers were on our street today cutting limbs and branches and putting them in their shredder in the back of their truck. We asked them if we could have the wood chips and they said yes. They said it would take a load off of them being as though they don't have to drive to the "wood chip pit" and dump them. As soon as we get the load, we will place the wood chips in the sheep and goat pens. I posted a pic below of the sheep pen.
30ft x 30ft
https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/uploads/6612_pen_cannon.jpg
Nice website, Kuntrygirl, we are not to far from each other. Are your turkey's pets or have you raised them for food too? What is it like having sheep and what do you use them for? I have thought of getting sheep a time or two.
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Thanks. Glad that you liked my website. Where exactly do you live?
My turkeys are only for pets. I don't like Thanksgiving turkey, so I would never eat them.
However, many people have contacted me and purchased both turkey eggs and turkey poults. For some reason, the breed (Bourbon Reds) that I have is sorta popular, so people contact me often wanting to purchase babies. Right now I have a waiting list of people who have ordered turkeys. I have had a family purchase a few of my Bourbon Red Turkeys for their daughter who is in 4H. She wanted to show the turkeys that they purchased from me. I thought that was kinda cool.
It is sooooo much fun having sheep. My sheep are tame, so they literally eat out of my hand. They come running when I call them. They are characters. When I first purchased my sheep many years ago, I had no intention on having them for meat. Well...........my thinking changed when something happened that I would have NEVER expected.......True story..... I had a Ram sheep that I got when he was only a couple of months old. I had him for a few years. He was spoiled rotten. He would eat out of my hand, came running when I called his name, stand up on his back legs and put his front legs/hooves on my shoulders (like a large dog would), rubbed up against me when I went to feed him, etc., etc., etc.
Well................... he was so spoiled and I was so close to him, that he evidently thought that I was another ram. He started head butting me. He would do this when I was walking out in the chicken yard and he was behind me. He would head butt my legs, my stomach, my back. etc. He started to do this to my family when they would come to visit. It was getting to the point where I didn't trust him. I was afraid to walk in front of him for fear that he would head butt me and I would fall on the ground and become unconscious and he would possibly kill me. Well, I couldn't sell him or give him to anyone because I didn't want to give my problem to someone else. If I would have given him to someone and later on found out that he killed that person, I wouldn't have been able to live with myself. I reached out to so many people who had other sheep who had the same problem. I typed so many posts on different sites, begging for help because I DID NOT want to slaughter him. Everyone said the same thing. They said that because of his aggressive behavior that he would eventually KILL me or someone else.
So the final straw was when he head butted a relative into a chain link dog kennel and my relative had a knot on his head due to this ram head butting him against the metal pipe. Well unfortunately, that same day, JR Boy (that was his name) was sent to the slaughter house. I cried like a big ole baby. I wasn't the one who took him but I still cried knowing what was going to happen to my Jr Boy. Well, a couple of days later, I had to go to the slaughter house to let the butcher know how I wanted the meat cut. As soon as they brought out his carcass, I burst out crying. So there was I - a grown woman crying in the butcher's shop. My cousin ordered me to return to my truck and to stay there until I stopped crying. So I finally stopped crying and went back inside so that the butcher could cut the meat. I started crying again but I tried my best to hold it in so that I could talk to the butcher. As soon as the cutting was over, I ran to the truck and burst out crying again. Needless to say, I learned that day, how pitiful and weak I really am when it comes to processing my own animals. I was depressed for weeks but when I realized that I had about 100lbs of lamb meat in my freezer, I felt a little better. Also I felt better, knowing that I was still alive and my aggressive ram was not able to hurt anyone again or kill anyone. Sooooo, that ram was used for meat for me and my family. Lamb chops are yummy!
I have 4 new lambs for 2011. Out of those 4 lambs, I have 1 ewe lamb and 3 ram lambs, so I have too many rams. I will have to sell the rams. I won't be able to keep them. I only like to keep 1 ram for my girls. The type of sheep that I have do not have wool. They are hair sheep, so I don't have to shear them. Being as though it gets sooooooooo hot in Louisiana, I didn't want to be bothered with shearing sheep.
Having sheep are fun. What kind of sheep did you think about getting?
Thanks. Glad that you liked my website. Where exactly do you live?
My turkeys are only for pets. I don't like Thanksgiving turkey, so I would never eat them.
It is sooooo much fun having sheep. My sheep are tame, so they literally eat out of my hand. They come running when I call them. They are characters. When I first purchased my sheep many years ago, I had no intention on having them for meat. Well...........my thinking changed when something happened that I would have NEVER expected.......True story..... I had a Ram sheep that I got when he was only a couple of months old. I had him for a few years. He was spoiled rotten. He would eat out of my hand, came running when I called his name, stand up on his back legs and put his front legs/hooves on my shoulders (like a large dog would), rubbed up against me when I went to feed him, etc., etc., etc.
Well................... he was so spoiled and I was so close to him, that he evidently thought that I was another ram. He started head butting me. He would do this when I was walking out in the chicken yard and he was behind me. He would head butt my legs, my stomach, my back. etc. He started to do this to my family when they would come to visit. It was getting to the point where I didn't trust him. I was afraid to walk in front of him for fear that he would head butt me and I would fall on the ground and become unconscious and he would possibly kill me. Well, I couldn't sell him or give him to anyone because I didn't want to give my problem to someone else. If I would have given him to someone and later on found out that he killed that person, I wouldn't have been able to live with myself. I reached out to so many people who had other sheep who had the same problem. I typed so many posts on different sites, begging for help because I DID NOT want to slaughter him. Everyone said the same thing. They said that because of his aggressive behavior that he would eventually KILL me or someone else.
So the final straw was when he head butted a relative into a chain link dog kennel and my relative had a knot on his head due to this ram head butting him against the metal pipe. Well unfortunately, that same day, JR Boy (that was his name) was sent to the slaughter house. I cried like a big ole baby. I wasn't the one who took him but I still cried knowing what was going to happen to my Jr Boy. Well, a couple of days later, I had to go to the slaughter house to let the butcher know how I wanted the meat cut. As soon as they brought out his carcass, I burst out crying. So there was I - a grown woman crying in the butcher's shop. My cousin ordered me to return to my truck and to stay there until I stopped crying. So I finally stopped crying and went back inside so that the butcher could cut the meat. I started crying again but I tried my best to hold it in so that I could talk to the butcher. As soon as the cutting was over, I ran to the truck and burst out crying again. Needless to say, I learned that day, how pitiful and weak I really am when it comes to processing my own animals. I was depressed for weeks but when I realized that I had about 100lbs of lamb meat in my freezer, I felt a little better. Also I felt better, knowing that I was still alive and my aggressive ram was not able to hurt anyone again or kill anyone. Sooooo, that ram was used for meat for me and my family. Lamb chops are yummy!
I have 4 new lambs for 2011. Out of those 4 lambs, I have 1 ewe lamb and 3 ram lambs, so I have too many rams. I will have to sell the rams. I won't be able to keep them. I only like to keep 1 ram for my girls. The type of sheep that I have do not have wool. They are hair sheep, so I don't have to shear them. Being as though it gets sooooooooo hot in Louisiana, I didn't want to be bothered with shearing sheep.
Having sheep are fun. What kind of sheep did you think about getting?
Cajunegghead - hope your hatch goes well. I'm hatching some now... so far 14 Silver Laced Wyandottes, 5 Black Australorps, and 1 mutt
Kuntrygirl - love your pen!
Here is a couple of pictures of my Coronation Sussex flock, and my Coronation/Light Sussex hen. Eggs should be coming any day now.
Yes; they LOVE their dog house!
To give you an idea of the size of these roosters, The side of the doghouse from the ground to the top of the side wall measures 16 inches. On the other side of the fence facing the rooster is my Saddleback Sebastopol Goose who just layed her first three eggs this year. YEAH!!! This rooster is a big boy! BTW, he's nine months old... I assume that he's full grown, however, some of these larger breeds take a little longer to mature so I don't know if he's finished growing.
Kuntrygirl - love your pen!
Here is a couple of pictures of my Coronation Sussex flock, and my Coronation/Light Sussex hen. Eggs should be coming any day now.
Yes; they LOVE their dog house!
To give you an idea of the size of these roosters, The side of the doghouse from the ground to the top of the side wall measures 16 inches. On the other side of the fence facing the rooster is my Saddleback Sebastopol Goose who just layed her first three eggs this year. YEAH!!! This rooster is a big boy! BTW, he's nine months old... I assume that he's full grown, however, some of these larger breeds take a little longer to mature so I don't know if he's finished growing.
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Thanks.
grambysfarm? Are those pics of your chickens that you told me about?????
THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!!!!!
I WANT SOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They look so clean !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So white, so fresh, so healthy. They look like they get manicures, pedicures and facials EVERY WEEK! They do not look like they live outside. Are you sure they don't live inside with you?
You're a good chicken mommy!!! I know that your animals love you. I love to see well taken care of animals.
Thanks.
grambysfarm? Are those pics of your chickens that you told me about?????
THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!!!!!
They look so clean !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So white, so fresh, so healthy. They look like they get manicures, pedicures and facials EVERY WEEK! They do not look like they live outside. Are you sure they don't live inside with you?
You're a good chicken mommy!!! I know that your animals love you. I love to see well taken care of animals.
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Thanks. Glad that you liked my website. Where exactly do you live?
It is sooooo much fun having sheep. My sheep are tame, so they literally eat out of my hand. They come running when I call them. They are characters. When I first purchased my sheep many years ago, I had no intention on having them for meat. Well...........my thinking changed when something happened that I would have NEVER expected.......True story..... I had a Ram sheep that I got when he was only a couple of months old. I had him for a few years. He was spoiled rotten. He would eat out of my hand, came running when I called his name, stand up on his back legs and put his front legs/hooves on my shoulders (like a large dog would), rubbed up against me when I went to feed him, etc., etc., etc.
Well................... he was so spoiled and I was so close to him, that he evidently thought that I was another ram. He started head butting me. He would do this when I was walking out in the chicken yard and he was behind me. He would head butt my legs, my stomach, my back. etc. He started to do this to my family when they would come to visit. It was getting to the point where I didn't trust him. I was afraid to walk in front of him for fear that he would head butt me and I would fall on the ground and become unconscious and he would possibly kill me. Well, I couldn't sell him or give him to anyone because I didn't want to give my problem to someone else. If I would have given him to someone and later on found out that he killed that person, I wouldn't have been able to live with myself. I reached out to so many people who had other sheep who had the same problem. I typed so many posts on different sites, begging for help because I DID NOT want to slaughter him. Everyone said the same thing. They said that because of his aggressive behavior that he would eventually KILL me or someone else.
So the final straw was when he head butted a relative into a chain link dog kennel and my relative had a knot on his head due to this ram head butting him against the metal pipe. Well unfortunately, that same day, JR Boy (that was his name) was sent to the slaughter house. I cried like a big ole baby. I wasn't the one who took him but I still cried knowing what was going to happen to my Jr Boy. Well, a couple of days later, I had to go to the slaughter house to let the butcher know how I wanted the meat cut. As soon as they brought out his carcass, I burst out crying. So there was I - a grown woman crying in the butcher's shop. My cousin ordered me to return to my truck and to stay there until I stopped crying. So I finally stopped crying and went back inside so that the butcher could cut the meat. I started crying again but I tried my best to hold it in so that I could talk to the butcher. As soon as the cutting was over, I ran to the truck and burst out crying again. Needless to say, I learned that day, how pitiful and weak I really am when it comes to processing my own animals. I was depressed for weeks but when I realized that I had about 100lbs of lamb meat in my freezer, I felt a little better. Also I felt better, knowing that I was still alive and my aggressive ram was not able to hurt anyone again or kill anyone. Sooooo, that ram was used for meat for me and my family. Lamb chops are yummy!
I have 4 new lambs for 2011. Out of those 4 lambs, I have 1 ewe lamb and 3 ram lambs, so I have too many rams. I will have to sell the rams. I won't be able to keep them. I only like to keep 1 ram for my girls. The type of sheep that I have do not have wool. They are hair sheep, so I don't have to shear them. Being as though it gets sooooooooo hot in Louisiana, I didn't want to be bothered with shearing sheep.
Having sheep are fun. What kind of sheep did you think about getting?
Kuntrygirl - I'm sorry for your loss of a "friend". Growing up, we always had sheep. And, like you, we've seen several rams turn very mean. For us, the rams that turned mean were the very ones that we bottle fed and gave lots of attention to ("spoiled"). I wonder if they see us as another ram (their equal) and therefore when they reach puberty they see us as a threat to their territory and therefore challenge us. Once they reach this point you're really not left with two many options.
Thanks. Glad that you liked my website. Where exactly do you live?
It is sooooo much fun having sheep. My sheep are tame, so they literally eat out of my hand. They come running when I call them. They are characters. When I first purchased my sheep many years ago, I had no intention on having them for meat. Well...........my thinking changed when something happened that I would have NEVER expected.......True story..... I had a Ram sheep that I got when he was only a couple of months old. I had him for a few years. He was spoiled rotten. He would eat out of my hand, came running when I called his name, stand up on his back legs and put his front legs/hooves on my shoulders (like a large dog would), rubbed up against me when I went to feed him, etc., etc., etc.
Well................... he was so spoiled and I was so close to him, that he evidently thought that I was another ram. He started head butting me. He would do this when I was walking out in the chicken yard and he was behind me. He would head butt my legs, my stomach, my back. etc. He started to do this to my family when they would come to visit. It was getting to the point where I didn't trust him. I was afraid to walk in front of him for fear that he would head butt me and I would fall on the ground and become unconscious and he would possibly kill me. Well, I couldn't sell him or give him to anyone because I didn't want to give my problem to someone else. If I would have given him to someone and later on found out that he killed that person, I wouldn't have been able to live with myself. I reached out to so many people who had other sheep who had the same problem. I typed so many posts on different sites, begging for help because I DID NOT want to slaughter him. Everyone said the same thing. They said that because of his aggressive behavior that he would eventually KILL me or someone else.
So the final straw was when he head butted a relative into a chain link dog kennel and my relative had a knot on his head due to this ram head butting him against the metal pipe. Well unfortunately, that same day, JR Boy (that was his name) was sent to the slaughter house. I cried like a big ole baby. I wasn't the one who took him but I still cried knowing what was going to happen to my Jr Boy. Well, a couple of days later, I had to go to the slaughter house to let the butcher know how I wanted the meat cut. As soon as they brought out his carcass, I burst out crying. So there was I - a grown woman crying in the butcher's shop. My cousin ordered me to return to my truck and to stay there until I stopped crying. So I finally stopped crying and went back inside so that the butcher could cut the meat. I started crying again but I tried my best to hold it in so that I could talk to the butcher. As soon as the cutting was over, I ran to the truck and burst out crying again. Needless to say, I learned that day, how pitiful and weak I really am when it comes to processing my own animals. I was depressed for weeks but when I realized that I had about 100lbs of lamb meat in my freezer, I felt a little better. Also I felt better, knowing that I was still alive and my aggressive ram was not able to hurt anyone again or kill anyone. Sooooo, that ram was used for meat for me and my family. Lamb chops are yummy!
I have 4 new lambs for 2011. Out of those 4 lambs, I have 1 ewe lamb and 3 ram lambs, so I have too many rams. I will have to sell the rams. I won't be able to keep them. I only like to keep 1 ram for my girls. The type of sheep that I have do not have wool. They are hair sheep, so I don't have to shear them. Being as though it gets sooooooooo hot in Louisiana, I didn't want to be bothered with shearing sheep.
Having sheep are fun. What kind of sheep did you think about getting?
Kuntrygirl - I'm sorry for your loss of a "friend". Growing up, we always had sheep. And, like you, we've seen several rams turn very mean. For us, the rams that turned mean were the very ones that we bottle fed and gave lots of attention to ("spoiled"). I wonder if they see us as another ram (their equal) and therefore when they reach puberty they see us as a threat to their territory and therefore challenge us. Once they reach this point you're really not left with two many options.
Thanks.
grambysfarm? Are those pics of your chickens that you told me about?????
THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!!!!! I WANT SOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They look so clean !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So white, so fresh, so healthy. They look like they get manicures, pedicures and facials EVERY WEEK! They do not look like they live outside. Are you sure they don't live inside with you?
You're a good chicken mommy!!! I know that your animals love you. I love to see well taken care of animals.
Pedicured chicken now thats a new one
grambysfarm? Are those pics of your chickens that you told me about?????
THEY ARE BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!!!!! I WANT SOME !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They look so clean !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! So white, so fresh, so healthy. They look like they get manicures, pedicures and facials EVERY WEEK! They do not look like they live outside. Are you sure they don't live inside with you?
You're a good chicken mommy!!! I know that your animals love you. I love to see well taken care of animals.
Pedicured chicken now thats a new one
Wow! Those are some pretty and clean chickens!
My scruffy, dirty, tom-boy girls would make a mess(maybe even eat) of those pretty girls
My scruffy, dirty, tom-boy girls would make a mess(maybe even eat) of those pretty girls
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