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Just finished my coffee. It’s a fog white out. Got 1 1/2” of rain, sheep lots are poop soup. At least this winter, due to the loads of dirt I shoveled into their shelters, no poop soup inside the shelters. Still waiting on 2 ewes to lamb, then will be done. Need to sort out Ewenique and her 2...

Rain yesterday and last night, more today. But no freezing 🥶 temperatures!

Maybe not the end of the world, but higher prices sure hurt. Especially for other people who don’t have the resources that we do.

I raised quail a long time ago. There weren’t all the colors then, male/female were easy to tell apart. Lots of eggs! I broke them into a measuring cup. I think it was 1/4 cup quail eggs to 1 chicken egg. They were great fried, a yolk in every bite. Plus pickled quail eggs, so yummy. I haven’t...

Wound up with 26 pullets. Plus the 80 chicks I already have. It’s going to be a chicken festival around here. LOL On second cup of coffee, made 3 this morning. Was awake at 4:30, chickens on the brain. Low of only 32 high today of 48!!!!!! I’m so tired of freezing weather. Not set up here for...

A friend has one that I can use.

I’m tired yall. It was sleeting when I left Wednesday. 175 miles and it sleeted all the way, and halfway back. I got home at 4:00 and it was so cold, highest I could get it in the coop with 4 heat lamps was 60 degrees. I dragged a big black livestock water tub in the house and rigged it up for...

You can’t fix stupid.

@Mini Horses i hope you don’t lose power. I live out in the butt end of nowhere and power outages are common. I have a gas stove, oven won’t work because of electrical ignition, but I can light burners with a match. Plus I have a propane heater that I use to augment the electric heat. It sure...

I go pick up 75 CCX chicks tomorrow. I threw up a hoop coop with hardware cloth on the sides, a tarp over the cow panels. Perfect for the hot weather we get. Then February decided to throw a farewell party. Or at least we hope it is farewell. Regardless, my coop needed serious...

This is a local FB post. Got over 60 replies that basically said the installers thoughtfully left the dirt pile so the home owners could fill it in as the dirt settled. The post was so stupid, this answer made me bust out laughing.

There are gas stations that have ethanol free gas. Do an internet search for your area.

Coffee is ready. I’ll be out to care for sheep in a bit when it gets light. Church this morning, I teach the kids class. Ages 3 to 12, in one classroom. If we run out of story before we run out of time, I show them pictures of my sheep, dogs or whatever. Making paper airplanes is a big hit also...

Looks like my place!

I don’t know if it’s just Texas or the whole country, but insurance companies are depreciating the roof, instead of the full coverage you think you have. So if your roof is 20 years old and a storm tears it up, it’s depreciated down to nothing.

I vote for metal roof every time. In April of 2023, the shingle roof on my double wide manufactured home was damaged by a hailstorm. That’s when I found out that insurance companies snuck in some changes. They no longer value the roof on our homes. I had full replacement value on my home, but...

Dehorning cattle is worse. There is a dehorning paste some cattle men use, it essentially burns the horn bud off. But if it gets elsewhere on the calf’s face, it’s not good.

It’s raining today. I slept till almost 7 AM. Drinking coffee, then I’ll suit up, prepared to get wet, and go tend to animals. I pick up 75 meat chicks Thursday. I built a temporary hoop coop for them. Wednesday night will be a low of 17F, but Thursday night will be 25F. Still too cold...

I got 3 inches of rain yesterday, 2 day total of 4 inches. Creeks are up, road was flooded, but drivable. By the time I went to church last night, water had receded mostly to the ditches. Cold, windy and soggy here. I need to set 2 bales of hay today.