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Range Woolies--few pics.

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EmptyPockets

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There's not only cattle roaming the plains. Still a few sheep. Here's a few photos of those fence crawling, coyote abused, weed eating, money making, wooly buggars.


Colorful little buggar!

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Life is good!
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Proud mom!


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Productive Ewe.
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Lamb playtime.
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Come on now--No Fightin
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A little nap time
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Not mom but works for us!
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grass shure looks good and green
pretty content looking prarie maggot's you got there i hope they wean all those lamb's so the'll make you lots of cash
until later
jerry
 
EP, What breed are those ewes and what breed are the lambs? and the second last picture looks like a Clun Forest, what is it?? When did you get the shearing done and why does you grass look so nice? :P You good at 20 questions? :lol: :lol:


Katy
 
Canadian_Cowgirl said:
EP, What breed are those ewes and what breed are the lambs? and the second last picture looks like a Clun Forest, what is it?? When did you get the shearing done and why does you grass look so nice? :P You good at 20 questions? :lol: :lol:


Katy
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Katy, the white ewes are Columbia-Rambouillet, the black is Suffolk. I use Suffolk for cross breeding as I sell market lambs. The white faced ewes are wool breeds so the wool is more valuable. I shear around the 1st of March, and the grass is green because we caught a few nice showers and this is South Dakota, it should look like this in May.
It's not Clun Forest, that's quite a ways from here??? It's just trees along a creek.


Milkmaid, we dock when they are about a month old, I've still a few left in the drop herd but should be done in a week. Then we can do them all at one time. That's one little de-tail we don't forget. :wink:
 
Great pictures EP! Pretty country. I remember driving through hills like that when I was young. My Dad and I were delivering a bull to Doug and Molly Hoff. Miles and miles and miles without towns in some stretches, I loved the Dakotas.

As for the maggots, I have to admit they're cute. One day as we get our stuff together, I'd like to use them and goats for grazing some of our trouble areas for sphurge and buck brush.
 
PureCountry said:
Great pictures EP! Pretty country. I remember driving through hills like that when I was young. My Dad and I were delivering a bull to Doug and Molly Hoff. Miles and miles and miles without towns in some stretches, I loved the Dakotas.

As for the maggots, I have to admit they're cute. One day as we get our stuff together, I'd like to use them and goats for grazing some of our trouble areas for sphurge and buck brush.
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Was that a white bull? :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
 
EmptyPockets said:
Canadian_Cowgirl said:
EP, What breed are those ewes and what breed are the lambs? and the second last picture looks like a Clun Forest, what is it?? When did you get the shearing done and why does you grass look so nice? :P You good at 20 questions? :lol: :lol:


Katy
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Katy, the white ewes are Columbia-Rambouillet, the black is Suffolk. I use Suffolk for cross breeding as I sell market lambs. The white faced ewes are wool breeds so the wool is more valuable. I shear around the 1st of March, and the grass is green because we caught a few nice showers and this is South Dakota, it should look like this in May.
It's not Clun Forest, that's quite a ways from here??? It's just trees along a creek.
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Interesting, we dont have any columbias or ramboullets lol but we have corridale wich is a wool sheep. And i was asking if the second last pictures was a breeed of sheep called a clun forest you said it was a suffolk but i cant see it, maybe its cuz its ears are back.

Katy
 
I'd almost forgot about those bottle feeder setups....Brings back old memories of 50 years ago when my mom, sister, and I would all head out the door with our arms full of pop bottles to feed the awaiting bums.....

Great pics.....
 
We are using some pasture maggots to clean up the outside of our fences.. Running them down the raod sides behind some electronet.. Have had the odd one get out on us, probably not enough jucie in the fence but it is getting beter as they are eating the weeds and grass down that was sucking the life out of the charger... I think I will look for shorts on it tomorrow, some people can find them (Me sometimes) and some people can't (The guy who works for me is usually one of them). We have about 10 goats too, going to use them on some of the fence lines too but they have been a royal pain in the Arse to keep in.. I will admit I got a bit of a perverse smile when I watched them hit the fence that was at 7500 volts... Simple minds I suppose..
 
I don't know what to think of you EP. :wink: Took you ahile to admit you had some sheepman in your background. lol. Just kidding.

Things look great over your way. Green is a good color for the country anytime. :-)
 
Juan said:
PureCountry said:
Great pictures EP! Pretty country. I remember driving through hills like that when I was young. My Dad and I were delivering a bull to Doug and Molly Hoff. Miles and miles and miles without towns in some stretches, I loved the Dakotas.

As for the maggots, I have to admit they're cute. One day as we get our stuff together, I'd like to use them and goats for grazing some of our trouble areas for sphurge and buck brush.
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Was that a white bull? :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D :D
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Not quite Juan, he was an Angus yearling. Back then we sold quite a few of 'em every year. Saw alot of the North-Western US as a kid, tagging along with my Dad dellivering bulls or taking in sales. Great memories. I remember Moose's Saloon in, I believe it was Havre, MT. Might have been a little young to be there at the time, but it was alot of fun.

As for the sheep cleaning up fence lines and such, that's a real useful purpose I can see for them. Not sure how our County feels about ditch grazing, but we've got real wide ditches around our land, and when I look at all that brome 3' high, I see alot of grazing days.
 
I don't know how the county feels about it but these are township roads.. In this state, or mayb it is just the two counties, there are 4 levels of roads (abe5?) starting at Federal, going to state, down to county, than township and municpal (I am not sure who handles town streets as we have no towns in our township)... I talked to our township comish and he didn' care how we did it e just wants the roadsides clean of weed and grass I would rather have the woolies do it than burn diesel doing it. He told us we could run our cows down the road for a day if we really wanted to but we would have to be able to move them off the road as traffic demanded and would havet o clean up the manure at the end of the rotation...

Around here the township ditches are the entire responsibility of the landlord unless the road commish wants to remove trees because they block the few of the school buses (Why the school buses need to look across my pastures is a whole other story but whatever). We have to mow, remove debries, control weeds, removed downed trees whatever just like it was inside our fences... I would never hay the ground but grazing it... you betcha.
 

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