Hanging up Summer 2016

As I have talked about in my earlier discussion, my family owns our own gravel pit, which is located a mile behind our house. I ride fourwheeler there a lot, but the best part about it is being able to bring my friends out there to fish. When we found out that there were fish in our pond and that they are able to survive in there, we went and bought more at a fish farm and started to stock it awhile back. Now, we have plenty of fish and they are super fun to catch. This past weekend, we had to hang it up for the year, so we took the dock and the boat out of the water. My dad is an auctioneer, so I just wanted to show you guys our super funny pontoon my dad bought at an auction, and my uncle and him put in new flooring and painted it. My friends always get a good laugh at this "redneck" boat, but it is the slickest thing to have in our ponds!

Harvest 2016

We are finally getting toward the end of our harvest! Just need to dig a few more fields and lay some manure on. I love this time of year when we start to settle down after a long year of planting and harvesting. I have been on drier bin duty for two weeks now, so I could do my homework while the boys were out in the field. We did not need any over flows or fires from the drier, so I stuck around the farm to keep on eye on it. Soon enough we will be in our hibernation stage, trying to keep warm and go outside the least amount of times as possible! I just love coming home, the house smelling like a pumpkin, and the crock pots having a large amount of food supplies for when everyone comes home for supper!

Bloodhounds

My best friend owns two bloodhounds. Their names are Behr and Mable. They had their second set of puppies about three months ago, and they are finally heading out to meet their new owners! I went to go visit her and I cannot get over their adorable wrinkles in their faces. I got a really funny video of the runt of the group. She fed her by herself, because their mom stopped feeding them, and she ate so much that she could barely walk her belly got so big!

April 2016

In this post, I just wanted to throw it back to when my lambs were babies. I miss when they were this little, because they were a lot of fun and very entertaining to watch. When ever they got hungry, they would run back and fourth in their pen. I shot this video and everyone on my Instagram thought it was hilarious because one of the lambs falls down. Here is a video of the little cuties running!

Blood Samples

Okay, so a couple weeks ago I wrote a blog about "A Shepherds Gift" and about how we are in a sheep organization that is trying to get the public to know about the cure for Huntington's Disease. We have the cure, just no money to get it into the hospitals. I will leave a link for the video again!

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Anyways, we were getting the sheep prepared for their blood tests that we will send the blood to get lab work done on it. Right after we separated female and male lambs, we gathered the females into a smaller pen together. This was our first time taking blood samples by ourselves, so it was very tricky. The girls all got part of their necks shaved off, so we were able to see the veins. Then, we put a needle on the tube, and let it work it's magic. We did not use a syringe, it just came into the tube on its own, or it tried to go in there. Some of the lambs were very difficult to get blood from. We gathered the blood tubes, stuck them in the farm fridge, and let the lambs gather with their mothers again in the pasture.

First Batch of Lambs

Last week, my boyfriend and I went through all the lambs that were born last March/April and separated them by female and male! It was not the easiest task, sense they have not be led in and out of a pen before. The older ones know when to go and where to go when we are moving them around the farm yard. The female lambs were clipped with a new ear piece (this is so we know who is related to what ram we have in the farm yard) and they were sent off into the grasslands with their mothers. The boys, however, went to market. We do not keep any of the boys. We band them when they are little and when they hit about 6 months, that is when they are off the farm yard. The picture I took of them was right after we separated the females and males. The girls were a little shook up after seeing that their herd was cut in half.

Sheep friends!

Okay, after a few of my blogs that I have posted, I may seem like I am a little obsessed over my sheep and my dog, Karma. But, how can you not love this little personality she has going! I took this video of Karma pretending she is a sheep (again) and she just wanted to do what all the other sheep were doing! It was dinner time for her sheep friends, so she played along with it and ate dinner with them. That girl never ceases to amazes me. <3

Harvest Time!

As many of you know, it is harvest time for the farmers! I love this time of year; the smell, the beautiful colors, the amazing holidays' coming up, but there is one thing that I miss the most, my farmer! I love to be able to spend many hours out in the tractor as I can, but with juggle school and work, there are not many days that it can happen! I honor all the farmers that are out there to make sure that we are able to put food on the table at night for our families! I found this awesome picture that describes my everyday life, especially now! Even when it isn't harvest, we still have the sheep and cows to care for. I love my farmers!