Sheep Working Table

I designed the sheep table based on a goat milking stand. A sheep table needs gates on the sides and ramps. The head gate will catch their head and then we can work on their hooves and medicate them more easily. We hope. Today is a long post but stick around to the end.

   In my defense, it was windy out.

We got the rabbit cages set up behind the garage.  I made the table for it with pressure treated lumber.

It’s twelve feet long and two feet wide.

Rosie’s babies are in the smaller one on the left. The big cage is empty.

Our rabbit production area is growing.

The pond dam behind us is washing away from all the rain. You can see the big canyon where the overflow pipe used to be.

Louie was enjoying the nice weather.

We put the Wyandottes out in the chicken coop. They were getting too big for the baby chicken cage.

The neighbors have Holsteins this year, they came to see what I was doing.

  I disturbed Louie’s solace.

Lisa planted her cherry tree. It is a small variety that won’t get too big, but should still bear edible fruit.

It has rained so much we haven’t planted anything in the big garden. We have a few things in the small garden. Onions, carrots, lettuce and cabbage.

The strawberry patch is bigger this year. I didn’t mow too close to it because there is a lot of strawberry plants in the grass.

Kate’s babies are looking like rabbits now.

This is our new property! We bought Mr. Reece’s five acres. It goes from the close fence on the left over to the fence to the right of the round hay bales, down to the road and it shares the fence line behind our existing property. He isn’t taking the hay so we can use it to feed the cattle and sheep. It’s too old and possibly moldy to feed horses.

It’s the parcel at the top.

It gives us a total of fifteen acres. We already moved the cattle over there. We’ll get the minis and Heidi over this week. There is a lot of grass there.