[Ag-eq] General message for ag-eq

[Jewel]

Jody!  I see that you are back in New Hampshire for the timebeing.  Are you staying with relatives?
At long last, my old sheds are being replaced with nice new ones from a firm known as Versatile, who 
specialise in prefab buildings.  Although they are the same size as the old ones, they seem to be so 
big:  the reason being, I think, is that the old sheds were wood and the inside of the framework was 
lined, so that made a difference of 8 inches between the inside and outside measurements, while the 
new ones are metal and are not lined, so there is that extra 8 inches.  8 inches doesn't seem much, 
but it is, really, noticeable.
I have had a  reasonable lambing with the sheep.  I lost one ewe who had lambing difficulties, and a 
couple of lambs have died, but, as is said, "Where there is livestock, there will be, as a matter of 
course, deadstock".
I am going to sell my Romneys as the return on the wool, in today's market, is so poor that, with 
the small number I have, I have to pay the shearer more than I get for  the wool.
I am hoping to buy some Dorpers.  The Dorper:  a breed developed in South Africa, the founding 
breeds being the Dorcettshire, that is the "dor, and the Persian Fat tail, the per.
The dorper is, principally, a meat sheep, and does not have to be shorn as it sheds what poor 
quality wool it has.
I have been trying to buy a new milch goat:  Heidi and Minstrel, both  having died in May; however, 
I have had no luck!
"The adventures of Peter Rabbit" have, I think, touching wood as I type, been brought to an end, and 
he is still alive to reflect on those glorious days of freedom.  He escaped so many times that I 
said he must have had the 9 lives of a cat, but, the other day, I found myself saying that he must 
have had the lives of 9 cats.

        Jewel