[Ag-eq] SPRING? it can't be!

[Nella Foster]

Jewel:

It sounds like you are having a nice winter there.

Global warming isn't as nice in the summer.

How many sheep do you have and when will they lamb?

We are having a very hot summer here.  It was quite wet earlier in the
spring, but is now hot, dry and humid.

I'm watering the garden so it is doing well.  I got 3 ripe tomatoes this
morning.  I've picked 3 cucumbers so far.  The banana peppers seem to be
reproducing over night.  So far I've only gotten 1 little bell peppr and the
hot peppers are still tiny.  I finally have a couple of baby eggplants; it
took them for ever.

I'm still milking the goats and am able to sell almost every drop I get.
One of my milk customers is on vacation this week, so I can actually make
some cheese and freeze some milk to make soap.  Bonnie the cow is still
waiting to calf.  The vet looked at her a couple of weeks ago and said she
had 2 to 4 weeks to go.  The man I got her from was way off on when she got
bred.  I feel so sorry for her.  She is huge and looks miserable in the
heat.

How is everyone else doing?

Nella

  

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Sent: Monday, June 20, 2016 9:05 PM
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Subject: [Ag-eq] SPRING? it can't be!

Here in Southland, we are having the most incredible run of spring-like
weather.  If this is *global
warming* in action, you won't find me complaining!
According to tradition,  * winter
has, scarcely, begun  and as today is the shortest day/longest night, there
should be a heap of cold weather  still to come, but old man winter is
playing it pretty warm, but we must remember that the old coot may still
have a  sting in him yet!
I have had the ewes shut into the barn/orchard area for a couple of weeks,
feeding them a diet of hay and sheep nut/crushed barley-molasses mix, but
the soil is, abnormally, warm  and has been for a week or more, so I
reckoned that there had, probably, been a bit of grass growth, so I let them
out for a green nibble, but they are back inside again now for another week
or two.
Last winter, I couldn't get the feather-brained madams to eat the,
perfectly, good hay that I had bought for them, but this year,  they are
gobbling it up as good as gold [it is the same hay that they refused last
year]!  Like some people, me amongst them that like matured cheese, the ewes
seem to like matured hay!
I am trying to train them to come when I give 3 short blasts on my dog
whistle, and they do seem to be learning what it means.  Mind you, when I
blow the whistle when I have put the hay in the racks in the morning and
the sheep nut mix in the feed troughs at night, they are getting a bit
peckish, so I doubt that the "Grub's up!  come and get it!" whistle training
will have any meaning to them when they are out in the paddocks again on a
24 hour basis, only time will tell there!

          Jewel 


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