{"id":1268,"date":"2014-05-20T02:23:08","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T02:23:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/?page_id=1268"},"modified":"2014-09-18T22:05:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-18T22:05:30","slug":"sheep-raising","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/sheep-raising\/","title":{"rendered":"SHEEP RAISING"},"content":{"rendered":"<header class=\"entry-header\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-1268-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Gunsmoke.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Gunsmoke.mp3\">http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/Gunsmoke.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<div class=\"su-row\">\n<div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-2\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/angry-black-sheep-md.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-1265\" src=\"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/angry-black-sheep-md-150x150.png\" alt=\"angry-black-sheep-md\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/angry-black-sheep-md-150x150.png 150w, http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/angry-black-sheep-md.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-2\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\">\n<span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS,Geneva; font-size: 14pt;\">Before going forward on my backward inability to manage four footed animals, think more upon &#8216;Black Sheep. &#8216;After \u2018Big Red\u201d and the cattle fiasco I had decided to downgrade to smaller and kinder ruminants.<\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/header>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS,Geneva; font-size: 14pt;\">Perhaps sheep would fill the pasture reducing niche. YUP! I went for it and once again my penchant for having the rare and valuable would kiss me in the ass. I had purchased two beautiful BLACK sheep and housed them in an unused chicken barn, but l<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">ike the cattle they too managed to escape.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS,Geneva; font-size: 14pt;\">I <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">heard<\/span> rather than saw them from my bedroom window and they were dinning in my choicest nursery stock area. Words do not begin to express my anguish at this. Totally naked, I rushed outside and tried to evict the beasts. When this did not impress I re-armed and tried again. Wearing only my Salmon net and boots (mind you it was a dead moon) I netted one of the guys, threw him on my shoulders and tossed him back in the chicken barn.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS,Geneva; font-size: 14pt;\">I then chased after the last terrified guy who knew what was gonna happen. Like his partner we raced back and forth wrecking havoc to whatever plants may have survived. Please remember, I am only dealing with starlight at the moment. The barbed wire fence that met me with three horizontal reminders was unexpected as was the pain when I finally pulled myself free.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS,Geneva; font-size: 14pt;\">The last sheep was caught and went into the pen. The\u00a0 butcher was called and I have to admit that I never told the kids when we were having sheep, having learned my lesson from Big Red.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS,Geneva; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><a title=\"Beware of Pigs\" href=\"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/?page_id=1591\">My next misadventure might have been pigs<\/a>,<\/strong> but that is another story. A\u00a0 friends experience in Forks, WA forever warned me off on that possible course. Chickens YES, Bees, Yes, cattle and sheep no.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"su-row\">\n<div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-2\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\"> <a href=\"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/churro.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1820\" src=\"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/churro-242x300.png\" alt=\"churro\" width=\"242\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/churro-242x300.png 242w, http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/05\/churro.png 335w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 242px) 100vw, 242px\" \/><\/a><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"su-column su-column-size-1-2\"><div class=\"su-column-inner su-u-clearfix su-u-trim\"> <span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS,Geneva; font-size: 14pt;\">Painfully, I would revisit sheep in the future. <strong><a title=\"sheep\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Navajo-Churro_sheep#Horns\">Four horned Navaho-Churro Sheep<\/a><\/strong> that I had to care and wrestle with. Foot dips, hoof clippings and fleece shearing had to be done. Oh how I hated Verle for inviting me to these rib bruising jobs. I believe I even hemorrhaged in my dream life over those sheep. Luckily I was a bit heavier than the Ram, but not by much and they knew how to use those horns. <\/span><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: Trebuchet MS,Geneva;\"> The U.S. government nearly exterminated them in the 1860\u2032s and again in the 1930\u2032s, when flocks were massacred by the USDA to about 800 head and Verle contributed his prize Ram to the Navajo nation to revitalize their bloodlines.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS,Geneva; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><span style=\"color: #008000;\">Last night I lay in bed looking up at the stars in the sky and I thought to myself,&#8221;\u00a0 Where the heck is the ceiling?!&#8221;<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS,Geneva; font-size: 14pt;\">I mentioned in the former post about the medical consequences of my groin mating with a stump. That was correct and being the reclusive and un-mated\u00a0 male<a title=\"JOKES\" href=\"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/?page_id=1953\"> I simply opted to suffer the pain<\/a>. After four months of this I finally decided to see the doctor. This would of course be the guy in charge of the nether regions. He was a good bloke and promptly analyzed and fixed me up with a prescription for groin inflammation. It worked within a few days. I went back to thank them believing the medication was Navom??? or something like that.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS,Geneva; font-size: 14pt;\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong> I blurted out to the nurse that the Napalm they had prescribed really did the job on my groin. She smiled and said, &#8220;Yes that would do it.&#8221;<\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS,Geneva; font-size: 14pt; color: #008000;\"><strong>I&#8217;m not a complete idiot, some parts are missing. <\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\">Like my glasses when I chased those sheep!<\/span><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS,Geneva; font-size: 14pt;\"><strong><a title=\"Big Red \u2013 an Angus steer\" href=\"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/?page_id=1254\">M<\/a><a title=\"Big Red \u2013 an Angus steer\" href=\"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/?page_id=1254\">y Cattle farming episode:<\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS,Geneva; font-size: 14pt;\"> <strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/?page_id=1268\">Skip to Sheep farming:<\/a><\/strong><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS,Geneva; font-size: 14pt;\"> <a title=\"Beware of Pigs\" href=\"http:\/\/sweetgeodes.com\/senft\/?page_id=1591\"><strong>Beware of Pigs.<\/strong><\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS,Geneva; font-size: 14pt;\"> <strong> <a title=\"bee story\" href=\"http:\/\/www.olypen.com\/bonsaiherb\/misc\/animalstories.xht\">Bees:<\/a> and a few other animal misadventures<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Trebuchet MS,Geneva; font-size: 14pt;\">(C) Herb Senft 2014<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Perhaps sheep would fill the pasture reducing niche. 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