Tuesday, November 27, 2012

SHEEP!!!

It all started on Facebook one fine day. I was browsing some local yard sale sites and came across a herd of 20 sheep for sale. With out thinking I called my mum and asked her if she was interested. You see us crazy folk run a little buckaroo rodeo for the town of Levan, pop. 500. It is always a struggle to find sheep for all of our sheep riders. Logically I thought it was perfect to buy the sheep and just use them for the rodeo and then resell. Well the mum wasn't interested, so I let it go. Two days later my sister called me wanting to get some more information on the sheep. Me, being gun-ho on new projects was all excited. My sister ended up buying the sheep and so began our sheep legacy!
Now a bit of background on us garrett girls! We have always been cattle gals! Never in our life have we had to take care of sheep. Not even a bummer lamb. Yes, we have had our fair share of a funny farm with our horses, chickens, goats, dogs, cows, and even a one eared pony. BUT NEVER, EVER have we had sheep. How hard could it be though right? We had a game plan to just shuffle them around to our neighbors empty pastures and take care of them that way. We would haul them to rodeos for all the little sheep riders, hence making our way to the stock contracting bigs. We would sell some lambs for the folks in juab county to show at the fair, the list was endless as to what we could do with these sheep.
Day 1- of the sheep- Loading was a easy! We got this in the Bag! Unloading- was easy we got this in the bag X's 2!
Day 2-(hell) 5am- phone call from neighbors (sheep are out). Me and hailee with our expert cow herding skills thought we could jump on horses and accomplish the task- WRONG! It took us an hour to even get them to look at the in gate and another hour to get them in.
Still day 2- Jaboe and Hailee while at their place of work recieve phone calls about the SHEEP being out. They dash home to chase the sheep around for hours!.
Day3-15- millions of phone calls about sheep being out. Us chasing them for hours upon hours on horses, dirt bikes, fourwheelers, flipflops, and bikes.
Day 16- WE NEED A SHEEP DOG!
Day 17- moving pastures, to much chasing the sheep around levan to even care anymore, do we own a gun?
Day 18- Finally found a pen that the sheep will stay put in! Thank goodness!
Day 20- I quit!

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