Big Doin's at The Salty Ewe Farm

One of Toddy'a favorite sayings was "big doings", but it was always shortened by dropping the "g".  It meant, as I think is probably pretty obvious, that something important or exciting was happening. This did not always necessarily involve positive doin's. Yesterday's events here at The Salty Ewe were definitely positive and certainly would have had Toddy's nod in the Big Doin's department. The flock was officially tagged and registered with the national scrapie program (thanks deeply to Nathan again...my stomach is still not strong enough to do certain things, and piercing sheep's ears is definitely on that short list). This means all kinds of things - from being legal to sell and transport sheep across state lines to supporting an important program that makes sheep's health and well-being a priority through the monitoring and reporting of any illnesses, sales, births or deaths. It feels good to take this step toward becoming a more serious sheep farm.

wearing the black sheep

I learn so much as I go; maybe this is another reason why I love doing this so much. I accidentally bought syringes without needles, and so the worming almost didn't happen with the tagging yesterday. Thankfully, Nate had one with him, and so we managed to get the whole big doin' done in less than 30 minutes. Imagine. All these years of raising sheep and in an afternoon I become a real farm. Definitely Big Doin's.