Pullet eggs

The pullets born on Christmas are already laying their tiny first eggs. My head feels like a bowl of rice crispies this week, with the snap, crackle and mostly pop. Now that the front has moved through it is finally gone. Checked the eyelids on the 20 bucks on Monday, all but 1 were a deep salmon color, so I will wait another 2 weeks before worming them. I did trim all 80 feet and delouse them. Took a day off from trimming on Tuesday because my hand was hurting. Wednesday it was on to the 30 yearling and 2 year old does in the front pasture. Only 4 needed wormer, all 30 got their feet trimmed and deloused, that's another 120 feet. For some reason the parasites are not as bad as last year. Last year was the worst it has ever been, the drought followed by rain caused an explosion of eggs on the pasture. Stomach worms are a southern sheep and goatherders biggest problem and expense. They will loose weight, have a break in the fleece, have intestinal damage or even die  if not caught soon enough and given proper treatment. The problem with the wormer meds is there is not much available that works, the worms have become immune. And not a lot of money is spent in the sheep drug world for research, so we use what is available for cattle.