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"Don’t be afraid to give your best to what seemingly are small jobs. Every time you conquer one it makes you that much stronger. If you do the little things well, the big ones will tend to take care of themselves." -Dale Carnegie
-Mark Johnson
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Company: A&M Ranch
Location: Sandwich, IL
Years in the Field: 30
Education: BS Animal Science, Oklahoma State University, Joliet Junior College
Website: www.AandMRanch.com
Contact: aandmranch@aol.com
Specialization: purebred Southdown sheep
Choice of Feed: HSC show lamb starter, HSC Grand Lamb Mixer, champion drive topdress
Hobbies: - Mark is the Agricultural Specialist for Kline Creek Farm, an 1890’s Living History Farm, located in Winfield, IL. There they farm with draft horses, and maintain a small quality flock of sheep as well a few Shorthorn and Angus cows, all of which are used in the educational programs.
- As consultants and custom fitters Mark and Amy have worked with most breeds of sheep including Columbias, Suffolks, Hampshires, Dorsets, Montadales, and Natural Coloreds, club lambs and North Country Cheviots. All of which have competed successfully on the local and national level.
Favorite Sports/Team: Loves all things OSU (Oklahoma State or Ohio State), loves the Red Sox, loves the Cubs and Bears.
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Our lambs at A&M Ranch are really starting to kick it in to high gear. The sheep at Kline Creek have really been chowing down on the HSC Show Lamb starter. It is working well because it is good feed that is available 24/7 to those lambs. We make sure those creep feeders have feed in them all of the time. We are still a little younger than I would like, but these sheep are gaining ground very quickly. It won’t be too long and we will be starting to wean a few lambs. Note to self, start cutting the ewes back on grain, and tell the feed store we starting to feed less HSC Ewe Feed. The ewes have milked and maintained weight very well on that. We will use it again next year. We will start shearing, and trimming feet on ewes and yearlings today. Worming is also on the list of things to do.
We have spent a lot of time the last week traveling and looking at sheep. We are always looking to find that next great one. We have spent a couple days at looking at Southdowns trying to find a new stud ram prospect. Saw some pretty awesome sheep at both Howards and Oldenburgs. We also were looking for wethers for Emily to show and saw some really nice black face lambs at Morris-Pierson Club Lambs, Larry Shell’s and Brunkers. We would especially like to thank Mary and Leon for being such awesome hosts and putting up with all our running arounds and late night trips to Sonic. The highlight of the trip was getting to ride in the fire truck. They let me wear the helmet!
If there was anyone in Ohio who missed the HSC Show Clinic in March, you missed a great opportunity. Mike and Tristan Harbour came right from the Houston livestock show to talk about showing goats. Kent Bennington’s kids and Bryan Vaughn’s kids have been as successful as anybody in the hog ring and those gentlemen did a fantastic program. I really enjoyed working with Shellhouse Family and Mapolyne Farms on the sheep program. The crews that put this program together did a fantastic job, lots of giveaways, good food, talented, good looking and funny presenters. Did I mention, this whole program was FREE!
We are headed south to look at more sheep this week and next. I am really looking forward to being in Winchester, KY on April 24 for an Honor Show Chow Sheep Clinic. I have not been to this area before to do a clinic so I am looking forward to meeting some new folks. Check out the photos from some of our other HSC events and you will see we generally try share some knowledge and we always have good time. Click on the events tab on HonorShowChow.com for more info.
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