It’s official: We’ve had more snow since spring started than in any of the so-called winter months this season. It couldn’t happen at a worse time. All our ewes had just given birth or were about to when this latest “polar vortex” struck. And we were feeling so smug, watching the grass go green. This […]
Our alpha ewe, Charlotte, was a failed mom. She’d been culled from the sheep farm where we bought her three years ago because of reproductive issues. Then she had still-born lambs two years in a row, one premature. The vet told us we shouldn’t allow her too breed anymore or risk serious health consequences. “She’s […]
We’ve had a bumper crop of lambs this week–twins everywhere you look. Right on schedule, too. We put the ewes in with the rams first of November, and five months later they’re delivering babies. But just as we were congratulating ourselves on such a mild winter (the animals have been grazing almost continuously for lack […]
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