My wife drove the truck nearly five hours to the Finger Lakes area of the state to pick up our new herd of Dorper lambs–five ewes and a ram. Dorpers are “hair” sheep, meaning they shed their coats in the spring rather than being shorn. They are especially prized for their meat. We bought them […]
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Lambing has thrown our routine out of whack in more ways than one. I’m trying to move the recently shorn sheep out of the permanent paddock and onto spring pasture but they won’t follow the way they used to. We open the paddock gate and instead of being lead to the pasture enclosure behind a […]
Twenty-four hours old and the baby ewe we’re calling Grace is bouncing around her pen while mom Hannah keeps tabs with a look of concern on her face. We check the pair frequently to make sure Grace is nursing. She is. She jabs for the teat and, finding it, sucks contentedly, her little tail whipping […]
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