I rewarded the sheep with a bit of grain after a round of hoof trimming yesterday. Emily, our Jersey heifer, wasn’t about to be left out. Notice how cleverly she disguises herself as one of the sheep.
We managed to move our Jersey heifer off the back pasture and into the permanent paddock yesterday. It wasn’t exactly the smooth transition I had hoped for. The first part–getting Emily to wear her rope halter–went well enough. About an hour before sunrise, while she had her head in her feed bucket, I looped one […]
Here’s our Jersey heifer Emily looking a bit sheepish after she thwarted our efforts to move her off the upper pasture and out of a particularly harsh bit of winter weather. With temperatures supposed to drop into single digits overnight and a wind advisory predicting gusts up to 50 mph., we thought the permanent paddock […]
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