Back in spring, when the rain never seemed to stop, I was handed the unfortunate task of burying one of my newly acquired Friesian sheep in the soggy earth. The ewe in question was the oldest of the bunch–she’d reached 14 years–and the farmer who’d given her to me expressed surprise. “We thought she’d at […]
Well, that didn’t go so well. I was feeling so good about myself and the spiffy new chicken “tractor” I’d built to house our broilers. Then I took the “tractor” for its first spin in the yard and managed to run over and kill seven of the 30 chicks inside. The tractor is a heavy […]
Barely three weeks ago, eight sheep–all ewes–were delivered to our new home in Upstate New York. Six were yearlings who had run afoul of the spring lambing schedule. Two were much older. The oldest, Ginger, 14, amazingly had given birth this year to yet another lamb. But this was to be her last season. She […]
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