Wouldn’t you know it. I was walking out the door to re-install my newly repaired electric fence charger yesterday afternoon when I noticed my sheep where not at all where I had last left them. No, they had skipped the uncharged temporary fence and were noshing on the grass some distance away. For more than […]
When I first arrived here in May, all the talk was about how dry a spring this was. Well, things have certainly changed. Lately, it seems it won’t stop raining and I don’t think there’s a drearier task than having to move the sheep into a new pasture when it’s raining. Why would I do […]
You can lead sheep to grass, but they won’t necessarily eat it. That was my experience when I placed our eight ewes in an area with some exceptionally tall greenery in it. The sheep atw all around the edges–right down to soil level, as you can see in the above photo–but as far as that […]
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