After killing off three of our sheep over the summer, I try to spend some quality time with our five remaining Friesian ewes. I check on them at least twice a day, climbing over the portable electric fencing to show some affection. When we were mowing our terribly overgrown pastures in the heat of July […]
No, our flock of Friesians didn’t suddenly multiply. But our neighbor, Alan, did drop off his 17 sheep yesterday to help with the mowing chores. I think Alan was embarrassed by the bedraggled look of our overgrown pastures. So he pulled up to the house yesterday in his pickup towing his entire contingent of wooly […]
My pasture chores lately consist of coming behind the sheep with my scythe and mowing what they have not eaten. In tall grass and weeds, the sheep find plenty to eat close to the ground. They also strip the succulent leaves off long stems. After a few days, what’s left are scattered clumps of stems […]
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