I noticed one of our sheep limping recently and feared we might have a case of hoof rot. This is a terrible disease caused by two very specific bacteria that take up residence in overgrown hooves and eat at the soft tissue to the point that sheep can no longer walk and graze. Once one […]
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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 […]
Sometimes when I move the sheep to new pasture I take a bucket of grain with me to entice them to follow. I wish I could show you video of what happened when I tried to move them into a narrow little paddock and one of the ewes ended up on the wrong side of […]
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