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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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