It had to happen eventually. Yesterday we killed two of our three-year-old ewes and sent them off to the butcher. It was time to thin the herd. I realized this season, and especially after adding five more sheep–our future breeders–to the flock, that we have more animals than we can feed. We’ll be lucky to […]
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With the recent warm spell, we herded the sheep up the hill to continue grazing the upper pasture. Emily, our Jersey heifer, stayed behind in the permanent paddock to make an appointment to have her hooves trimmed. She didn’t like it much, being all alone. At one point she stood in the paddock, looked up […]
A longtime sheep farmer once observed, you know you’ve got happy sheep when they’re laying around at 7 a.m., chewing their cud. Our sheep must be pretty happy. These are the four Dorper ewes we purchased earlier in the summer. They’ve spent the ensuing months grazing fresh pasture every day. They are plump and in […]
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