Gracie’s parents were both white, but she was born black. Since then, she’s turned more of a latte color and we’ve learned that one of her grandfathers was black. She was the only one of our spring lambs to survive. I thought she might have a date with the butcher this fall. But she’s such […]
We’ve been pretty fortunate with parasites as far as our sheep are concerned. Until now, we hadn’t done any worming at all, and that works just fine with our low input farming approach. As far as I’m concerned, livestock that needs to be medicated on a regular basis should get a ticket off the property. […]
Six weeks ago, we moved our Romney ram off pasture and into the permanent paddock after he escaped from behind temporary fencing where he was grazing with our female goats. He went a little stir crazy for a while, living all alone. But recently he finally got some company when we separated our boy Dorper […]
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