It snowed, it rained, then the bottom dropped out of the thermometer. Everything is coated in ice around here. Even the sheep and the Jersey heifer decided it was safer lying in a pile of hay than trying to walk in their frozen pasture. They look pretty funny, slowly picking their steps. Still, work on […]
Raising livestock on pasture means lots of walking for me tending the animals. They need to be fed, they need to be watered, they need to be moved from one paddock to another. That can be a problem this time of year when the ground is covered with snow and ice. Especially ice. We get […]
With all of the recent snowfall melted I thought this was a fine time to take the sheep back to the upper pasture and finish what they started in the fall. They’re much happier grazing than eating hay. Our friend Mary, visiting from California, captured this image of me leading the sheep up the hill […]
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