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Making Sheep Happy

By Pam, on November 5th, 2009

Awhile ago when we still had some decent pasture left, I remembered to take the camera along on one of our sheep moves. This was an “easy” one — we just needed to open a fence and let the group through to the new grass — but I thought it’d be fun to document happy sheep. Even after so many years of doing this, they [….read more]

Counting Down

By Pam, on March 26th, 2009

We gathered all the ewes and moved them into the barn today — twice. The weather has been every kind of wet imaginable so we decided to get the ewes under cover in preparation for shearing on Saturday. Moving them from their winter digs into the big barn (some distance away) isn’t that much of a big deal but it does take some planning. We’ve [….read more]