by OogieFarmBlog | Feb 23, 2015 | Black Welsh Mountain Sheep, Weather
Lovely, lovely snow. About 5 inches now and still coming down.
by OogieFarmBlog | Feb 15, 2015 | Black Welsh Mountain Sheep, Livestock Guardian Dogs
Our dry weather continues. While the east coast is getting bombarded with snow we are in a drought. Without snow we have no irrigation water so the lack of decent winter storms is very worrying. Meanwhile we are continuing to feed out hay. We move the sheep from pen...
by OogieFarmBlog | Feb 12, 2015 | Black Welsh Mountain Sheep, Equines, Weather
Today was deliver hay day. Five big square bales, over a ton of hay placed. The adult rams, the ram yearlings, pregnant ewes and horses all got fresh bales. Moving to big bales sure makes feeding simpler but it also now means that the tractor is required. The pond is...
by OogieFarmBlog | Jan 28, 2015 | Black Welsh Mountain Sheep, Farming Life
Sadly we had a ram yearling die today. He’d been injured in a fight. As required we had to do a post mortem on him to determine the cause of death. Unfortunately it was a burst bladder, probably from getting a horn in the belly. We are allowed to bury animals on...
by OogieFarmBlog | Jan 3, 2015 | Black Welsh Mountain Sheep, Solar Energy
Ram lambs, now yearlings eating fresh hay under the solar trees.
by OogieFarmBlog | Jan 3, 2015 | Black Welsh Mountain Sheep
Little Sterling is the lamb whose mother died when he was only 3 weeks old. He’s small and stunted and can’t live with the rest of the ram lambs. However he seems willing to try to breed the ewes so he’s now in jail in a separate pen in the hay barn....
