The snow just keeps on coming! This view is of the driveway, after Ken plowed it for hours! We’ve got a good two feet or more on the flats, a lot more in drifts, and even the main hay barn has snow underneath where the wind has blown it in. It’s been cold, so the sheep are eating more, but they’re otherwise doing fine.
However, they’re definitely bored. Bored sheep try to turn everything into a toy. One ewe has figured out how to open the gates. The latches have to be lifted up, then the bar slid to get them open, so it’s quite impressive for them to do. We how have to make sure the gates are tied with chains or baling twine, just in case. She’s started playing with the chains, but I don’t think she can open them.
The ram shave figured out how to either untie or destroy baling twine gate ties. All the gates have to be double-tied, and we have to replace the ties as often as they bash the gates. They’ll bash and rub until the twine breaks.
One ewe lamb has even learned how to jump on top of the other sheep and walk across their backs to access a better position at the feeder. I wish I could get a picture of it, but bu the time I dig out my camera, she’s jumped off.
From here, it sure looks like at least six more weeks of winter. I just hope it doesn’t all melt at once, or we’ll have floods this spring.