Sheep Mathematics

Caridwen is a sheep math wizard, or at least an A student. She can count to three. Not only does she feed all three lambs but if she has only two she goes in search of the missing one. The way this years’ lambs are running and bouncing around at very young ages...

Back on Pasture and Why Labels are Misleading

The early snow has pretty much all melted and we got one batch of ram lambs back out on our triticale pasture regrowth. We made sure they were all pretty full with hay before putting them out and made an aisle of electric fence to prevent too much pugging of the...

Hay, Rain and Sheep Selection

Well we’ve been busy. We just got in all the hay, luckily before the over inch of rain fell. Last year our entire second cutting was destroyed by rain. We buy hay from a neighbor and we’d already contracted for it so we were out the whole cost of the hay,...

Nitrates and Grazing

Typical farming news…. We had planted oats in a new pasture to provide some grazing during the summer slump and then again in early fall for our sheep. We always do testing on all our forages to balance the custom minerals we give our sheep so before grazing the...