Moving the Sheep

The cattle are happy in the new pasture.  The first night Onyx got a cut on her ear but we washed it and put antibiotic cream on it and it has healed nicely.  It has been very hot here so I have not done any work with them.  Last night I went out with some water melon rind and Ruby loved it.  

Last weekend we moved the sheep’s daytime area.  While we were moving the fencing we let the sheep run around free.  They found a way into the new cow pasture.  We had not even had the fence up a week and already we need to do more with it.  Can’t tell you how happy I am about that!  While the sheep were in the pasture Hope our youngest calf got out, we have no idea where.  All the cattle and sheep were getting along fine until Hope realized she was on the wrong side of the fence and couldn't see her mom.  She started mooing in a panic, that got Ruby to stop eating, look up, and realize SHEEP WERE WHERE HER BABY SHOULD BE!  As we opened the gate to put Hope back in with the pasture, Ruby herded the sheep out.  Hope ran to her mom and everyone is happy again!  Yay Team! 

The area of our new sheep’s daytime space is a really hard place to mow, it is between the pond and our tenant’s pasture. It has lots of weeds, thistle, and tumble weeds growing on it.  Concussion Boy, Pre Teen Girl, one of her friends, and I moved the 300 feet of temporary fencing in about 90 minutes instead of about 4 hours that it has been taking us.  That includes getting Hope back in the pasture.  The ground was much softer here than it has been other places we have put up the fence and I only needed to use the drill in a few places.  The old permanent fence that the temporary fence is used with is a horrible fence but it has several layers of fencing so I didn’t realize how bad the fence was until the sheep kept getting out and we would fix a hole, then she sheep would get out and we fix another hole,… for the next 3 days.  I still have no idea where Maxwell got out a couple days ago, I came home from work and she was sitting by the gate waiting for me to let her in.