Most people know the 4 main seasons of the year but when you raise sheep, lambing season is the 5th season!! This year as in previous years the lambs were due to arrive around March 5 & the first ones arrived March 5th, pretty lucky I would say! The steps to getting things ready are…
Each year about 2 weeks before lambing season the process of shearing the sheep happens in the barn. John use to shear his own sheep but realized that there are people out there that actually do it for a living. According to Wikipedia Sheep shearing is the process by which the woolen fleece of a sheep is cut off. The…
As many of you know we have had several llamas over the years. Our plan with the move was to bring Tommy, the llama with us. However he died the end of August. (John feels it was the same thing we lost the other ones to: Meningeal Worm.) Unable to find a llama near…
Moving the sheep was one of the many steps to this move. Once we arrived with the second truck load we got things unpacked. The next big step to this move was the arrival of the sheep. Fortunately for John he found a very dependable driver. He was able to get the sheep loaded at…