This last month our sheep made life WAY more interesting at the ranch!!
So far this season we have 16 very energetic lambs.... still four new mom's to go too. But this large group is learning lessons from each other at a scary rate... they are breaching our electric fences & even climbing lava rocks to eat the trees inside the fences!!! Truly a season of first's here!!!
When we got our first sheep in 2012, the old guy gave us great advice... one was "Have a plan for when they get loose!" I thought "Yeah right, not us!" Well late in January one of our "chow hound" moms pushed on a gate & the whole flock was suddenly eating new stuff all over the ranch!!! An exciting two hours and all were back in their pasture..... Never say Never.
December to April is Hawaii's traditional wet season.... not this year! Our last regular hard rain was December 22nd.... since then we have had rain on only 2 days... record setting dry spell, which isn't good for sheep who luv grass... now we're even adding hay to the flock's diet on top of what we harvest & feed them.
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