So now its November and I am sheep-less working on a friends farm down in eastern MA (check it out! Here!http://www.theneighborhoodfarm.com/ ). The kale is hearty and the carrots are frost-bitten sweet but alas, the turnips don't baaa back. I miss the spring shearing and lambing season and rotating the ewes with their rambunctious lambs along the pasture. Here are some pics of the flock from last season, my third year out working on an island farm in down east Maine. We had somewhere around 14 ewes who had very high percentage rates so no matter how much we culled we always ended up with a large herd...
Me bringing up the rear with very confused lambs...
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| Amy leading the mothers out a week or so after all lambs born. |
Safely in fenced in pasture under a hay trailer for sun protection, with growing lambs.
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