Yesterday was a livestock day.
The cattle returned home, the day
before, from spending time grazing at the neighbors. I call it their vacation…5 star, no less, as
pasture rental is expensive.
The sheep and cattle were reunited…for
a day.
After a wellness check, a bit of
fly-spraying, and some parasite control; the ram lambs and breeding ram were
separated out of the flerd and brought up to the barn paddocks. This separation is the easiest option of
reproduction restraint for the ram lambs.
The other option…castration.
The ram lambs are only 4-5 months old,
but old enough to attempt to breed with the ewe lambs of the same age. Some would be successful. Thus, the separation as we do not want the
ewe lambs bred.
Once in the barn paddocks, those
little ram lambs were lost because the grass is much taller than even our
larger breeding ram.
In a day or two, the grass will be
eaten down enough so that I will be able to enjoy the sight of sheep grazing
nearby.
And, I will be listening to ‘baaing’
in stereo - the rams up at the barn and the ewes down in the lower pastures.
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