By the time we discovered Soay sheep, we already lived on a farm with a huge old dairy barn. At first, it seemed a waste to raise animals too small to take full advantage of our cavernous barn. But we soon realized that little sheep can co-exist quite nicely with a very tall, very wide structure. […]
Remember when you were growing up and your mom or dad nagged at you to take your daily mineral-fortified vitamin pill? Here is good news. You never have to nag your sheep about mineral; you just have to keep their mineral feeder full and I promise they will eat enough to keep them healthy. You […]
Well I’m embarrassed. When I put together the chart of grain amounts we feed our ewes to enhance twinning, I included amounts in both ounces and cups, most likely because I am wasting a brain cell remembering an old ditty from home ec class about measuring the dense ingredients (butter, for example) in baking: “a pint’s […]