It is only June and already our pastures at home have been overgrazed by the sheep. Our pastures are not able to feed 40 ewes and the lambs we have not taken to market, but we have a solution. My grandma has sold most of her cows and has pastures full of grass just waiting to be eaten. We take around 15 ewes and the rams for a trailer ride to greener pastures.
The ewes and rams are kept in separate pens until the middle of August when we want our ewes to get bred. Breeding in the middle of August means that we should start lambing in the middle of December as the gestation period for sheep is five months. Having ewes in two different places is a good system because we are able to use two different rams: one with the ewes at home and one with the ewes at my grandmas. We know exactly which ewes are bred to which ram because their is no chance of the two groups mixing.
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| My little herd of cows that also spends the summer on vacation in my grandma's pastures with the sheep. |
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