Fall Grazing

This fall, for forage, we have a combination of late season bahiagrass, cowpeas, and some ground covering weeds, primarily chamber bitter that grew in to cover the ground where the cowpeas did not take very well.  To ration and direct the grazing we partition areas for the sheep with temporary, but quickly erected, electric net fence.

The first day in the area they ate all the cowpeas,  now they are working on the chamber bitter, which is a horrible weed in Joy's garden,  but here a fairly reasonable forage for the sheep to eat.  

Aurora continues to guard the flock.

Lambing is almost done this season.   We had a late set of twins yesterday.  The larger one was quite mobile, the smaller one tended to be sleepy and kept getting left behind,  so Jackie took it as an orphan. 

We plan to bring all of to the barn tomorrow to deworm the lambs and any ewes that need it.  Also there are a few ewes limping that need to be treated.   After that, the flock will go on a field of chicory, which also has parasite treating properties.