The junior ewe flock gets started grazing oats in the middle beaver field.
A nice stand of oats in the middle of November. I put the sheep out on the oats for a couple of hours, then bring them back to the east bahia field.
Eastern gamagrass has nice big clumps that can provide winter wildlife shelter. Recent frosts browned some of the tips. Bahia grass is still green and slowly growing.
The ewe flock is finished with the cowpeas in the south field. Anneika has stayed with them and Kratos quite nicely over the past week. This morning I combined the small group of "more feed" ewes back with the main flock and put them all in the middle beaver field to finish the cowpeas there.
Kratos and Anneika went with them of course. The dogs were still huffing and puffing from the run around with the sheep, so did not want to come out in the sun for a picture with the sheep.
Today I moved the small flock of replacement ewe lambs and senior ewes that needed better body condition into the middle beaver field. They had been in bulldozer annex area with access to the cowpeas in the north beaver field, but they were not staying out in the cowpeas. They kept coming back closer to the other main flock, not taking advantage of the cowpea nutrition.
In the middle beaver field there is a dense stand of cowpeas, the test plot of eastern gammagrass (which is doing nicely relative to my hat), and some tall growths of crabgrass and other weeds. I will continue supplemental feeding of 25 lbs of 14% soybean hull-pellets, which will be easier with a separate feeding area setup.
Anneika is staying with this flock quite nicely.
