Today started late, since the farmers both slept in to make up for lost sleep over the week. However, once we got under way it was with a vengeance. Today's task was to separate and tag as many ewes as we could, then get them in the ewe enclosure.
This task, simple as it sounds, took us until night fell. Tedious, but difficult. We did manage to tag what we believe was the last untagged lamb - Bo Peep's lamb. She's beautiful, big and elegant with wool as soft as a cloud. At our best count we have eight rams and forty-nine ewes including this year's lambs. This is still subject to modification.
With this task mercifully out of the way we can focus on other things, like clearing up and building more fences. Ultimately we should have the whole farm well subdivided.
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