Cool early Spring

We still have frosty nights from time to time, but the grass is starting to grow greener.

We have yet to lose any more ewes, although we have two sheep in the makeshift clinic on our porch, and one of the rams got too wet to survive.

We have lost a couple of ducklings to owls.  We strung up lines to interfere with owl strikes, but this is obviously not a perfect solution; more so because the ducklings like to wander at night.

To help the sheep, we are supplementing their diets with additional alfalfa, oats and barley.  The idea is to keep them going as well as we can for now, and to actively fatten them during the growing season as well as we can so as to maximise our chances of strong numbers over the next year or two.

The trees are starting to show buds, and a number of the trees we first planted are now over six feet in height.  In the next few years we should see signs of our first crops.  We do have more trees on order, but after replacing a few dead trees and filling in a few blanks on our fields we shall rarely need more.