It's been raining a lot here recently, and there's quite a bit of mud--on sheep. I'm not complaining. Our pastures really needed the rain, and mud, unlike hay, does wash out of fleeces.
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| Feldspar: A little ball of mud. |
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| Peat's dark fleece hides the mud. |
Warm rainy weather means another thing for sheep farmers: internal parasites. (Sheep, and especially lambs, can die from parasites so we take them seriously around here. Even so, we don't worm on a regular schedule; we have fecal samples tested and worm as needed.) We took fecal samples to the vet last week. (Sheep farming is glamorous, I know!) Only the lambs needed wormed this time around. Calico tried to tell us otherwise. Oddly enough, she does love wormer--or anything in a drencher.
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| Claiming she has worms: Calico |
On a less gross note: everything is looking greener.
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| Barack O'Llama, Snowball, & Filly |
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