December 12, 2007
Our sheep experience Jack Frost nipping at their noses
Keeping sheep on the farm has become a whole lot chillier over the past few days. With winter temperatures really starting to bite, our poor lambs have experienced their first proper frost these past two nights. This morning just looked like a Christmas scene on a greetings card and I think, if the sheep could talk, they’d be mighty perplexed and quite cross that their grass seems to have disappeared!
You would think that the sheep might blend discretely into the white canvas of the winter frost but it was really funny to find tell-tale signs that they were not far away. Much to our amusement, there were five oval-shaped green outlines where the sheep had slept overnight and the grass had taken respite from the plummeting temperatures.
It seems strange that our sheep don’t shelter much in their barn and are quite happy in these inhospitable conditions. In fact, it appears to be the heat of summer that bothers them most which probably isn’t surprising with such a thick woolly coat stuck to them all the time.
Our sheep do need that little bit more attention during the winter with regular topping up of the hay rack and defrosting of their water trough with a hot kettle full of water. They still get their morning pellet feed (plus a bit extra as I feel so sorry for them!) and their sheep lick is going down at some rate!
All this extra attention is just spoiling me really - ANY small excuse for an extra cuddle is what keeping pet sheep is all about. They’re just adorable.
Diane
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