Bob wanted to bring the sheep out to mow the yard so we blocked off an area between the garden and perimeter fence with pieces of this and that. Not a very secure set up at all. The first day everything went OK, but today the sheep broke out and started devouring everything but the grass. We thought Hattie might get them back into the pen but the situation quickly turned to chaos as the sheep split in five different directions and Hattie out of control going after one then another. Boy did she get in trouble. I had to work her again right away under a more controlled situation to end on a positive note. Some lessons with a good instructor would do wonders for us so I'm making an appointment with Karen Childs at a farm near Olympia next month. Here are the sheep before they made their big break.
And here is Hattie before going berserk.
Spring yard chores are piling up. We finished thinning the old stems out of the raspberries. Back breaking work. Now I'm working on weeds and spreading mulch. Ugh.
The ducks have been complaining about losing the pasture to the sheep. They liked hunting for worms and bugs down there. A red tailed hawk attacked them this week. Lucky that I was working in the yard and chased it off. None of the ducks were injured except for Emerald running into a wooden peg and hurting her leg. She's been limping for a couple days. There's a pair of red tails that appear to be nesting nearby and it looks like they killed another red tail. We saw them feeding on it yesterday anyway. The duck eggs are stacking up now. One of the girls laid a huge one this morning.
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