The snow is melting and today was the first day the small pen is
mostly ice free. I broke up the one little patch that was left and had
Pepper sort 3 of the old sheep for me into the little pen. The lambs
are mostly outside the barn now, with just 3 of them still in a stall
with their moms, and Pepper did a great job working the whole flock,
ewes and two week old babies included.
We didn't do a lot, but just enough to get them sorted. I will be
sorting the ewes from the wethers every day to give the moms some extra
food. Then I put them back together. Yesterday Sprite did it and today
was Pepper's turn.
Once
the sheep were sorted, I took little Qwill out to see what she
remembered from last year. She didn't look like she forgot anything,
and had even gotten a bit smoother. She's working on get around, stop,
walk, out, all that good stuff right now. When old Decker tried to
sneak out the gate with us as we were leaving she also got to work on
"watch him" and "walk up" a bit more. She kind of liked that.
