Gathered around

Summer is slowing down for me, the garden is almost gone, kids and lambs are weaned, for the most part, I leave the doe kids and ewe lambs with their mama a little longer than the males. They will eventually dry up and wean them without all the fuss. Time for shearing again, the fleeces on the does and kids will have to be skirted and picked through since they spent most of the summer in the barn in front of fans trying to keep cool. Time to move the sheep back to their winter pasture where they will have enough grass to eat all winter, hopefuly without hay. If we get enough rain out of this hurricane it could really help the grass grow when the cooler weather gets here. Feed prices go up every week so I am hoping there will be grass for fall and winter grazing. Sheep can make it on good grass but goats will need grain to keep them going. Sheep are like menopausal women, they have a slower metabolism, goats are like teenagers, eat all the time and stay skinny.