Saturday is the day to mow the lawn. The sound of mowers is in the air and everyone else’s lawn is looking good and groomed. Not ours. We took one of the net fences and made a small patch in the area next to the fenced pasture. . The land is too steep there to mow with a machine, plus what a pain.
The sheep love mixed salad. Young shrub leaves, clover, grasses, apple and maple tree leaves. They nearly cleaned it out today. I guess we should repeat this every couple of weeks keep the grass down enough so we don’t have to mow with the machine. There are two other patches that we have mowed in the past. It would be nice to dispense with having to mow the lawn on the weekends.
The area used to be fenced as part of the pasture, but when the llamas where here, the slope got eroded pretty quickly. The llamas were really huge and a bit too protective of the flock.
The llamas certainly had character, but would scare folks. It was difficult to have visitors come up and be with the sheep with the llamas running interference all of the time. So we found them a new home. We really enjoy having just the sheep and a couple of ducks.
We are now down to 4 females and 1 drake. Everybody is adjusting and I am enjoying the peace tonight.
Tomorrow the sheep will finish up the mowing job. Some might look at this as going green or having a low carbon foot print. All of which is true. But I am lazy. If the sheep can feed on an area that would just have to get mowed anyhow, not let them do the work.
