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deep enough that it pretty much ended grazing around the 15th for the =
sheep,
probably a week earlier for the cows. What's interesting this season is =
the
cows, who are more used to being fed were bawling for hay, while their
weaned heifers running with the ewe flock were aggressively digging in =
the
snow with the sheep. I sorted these off the flock and started giving =
them
hay also, but they continued to graze preferentially to the hay. Maybe =
I
babbied the cows too much.
After one of the coldest Decembers, we've had 30 some odd days of above
normal temps on our way to the warmest January (not quite warm enough to
grow grass), lost the snow pack right after new years, and two weeks ago
moved the larger mob of ewes back out into my last 7 acre paddock of =
tall
fescue (non endophtye). Should finish that off sometime this coming =
week
and we'll be back on hay. If I had more acres of this fescue and some
moisture, we could be grazing longer still.
Gene Schriefer
Shepherd
Dodgeville, Wisconsin USA
Commercial Texel-x and Charollais-x Sheep
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