Sheep Ranch Adventure Entry #1

A big new chapter in life for me is underway. Thanks to a promise to my wife to move if she ever found something for cheaper rent than our mortgage, in short order we are moving to a small house tucked in some trees on a Sheep Ranch not too far out of town.

It’s an old ranch, has been in the family for over 100 years and in some ways its showing its age. However, I am going to start recording for interest sake the adventures we are having, I am really, really excited by what lies ahead.

I am going to do lots of before and after pictures. We should be moving sometime in the next month so will be interesting to see what unfolds. I am anxious to actually be on the ground, right now while I have already started working with the shepherd and the sheep, it is still a bit hit and miss as I am going out after work and then travelling back to town once the chores are done.

I have already arranged for the various scrap iron pieces lying around to be salvaged and hauled away. This will begin once summer lambing is over. Currently we are right in the middle of summer lambing and bursting at the seams. We really need to expand the facilities and are in catch-up mode big time right now. Already we have constructed two nursery pens, hope to do one more this weekend. Have to come up with some type of feeder along the edge of pens to improve feeding and feeding times. Have to construct and plan an orphan pen and then start on rebuilding numerous fences. It’s been very rainy the last few days, this means mud to our eyeballs and its very evident we have a ton of cleaning and grading to do. Drainage has to be addressed so that we don’t end up with such a sludge pit the next time around.