The sheep have settled in and the separation of rams and ewes is successful, so far. But I had my doubts. Brad's initial idea of just setting up an electrical fence line, without fencing, went to the waste basket soon after reading how aggressive the rams can be and some encouragement from his wife that it "just wasn't going to work". The fence has helped, but Booboo seems determined to get to the other side. Ella is no help with all her feminine temptings. We still need to run the electrical line on both sides to keep our fence from becoming demolished. All seemed to be going well, till this evening. Upon arriving home after several Christmas parties and errands we discovered one of our ewes, Plotulopi, had plotted to make it to the other side and was successful. How? I don't know. The investigation is still on and the fortifying of the fence has been heightened from yellow to red. If she could get through then Booboo will not be far behind. He seems to have the idea in his head that Ella is his girl and he's gonna have her. Still so much to learn about these wonderful fluffy creatures who have made their way into our lives and hearts. Fingers crossed that our electric fence idea will solve the problem to our mystery of the mischief sheep. (say that five times)
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