Trouble

This.

This is the face of trouble.

"Cherry" the matriarch of our small herd of Wiltshire's decided to take her entourage on tour when they discovered the gate to the paddock had fallen down (along with a wet rotten corner fencepost).

After all the rain we have a LOT of rotten posts

Another job to the list, fairly high priority really

But there is no dignity chasing sheep down the road,

especially in steel capped boots, and not a high degree of sprint fitness

Our small herd of sheep are Wiltshire Poll's

They came to us last year as weened lambs

everyone a girl with one purpose next year

into the mix a few merino x's - the lads (well partially)

for the freezer

We chose the Wilties as they are moulting sheep

no shearing, no crutching, high worm resistance

good mothers, hardy meat breed

they are also cheeky as !

"the girls" as they are known rule the farm

the cows hate them, chasing them across the paddock

but the combined livestock make great use of the pastures

having different feeding preferences

they follow the kids from paddock to paddock

its more about food then friendship I suspect

but the kids pet them and sit in the middle of the small herd

having sheepy tea parties which has involved many packets of milk arrowroot

and a goodly number of my salad greens from the vegie patch