[Jacob-list] Weather Phenomenon

[Abigail Brown]

Like Mary, in Ohio, we here in Indiana have received
much rain this past week. Our rivers have flooded
twice this fall.

The sheep think that it is spring, it got so warm this
week! I grain the girls before breeding and then 4
weeks before lambing.

This week (on the day it was 70) I took the hay out to
the sheep in the wheel barrel just like I do twice a
day, but on this afternoon, Sarah and Rachel my oldest
ewes, kept following along the fence and just standing
around and waiting instead of diving into the hay like
they usually do. Sarah tarried the longest,while I was
filling the water tubs. Finally she walked over to the
fence closest to the wheel barrel and started
smelling, to see if I had anything else in there
besides hay. Then I realized what it was she was
waiting/looking for. . . . .grain! The weather was so
warm that day, she thought winter was past, spring was
here and it was time to have grain becaue lambs were
coming!

Abigail Brown
Shiloh Farm
Petersburg, IN

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--- 2512 at nethawk.com wrote:
> From: 2512 at nethawk.com
> To: "jacob-list" <jacob-list at jacobsheep.com>
> Subject: Re: [Jacob-list] Weather Phenomenon
> Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2001 20:49:23 -0500
> 
> It has been very nice here in Michigan too. 
> Yesterday the sun was out and we set a record high. 
> I wonder how the sheep know it is breeding season in
> this type of weather.  The ewes were laying around
> yesterday in the sun and I swear some of them looked
> a little hot!  The llamas were sun bathing and the
> chickens were off visiting.   It sure saves on our
> heating costs this year, and after last winter we
> appreciate the break.
>  
> Bonnie
> Herb and Bonnie Sutten
> Sheepy Thyme Farm  Edmore, MI 
> www.agdomain.com/web/sheepythyme/ 
> 


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