When Red and I got out into the pasture this morning, all of the animals gathered and seemed to wonder what the agenda was. and the agenda has changed. We aren’t putting hay out any longer and have begun rotational grazing. Red corrals the sheep and the animals go out into the North pasture to graze for a few hours, then we close up the gates and they move into the main pasture, which they have been eating down. The idea is to keep refreshing the pastures. We have plenty of grass if we conserve it, and we are looking forward to Todd Mason coming to fence in the rear pasture. That’s where the donkeys will go each day to graze. The sheep will be locked into the North pasture where they will spend the summer.

When sheep are full, they lie down. Donkeys will eat all day. The agenda is constantly changing, and the animals seem to know it, they await instructions.