Graining time makes chores complex. The pregnant sheep and the donkeys get separate grain (we only grain the donkeys in the bitter cold, but the bred ewes need grain (sheep grain) every day, they don’t do well on the copper in the equine grain. Animals get frenzied around grain, it excites and arouses them, this is when Red is  essential. He keeps the sheep away from the donkey feeder, and keeps them from storming the pole barn while we are inside of it pouring the grain into buckets. Then he holds them inside and keeps the donkeys from barging in after the sheep grain and vice versa.

Red earns his keep every day, but never more so than during a time like this. All three donkeys moved right over him and he didn’t move an inch. He kept the sheep right were we needed them to be.