We are rotational grazing, and need to move the animals from one place to another two or three times a day. Fate and Red seem to instinctively know when the times are by now, and this afternoon, around 4 p.m.,when the animals had their three hours of afternoon grazing, I went out to the side pasture to move them. The dogs were waiting for me, frozen in place. When the sheep see Red, they run out of the pasture, they don’t wait to be told. We have to go and chase the donkeys out, clapping our hands and waving our arms. Chloe, the pony, can be the most stubborn, but she will do what Maria asks her to do.
11
May
Clearing The Pasture
by Jon Katz