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SageHill
Herd Master
Back to grazing and some sort of sanity. ![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
I just took about half the sheep out. Left two mamas and the not so baby babies behind. Made it an easier day. This group was nice and cohesive. Stripe - mama to the Camper ram lamb started getting like a barn sour horse on the way back the last few times - not bad, but the nice mosey back to the barn became a little more work like her last few times out. Know idea why other than she was just done with grazing. I used Obi since the poor dog hasn't been grazing for awhile. Said hello to Murphy - it was good to see him and hear his greeting. I've always had an appreciation for him and always liked his greeting barks. The barks IMO were never of the "get outa here" nature (of course we never went up against the fence either - but had no reason to). And my dogs - both Obi and Zo would look over at him with his initial barks and not react other than in my mind they were thinking 'you're working too this morning eh?' and the sheep never reacted other than to maybe pick their heads up from grazing to look and then return to their scrumptious breakfast. With the wonderful thread on Anatolians by @Ridgetop has been posting I believe that what I've thought and observed is exactly that. Would that change if we went up against the fence? Possibly. But there is no reason to do that other than to make a mess of a good thing. I also think that when Murphy is there the chances of a coyote coming by are a lot less.
It was nice going along and checking out the pedicures that they all got yesterday - nice neat little hooves![Thumbs up :thumbsup: 👍](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44d.png)
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The inch of rain and cooler weather has breathed new life back into the greenery for the time being. Yay, and it's the beginning of the rainy season.
Grazing one end of the meadow.
Keeping his sheep all in a line....... tasty sugar sumac.
I just took about half the sheep out. Left two mamas and the not so baby babies behind. Made it an easier day. This group was nice and cohesive. Stripe - mama to the Camper ram lamb started getting like a barn sour horse on the way back the last few times - not bad, but the nice mosey back to the barn became a little more work like her last few times out. Know idea why other than she was just done with grazing. I used Obi since the poor dog hasn't been grazing for awhile. Said hello to Murphy - it was good to see him and hear his greeting. I've always had an appreciation for him and always liked his greeting barks. The barks IMO were never of the "get outa here" nature (of course we never went up against the fence either - but had no reason to). And my dogs - both Obi and Zo would look over at him with his initial barks and not react other than in my mind they were thinking 'you're working too this morning eh?' and the sheep never reacted other than to maybe pick their heads up from grazing to look and then return to their scrumptious breakfast. With the wonderful thread on Anatolians by @Ridgetop has been posting I believe that what I've thought and observed is exactly that. Would that change if we went up against the fence? Possibly. But there is no reason to do that other than to make a mess of a good thing. I also think that when Murphy is there the chances of a coyote coming by are a lot less.
It was nice going along and checking out the pedicures that they all got yesterday - nice neat little hooves
![Thumbs up :thumbsup: 👍](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44d.png)
![Thumbs up :thumbsup: 👍](https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f44d.png)
The inch of rain and cooler weather has breathed new life back into the greenery for the time being. Yay, and it's the beginning of the rainy season.
Grazing one end of the meadow.
Keeping his sheep all in a line....... tasty sugar sumac.