ready to leave LaClede
Our decision to move most of the ewes north was not an easy one. We have never not kept them (relatively) close to home on desert sagebrush steppe grazing permits. Last February, our sheep were trapped by bad weather and roads. When this winter started early and hard, we bought extra feed and hauled it to them daily, hoping for a thaw. We did not have back-to-back blizzards like last February, but it has just kept snowing and getting colder. Eamon found sugar beets which had frozen in the ground in the Big Horn Basin. After lots of phone calls and planning, we started loading ewes, and rams, on trucks and moving them to beet fields and crop aftermath in the north part of the state. Most of them had never seen a truck.
morning wagons
Meghan bringing them up
loading
Guillermo
northward bound
Pat and Pepe at Cyclone Rim
unloading the trucks in the dark
the next day
where’s the beets?
the first day of the rest of the winter
Ladder Ranch
Paula Milby
January 17, 2020 at 5:26 AM
Even if they don’t know where they are, I’ll bet they’re glad to see earth instead of snow. Best of luck to you.
ellie kennedy
January 17, 2020 at 7:51 AM
How many head di you move by trucks? How many miles did you truck them?
jennifer
January 17, 2020 at 10:43 AM
you have an awesome responsibility for those sheep. I sure hope it works out. thank you for taking good care of them.
Martha Kennedy
January 17, 2020 at 3:33 PM
I love it up there. I hope it turns out well for the sheep.