As winter begrudgingly gives way to spring, the pasture is starting to grow – and the barnyard is getting nasty.  Transitioning the flock to spending days on pasture has been eventful.  The moms are well conditioned to following me and the feed sled to the temporary pasture enclosures – the babies, not so much.  I spent a number of mornings cornering, catching, and carrying lambs out to their mothers. Today they all figured it out!!

Rhonda and Paula playing on overturned feed sled.

The lambs’ antics are a wonderful antidote to time-crunch stresses of springtime on the farm.  They swarm fish schools.  Sorry, I was unable to catch (on video) them chasing my layer hens around the pasture.  They are similar to goats in liking to play king of the ____ (whatever is the highest spot in the pen).

I modified an existing broiler chicken tractor to serve as creep feeder and rain shelter for the lambs.  Today I added an attached the mineral feeder so I have less to move as they get rotated to various pasture plots.

Paula viewing life from inside the creep feeder.