Winter Shearing
My dogs and I lock the 236 purebred Rambouillet ewes in the shop for the night so that they stay dry incase it snows. The plan is to start shearing at 8 am the next morning. You can’t shear wet sheep. We only have about 500 head to shear, an easy one day job. I get to Orr around 7:30 from my house to do a few chores and have the sheep in the corral by 8. As I lead them out of the shop and into the chute with my dogs following in behind, it starts to snow. I watch the sky for
Marie
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He Leaves the 99 for the 1
“If a man has a hundred sheep and one of them goes astray, will he not leave the ninety-nine in the hills and go in search of the stray? And if he finds it, amen, I say to you, he rejoices more over it than over the ninety-nine that did not stray.” Matthew 18:12-13. In this case, he left the 2,300 for the 99. Carlos’s herd had scattered that night. He was still missing a marker by the time he got what he thought was everything herded back together, and wanted someone to come
Marie
Feb 65 min read
A Trip Down Memory Lane
Every September during our fall counts, my mom and I have ridden in to count German in the same place for several years now- Bull Hill. He camps at the base of Bull Hill, and the sheep bed on top of the 10,000 ft high mountain. We ride in to camp, Cristian and German with their full pack string of groceries, sheep salt, and dog food that we hauled into the trailhead to meet them with, and mom and I with our 2 two-year-old colts packed with our overnight stuff. As we ride down
Marie
Dec 7, 20254 min read
