The older sheep: Elisa, Oona and Onerva and the two older lambs (one white, one brown) have a real liking for birch bark probably because it tastes nice, maybe it's sweet or rich in minerals. The flock has full run of the curly birch plantation and, although we wrapped about 50-60 birch trunks with plastic tubing, they are managing to find the unprotected trees and are systematically pulling away the bark in strips. Argh. It's a huge job to wrap all the trees but I think we will have to do it. And at least one of the young ewes has worked out how to get under the fence. Fortunately she also managed to find a way back in when she realised she was all alone on the Other Side.
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