We have had quite a few visitors over the weekend and the sheep have loved it. Lots of attention. But they don't like the hot weather at all and stay in the shade most of the day, occasionally going down to the lakeside in the reeds and the long grass.
We are getting the big field ready for them now which means repairing the fence and building Fort Knox reinforcements around the apple trees (they have already decimated the buckthorn bushes which are supposedly toxic...). The nice old wooden gate we had last year is replaced with a nasty metal thing which is easier to open and shut (for us) and harder to circumnavigate (for them). We'll let them through as soon as we have finished stacking the hay but we are temporarily short of poles. #210 has already figured out the route into the big field (see below). When she gets lonely she starts screaming her head off until one of us goes and lifts her back in.
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