A Lambs life … and their wool

Because of the extended, severe drought conditions we have experienced we dramatically reduced the number of sheep we carried. Now, even though we've had a good season, we have chosen to delay increasing our numbers to normal levels so that plants and grasses can reseed and we can improve the health of the soil. If times stay good we will once again grow sheep for commercial sale, but we will never carry more than we can sustainably manage. If and when we do increase numbers, we will use a system like "Time Control Grazing" to minimize the effect that the sheep have. See, sheep do a couple of annoying things that harm the land much more than cattle do. They play follow the leader and make lots of tracks that can create erosion. They have little feet (like stilletto's) where cows have big feet (like boots), and, they get their little teeth right down into the soil and pull up roots where cattle just take a big bite of the longer grasses.