Notes From Zone 4

Living with Sheep Everything You Need to Know to Raise Your Own Flock by Chuck Wooster Photographs by Geoff Hansen I just got this book, by Chuck Wooster, and thought I’d mention that I think it will be very good for beginning shepherds, including those that choose Icelandic sheep to raise. For one thing, he too has a heritage breed (Navajo-Churro), so the advice isn’t all about domesticated breeds. I probably liked the book a bit more than normal because he’s in Vermont, fairly close to me in NH, so his examples make a lot of sense to me. It’s a very practical book, written with a lot of common sense, and I wish I’d read it two years ago. It’s a basic book, but a good one. Very good for someone considering getting a flock.

We got started on building the hay shelter last night, but just barely. We still aren’t sure how we are going to anchor the thing, either. We got all of the rafters connected and screwed together, and that was it because it got dark. We needed to get hay, as the sheepies aren’t liking this

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