Last weekend here in Massachusetts we skipped the end of spring and went directly to summer. Three days of 80 degree plus temperatures has brought leaves to the trees, flowers to my magnolia, greener pastures for my flock, and scads of black flies and mosquitoes. They are a pestilence, tormenting the poor sheep. We've place fans everywhere in the dairy to keep the mothers and lambs comfortable during the mid-day heat.
First thing in the morning, right after breakfast the lambs are most frisky. Sometimes the ewes frolic too. I took this clip on Monday, so you can watch the lambpede out the barn door, through the gate and around the pasture. (BTW, the odd noise half way through is the bellowing of my neighbor's Galloway bull, Lucky).
Enjoy.
