The other big weekend project was moving the pasture ewes to a small subdivision of the larger pasture they’ve been calling home all winter.  Everybody seems pretty relaxed with the reduced space.

My motivation for this change is that the grass is starting to grow, and the sheep will aggressively eat the smallest growth of spring grass, stunting it before it gets going.  The electronet enclosure I moved them to will be the sacrificial lamb (am I allowed to say that?); the sheep will be very hard on the new growth in this area, but the grass in the remaining 80% of the larger enclosed pasture will get to flourish before I put animals on it again. In subsequent years, I’ll let different parts of the pasture take the hit, with the expectation that the entire area gradually improves with careful grazing management.