That Sheep!!!

She is an incredible escape artist. Even with Robbie, the border collie and the two livestock guardian dogs looking for her, plus my son and I, we were not able to locate her and her lamb. The past two nights she was out long after she should have been. This is not a safe area for a sheep and lamb to be out in the night. Travis heard her around midnight and sure enough, she was there with her lamb. I got her back to safety with the other sheep in the pen. Then last night, I thought I had accounted for all the sheep and at 2 pm, heard a baa where there should not have been one. You know, when one has livestock, it is like when one is a young mother. Any sound out of place wakes the instinct. 

Sure enough, at 2 am last night, she was there with her lamb again. It was a very good thing that she was fine. The night is not the worst. It would be early in the morning light when the predators wake up and are hungry. She and her lamb were safe again, but I got eaten alive by mosquitos 2 nights in a row getting her to safety. 

Tonight I was not about to let her out of my sight. Travis, the dogs and I were out to find her and there she was with a group of lambs. The group was moved to the pen by the border collie, Robbie and I assumed she was with them, but no, when I looked for her and the lamb, she was not in the pen. The dogs and Travis and I hunted for her and could not find her. I put the dogs in and went out again and there she was! 

So, braving those mosquitos one more time, I chased the pair into the pen and closed the gate, then into the night pen and whew, she was safe and it was only 10 pm, not 2 am. I will watch her more closely tomorrow so I do not get eaten alive by the mosquitos later while rescuing her. Silly ewe!

Here she is with her little brown lamb with the white spot. She is on his right. Escape artist supreme, she is. She also stayed out of sight and did not get her hooves trimmed or her Ivermectin treatment, both times.