What about pain?

What about pain?

The struggle is real, you can do something with all your strength and still ask why it didn’t seem like it was enough.  I can think of times I saw danger or a pending illness for the sheep and acted in a timely manner but still feel gutted when a ewe or a lamb dies…

Wide load

Wide load

The enormous belly on the third and pregnant ewe walking away makes me a bit concerned. Yes, sheep can have triplets, septuplets even, but my experience on poor pastures of Hawaii is that singles are the norm. A set of live triplets will create a hierarchy, and the weakest one will be a runt. This…