We brought the sheep with us when we moved. They lived in the veggie patch for the first week eating down the weeds
This is AFTER the sheep had been in here for a week. The little cage is protecting a bunch of existing silver beet.
As soon as we let the sheep out of here into the paddock, the neighbours dog chased them through the fence into the other neighbours back yard. We had to pull the fence down a little to get them to come back. We couldn't chase them in, they kept getting around the two of us, so we left them for a while and they came back by themselves.
A couple of days later we noticed they were missing again. I went for a walk to try and find them and found a fence down. I followed their footprints and pebbles all over the next paddock, but found no sheep. We went looking in the car and found the paddocks all open for miles. We knew they had to be in there somewhere, then we saw the other sheep. There were hundreds of them.
A week later our new landlord offered to come and help us find our sheep. It turned out that they owned the paddocks too, they were share farming with a farmer that lived down the road. She was able to take us through the paddocks and in the hundreds of sheep that were there, we were able to find ours.....My sheep were different to the sheep in there, they were taller and their tails are longer and they look different. I found one with a large flock of other sheep, but had no luck getting that one. I spotted 4 of them in with some of the other sheep. I whistled and they turned to look at me (I used to whistle them down for hay at our other place). By whistling and sneaking up a bit, I was able to separate them from the other flock of sheep and head them off in the other direction. We chased them into a little paddock and closed the gate. We had cornered 4, we just had to catch them and bring them home.
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