Winter Corrals

Big task lately is to finish cleaning the manure pack from the winter corrals, grade the area for better drainage and rebuild the pens. Today we got all the ram pens dismantled and ready to clean. A couple of the apple trees have nearly died and need to be removed so Ken used the tractor to push them over. We're still figuring out how and where to rebuild the pens. Each winter we've tried something different and we don't yet have a good solution for the boys pens. The ewes work well under the shedrow roof of the hay barn but the boys need to be separated and so far we haven't had an ideal set up for them. We keep trying different options. One of these years we'll figure it out. Until then it's like a fresh puzzle each year as we try yet another version.