Yeah, we have one the same age. It seems that they become daddies’ girls even more at that age. The first time she fired a shotgun, she giggled and fired another load. I’m the only one of us four who’s not a redhead.
I’ve had neighbors who had sheep and learned a few things from them. ...fascinating animals. It seems that they require much more work than most other livestock. With calves, you give them shots, get them weaned, and they’re pretty much on their way to the sale in a year. Sheep require a whole lot of watching. Raise dogs or llamas with them, though, and that really helps.
The soil here hasn’t been taken care of for so long, that it needs to be replenished and held together with better roots. So we’re building goat fence around a quarter-mile section and will use a herd of goats to get rid of the weeds and help with fertilization. ...probably take until next summer to build the fence, with all of the other stuff that has to be done. Hopefully, they’ll like sage. We’ll put the kids in pens and on something sweeter to eat a month or two before barbeques. ;-)
We’ll fertilize extra and test some hays along the way. ...looks like candidates for hay here are various rough, tough, dry land wheat hays and winter grass roughages.
My wild guess is that we’ll see wetter weather for about the next six years, if the coming solar max is lower than the last as predicted by the NASA folks. Some areas 100 miles or so to the south and in lower elevations will probably stay dry. We’ll plant hays in patches in low spots around the first of next May, start measuring growth rates, and so on.