Rain, snow, sleet or hail

The USPS motto applies to animal husbandry too.  Regardless of the weather, farm animals still have to be taken care of... watered, fed, moved to fresh pasture, etc.  Sometimes we can wait for the rain to stop, but lately, we're not always given a choice.

Here, Danny and I take our new sheep herding dog, Bruce, out to feed the sheep.  Bruce is just a pup, so he still has a lot to learn about sheep herding.  One of our ewes, Monty, is quite large and very vocal.  Bruce seems to be scared of her.  A sheep herding dog that is scared of sheep isn't ideal, so hopefully he'll grow out of it.

 We also recently got two sheep guard dogs, Shy and Tim.  They are also pups and although they don't particularly like going around the sheep, they do seem to understand that they are to protect our property in general.  Shy, Tim and Bruce don't always get along - Bruce is a live-wire and Shy and Tim are very calm.  As we were heading back to the house, Shy decided she needed to check out what was going on.