The ASAH Sonora Wheat crop save update

[Tumbulu]

8. Thanks Howler!

The lambs....well the coyotes killed every one of them...plus another 30 + of the sheep.....it has been outrageously upsetting. I had to call the county in as the coyotes where chasing the sheep onto the highway. The coyotes have changed their behavior. They attack by day- not by night and there are quite a large pack of them now.

I have the sheep just stuck in the 1 acre yard next to my house and am feeding them hay - for the past three weeks as a matter of fact. The rescue guardian dog spends the entire night chasing coyotes miles into the hills behind my place, but there are way too many for him. When the sheep are let out, the pack of coyotes attacks them still.

I want them to go away!!!!! Perhaps if I keep them in feeding on hay long enough and this dog keeps chasing them at night (and when the guardian pup dogs arrive that will stay with the flock.... ) perhaps it will all work out. The county trapper says that the only permanent solution is to have more dogs with the flock. That there are way too many coyotes for only one dog. But this takes time, and I am in the process. But until then, I just cannot take it anymore and am keeping them safe in my farmyard. Safe and very bored and expensive!

But in the meantime, the sheep are simply not doing their work of making topsoil and I had to buy all this organic hay, which was not in my plans....but I cannot take seeing these sheep slaughtered anymore.