Ron, The winter weather in UK and Europe has been in the news here in the US. How much snow and cold do you have in Sweden? (Just looked at weather underground, and discovered a wx map for Sweden. http://www.wunderground.com/global/SN.html ( Is the coast of Norway really around +40F? )
The Northeast has been very cold, but that does happen here. We're supposed to be used to it HA. The people in the South are really freezing, much colder than usual there. Chores take forever on these days. Frozen water buckets to empty in the a.m. Eggs to collect often so they don't freeze. Extra grain for the lambs, which are outside with big bale feeders full of baleage. Don't want to give the impression we do all of this ourselves. We were farming full time for quite awhile before we hired 'real' help, instead of limping along with various high school or college kids after school or on weekends. But it's still tough in this cold, especially with nearly all the sheep outside 24 hrs a day. Now we're heading for a warm up, which will be welcome. Maybe the ewes due to lamb can go out on a neighbor's field with portable fence. Meanwhile, it's time to bring in the dozen or so pregnant ones, for mid-February lambing. I used only one ram for that group, Dickens, a recessive-colored Romney. A good test to find out if we have some girls with recessive color genes. If not, we'll have recessive color carriers. Mary in eastern NY
