Problem after Problem
Dad's Sheep in the Pasture began disappearing at an alarming rate!
We first saw the puncture wounds that I shared in a previous post.
But then we found carcass that had been stripped clean.
Often finding the entire skin of the sheep
as if it had been skinned right off.
Dad brought in different dogs, thinking that either the dogs were killing the sheep or that they were just not old enough to protect the sheep. Either way- that set of dogs did not work
and a change had to happen.
It took a while to get the guard dog situation worked out and there was a great loss of sheep during the transition time.
Sometimes there would be no skin. Only the bones.
And for months the guard dogs have been bringing bones up to the gate.
Daily walks of the perimeter fence were required to find the holes the coyotes had dug. Once the holes were found, they had to be filled and the fence secured.
Dad did a lot of teaching, needless to say,
Master Mess Maker (M<3) has become quite good at mending fence.
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