Libby Pratt

Life on a French Farm

lundi, janvier 08, 2007

Unnamed Sheep Doing Better

Each morning I expect to go out and find the ailing sheep dead. But this morning, she had a lot more energy so I'm hopeful she'll pull through and recover from this malady.

Previous mornings she stood apart from the flock and I had to take her a bucket of grain, put it under her nose, and watch her eat one tiny mouthful.

Today, she was in the thick of the flock during the feeding. I offered her the bucket to give her an advantage over the others who were eating their grain off the ground. She ate heartily. And what's more encouraging, when Blanche horned her head into the bucket this other sheep had the energy to fight Blanche for the bucket.