We have just finished trimming hooves and giving booster vaccinations to the woolies. Often this is stressful as one of our sheep, scratchy is quite crazy. She has almost killed Izzy as a newborn, she has knocked me down at least twice, and has tried to get through very tiny spaces. She lives her life terrified by people. This upsets us as she never seems to be content and always in flight mode. After speaking with a couple of people who are long time shepherds and the famous Temple Grandin we had come to the conclusion to have her put down. We didn’t even want to send her to the butcher on her own as we would end up with sub-standard meat, and she may have gone through the windshield on her way there. So Kate, our wonderful vet would have come over and put her out of her fear.

So today we decided to vaccinate and trim her hooves anyway. JUST in case anything had changed. Well I am happy to report that Scratchy was surprisingly good to catch and to deal with. She was still terrified, but not enough to go through a wall or window, which she has tried in the past.

This means Scratchy has bought herself another month of being here. Maybe she will improve yet!