End of Summer...Autumn...then Comes Winter
We had a busy summer starting with lambs born in May 2022. One ewe had twins. Then two ewes died from Flystrike, which is a condition where parasitic flies lay eggs into the wool (or on open wounds, but we are pretty careful about wounds), and the maggots bury themselves in the wood and feed off the sheep's flesh. Gross--right! The secret was to spray them with tee-tree oil--five drops per quart of water. Katahdin breed sheep are supposedly a hair sheep and not a wool sheep
