Apă was born September 23, 2024

We have a running joke with the guy I bought the ewes from…

This chick, was supposed to be helping him and was supposed to be a potential business partner. She kept bugging him that they should build a water Ram, in his creek. The only problem was, it is a dry creek. 😹 We tease him now all the time, saying, “We can build a water ram”! Drives him crazy 🤪 😜 because that’s what she would always say.

I decided to name him Water, since he is a Ram 😂 but that was too confusing; so I found out what country the lady was from that I bought the Ram from, and named him water in her native language 😺

So Berbec De Apă or WaterRam is his name 📛 we brought him to the farm on New Year Day 🎊 2025.

Apa died Valentines, from what we believed to be acidosis. The sheep and goats we getting off the n property and going to the neighbors, and eating some the cattle feed at the neighbors. Unfortunately; only the goats can handle eating cattle feed, sheep cannot.

https://www.flockandherd.net.au/sheep/ireader/lactic-acidosis.html

it took some time for us to determine cause of death, but that was our conclusion. Fortunately, I fixed the fence where they were getting out, so hopefully this won’t happen again.

All the other sheep seem to be fine, he was the youngest one of the herd, so he probably was the most sensitive 🥺