April brought 90+ degree weather here which usually doesn’t arrive until June. That heat and the lack of spring showers dried out the pastures early this year. The sheep were very dissapointed as was I to see the green grass go. Even worse this dry hot weather has increased the fire season in California which is always nerve-wracking.
Usually after the pastures are grazed we get more rain to help the grass grow a second, third, and fourth round so the sheep can continue to dine again and again. This year the hay will have to be fed out early.