The katahdin hair sheep have water all winter from free flowing springs.
The winter water situation for our sheep has gotten really passive over the years. We used to have to haul water to them daily and break out the ice from the trough. Eventually we realized if we just put the winter paddock around one of the free flowing springs the sheep will have access to water without us having to do anything.
Here the sheep are actually drinking out of one one the newer swales but at the tree line I'm the back of the paddock there is also a stream fed by a spring from the neighbors property. Pretty wild that we are both at the top of the water shed in the area and somehow there is still water bubbling up out of the ground year round. Not sure how it's possible...
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