Barb,
Everyone has given great advice. Again we have a barn and that is where they are fed at all times so they are used to going in there. We have a pipe gate that we use to shut them in with. Once they are in, we go around the other way and close the gate. We also made an 8 foot wide run right behind the barn where their entrance is about 10 foot long. If we need to corral them we use small fence panels to " squeeze " them into the run and then close the gate which limits them area to run. from there we push them into the barn. We have found that placing reinforcements in the corners of fences helps deter their want to jump out some. We just used pieces of galvanized tin and screwed pieces about 4 ft. X 4-6 ft. in corners of our runway. That seems to be where ours always head for to try to jump out. If they can't see the other side, they tend not to try to jump out. But implememting some type of small inclosed palce to capture them is a must!
. Just an idea - don't know if others have noticed their sheep going for corners - but we sure did. Sue Miller
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