They're not dying at the moment, I'm just feeling paranoid about every little thing and really, really hoping nothing goes wrong this spring with lambing. They're only sheep, but I am responsible for them; like every other animal under my care, I am obliged to keep them eternally safe and healthy and free from fear, and I'm good at it, but it's also an impossible job. Sheep especially, there's only so much you can do, and a lot of the time you get relegated to worrying and watching and having it creep up on you anyway. Maybe that's just me and my <poor> luck, though. I wish I could magically fix everything and never have to worry about any of my charges ever again. 
What breed do you keep? We're looking at adding a handful of Icelandic since they are triple purpose (milk/wool/meat). Unfortunately my family that hardly speaks to me is using that land for cattle even though it is mine now so it will be another year or two because if I ask them to stop it will be a bigger fight than coming out (coming out only hurts their social standing, but taking back the land hurts their $).
Do you keep the rams separate? We are thinking we may just use insemination instead of having to deal with rams.
Do you keep anything else? We have keep bees and have chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, and a peahen with plan to hatch more turkeys and peafowl next year.
To be back on topic for the thread. I'm about to go meet an old friend (almost a mentor) I haven't seen for 5 years. He seems to be accepting via email/facebook, but I'm still nervous about meeting him again.
