Raising your own lambs for meat can be a very fulfilling enterprise. Not only do you get the fun part of managing your livestock and watching the lambs grow, but home produced meat is a lot cheaper (and I believe TASTIER!!) than what you buy in the supermarket. There is a lot to consider, however […]
We had another lovely day yesterday (today is exceptionally cold, rainy and windy!! Great winter weather), so I couldn’t resist grabbing my camera as I headed out to check the lambing ewes. Look away now if you don’t like gory/ unfortunate photos. This little lamb has had its tail bitten off by a fox. […]
It sounds idealic – eating fresh food you’ve produced yourself, looking over green paddocks, setting your own time table, maybe even slowing down your lifestyle a bit….. And it certainly can be like this, but there are times when things fall in a heap, and you wonder if all the hard work is worth it. […]
Finally harvested the last of the corn yesterday. Feels good to have it all frozen ready to see us out for winter. Everyone in the family loves corn so its great to have a good supply throughout the year. Most of it we picked a couple of weekends ago, and my wonderful parents peeled […]
BJ is our bull – and yes you read it right – we gave him a pedicure! As you can see he is a big enormous black angus bull. He has been in with the main herd of cows since early January, and when we took him out we noticed he was limping a bit on his […]