Raising lambs for meat
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 […]
I mentioned in the last post that we are up to five orphan lambs now, which makes it very tricky for one person to feed them. A few years ago we invested in a milk feeder that will feed 5 at a time, and we’ve used it nearly every year since. One year we actually […]
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. […]
Milk fever, or hypocalcaemia is a metabolic disorder (calcium deficiency) that sheep, cattle and goats are susceptible to, usually in late pregnancy, when the draw on their calcium reserves is very strong.  It is usually seen in autumn and spring, when there is a flush of rapidly growing green feed in the paddocks, which is […]