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 put the Rams out with the ewes on New Years Day, every year (occasionally the next day, depending on the night before!!). This has them ready for lambing on June 1st. For the last couple of months the nutrition of the ewes is crucial to the success of lambing. Ideally the ewes that are […]
So we have five orphaned lambs now! The original one, Mischeifa, is going great. He’s grown lots, and is really fit and healthy. The second two lambs we got were named Bobby, and Boris. They were both found off by themselves on different days, and quite weak. Not sure why – we have had a […]