A month or so ago, I did a post on raising your own lamb for meat production. We have since had our butcher out and had a couple big days of creating and preserving our meat! WARNING - if you don't like the gory details and pics, don't read on! Most people who raise 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 […]
We have had a set of 4 lambs born to the one ewe! This is so rare, certainly the first time for us! She was right near the gate to our sheep yards, with no other ewes close by – so I’m sure they are all hers. She is happily letting them all drink too, […]
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 […]
It is a blustery, wintery day here today. Cold, wet and windy! Our winter equinox was on the weekend, so I guess I shouldn’t be surprised that we are getting winter weather – but it makes going outside very unappealing! We crutched our rams on the weekend, which was a job we had been putting […]