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Sheep

Nothing says love like lamb bacon

February 14, 2011

I don’t know where I heard of lamb bacon first, but it was some late night cooking show and it might have been Alton Brown. So the next time we slaughtered lamb, I asked to keep a lamb’s belly. We froze it because I wasn’t sure how to process it yet. I was looking around [...]

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Let it snow

December 22, 2010

Not that we have any choice, of course, but fine, bring on the snow. The woodstoves are roaring. The house is over 60°F and it feels positively balmy in here. We came home with lots of sheepie treats today, like broccoli and egg plants. They are devouring it but still ask for more. Isn’t Dora [...]

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One Way to Make the Sheep Stay In

December 20, 2010

Yesterday we opened one of the cattle panels around the sheep’s winter quarters to give them a new bale. I closed it again, but tried to make it easy to put in the next bale. A couple hours later I was dumping milk (half pint school lunch thingies) for the pigs, and heard a mighty [...]

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Species Appropriate

December 19, 2010

We got asked yesterday how we decide what to feed to who from all of the foraged and found food that we bring in. We don’t actually make a big deal about it. We follow a few basic principles and then let the animals tell us what they prefer. With all of the different species [...]

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Split Paddock

December 11, 2010

We got the paddock right behind the house split into two today. (Everything we do, no matter what, we have lots of turkey helpers!) This way the sheepies and Danny can have two sheds for the winter and we can water them with a hose run out from the basement into a heated trough. All [...]

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Winter’s Here

December 10, 2010

Winter arrived this week. We were about as ready as we ever are. Thanks to Birch we only have one sheep breeding group. There’s one ram lamb left, but he’d need a ladder as the saying is, which also means he’s not about to tangle with Birch. We have sheds for everyone except the turkeys, [...]

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More Icelandic Chickies

December 8, 2010

Some Icelandic chicks finally hatched today. Well, one hatched yesterday, and 8 more by mid-day today when I delivered them to Keene, and now there are 5 more, which she’ll come get tomorrow. (peep peep peep peep — not my favorite part of running the incubator, to be honest — I keep getting woken up [...]

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