Tag Archives: lambs
March Challange-Frost Seeding
We are coming into our 5th year of frost seeding to improve our pastures, and we can’t speak highly enough of this process. A little background on our pastures, the call names are, Big Pasture, Little Pasture, Corner Pasture, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Chores, compost, Farm Life, Frugal, Goals, Health, lambs, Sheep Milk
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Baby Lamb Photo Love
The older lambs are going so fast and they are all eating hay and chewing their cud these days, the younger ones are part of the baby mob, and still more new ones have joined us in the past days.. … Continue reading
Vanilla Sheep -Need a little help girl? -Sort of Graphic Birthing photos..
Vanilla sheep was found hanging out in front of a jug this morning with a huge bag, and the starting show of labour, so into the jug she went as happy as a clam and we checked on her a … Continue reading
First storm of the season= New lambs!
It never fails, I said it in a earlier post today, big storm.. momma’s decide if they need to stay in might as well have a lamb or two.. so far a new set of twins and a new single … Continue reading
Fall Shoulder Lamb Chop Stew
When getting half or whole lamb you will end up with a number of 1 pd cuts of shoulder chops, these are heavier on bone then lamb chops are. Now the price of chops in the store are high but again … Continue reading
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Tagged Food Production and Recipes, Greens, Lamb Recipes, lambs, Veggies
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Milking Sheep
I got asked a question by a family member the other day that went along the lines of, I know you milk your sheep but did you have to buy special sheep to do it? The short answer is, I … Continue reading
Canning Meat..
Well I have been listening to CBC news about what is happening to the markets, to the riots in london, to the debt crisis that just keeps growing in Europe and the United States, and listening to Harper who is … Continue reading
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Tagged 100 mile food challange, Canning, Charcuterie, Farm Life, Food Production and Recipes, freezer camp, Frugal, Garden, lambs, sheep
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The pay off to pasture improvement!
So when we bought our little farm, 3 acres had just been seeded the year before into hay for cows, it was cut and baled for three years, and then without extra’s being added it began a reduced amount of reward … Continue reading
Lamb Milk Replacers
If you have sheep for any length of time, you will have one or two bottle lambs, or more.. I know of at least one person that has a deal for one of our local farm’s bottle lambs, she takes them … Continue reading
Just another Day on the Farm 