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Lamb Bone Broth Recipe

These are the nice meaty bones left over after taking the meat off two small lamb shoulder roasts.. Here is my best trick, you need to roast your bones before you simmer them all day long to make your broth, … Continue reading

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How do you know its freezing Rain?

Check out that frosting on the back of the sheep, who have been out having their breakfast at the hay bales..Got to love that the hair sheep grow wool for the winter, if you dug your fingers into her coat, … Continue reading

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Salt Cured Leg of Lamb

 or a kind of “prosciutto d’agnello”. I took two legs of lamb with bone in about a eight pd approx, and made a brine of salt in gallon of water, I added salt till an egg would float, and then I … Continue reading

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Lamb Breakfast Patties

Well, I wanted to make some breakfast sausage for this week, I took out two of the shoulder roasts and let them thaw out overnight, so this morning, I split them in two and then cut off the main amounts … Continue reading

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Soon, just another few weeks

An new lambs and fresh milk will be on the farm, Our first lambs will be coming by the end of the month, and while most of our girls are getting a bit wide, some of them are looking downright … Continue reading

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Raw Milk

http://thebovine.wordpress.com/2010/11/17/michael-schmidt-on-the-role-of-cow-share-canada-in-setting-raw-milk-standards/ I am finding myself reading more and more about the debate in regards to raw milk in Canada and also in the states, but more so in Canada.  I have posted a link to the bovine site so yo … Continue reading

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Sheep Round up this morning!

                                    Mocha’s big Chocolate Ram Lamb from 2010 A blue pickup drive’s into my lane this morning, and when I pop my head out to say Hi, I get a friendly Hi Val, two of your sheep are outside the … Continue reading

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New Pen Panels to the rescue

Dropped by our friends to share some of our lamb and to pick up our new pen panals, they are a stand alone set of four that can make a pen for all kinds of uses, but the main one … Continue reading

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Sheep and the New Hay Feeder to be

Well, normally we get our barn filled with big sqaure bales of hay that are obout eight hundred to nine hundred pds each and it last us for the full five to six months  between freeze up and into spring … Continue reading

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