Electronic identification of sheep comes into effect at the end of the year – we had our letter from DEFRA today. Read more about it here.
I’m not sure how much it will change things for us – our current girls can stay tagged as they are, future lambs only have to have the EID if they go [...]
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electric sheep
Posted in livestock, sheep on 18 November 2009 | 1 Comment »
waiting for rain
Posted in chickens, general wittering, grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, vegetables on 15 November 2009 | 4 Comments »
The forecast had given dire warnings of heavy rain for today, so it was with surprise that we woke up to sunshine. We rushed out to make the most of it before the rain came – and that is how the day went.
Himself finished digging over veg bed 8 (only 8 more to go then!), [...]
pork sausages
Posted in grow your own food, livestock, pigs, recipes, self-sufficiency, smallholding on 10 November 2009 | 6 Comments »
We’ve been sausage making again. This time using one pork hand, one slab of pork belly, and all the bit and pieces saved from the butchery day. Delish.
We also set aside enough sausage meat for the chestnut stuffing for that winter festival thingy, and another lot for sausage rolls. Homemade sausage rolls are always so [...]
reducing the chicken numbers
Posted in chickens, livestock on 9 November 2009 | Leave a Comment »
At the weekend, we killed one of the laying hens, and the first of the cockerels from our growers. Quite a contrast in size!
The growers are sixteen weeks old, so a little young to kill for eating, but the exchequer leghorn cockerels have been mature for some time now, and the three of them hooting [...]
rainy day today – and it got steadily worse
Very attractive idea to stay indoors and just knit and crochet (it being half term an all). However, the animals always know how to change that idea. The ram developed a bit of a limp, so we consulted his owners who decided they would lie to get [...]
autumn proper
Posted in general wittering, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, tagged sheep on 21 October 2009 | 2 Comments »
Suddenly, I noticed whilst trudging down the hill to visit the sheep, the leaves are coming off the trees in armfuls, and it is autumn for sure. The sheep, bless em, are usually lurking in the field shelter, and like to look up nonchalantly as I peer in to makes sure we do actually still have [...]
half hour hard labour
Posted in general wittering, livestock, pigs, self-sufficiency on 17 October 2009 | Leave a Comment »
What a glorious sunny day.
We dug, cleaned out animal housing, stacked logs, fixed drains, cut grass and socialized.
We have a new technique for getting the never ended grim jobs done . Half hour slots. So we have been dragging the last of last year’s hedge trimmings out of the field, cutting off the bonfire material, [...]
is it worth it?
Posted in chickens, general wittering, grow your own food, livestock, pigs, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding on 14 October 2009 | 5 Comments »
When raising animals for food, and eggs, or growing veg, it always has to be questioned whether it is actually worth it, financially and effortwise.
Well I think it is on many levels.
Financially, it is. But it depends what you take into account – I have seen so many times the question on a forum; “how [...]
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