Posted in chickens, grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, smallholding, tagged chickens, eggs on 7 June 2008 | No Comments »
no not me- but our buff leghorn hen has given us an egg every day for the past three weeks, once she started laying again after rearing her brood, and is now sitting again. Is it too soon after the last batch? I am inclined to think not, as she has regained her health, and [...]
Posted in grow your own food, livestock, recipes, self-sufficiency, sheep, wild foods, tagged sheep on 5 June 2008 | 3 Comments »
A shepherd’s crook is an essential item for the smallholder. Not much use with sheep, in my experience. Perhaps because our sheep are a larger breed, and it can be hard to fit the crook around their necks? Also because, although sheep are notoriously stupid, they do seem to recognise it and know it means [...]
Posted in grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, tagged blue tongue, sheep on 3 June 2008 | 2 Comments »
The vaccination has arrived in our area and our three girls and ram lamb have all been injected. Should have immunity within a few weeks, apparently. We shared a bottle with a neighbour, and she gave us a hand with the stabbing bit, which went pretty well, although it was interesting to notice how less [...]
Posted in grow your own food, livestock, recipes, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, tagged sheep on 2 June 2008 | No Comments »
The mutton we have turned out to be great.. well the roast leg we had on Sunday, and made into hot pot today certainly was. Fairly tender, tasty, darker meat than lamb. We like it. and particularly how much there is of it, this is the second meal the three of us have had off [...]
Posted in frugal living, grow your own food, livestock, self-sufficiency, sheep, smallholding, tagged sheep on 28 May 2008 | No Comments »
The ‘cull ewe’ we were offered is now back from the slaughterhouse/butchers minus its personality, and in neat packages. It looks pretty good, but with a fat layer of.. well.. fat. To be expected. We have liver, heart, two breasts, 4 leg joints, 4 shoulder joints some miscellaneous bits and about 7 meals worth of [...]
Posted in being greener, grow your own food, house and home, livestock, sheep, vegetables, tagged sheep on 20 May 2008 | No Comments »
This is turning out to be a busy week, and it’s only Tuesday ! This morning I went ‘along for the ride’ to take the cull ewe/mutton we have been offered to the slaughterhouse. Having not done this before, I thought this would be a great opportunity to be shown the ropes. Wasn’t that bad [...]
Posted in chickens, grow your own food, livestock, make it yourself, self-sufficiency, smallholding, tagged chickens, chicks, eggs on 16 May 2008 | No Comments »
We opened up the broody coup a couple of days ago, and the hen and her three chicks, now six weeks old, rushed out into the big wide world. The grass is long and the chicks can hide completely in it!. They are not so much chicks now as chick-hens (guess that’s where the word comes [...]
Posted in grow your own food, self-sufficiency, sheep, vegetables, wild foods, tagged nettles on 14 May 2008 | 7 Comments »
According to these people anyway. I’m not sure if picking nettles for processing as they suggest is actually being ‘nice’ to them… but I don’t feel like being nice to them at all, as I managed to get stung on the back of my ankle whilst trimming the sheeps’ feet, and it still hurts! *whine*
anyway, [...]
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