Archive for October, 2007
Racing Snow, as Usual
Posted: October 29th, 2007 by Frank
We’re deep into building our second sheep shelter. The ones we built three years ago went up faster, but they were smaller and had no floor, which meant they couldn’t be moved later. These have a double floor on 6×6 skids, which doubles the amount of lumber involved although not the build time. Framing
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Posted under Building, Hatching, butcher.
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Another Week
Posted: October 22nd, 2007 by Frank
We now have a brand new freezer, full of 300 lbs of pork and 100 of lamb. The smoked stuff is still yet to come. New Hampshire no longer has state slaughterhouse inspection, so we are attempting to figure out how to sell the meat. We probably needed to sell the critters alive, then
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Posted under Chicken Coop, Chickens, Farm Life, Sawmill, Sheep, Tractor.
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Farm Notes
Posted: October 13th, 2007 by Frank
Despite a week of rain, there are still no significant mushrooms (of any sort) in the woods. Even if it’s too late for the trumpets, there are many late fall species which are making themselves conspicuous by their absence. The exception is the honey mushrooms on the stumps in the clearing. Unfortunately, we don’t
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Posted under Chickens, Farm Life, Mushrooms, Sawmill.
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Off to freezer camp
Posted: October 12th, 2007 by Lisa
Today was one of those hard, necessary days. All of the critters destined for freezer camp had to be taken to the butcher today. Getting the lambs was easy. Despite our horrible parasite loss this year, we still had five lambs to go down the road. The problem was that I wanted their fleece, but
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Posted under Farm Life, Pigs, Sheep, Trailer, butcher.
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A mystery, solved.
Posted: October 3rd, 2007 by Lisa
We had the oddest thing happen the other day. We’ve had the sheepies out working the side of driveway, all 800 feet long of it. It’s a really narrow strip, probably 12 feet wide. They do a great job on all the brambles and brush, and it’s one of the reasons we got them in
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Posted under Farm Life, Sheep, Visitors, electronet.
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