Bee~ Journal of then...

[Farmfresh]

Suave does what THEIRS does for less than half the price!



That is what we used to use to shampoo horses before a show. We preferred the one with extra conditioning for dry hair over the coconut!

 

[Beekissed]

I've used all kinds of soaps to wash my GP/lab mix and its hard to penetrate her double coat....but the Suave Coconut seems to be the best at generating a lather and penetrating right down into the skin but without stripping her oils too much. The coconut is supposed to repel fleas.

Plus it has a pleasant smell that she doesn't seem to mind and have to go roll in something nasty to get rid of.

So, with sheep having a lot of natural oils also, I figured it would do the trick and it did. I now smell just like a coconut sheep......

 

[Farmfresh]

 

[big brown horse]

Coconut, chia sheep!

Whew, freemotion! That sounds like lots of work! What are the ratios of those ingrediants? My seasonal pond is all but dried up at this point, so it is the hose or nothing. But that would make it easy to swim them rather than to rince them with the hose.

 

[freemotion]

Hmmm....First you need all the ashes from a year of heating excusively with wood and doing all your cooking on wood, in a New York state climate. Then you need the fat trimmings from slaughtering all the animals for a family of six. So once you gather those items, you should have the correct proportions....

 

[big brown horse]

Hmmm....First you need all the ashes from a year of heating excusively with wood and doing all your cooking on wood, in a New York state climate. Then you need the fat trimmings from slaughtering all the animals for a family of six. So once you gather those items, you should have the correct proportions....

Yeah, right!!!

 

[Farmfresh]

He is talking about a basic lard based lye soap.

They used to use wood ash to make the lye. I guess since it was only going to be a "sheep dip" Ma didn't go to all of the trouble to render the lard until it was pure (thus a brown bar) and also did not go to a lot of the trouble normally used in making lye from ashes. (usually there is a steeping process of allowing water to pass through the ashes.)!

I would also have worried about the water quality of the pond afterwards. If you think coconut dipped sheep smells good - how about a fish dipped one?

 

[TanksHill]

I like coconut shrimp!!

 

[FarmerDenise]

Freemotion wrote
I'm re-reading Farmer Boy and just got to the part where they are shearing the sheep. They wash them the day before with soft brown soap that Mother makes from fat on processing day and all the ashes saved from the previous winter with water run through them.
I just love those Little house in the prairie books. Especially Farmer Boy. I borrowed the recipe book from the library once.
I love reading about everyones sheep and goats. We are still thinking about getting some.
I'd actually love a cow, but we definitely don't have enough spave for that and they entail a whole lot more care I think. But I love the way they smell.

 

[big brown horse]

I like coconut shrimp!!