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Beekissed
Mountain Sage
Java, some of my hens still look like they've been caught in a shredder.....I feel for them in the cold! 
Well, I think we've decided to kill Two Bites soon. She isn't really putting on any meat at the rate I would have wanted and I don't wish to over winter her, so she will be our first butchered cow.
I will definitely tan her hide and keep you all in the loop on how that goes. She now has a nice, thick reddish/black hide that should make a good rug. I don't expect she will have much meat on her, but I can use the scraps and organs towards my dog food canning.
My vinegar is making well, what little I've managed to make in all the hoopla with my parents. I have some jars/jugs that made and some that didn't, so I'm going to give a little mother from the good ones over to the sweet ones.
Will be looking towards getting the Bettys bred sometime near the end of next month. I can't wait to see them raise some lambs, it should be so very cute and entertaining. I've decided to breed to a St. Croix this year to see about keeping one of the ewe lambs, but next year I want to have my own Dorper ram on the acre.
I think I'll get a bigger market lamb with the Dorper genes but still retain the mild flavored hair sheep meat. The Dorpers are a meatier, stockier sheep. They still keep some of their wool but, since I'm not interested in keeping the offspring, I don't mind this.
I will be building fence across the orchard this winter in order to facilitate my rotational grazing. The electric setup I had this past year was not sufficient, so I'm going to incorporate some T posts and fencing to insure a good, strong separation of my pastures.
At least I can try to rotate more than I can now. When I'm done with this place it will look like a patchwork quilt!
Well, I think we've decided to kill Two Bites soon. She isn't really putting on any meat at the rate I would have wanted and I don't wish to over winter her, so she will be our first butchered cow.
I will definitely tan her hide and keep you all in the loop on how that goes. She now has a nice, thick reddish/black hide that should make a good rug. I don't expect she will have much meat on her, but I can use the scraps and organs towards my dog food canning.
My vinegar is making well, what little I've managed to make in all the hoopla with my parents. I have some jars/jugs that made and some that didn't, so I'm going to give a little mother from the good ones over to the sweet ones.
Will be looking towards getting the Bettys bred sometime near the end of next month. I can't wait to see them raise some lambs, it should be so very cute and entertaining. I've decided to breed to a St. Croix this year to see about keeping one of the ewe lambs, but next year I want to have my own Dorper ram on the acre.
I think I'll get a bigger market lamb with the Dorper genes but still retain the mild flavored hair sheep meat. The Dorpers are a meatier, stockier sheep. They still keep some of their wool but, since I'm not interested in keeping the offspring, I don't mind this.
I will be building fence across the orchard this winter in order to facilitate my rotational grazing. The electric setup I had this past year was not sufficient, so I'm going to incorporate some T posts and fencing to insure a good, strong separation of my pastures.
At least I can try to rotate more than I can now. When I'm done with this place it will look like a patchwork quilt!
