Before we even bought our farm in Upstate New York I gave quite a bit of thought to the kind of sheep we’d want to help us mow the property. I settled on a type originally from Australia–the Dorper–that sheds hair rather than growing wool that needs to be shorn. I figured in our dotage […]
Just when things seemed to be going so smoothly, one of our yearling ewes experiences a terribly difficult pregnancy. After a full day’s labor, the premature and stillborn lamb refused to exit the womb. Only the top of its head was showing. I rolled up my sleeves and reached in to assist, finding that the […]
After nearly two years of grazing our sheep we were in a state of high excitement to finally taste the result of our efforts, namely one of the three-year-0ld ewes we recently culled from the flock. After bringing the meat home from the butcher, we decided to start with some of the stew meat. And […]
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