Fantastic Idea on Naming Your Animals So That You Know What Year They Were Born

Lambing season started here on the farm last week (February 14) with a set of twins. One being larger than the other one. As you know when I started raising sheep about 8 years ago now, I wanted an easy way to know what year they were born and how old they were. So I started with the letter "A" all sheep born my first year were given names starting with the letter A. So here we are a few years later a ton of lambs and now I am up to the letter "H".

So meet Hart and Harry

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A Simple Guide to Raising & Milking Goats

 

Weed’em & Reap is a website that is sharing homesteading skills with city folks. I am glad to feature such a website that is teaching skills that embraces self sufficiency.  It helps people get in touch where our food goes from, how to make our own, better care for animals and the health benefits of good food.

Click here to read the article:

 http://www.weedemandreap.com/2013/01/a-simple-guide-to-raising-milking-goats.html

 

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Predators and Protection Part One

Do you have issues with predators getting to your flock? We have all sorts of unpleasant visitors during both the day and night. We learned our lesson the hard way with the coon and were satisfied with our protection from a roaming dog... Read More