Re: Super-large egg?
From: angie (angie_arsnic_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 12/01/04
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Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 14:47:59 +0800
If you do not sell / kill . Sheep they end up with no teeth .
At about 5 years old they start to loose teeth .
from then on they can not eat properly .
We got 2 ewes few years ago they were suppose to be 2 years old . That
year we bred them and got twins from both. the next year again twins. When
the lambs were 2 days old I had to take 1 of each to raise . At 1 week old
the other lambs were going down hill verry fast .We caught the lambs and
ewes and found 1 ewe had 2 teeth left the other had none. The quieter of
them I hand fed until the lamb was weaned the other one .Died a month later.
there was nothing left but skin and bone. I reared here lamb .she grew only
the size of a 3 month old lamb .
I gave her to a friend so the could not get in lamb as she may have had a
full sized lamb and it would have killed her to have it.
Peggy
"Bird!" <zbird@nospamuk2.net> wrote in message
news:V2drd.19136$9A.329686@news.xtra.co.nz...
> Ha, I'd love to be able to do the whole self provision thing, I really
would
> but this thing about eating ones own livestock is a hurdle I can't get
over.
> I think maybe naming them doesn't help.
> The neighbour gave us a bit of bacon from his pig.... I had looked into
this
> beasts eyes, I'd scratched its ears... I ate the bacon..... I also felt
> quietly guilty as a result.
> If it had been our pig, seen every day, cared for by us.... I couldn't
have
> eaten any of it.
>
> My theory is, have animals that can provide for you without having to be
> killed to do it. Chickens come high on my list because they get on with
> laying their eggs without a 'midwife' being present. Next is a milking
> animal, bit more work involved getting the milk but worthwhile.
> We're looking for a milking goat so I guess I'll find out just how much
work
> is involved.
>
> Gawd, think of the banquet one could have if one had the where-with-all to
> have homekill.
>
> I wish the neighbour had your husbands ability to cull old ewes, he has
two
> and they had twins and triplets this year. Poor old things are really,
well
> and truly on their last legs. The thought of these two gems not being
around
> any more is very sad but they are so old and struggling to cope which is
> sadder. Both were pets and have real personalities. I hope these two are
> too old and knarly for dog tucker, they deserve a bit of dignity.
>
> Bird!
> "angie" <angie_arsnic@hotmail.com> wrote in message
> news:41ad4a4c@quokka.wn.com.au...
> > HI Bird ,
> > I skipped a bit .
> > I do not kill my chooks .
> > My husband only kills the old sheep that are no longer productive.
> > And my also die of old age .
> > My pet sheep I can not eat so we send the meat off to the in-laws.
> > Yours Peggy
>
>
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