We have had a bit of an adventure today (Monday). First of all, we have had another lamb born to a Shetland ewe, a healthy black lamb, leaving two pregnant ewes left to go. We had been prepared to do more shearing today in the beautiful weather but got an emergency call from our neighbor: he had a badly injured young buck in his yard who had crawled in from the road after being badly injured by a car. Could we come and look at it?
Our Shetland Ewes are starting to lamb. We woke up Friday morning to two newborn lambs. Cassiopeia, our black Shetland ewe, had black and white twins, one ewe and one ram lamb. They were up and about immediately and are busy bouncing and prancing all over the pasture today. We have three more pregnant ewes who may lamb at any moment.
In this article, we discuss long term (up to 30 year) storage of dry goods in food grade plastic buckets using dry ice to remove oxygen from the buckets. This is more effective than vacuum sealing, easier, and cheaper. We also present some links to options for preserving dry goods in other kinds of containers and some resources for determining how much and what type of dry goods to store.
On Friday, as we were preparing to go to this weekend's event, we had the sheep out in the newly fenced lower pasture. They had eaten through the overgrown paddock very quickly and we had to upgrade the pasture fence from cattle-tight to sheep-tight before they could be let out into it. At the same time, we are also breaking in a new farm hand who has never dealt with sheep before. We ended up in an hour-plus merry chase up and down the roadway, over hill and dale, through brush and bramble. Everything came out right in the end, partly thanks to help from two neighbors.
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