newhomesteader2010
Exploring the pasture
Hello everyone!! We are new to BYH but are members over at BYC!! A little background on us. I am married to a wonderful, loving and overall tolerant DH who puts up with my desire to live off the land as much as possible. We have one DD and are currently expecting #2 early next year (gender is to be announced whenever he/she arrives). We live in NC near Raleigh and just recently purchased a farmette (a small house with a few acres)!! The first thing we did was build a barn and a small run so we stocked that barn with 11 chickens (Orpingtons and Marans). We are looking into the possibility of adding a few dairy sheep into the mix if we can learn enough about them to make us informed shepherds. We are city folks that have migrated to the country life, so we know NOTHING about sheep (aside from Mary's lamb, but that doesn't count, right??), but are in the process of trying to learn as much as we can. Why sheep? Well, DD and I are allergic to cow/goat's milk and have heard that we could fair well on sheep's milk. We belong to a coop and are waiting for our first taste of sheep's milk, but it would be so refreshing to be able to enjoy cheese, creams and other such delicacies that we have been unable to have - unless we can add almond or coconut milk in it's place. 
Aside from ice cream it doesn't work all that well!! 
If my mother in law has her way, we will not only have dairy sheep, but we will also have sheep for wool as she likes to spin her own yarn and seems to think that it would be just "peachy" for us to ship her the wool. Somehow she does not understand that shearing is an art and you can't just hack away at the poor animal's coat. 
Here I meant to have a short introduction and I have rambled, my apologies. Have a great day everyone!! I look forward to gleaning all I can from everyone!!
Aside from ice cream it doesn't work all that well!! If my mother in law has her way, we will not only have dairy sheep, but we will also have sheep for wool as she likes to spin her own yarn and seems to think that it would be just "peachy" for us to ship her the wool. Somehow she does not understand that shearing is an art and you can't just hack away at the poor animal's coat. Here I meant to have a short introduction and I have rambled, my apologies. Have a great day everyone!! I look forward to gleaning all I can from everyone!! 
from a fellow NCer.
