Kodesh Acres - This is my journal about sheep

[KodeshAcres]

Is the week over yet? I am exhausted! Really looking forward to Saturday.

Had to work on the hay shed on Sunday and Monday because we were getting rain on Tuesday, had to clear it out, let pallets air out and dry in the sun and rearrange everything. The tarp that goes over the cattle panels needed some fixing too, a lot of "cutting and pasting" went on! Weighed lambs on Sunday, I think everyone is growing and doing well. Went to pick up hay on Monday morning and finished putting everything back in the hay shed. I stapled some chicken feed bags onto the pallets. Need to remove the plastic on the ground and add a third pallet for more height and air flow. Had to fix Snickers' shelter because he constantly scratches himself on the cattle panels and the corner came apart on one side, woke up to him having a semi collapsed shelter, my brother was able to help me and secure it with some heavy duty bolts.
We are still rotating our flock every 3 days, so we moved everyone on Monday.
Tuesday we had rain on and off all day so it was a good day to get some stuff done inside, baked a few loaves of bread and got a batch of bone broth going on the slow cooker.
Today was spent checking on flock, making sure their water wasn't frozen throughout the day and constantly filling the hay feeders. Ewes and lambs are all doing well. Snickers (ram) spent most of his day inside his shelter. Poured bone broth into jars and filled the slow cooker with beef fat to render for tallow, need to make more tallow lotion for the family next week. Also worked on repackaging chaffehay into gallon sized bags to go in the freezer. All of this is so new to me, I grew up in big cities my whole life, never had animals or experience building anything or using tools for that matter. I am grateful for the opportunity to be living life like this now, staying home and doing life with my family every single day. It has it's challenges because we are a big family and all these things have to be done on top of regular house duties (cooking/cleaning/homeschooling), but I wouldn't have it any other way it is truly a beautiful thing a true luxury. Anyway, here are some pictures from this week. Dottie has become my spoiled ewe since Misty and Peggy lambed. Gwynn has always been super social, she is getting so big! 5 months in a few days.
Bathsheepa is staying warm between her mom (Misty) and Dottie.

Misty, Bathsheepa, Weller

Olive, Peggy, Penelope

Weller and Gwynn

Dottie

Gwynn

 

[fuzzi]

Love your photos.

I make bone broth in my slow cooker as well, but I freeze it in small containers. If I am feeling unwell I can just heat up a couple servings at a time.

When you make broth what do you add to the bones besides water? I put in a handful of peppercorns and a splash of apple cider vinegar.

 

[Baymule]

Love the Bathsheepa name! My first sheep were named Sheepalicious, Miranda Lambert, Lady BaaBaa and Ewenique. Still have Ewenique at 11 years old. Bathsheepa is the best sheep name! Love it!

Nothing better than living in the country, doing time honored chores, raising your children. You might have been raised in cities, but you were born for this.

 

[Baymule]

I cook down chicken bones for several days, adding water. The bones turn to mush and I crumble them over the dogs food and add the broth. My dogs go mad for anything chicken.

 

[SageHill]

Love it - the pics are great -- OMG the pic of Dottie
And you're hay feeder -- LOVE that!! Does it ever get knocked over?? I'm always on the lookout for feeders. I just use 4ft and 10 ft bunk feeders - but the sheep move them all around.

 

[Margali]

Had to fix Snickers' shelter because he constantly scratches himself on the cattle panels and the corner came apart on one side, woke up to him having a semi collapsed shelter, my brother was able to help me and secure it with some heavy duty bolts.

That week of hot weather has triggered the spring shedding. They will all be scratching soon to help shed. You can get a cheap roll of coarse jute rope to wind around a board or some all natural broom heads to bolt to shelter as scratching posts.

 

[KodeshAcres]

Love your photos.

I make bone broth in my slow cooker as well, but I freeze it in small containers. If I am feeling unwell I can just heat up a couple servings at a time.

When you make broth what do you add to the bones besides water? I put in a handful of peppercorns and a splash of apple cider vinegar.

I make about 8 quart size jars at a time and that will last us about a week and a half. We go through it pretty quickly.

I only use apple cider vinegar and celtic salt. I tried using carrots and other stuff before but I did not like the taste of it so I just stick to salt and ACV.

 

[KodeshAcres]

Love the Bathsheepa name! My first sheep were named Sheepalicious, Miranda Lambert, Lady BaaBaa and Ewenique. Still have Ewenique at 11 years old. Bathsheepa is the best sheep name! Love it!

Nothing better than living in the country, doing time honored chores, raising your children. You might have been raised in cities, but you were born for this.

My brother came up with the name Bathsheepa, we were all cracking up when he told us but the name just stuck, so Bathsheepa it is!

Want to clarify I only helping with my brothers children, not raising my own. The more we get into this type of lifestyle the more I realize how far removed we are from living the Biblical way.

 

[KodeshAcres]

I cook down chicken bones for several days, adding water. The bones turn to mush and I crumble them over the dogs food and add the broth. My dogs go mad for anything chicken.

I use beef bones and I don't have any dogs. Wonder if there is anything else I can do with the bones once the broth is done

 

[KodeshAcres]

Love it - the pics are great -- OMG the pic of Dottie
And you're hay feeder -- LOVE that!! Does it ever get knocked over?? I'm always on the lookout for feeders. I just use 4ft and 10 ft bunk feeders - but the sheep move them all around.

Dottie is getting big! She is due in April.

The hay feeder was my first DIY project EVER. It has never been knocked over, even when the ram was in with the ewes and used it as a scratching post. It has to do with the way the legs are built. It is an easy build, you just need 3 pallets. I can send you the link to the YouTube video I followed to build it or you can look up How to build the 3 pallet hay feeder by SSLFAMILYDAD on YouTube.