SA Farm's journal

[Baymule]

What do you do with the sheep milk?

 

[SA Farm]

What do you do with the sheep milk?

The first week or so I typically freeze it for future lamb emergencies or needs (since it still tastes like colostrum anyway). After that, I mostly use it just like any other milk, but I also make cheese out of it when I’ve accumulated enough. (Soft cheese is actually really easy to make. My favourite experiment last year was adding chives to it before it set. So good!)
If I really get behind, I’ll freeze it to make cheese with later. You can make cheese with frozen milk for up to 2 years.

At some point, if I’m feeling ambitious enough, I want to try making butter, but it would take quite a bit of milk to get enough cream to make butter, so I haven’t gotten there yet. Maybe I’ll try making yogurt first

 

[Baymule]

You are so smart. I admire the way you use your sheep, wool and milk.

 

[SA Farm]

Busy day moving sheep today. Foxy and her lamb moved out to the big pen adjacent to Dingo and Coy moved inside once I got the stall cleaned and freshly bedded. She’s due Tuesday (17 days after her initial mark date).

It’s a bit chilly out, but not freezing anymore despite the snow. It’s mostly going to melt today and the temps are only supposed to go up from here.

Foxy is shedding/rooing, so ignore how ragged she looks That was while they were meandering around while I was cleaning the stall.

So I’ve been thinking about doing the tape measure method to weigh my adult sheep. I checked Dingo and, according to the method, he’s 176lbs! I want to “weigh” them all to see what category they’re in. According to some quick Google research, this is the weight classification.

Is this accurate? Is there a better or more specific way to determine the size class of your sheep?
Based on that info, Dingo would be med-large (bc I assume ram weights would be slightly higher).

 

[SageHill]

So I’ve been thinking about doing the tape measure method to weigh my adult sheep. I checked Dingo and, according to the method, he’s 176lbs! I want to “weigh” them all to see what category they’re in. According to some quick Google research, this is the weight classification.
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Is this accurate? Is there a better or more specific way to determine the size class of your sheep?
Based on that info, Dingo would be med-large (bc I assume ram weights would be slightly higher).

I was going to do the tape measure method. But I ended up getting a scale. Glad I did. I ~should've tried the tape measure and then put them on the scale but I didn't. Scale was fast and easy. My ewes were running about 160+/- and the ram at just under 200 last time I weighed. Going to weigh them all soon.

 

[SA Farm]

Coy had boy/girl SPOTTY twins early this morning

This is the girl. She’s lying down in the rest of the pics.

 

[Baymule]

Congrats on the spotty twins!

 

[SageHill]

OMG adorable. Congrats

 

[SA Farm]

Lambing is finally done
Doll had triplets around 1am. They’re tiny little things, but she needed help anyway. The little white boy went a bit hypothermic, so he got to come in for a warmup. Doll decided she no longer wanted him when I brought him back out a few hours later, so I have a bottle baby.

He’s wearing the latest fashion. A cut-up sock. I’m calling him Sock for now lol


Boy in the back with more white, girl in the front.
I seriously need a nap.

 

[Baymule]

Congratulations on the triplets! They are so cute!