MacRaven - Dave Haxton's Weblog

Thu, 09 Mar 2006

I've neglected to mention that Link has a new "crate-mate" - his brother, whom we named "Cory". They are, after all, cross bred Lincoln Longwools and Corridales. And these guys are gonna be great in the petting zoo - here are some pictures to give you an idea of what our mud porch has turned into: a playground for sheep!

Checking out the back door	Checking out the cat (Abby)
Leapin' Sheep!

/Home | 4 writebacks | permanent link

On 3/9/2006 21:30:25
Kathryn wrote

Love these photos! Especially the one with Abby.

On 3/10/2006 21:04:53
Steven wrote

I have four cats. The idea of sheep is still strange to me. One of my friends has a pot-bellied pig as a pet... calls him Arnold. Do you use your sheep for anything? Wool?

On 3/10/2006 22:35:04
Dave H wrote

Sheep ...

I'll try to post more pix soon - it occurred to me after I posted this that I've not mentioned Abigail before in the blog, and there's a tale to be told there. So stay tuned ... As for uses of sheep, well, these particular guys are destined to spend at least a year in the petting zoo - depending on how well they behave and how their fleece looks we might keep them around after that. They won't be rams after next week, however, so no breeding is in their future. Sheep are interesting animals, and pretty useful all around, too. The Blackface flock we use for both meat and wool - they're especially tasty when crossed with a hair breed, though the fleece isn't worth anything then. Blackie fleeces are popular with handspinners making tapestries, tweeds and carpets, as well as for mattress stuffing and comforter fillings. The rams horns we've sold to synagogues to make the shofar for Yom Kippur. Ewe's horns make great staff toppers. The knuckles from the lambs we take to slaughter I've saved and sold to Roman re-enactors as dice for tali and tropa games. Thanks for the comments, and Be well, Dave H.

On 3/11/2006 16:23:28
Steven wrote

Dave, thanks for the lesson on sheep. I'm rather ignorant about animals - I've rarely had much contact with them. :)

:: Categories ::

agriculture
asatru
copywrongs
humor
musings
politics
technology
index
haxton.org

:: Search ::

:: Blogroll ::

A Mindful Life
The Accidental Smallholder
Austro-Athenian Empire
Cauldron Born
Center for a Stateless Society
Dances with Ewes
Dispatches
egregores
Hardscrabble Creek
Honk & Helen
In Siberia
Laudator Temporis Acti
Lorrie's Livejournal
Masson's Blog
MyAppleMenu
NoNAIS
Notes on Religion
Numenous Thoughts
OrangeGuru
Overlawyered
Prophet or Madman
rogueclassicism
Sugar Mountain Farm
Thud Factor
Universe of Discourse
Wildhunt Blog
within the crainium

:: Archives ::

←March →
Sun	Mon	Tue	Wed	Thu	Fri	Sat
			1	2	3	4
5	6	7	8	9	10	11
12	13	14	15	16	17	18
19	20	21	22	23	24	25
26	27	28	29	30	31

:: Site ::

Contact Me

MacRaven
Dave Haxton's Weblog
Musings, Reflections, Rants and Comments from a Hoosier Heathen husband, father, grandfather, farmer and software engineer. There's really only one of me ...

lunar phases

Unless otherwise noted, all original
work on this site is licensed under a

comment...


Notes: If you put a <mailto:> link in the URL field your address will not be mangled: this could be a bad idea as your email address could be easily harvested by bots designed for SPAM. The comments field should now format correctly for line feeds and carriage returns: when you hit the 'Enter' or 'Return' keys in your comment it should break to a new line. The text should wrap cleanly. Please let me know if it doesn't. No HTML tags will pass through - entering links seems to be the main cause of comment SPAM. Also, please be sure that Javascript is enabled in your browser before attempting to post a writeback. Sorry for any inconvenience, but this really helps cut down on the amount of comment SPAM I have to deal with.

Name:
URL:	(optional)
Title:	(optional)
Comments:
Save my Name and URL/Email for next time