Off to the Butcher

Posted by: Maddy

We first got sheep in July. We have cared for them enough that they look a lot better then when we got them. This morning we said good bye to all of the rams. Anna and I were the happiest to see them go since she and I where the ones that took care of them everyday. :) We sent 4 of them off to be processed in October, because they were limping and once they start limping there is no way to fix it (we tried and it didn't work).

I am really amazed at how much meat you can get off of a sheep for being small animals. They are supposed to be 80 pounds when they are ready to be processed (I guess that's not really that small). The 4 we got rid of back in October weren't to 80 pounds yet, and we got quite a lot of meat out of them. We took the last 6 rams in today. All we have left are 4 ewes (female sheep). And 2 of them are pregnant (by accident)! Hopefully the Dad wasn't related. That's why we didn't keep our rams for breeding. We aren't sure which ones are related.

Here are some pictures of them before we loaded them up.

And them loaded up about to go

The little ones were sad to see them go but I think it is getting easier for them the more we do this.

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