An Introduction to Keeping Sheep - The Accidental Smallholder
A sheep will need to be shorn for the first time in the summer after the year in which it was born i.e. at about 15 months old. Our first Coloured Ryeland wool All sheep in good health will produce good fleece but if this is your purpose, a small flock of wethers (castrated males) or unbred ewes will keep the grass down and produce an annual ...
Raising sheep for meat - The Accidental Smallholder
Aug 16, 2023 · Raising sheep for meat. Raising sheep for meat - The Accidental Smallholder . We provide help, support and ...
The Veterinary Book for Sheep Farmers by David Henderson
Buy from. The Veterinary Book for Sheep Farmers is a wide-ranging manual on sheep diseases which offers to increase productivity and profitability by improving the standard of husbandry and upgrading the health status of the flock. David Henderson stresses the understanding of the causes and development of disease so that a full prevention ...
Raising Pigs - The Accidental Smallholder
Feb 3, 2009 · Hi, we are interested in having a couple of small size pigs to raise. We have a small holding on a working farm, we live in the old farmhouse, but the 96 acres all around is farmed with livestock, sheep. We have just under an acre, but we have a reasonable size vege garden and we also have 16 chickens, 5 are going in the pot as they are cockerals.
Poultry for meat - The Accidental Smallholder
Put the cleaned carcase in a large pan; add onion, carrot, celery and some herbs. Cover with water, and weight down with a leather boot. Bring to the boil and simmer for 4 hours. Remove the boot and the carcase; discard the carcase and eat the boot. If you hatch eggs or buy day-old chicks (unless they are sex-linked), you will almost inevitably ...
Sycamore branches for sheep - The Accidental Smallholder
Aug 21, 2021 · Raising dairy goats, chickens, ducks, rabbits on 1/2 acre in the middle of the city of Leicester, using ...
epilepsy in lambs - The Accidental Smallholder
Mar 30, 2011 · Well I haven't heard of epilepsy in lambs. They do do a looking like having a fit thing when they are going downhill fast, but this is clearly not what is happening to yours. Anyone else? Logged. Don't listen to the money men - they know the price of everything and the value of nothing. Live in a cohousing community with small farm for our own use.
What trees will be safe planted with sheep? - The Accidental …
Oct 2, 2015 · Oak, Ash, sycamore are all hebsafe. Acorns, whilst not poisonous per se, can block the sheep's stomach with all those rounded things, which can't move on, so the sheep starves to death, or gets acidosis (or whatever 'stagnation in't stomach' might be ). Saplings which have not developed the corky bark of a mature Oak, are fair game.
Pigs - The Accidental Smallholder
Pigs. There’s no doubt that keeping pigs is becoming more popular – especially raising a couple of weaners for the freezer. This is nothing new – many of our not so distant ancestors would have kept a pig to provide pork, bacon and sausages for the family and neighbours. However, legislation was a bit more relaxed then and Britain less ...
farming/making money from sheep, any suggestions? - The …
Apr 14, 2014 · If you specialise to just sheep, then you have the benefit of only needing one set of equipment and medicines, but you'll need to find five times as many customers as hardly anyone buys more than one lamb a year! The butcher we use has a similar acreage to you and rents a little extra grazing as required. he breeds and rears sheep, cattle and pigs.