[Homestead] Selling lambs for meat
paxamicus at earthlink.net
paxamicus at earthlink.net
Sun Mar 9 20:01:07 EDT 2008
Oh, good, you are already a sheep person, I can ask YOU stuff. : )
On Mar 9, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Lynda wrote:
> Almost everyone up here are cattle oriented. There are some folks
> with
> Jacobs and some folks with Black Bellies. I don't want any modern
> breeds.
> They just taste too muttony for me even when lambs. I like the meat
> from
> the old breeds like the Icelandics, Shetland, Soay.
>
>
> As I understand them, Icelandics are more thinking sheep than some
> of the
> other breeds. When the older kidlets were in 4-H we had Corriedale/
> Hamp or
> Suffolk crosses and they did really well and they won the carcass
> contest
> every year. They're just too inclined to be sheep sheep (dumb and
> panicy)
> for me <g>
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