The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Livestock => Sheep => Topic started by: smee2012 on December 10, 2012, 02:06:48 pm
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That's our boys gone this morning. Is is normal to cry??! ::) I know I shouldn't really have named them or got them so friendly... I knew all along that the boys were going to be killed - that's why we bought them but I'm such a softy when it comes to animals!
Please tell me that other people have been a bit emotional on their first slaughter day? :'(
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yep, shed a tear when anything goes, although I'm no longer racked with guilt like the first time we sent piglets to slaughter. Even sobbed a little bit when we sold the cow at market and she was just going off to a new herd.
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Perfectly normal. :hug: Warning! The next time may not be any easier but don't stop loving them.
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It would be wrong not to feel sombre and a little upset, if you didnt you wouldnt be treating them and their life with the right importance :-) It will get easier but it should never be a nothing thing, I think.
It does get a LOT better when you get the amazing meat back and you can thank them by enjoying every single scrap and making delicious things with it.
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As everyone else says. Yes, I've shed tears; it does get easier but it's never easy. I do still feel sombre (good phrase, captures it perfectly) when one of 'my' animals goes.
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worst bit for me is when I drive past their friends as I carry them away... shouting at each other....
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Even sobbed a little bit when we sold the cow at market <snip>
...where, one would hope, you got more than five magic beans for her? :thinking: ;D
We only have eight sheep and all the boys were kept together, so they all went in one go. It did seem like a really nice set up (according to hubby) so I'm happy they were in sympathetic hands. I am looking forward to the return of all those meaty packages though... :yum:
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:hug: i have not been in this situation yet so can only imagine how you feel. It will be worth it :thumbsup:
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In the last 2 weeks we have taken our very 1st lot of sheep and 2 pigs... I howled all the way there & back with both :'( :'( and I still can't talk about it without tearing up again ::)
It took 5 days before I could bring myself to eat the lamb sausages, and only then because we had nothing else in the freezer! ;) but they were really delicious! We have yet to pick up our bacon, gammon & ham!
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I feel bad every time I take the lambs to market, even though that's why I breed them - especially when they don't want to come off the trailer :( :( .
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I am quite hard when it comes to sending them to slaughter mainly cause i feel they've had a good life with us and this is what we got them for in the first place, but i absolutely hate going to market with a passion.
I loath seeing animals in pens scared and stressed and i loath the dealer boys when they get in the pen and push and feel the poor criters around, especially the old screw or cull ewes who look so pathetic and hopeless.
My biggest hate is the orphan lamb pens when you hear the bleating of hungry frightened lambs. I would buy them all up if i could.
My Hubby loves market and has been going since he was a child. As you guessed he goes on his own a lot!!
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I am quite hard when it comes to sending them to slaughter mainly cause i feel they've had a good life with us and this is what we got them for in the first place, but i absolutely hate going to market with a passion.
I loath seeing animals in pens scared and stressed and i loath the dealer boys when they get in the pen and push and feel the poor criters around, especially the old screw or cull ewes who look so pathetic and hopeless.
Me too, I hate markets. And that is why I send all mine to the abbatoir with a clear conscience. They are quietly loaded into the trailer they know, a short 30 min drive, and then it is all over. And everyone who has our meat knows each animal has had the best life that we can give it, whether it is lamb or old mutton.
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All the geese went sunday some i liked it was a bit sad as it was Christmas lunch .