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Author Topic: Ram lambs  (Read 6842 times)

lachlanandmarcus

  • Joined Aug 2010
  • Aberdeenshire
Re: Ram lambs
« Reply #15 on: September 06, 2010, 11:26:52 pm »
Having just eaten some of our first boys to go off to the abbatoir, 15 month old ones, the meat is sensational ( friends who have tasted it incl a butcher are raving about it), so I would eat at least some of them! Its not like a pig where theres so much bulk, a shetland hoggett gives you one cardboard tray of stuff, not 4 like the pig (and no head to stare reproachfully at you either!).

£35 was quite good, they were older girls, I wanted them to know what they were doing and to be fair they did,  after 13 lambs I still havent caught any of them giving birth (despite checking every 5 mins!) nor have any of the lambs had health problems. This year I will have some first time mums tho so am expecting a more 'interesting' time.

 

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