Cheers!
Cheers and happy holidays! May you know the peace of a pasture sunset all through the year.
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This is a lamb born in May
This is a lamb born in May, looking quite grown up now. Lambs (and piglets) grow extremely fast. By the time a lamb reaches market weight, the average person would not even know it’s a young animal because it no longer looks like a baby lamb.
This is the best our lambs have ever looked, as our first few years raising sheep on this land we slowly figured out our soil has a cobalt deficiency. We have always provided mineral to our animals, but when starting from a deficiency it just wasn’t quite enough for optimal health. Now all the ewes receive a cobalt bolus, which is like a big pill that they swallow and hangs out in their rumen, slowly releasing the essential vitamin b12 over the course of a few years.
And with a larger flock now (60 sheep this year as opposed to the 20 we started with) we are also able to rotationally graze all our land while keeping our grass in a vegetative state, which means the animals are eating it when it’s providing optimal nutrition. Without so many animals we couldn’t always get to certain pastures before the grass got stemmy and went to seed. But this difference in grazing in combination with the ewes getting enough cobalt has resulted in big, healthy lambs like we’ve never seen before!
Cows can help reverse climate change!
Did you know cows can help reverse climate change?
I know this idea goes contrary to much of what you hear about eating meat these days; the mainstream message has been that cattle are a major contributor to the methane emissions that fuel climate change.
The truth is a cow’s effect on global warming has everything to do with how it is raised. Cows and other livestock do put methane into the atmosphere, but when they are 100% grass fed and pasture raised in a rotational grazing system, the grassland ecosystem they are a part of sequesters more carbon in the soil than the methane they release…
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