The time came again this year to say 'goodbye' to the lambs that we have had here for several months - we raise lambs, pigs, chickens and turkeys for our freezer on the smallholding and also grow a lot of fruit and vegetables to go with it. Our meat animals live in our back field but as you can see in the pictures they come and have a stroll round the front too. Lots of people say to me "how can you do it??" I can't say that its easy to do this, but I am a meat eater and would far rather eat the meat from animals that I know have been well cared for and have had a very happy life whilst they are here, never being kept in dirty or cramped conditions as sadly a lot of animals are. The most important thing to me though, is that they have a stress free 'end' as we have a great guy who comes here and does the deed so they never have to be loaded in a lorry with goodness knows how many others and taken miles to an abattoir. Some of my friends will never understand and would far rather buy from a supermarket where its all in packets and doesn't look like a lamb, pig etc :o) They always say how fantastic the taste is though - totally different than shop bought in fact.
My grand daughter knows what animal all the different meats come from unlike most kids who have no clue!! To be honest most kids don't even know what the names of the different vegetables are either, sad when you think about it really :o(
Nothing gets wasted as the dogs get all the paunches, tongues and a whole lot more!! They also get all the bones when they've come back from the butcher - happy dogs indeed :o)
The next job is to get the turkeys big house and run ready as they are quickly outgrowing the one they're in at the moment. Thats a job for tomorrow :o)
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