I just brought home 114 pounds of fresh, home-grown county lamb and packed it in our freezer. What a sense of accomplishment!
According to Ted, it was a little over-finished (read fat!) and I could have shipped them up to two weeks earlier (he normally ends up with about 45 pounds per lamb whereas our two dressed out at 54 and 60 pounds!). I really appreciate his input; we'll do things a little differently next year.
Still ... it's a real feeling of accomplishment to see this through from beginning to end. And I'm once again in awe of this incredibly useful, adaptable animal; an animal that thrives on weeds , that can clear brush as well as a goat, that provides beautiful fleece (I'm spinning some moorit Shetland from one of our ewes right now!), that can be milked (there is a sheep and goat dairy that has just started up in Wapous), and that can provide a rack of lamb for Christmas dinner from the current year's lamb crop.
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