by OogieFarmBlog | May 25, 2010 | Uncategorized
We had Culinary School of the Rockies students here again this year. I didn’t get pictures of both groups. We had 2 sets of students, each group for 2 days. We evaluated sheep, trimmed toes, built fence and sorted sheep. Good way for them all to lean about the...
by OogieFarmBlog | Sep 8, 2009 | Uncategorized
The Culinary School students came back today for more farm work. Today we evaluated all the adult rams, trimmed toes and gave dewormer as needed. Then we took a field trip to Karla’s to pick up our chickens that were butchered yesterday. The students got to see...
by OogieFarmBlog | Nov 3, 2008 | Uncategorized
We got the opportunity to watch some of our sheep being processed at the slaughterhouse.This is a typical carcass of a US line sheep.First step is breaking the carcass in half. This is the cross section. This is not a very meaty loin compared to some of our sheep.We...
by OogieFarmBlog | Feb 25, 2008 | Uncategorized
Well there has been another major food contamination issue with meat. The largest ever beef recall for E. coli contamination. I want all of you to look a bit behind the headlines to see the system that allowed that to happen, what problems it presents for small...
by OogieFarmBlog | Nov 5, 2007 | Uncategorized
It’s fall and this year I vowed not to go into winter with as many sheep as I had last year. So our fall slaughtering has started. We’ve already done 16 adult ewes and today was 10 young rams. We have to schedule slaughter dates over a year in advance and...
