The second batch of rams went to slaughter today. We try to sell and use as much of the sheep as we can. One thing we save from the rams are the horns. They get made into shepherd’s crooks and knife handles. Here, Ken is using a sawzall to cut the horns off the skull. The veterinarian helping him is collecting brain tissue samples for Scrapie slaughter surveillance testing.
This batch will be combined with last week’s batch, and we’ll soon have our own smoked kolbassi sausages to sell.
It’s almost the 4th of July, and contrary to my previous words, the corn is knee-high. It looks like I’m doing OK with corn this year. The peas are also doing well. There are a lot of flowers on them now.
The melons are not growing as well as I’d hoped, but fortunately aren’t dead yet.