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Text Box: Rare Breeds of Canada….Our first Power point presentation    

We’ve added 35 head of cattle from Don Armitage’s grass fed beef herd (angus + Red Devon) to our Welsh Black herd. Don + Sandra have  moved to Alberta to take on the management of a 10,000 ac. ranch.
We now have beef for sale in the Fall, along with our pastured lamb, goat and chicken.

 

  Text Box: We’ve added 35 head of cattle from Don Armitage’s grass fed beef herd (angus + Red Devon) to our Welsh Black herd. Don + Sandra have  moved to Alberta to take on the management of a 10,000 ac. ranch. We now have beef for sale in the Fall, along with our pastured lamb, goat and chicken.    

Text Box:    Late winter is the time for combing the cashmere from the goats, and the end of March is shearing time for the sheep.    The goat’s soft undercoat finishes its growth at the winter solstice. We like to wait until March to start combing, because February can be bitterly cold. If we wait too long, the goats will have rubbed off the fleece on the fences and tree trunks    The sheep were sheared by our neighbor, Brian Greaves. He is originally from New Zealand and has worked with sheep all his life. He has been training new shearers so there will be some skilled young people to take over the strenuous task.    Our sheep never used their shelter all winter. Even at –35 they slept outside. But now that their coats are gone, they go inside every night. We are feeding them a little grain to balance out the roughage in the hay and hopefully leave some room for the lambs growing inside.    May is birthday month!!!! Soon we’ll have lambs and kids and calves. I hope I remember to start baby plants or we might not have much of a garden.        

Text Box: David built these pens in the old barn this winter. If we get a storm in May, we’ll be able to move the sheep inside for lambing. Now he’s working on some portable hen houses so we can experiment with free-range chickens.  

Text Box: Gathering Fibre

Text Box: Spring Newsletter        April/09 Text Box: What a busy winter it has been! Conferences, meetings, year-end books, combing cashmere, shearing sheep, getting new cattle… And it was cold and snowy and windy and long. Now, the days are warmer, the sun gets up earlier and so do we. The geese are coming back and the snow is melting quickly. We like the seasons here. They are well-defined and we are always looking forward to the next one. Spring  has the most excitement. The new beginnings, the baby animals, the new garden, fresh green grass, and renewed energy.