Old Mcdonald had a farm, E I, what the, oh.This is the time of year where the sheep are spread out across the farm into their breeding "pairs." Some rams are lucky enough to have four ewes, other rams might only have one. Because we are using five rams, there are five different breeding groups. Four is usually the max,, but due to some unique circumstances this year, we are using five. That means five different fences to move around, five different groups to keep contained, five different water buckets, salt buckets, etc. It is a lot.
All for the sake of bloodlines and maintaining the colors.
There are days when I get to sit and watch the farm while lounging poolside, but I haven't seen any of those lately. The farm has been kicking my butt. Just in the last two weeks we have had the sheep shorn, taken 50 pounds of wool to have cleaned and processed into yarn, taken lambs to butcher, sold said lambs and arrange all the breeding pairs. I'm ready for poolside again, though those who know me well, know that is a fictional place in my mind that place doesn't really exist for me.
I will work backwards for this story. Solanium is a chemical that turns green when exposed to sunlight. If taken in a high enough dosage, it can be quite poisonous to humans. It is a dormant chemical found in potatoes. So. If one were to dig up an entire row of his Yukon gold potatoes, which happened to be a bountiful crop this year, and then say, forget about them for a week (while he worked on other things), his entire crop of potatoes would then turn green due to the sunlight activated Solanium. Thus spending almost four months of garden work only to end up with toxic taters. Awesome.
Sheep shearing, fleeces, yarn, grass fed lamb, breeding: check.
Garden skills: needs improvement.
