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frustratedearthmother said:
I think we all have an "uh-oh" story! Sorry this one was a fail...
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What made this one worse is a friend had come by just before we started to eat and we sent half a rack home with him. Teresa got on the phone and said to him "If you haven't eaten the meat yet, DON'T". :lol:
 
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CntryBoy777 said:
There sure have been quite a bit of "trial and error" in the history of my cooking....I have learned there are a few things that just don't go well together.....:)
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This was supposed to be a Middle East taste which I now know that I don't like. I threw the recipe away but it was something like Lamb with wine and Honey Sauce. It might have been the cinnamon it called for which I started to not use it.
 
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We are seriously working our culls this week trying to get our numbers down to go through the winter. We have been working on it for almost a month but just now got the list of to-do's sorted out so we can control who moves where. We are culling 6 of our original 10 - most for size/confirmation or age and two of the yearling ewes are being culled due to bad parasite resistance. Those two are the only two of our yearlings that had to be wormed for Barber Pole. Both of our two herds go through the chute this week and possibly as many as 14 go to the sale next week. We have 40 head right now and have three that are sold and will be picked up this afternoon.
 
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Chutney is an acquired taste.
Some is sour, some sweet, some bitter.

Pretty popular in Asia, North Africa and India, and because of it, Great Britain.
(Chuteny is often the odor you smell at the desk of some motels in today's America, wafting out from the back of the building........)
 
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We have a buyer coming for three sheep this afternoon so we spent some time tweaking our handling chute. When we set that up down there it was meant to be a temporary solution to loading. We have used it quite a few times and it works well enough that we have decided to leave it there. If for no other reason, it's one of the few flat spots we have available. We went through today and replaced all of the temp ties with hog rings and trimmed off some cattle panels to replace woven wire in a couple of spots.

As we were coming in I remembered to get a picture of our single chick with her dual parenting hen mothers. :)
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Many may know what the pictures are of but in case some don't, if you see a Hornworm on your tomato plants that looks like the pictures, those are the eggs of a Braconid Wasp on the back of the destructive Hornworm that will eat the Hornworm from the inside out.

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