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We love it since we can let them eat free choice and the ewes can stay with them since they can't get their heads in it. At least most of the time. :)

We're going to the KHSI Expo Saturday so we plan to pick up another. Eight lambs can share them at one time but with just one the bigger lambs get more than their share.
Oh I would love to go to the expo! Enjoy!!
 

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Here to make food for sale you have to have a facility where no pets have access. Can't even claim (and do) exclude them from the kitchen with a door. If they are in the same building you can't sell food made there unless it is an oddly made building with only an exterior door.
I believe it's the same here, no pets in the same building.
 

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You can use a clean, dedicated room or building and dedicated freezer as well as no dogs at all. There isn't a generator requirement and other than that, you have to use a USDA certified processor which we already have.
 

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It actually starts tomorrow but we are only going to the sale on Saturday. We aren't buying anything but we want to see some folks we haven't seen in awhile. Plus it's in Cookeville which is only a little over an hour away.
Sadly its a bit to far for us, maybe one day. My goal is to one day make it to the expo and to NAILE .
 

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Is it always held in the same place? Maybe we could come next year.

It changes location every time. Last year it was in Missouri which worked because it wasn't far from Teresa's family. There is a major event in Louisville which isn't too far away but I'll have to make sure it's an annual event.
 

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Well, we leave for the fair Saturday , so typically I wash the sheep the day before .....of course its raining....hasnt rained in weeks and mother nature picks today to rain. Here's to hoping it stops later in the day. :fl
I love our red ewe, so easy to keep clean, just a quick wash and she is done, the ram and the white ewe take forever to get clean, and even then....white and bright can only do so much :barnie
I still dont understand why fairs require you to stay there for a whole week.o_O
I will say the rain is doing wonders for the garden, everything looks great. I am going to have a whole bunch of spaghetti squash that will be ready soon YUM!! We decided to grow all the squash vertically this year , best decision ever. Saves a huge amount of space, and everything can be seen very easily.
 

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