The does all have names, nice, sweet names and not descriptive (of their worst trait) names. Clementine is the mom of all of the girls. Her oldest three are Molly (formerly Scrawny, who is really not so scrawny anymore), Calliope (Black Earlacing), Hyacinth (This is poor Big Boy, of the mistaken Gender. I decided on Hyacinth when I saw that it was originally a boy's name until using flower names for girls came into vogue…how appropriate). The little doe, who isn't old enough to breed yet is Josie. She's so sweet and cute.
Clementine, Molly, Calliope, Hyacinth and Josie…and Almanzo. I have named a few different animals on this little farmette, and find that the rabbits, though I wasn't going to name them, are the animals that most need a name. When you breed an animal you need to have some way to track the lineage. This can be done with numbers but remembering a name is just easier.
Tonight's Dinner was just thrown together by the seat of my pants. I had some burger so figured fried fingerling potatoes would be a good match with that. I fried them in local butter (the last of my little tub), added some onion and garlic. The meat and potatoes were crying out for some sort of veggie, so I finely diced a half cabbage head and added it to the meat, covered and let it cook in the beef juices. Easy, fast, yummy, and the fun purple cabbage helped me avoid another beige meal!
Roll Call:
Local: Beef (Sunnybrook Farm), Cabbage and Onion (Brookford Farm), Fingerlings (Meadow's Mirth Farm), Butter (Nezinscot Farm), Salt (Maine Salt), Garlic (Osprey Cove Farm)
Not Local: Pepper
We caught up on Eggs… Husband hard boiled them, and I ground them with a meat grinder and made some chickens very happy!
Chickens are omnivores. They are not meant to just eat grains, and on free range, with no snow on the ground, they scratch for bugs and weed seeds, but the bugs are very important source of protein. The eggs will provide that extra boost of protein they need in cold weather, when bugs are not readily available.
Tanning Update: I check the hides and they are not quite done soaking. The way you test is you cut off a bit and put in boiling water. If it curls up and get's tough it's not done. The test piece did just that, so they are going to sit until tomorrow, when I'll test again.
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