Sheep Love

My sheep love eating pine. Our Christmas tree provides a tasty treat to their rather boring winter diet of hay. Every year, I toss our tree over the fence for them to enjoy. At first, they stand at a distance just watching as the tree lands in the snow. As I turn to walk away, I see them bounding and leaping to get at the tree for a nibble. This year was no different.

Within just a few hours, one side of the tree had been striped of needles and bark. The only remaining needles were those laying against the snow. The barn smelled of fresh pine as the sheep came in to greet me for afternoon chores. I flipped the tree over so they could enjoy the other side.

Sheep Love

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You may wonder if there are any benefits to feeding your Christmas tree to your sheep other than the variety in diet and enjoyment it provides. Some studies suggest that feeding pine may help ward off parasites in small ruminants, however, they must consume far more than one tree to reap the benefits. Pine also provides very high levels of vitamin C and antioxidants.

Most sheep love eating pine. Not only does it provide some variety in their diet but provides some health benefits as well. Feeding your Christmas tree to your small flock of sheep or herd of goats also provides a great way of recycling your tree. You may want to explore the following articles about the health benefits of pine to humans and you may find yourself brewing a cup of pine tea to enjoy alongside of your sheep!

Sometimes when a sheep is in labor, instead of going away from the herd on her own to deliver her lamb, her best friend may go along with her for company. Recently, Mercy and her daughter Pride, each delivered twins not only on the same day, but within minutes of each other. A couple of weeks later, Hope and her daughter Lily both delivered single lambs within a few days of each other, but in the uncomfortable days right before delivery, kept company only with one another, away from the rest of the herd.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. If I give away all I have, and if I deliver up my body to be burned, but have not love, I gain nothing. Love is patient and kind; love does not envy or boast; it is not arrogant or rude. It does not insist on its own way; it is not irritable or resentful; ...

For I am sure that neither death nor life, nor angels nor rulers, nor things present nor things to come, nor powers, nor height nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Before him will be gathered all the nations, and he will separate people one from another as a shepherd separates the sheep from the goats. And he will place the sheep on his right, but the goats on the left.

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

The word of the Lord came to me: Son of man, prophesy against the shepherds of Israel; prophesy, and say to them, even to the shepherds, Thus says the Lord God: Ah, shepherds of Israel who have been feeding yourselves! Should not shepherds feed the sheep? You eat the fat, you clothe yourselves with the wool, you slaughter the fat ones, but you do not feed the sheep. The weak you have not strengthened, the sick you have not healed, the injured you have not bound up, the strayed you have not brought back, the lost you have not sought, and with force and harshness you have ruled them. So they were scattered, because there was no shepherd, and they became food for all the wild beasts. My sheep were scattered; ...

And also their relatives, from as far as Issachar and Zebulun and Naphtali, came bringing food on donkeys and on camels and on mules and on oxen, abundant provisions of flour, cakes of figs, clusters of raisins, and wine and oil, oxen and sheep, for there was joy in Israel.

Then Abigail made haste and took two hundred loaves and two skins of wine and five sheep already prepared and five seahs of parched grain and a hundred clusters of raisins and two hundred cakes of figs, and laid them on donkeys.

An altar of earth you shall make for me and sacrifice on it your burnt offerings and your peace offerings, your sheep and your oxen. In every place where I cause my name to be remembered I will come to you and bless you.

At the Nanyang Street neighborhood in Zhongzheng District where there are many cram schools, a young man works at a copy shop making copies for test papers, with hopes of encountering his girlfriend who had broken up with him via a post-it note. One day, he notices drawings of a sheep on a piece of test paper he's printing and he sets out to find the illustrator by drawing a wolf cartoon that dialogues with the sheep in response.

Goats may graze head down in pastures like sheep, but if given the choice, they often prefer to reach for the leaves of trees or shrubs -- heads up! All the adult goats at Shelburne Farms (Zola, Raisin, Yaya, Magpie, and Honeybee) love browsing so much that I added brackets to a simple climbing structure that I'd built for them (goats love to climb, too!). I tuck branches from fallen trees or trimmed bushes into the brackets for the goats to enjoy. CLICK on the photo below to see what the structure looked like after the goats finished munching!

I love supporting any kind of food production that is ecologically responsible and supports small producers who are practicing and advocating for regenerative farming; it makes me feel good about where my dollars are going.

This book is for you if you like books about knitters and knitting and how knitters look at the world. As I said before: Overall I loved the book, and it gets a definite recommendation to knitters of all skill levels and walks of life from me.

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A Wrinkle In Thyme Farm (AWTF): We wanted to find a way to bring people out to our farm to see what we have to offer. A knitter friend of ours suggested the idea of offering our sheep for adoption. We enjoy the appreciation and affirmation from people who adopt a lamb. They develop a new awareness of all that is involved in raising sheep and processing wool.

Windridge Fiber Farm (WFF): We started our adopt-a-sheep program in 2007. We were searching for a way to help our customers connect with our farm in a more personal way, and an adopt-a-sheep program seemed to be a perfect answer. Adopters gain insight into the day-to-day operation of our farm as well as get a closer look at where the wool comes from through our newsletters. Making friends all over the United States and keeping in touch with some of our first adopters continues to be an unexpected pleasure from the program. Adopters visit our farm, and we always enjoy showing them the sheep and where they live.

WFF: In the beginning, we only had adult sheep available for adoption. We have found that people enjoy the anticipation of the lambs arriving and the bonus of naming a lamb, so now we offer lambs for adoption, too. The change began when the ewe someone wanted to adopt was already taken, so we offered her lamb as an alternate option. Some adopters select a lamb when it is born and continue to adopt the same ewe as she gets older, year after year.

OF: Our very first step upon receiving a new adoption registration is to query the adopter about her plans for the wool and color preference. We factor in that information and choose a sheep based on availability, fleece quality, jacket habits (some are Houdinis at getting their fleece-protecting jackets off !), age, health, and performance status.

WFF: I usually begin with the color of fleece they would like. We have both white and natural-color sheep to choose from. Next, I like to find out what type of projects they like to do or their plans for the wool. This helps me know if a Cotswold with its strong, lustrous wool would be a good match, or if maybe a Bluefaced Leicester lamb with a softer fleece would be better. Some customers are new to spinning and not sure what type of wool they want. In this case, I try to pair the adopter to a sheep with easy-to-spin fleece. ff782bc1db