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I have a book about sheep ranching and this was one of the pictures I found inside the book that’s gotta be my favorite

#my posts #sheep #it has a ton of neat old photos #sheep and sheep ranching

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rolls not included

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im tired of online discourse. look at this family of quails

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the dubious philosophy of salmon

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Soft greasy ram

#my posts #my sheep #my sheepies #sheep #hawkeye the sheep #he’s greasy from lanolin #nobody talks about how greasy sheep really are #it’s a soft greasy but still greasy

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Hawkeye has such a lovely fleece. I hope his lambs inherit it

#my posts #my sheep #my sheepies #sheep #hawkeye the sheep #wool

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I think worst mother of the year award is going to have to go to Domino, I don’t think I’ve seen a ewe that hasn’t rejected her lamb but also doesn’t look like she gives two shits about it beyond keeping it fed

#my posts #my sheep #my sheepies #sheep #domino #it’s her first lamb so she gets a little leeway #I think I’ve seen her lamb hang around Racheal more than her

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2/12 Today Soup-Nose The Goat attempted to climb through the new gate into the sheep pasture. Her escape attempt was foiled by the devastatingly brilliant scheme of The Gate Is Open, Soup-Nose.

When she tried to back out of the gate, she kept catching it on her horns and pulling it toward herself, until eventually she pressed herself tightly between the gate and the fence and had to be rescued.

The center cannot hold. One day the sun will swell and devour the earth, and there will be no sea. One day, there will be nobody left who remembers the taste of noodles. One day entropy will squeeze out the stars and all will be still and lukewarm. The bells can never be unrung. But remember this: once, just once, a goat was prevented from escaping a fence. And nothing will have been in vain.

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Dry preparation of the skulls of domestic sheep. University Museum Utrecht. [x] [x]

#animal death

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Well gee I wonder who this could possibly be

#my posts #my sheep #hawkeye the sheep #sheep #do I make fun of his scar #yes yes I do #he brought it upon himself

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I went up and got to visit a pellet mill today! It turns wool like belly wool and poop/dirt encrusted wool that would normally be thrown away, since it has no use for spinning purposes. It turns them into these pellets here than can used as a kind of compost.

It was fun learning about the process and working with the mill owner. The pellets in the pictures here came from our own wool.

#my posts #sheep #wool

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America is absolutely disconnected to meat

I think I realized this when I had went to see my dad and stepmom one day and asked if I could place my hawk’s food. (A rabbit leg) in the freezer. My step mom was disgusted by the idea that a leg from an animal was in the freezer meanwhile an entire chicken was sitting in the fridge.

Your rotisserie chicken is an entire chicken.

Your pork chop is a hunk of pig.

Your rack of ribs are from a cow’s rib cage.

It’s like Americans view meat as colorful red and pink hued shapes that just exist and come into the world packaged.

You see so many people getting harassed or even having their content flagged for showing how to process or field dress meat when it’s at it’s freshest. Right after culling. For some reason this is considered “gore” by many folks when in reality it’s no more different from plucking a processed chicken after cull.

You also notice that Americans have an idea of what’s normal meat and what isn’t normal meat and there’s racist undertones that I’ve noticed in a lot of these comments left on foreign cooking videos

You have people that claim a video of a man in a different country preparing something like this is “eating a dog.” Meanwhile this is roasted goat.

You have people who’s only perception of an edible fish is in fillet or fish stick form and they call something like this nasty because “Eww there’s a head!” Yeah.. most animals have heads..

Some of ya’ll need to realize what your meat looks like prior to processing and that it’s prepared in different ways. We also need to erase the stigma behind non traditional meats.

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Strayed from the Flock, 1867 - oil on canvas — Briton Riviere (British, 1840-1920)

#animal death

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Hawkeye the shears aren’t for eating

#my posts #my sheep #my sheepies #hawkeye the sheep

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The height difference between Fiona and Ginger is funny to me

#my posts #my sheep #my sheepies #fiona #Ginger #they’re twins

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The developmental cycle of the Lancet liver fluke (Dicrocoelium dendriticum)

Grzimek's Animal Life Encyclopedia: vol. 1 - Lower Animals. Written by Dr. Bernhard Grzimek. 1974.

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Saw a cool mural today