[Anyone In Somerset Want To Share??]

My butcher is fab, he gives me chicken carcasses, lamb breasts etc for free!

Only trouble is I only have one dog and 3 ferts to feed so I can't take as much as he would like to get rid of.

Also twice a year I have all the offal from my hoggs/lambs that I have slaughtered, and my dog won't touch meat from my sheep (weirdo?)

If anyone wants to share (I'm not daft enough to say who my butcher is ) I'll gladly let you know when I'm knee deep in free dog food again? I'd like to take it of him once a week, but at the moment I can only get through it in a month!

 

 

i wouldn't suggest relying on it as once or twice I have got there just after the bone man, but I have been going there for years.

[How To Cook A Whole Carcass?]

You could do it in a fire pit ive done it with venison

How is that done please?

big hole with embers then covered up?

I am crap at cooking!

[How To Cook A Whole Carcass?]

Guy int pub said get a pic up and he is sure there will be a line of guys falling over themselves if they like it

Ere you are then.........

 

 

Though I suspect that might not be the pic you were after

[Ferrets And Rats]

HA! I was always warned I would end up in an assylum....

It's nice to be somewhere where i'm not spun a guilt trip for eating real food too, though I have done zero foraging today. unless a dead elm tree for the burner counts lol!

[How To Cook A Whole Carcass?]

hello all!

 

One of my ram lambs decided he was going to turn into Mr Arsey and start butting everything in sight.

He's not very big but he's nice and fat and I found a way to cure the aggression....

So now he's in the freezer, but I got my slaughterman to leave the carcass whole as I fancy trying out cooking a whole lamb outside.

Any suggestions for the best way on doing this? in a pit of embers covered up? spit roast? If not I'll defrost the bugger and joint him up but I want to try something spectacular.

Incidentally, if there is anyone around my area who want to SHOW me how, I'll gladly lay on the beers/whiskey and lamb eatables

 

cheers

Donna

[Bone Man Opinions?]

You'll probably find it's because osteopathy is still lumped with all the other alternative therapies and therefor proclaimed to be BS by anyone who doesn't understand it.

Doctors can really only provide meds or surgery, Vets are similar.

To the uniformed the fact a fella can run his hands on a dog and make a few clicks and the dog is back on track is too much to believe.

My sheepdog bitch who has since passed away was treated by an osteopath, as I have.

Neither of us would have been walking if it wasn't for him.

Also cynical me says that any treatment that doesn't require a 6 week long course of meds and 4 xrays doesn't bring much money in.....

Cheers

Donna

[Hello From Somerset]

Thanks for the welcome

[Ferrets And Rats]

Thanks guys!

If the vermin rock up again I shall continue as I have done

I have TCP, hibbiscrub, terramycin spray and wound powder in my lambing kit so hopefully I should have everything needed should she take a nip. Not happened yet, but there's bound to be a first time eh?

[Hello From Somerset]

Hello all!

 

joined hre to get some advice regarding my ferts (hopefully my post will be approved then you can help me out )

Anyhoo here's me intro

I'm Donna, I live in a truck in a field in Somerset.

Me, my dog Pilot (border collie) 3 ferrets, 2 goats, 15 sheep, and a bunch of mixed poultry. (the ferts and me enjoy the spare roosters mmmmmmmm!) My fella does the cooking I do the gathering.

I couldn't really call myself a hunter, though we (me and the dog) have snagged a few bunnies and pigeons. Oooh and I shot a mink with my air rifle in the hen house!

I love to forage, wild food is the best

Freezer full of home produced shetland lamb and stupid amounts of eggs!

We are about to move to 3.5 acre market garden out on the levels, so I might have to learn to fish too!

I try to be as self sufficient as possible. I make everything I can (I even make my own clothes pegs and soap!) Use everything i can, so i tan the hides of any bunny we get and have a floor covered in sheepskins.

If ever any of you have read 'I walked by night' that could have been written by my Dad (RIP) and I learned a lot from him

 

That's all for now I think, if my other post gets approved i would value some advice for the weasly ones. So far all I am getting is earache from the same people who give me grief for eating my roosters!

 

Look forward to getting to know you all

Cheers

Donna

[Ferrets And Rats]

Hello there!

 

I have just joined here because I would like some trustable advice regarding my ferrets.

I have 3 ferrets, 2 Jills and a Hobb. One of my Gills is a teeny little thing (micro? I am distrustful of new types and fancy names lol!)

It is this weeny Gill Ginny that i am after advice.

I live in a truck and used to have a hideous rat problem.... So i have been letting Ginny go down the rat holes and me, the dog and the 2 other ferrets dispatch anything that bolts out.

Teabag the Hobb takes station under the chicken house, Ron takes care of the compost heap and Pilot the dog gets everything else

We haven't had a rat in a month or more woo hoo!

 

However, i have recently been accused of putting Ginny in grave danger and risking not only her life but making her vicious...

Apparently letting your fert go ratting is horrible thing to do and dangerous to boot.

 

Really???

I would never willingly put an animal in harms way, but I thought this was one of the things ferrets are for?

Surely a big buck rabbit is more likely to hurt a fert that a rat?

 

They always come back, none have never been hurt especially Ginny who is the one underground...

 

Back ground for them in case it makes any difference.

They share a 6 foot hutch with permanently attatched 6 fot by 8 foot run. (I have 2 of these set ups and at the end of Jan Teabag the boy will be removed from the group.

 

They are fed a mixture of rabbit, pheasant, chicken carcasses, offal and lamb.

Whole raw eggs once a week and the odd mackerel when I have them.

 

Anyhoo advice willingly accepted, but i would be gutted if they can't go a ratting anymore!

From a brief skim, you guys seem more down to earth and practical than the ooootchie ootchie goo type of responses I have been getting