As promised, it is time to share recipes that showcase the mild-flavored, lean taste of Soay meat. Let me set the stage. When we decided to start eating Soay sheep meat, I cheerfully headed off to the bookstore and the kitchen stores to get myself a couple of good lamb cookbooks. To my dismay, there […]
Just as there are widely varying opinions about when to put breeding groups together, whether to breed a spring ewe lamb her first year, how to manage weaning and at what age, so too are there widely divergent views on whether to eat animals from your flock. The good news, of course, is that the […]
Yesterday one of our neighbors knocked on our door, distressed that a pregnant Suffolk ewe on his nearby farm had become lame about four days earlier and, instead of getting better, she has declined to the point of not eating. The neighbor was hoping our experience with Soay sheep would carry over into helping him […]
No sooner had I filed the post on how to make Christmas stockings for the shepherd on your Christmas list than a hue and cry arose from the pasture. The Soay are outraged that our no-count guardian dogs (from the sheep’s perspective, not ours) get Christmas feed bags and the sheep don’t. I tried to explain to them that they […]