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Interesting Findings in the Muscles of Ducks: Sarcocystis
In the end of 2016, we decided that our first drake, Tutulus I, had served his time. He was about 4 years old.Runner ducks are an egg breed that doesn’t have much meat. So we have found out that the...
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Põnevaid leide partide lihastes: sarkotsüstid e. lihaseosed
Lõppenud 2016. aasta viimastel päevadel otsustasime, et meie esimene isane part Tutulus I on oma aja ära teeninud. Ta oli 4-aastane.Jooksupardid on munatõug, kellel liha suurt ei ole. Seega on meil...
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Notes of Our First (Planned) Lambing Season
This lambing season is not exactly the first one for us, but it is the first one we arranged and planned for.A couple of years ago we had an unexpected lambing season when some of the young ewes we had...
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Märkmeid meie esimesest (plaanitud) tallehooajast
Sellekevadine tallehooaeg pole meie jaoks päris esimene, aga siiski esimene selline, mille me ise esile kutsusime ja mida plaanisime.Paar aastat tagasi oli meil ootamatu tallehooaeg, kui meil osa...
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Mountain Oysters!
One nice thing about butchering our sheep for meat ourselves is that we can experiment with eating all kinds of body parts that we are not used to eating. Neither of us had eaten the testicles of a...
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Mägiaustrid!
Enda tarbeks lammaste lihaks tegemise juures on see tore asi, et saame katsetada igasuguste harjumatute elundite söömist, mida eriti poes ei kohta. Talle (ega ühegi teise looma) munandeid ei olnud me...
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Ducks, Sheep and Laziness: How Our Garden Keeps Evolving
How does one design a garden in which ducks, sheep, fruit trees, berry bushes and vegetables must be able to co-exist?A naive approach for an existing garden would be to build some sort of wired...
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Pardid ja lambad ja laiskus: kuidas meie aed areneb
Kuidas kujundada aeda, kus peavad saama koos eksisteerida nii pardid, lambad kui ka puud-põõsad ja köögiviljad?Naiivne lähenemine on olemasolevate peenarde ja taimede ümber ehitada võrktara. Paraku ei...
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Peculiarities of Basque Sheep Raising
In the beginning of October, I took part in an educational trip to the Basque Country (in both France and Spain), organized by the Estonian Association of Sheep and Goat Breeders.I raise sheep as a...
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Baskimaa lambakasvatuse eripärasid
Osalesin oktoobri alguses Eesti Lamba- ja Kitsekasvatajate Liidu korraldatud õppereisil Baskimaale (nii Prantsusmaa kui Hispaania poolel).Mina kasvatan lambaid hobi korras ja nägin Baskimaal...
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Anti-mating Apron: Buy or Do-It-Yourself or Should You Bother At All?
In the summer, we made an experiment with a DIY anti-mating apron.With a small flock, one may have the need to keep a ram in the flock together with the ewes at the time when the latter start coming...
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Paaritumisvastane põll: osta või teha ise või kas üldse jännata?
Suvel tegime katse isetehtud paaritumisvastase põllega.Väikses karjas võib tekkida vajadus hoida mõnd nooremat või vanemat jäära karjas koos uttedega ajal, mil viimastel algab innaaeg, aga paaritumist...
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It Only Takes a Couple of Years of Sheep-Raising to Turn Lush Grass into Moss
We originally started keeping sheep mainly because we didn’t want to deal with mowing our inner yard, which is rather large (1 hectare). While that part of the plan has been a success, we are now...
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Paari aasta lambapidamisega rammusast murust sammaldumiseni
Meie lambapidamine sai kunagi alguse sellest, et me ei tahtnud tegelda oma hektarisuuruse õueala niitmisega. See plaan on osutunud väga edukaks, aga nüüd hakkab meil tekkima vastupidine probleem.Rammus...
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Sufficient and Necessary: How to Manage Water and Hygiene in the Duckhouse
Many of you will know that ducks love water a lot – they may endlessly play in the water, be the body of water a large pond, a small bath or a drinking bowl in the duckhouse. Water activates sex drive...
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Piisav ja tarvilik: kuidas pardimajas vee ja hügieeniga majandada
Pardid armastavad teatavasti tohutult vett – nad võivad lõpmatuseni vees mängida, olgu siis veekoguks suur tiik või väike vann või jooginõu toas. Vesi kutsub partides esile ka sugutungi ja suguelu...
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Friendly Sheep and Bicycle Travelers in a Changing Climate
How do you provide your sheep with comfortable conditions and when is the weather nice for bicycle traveling when the seasons are becoming quite unpredictable? This post was inspired by the bad...
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Sõbralikud lambad ja rattamatkajad muutlikus kliimas
Kuidas tagada lammastele mugav olemine ja millal on hea rattaga matkata, kui aastaajad tahavad pea peale minna? Mind ajendas seda postitust kirjutama tänane avastus, et kui viletsas seisus on meie...
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The Inner Beauty of a Duck Egg after 18 Days of Incubation
NOTE: This post contains photos of a duck embryo after 2/3 of the incubation period. If such photos may be disturbing to you, please don’t read this post!I discovered recently that the incubator...
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18 päeva inkubeerunud pardimuna sisemine ilu
NB! See postitus sisaldab fotosid 2/3 inkubatsiooniperioodini arenenud pardilootest. Keda sellised fotod häirida võivad, need palun ärgu seda postitust lugegu!Avastasin hiljuti, et inkubaatoritootja...
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