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Sandy Baker- Anderson cuddles her favourite larnb so far this year. The Hoadley area farmer raises Katahdin
sheep on her Hoadley area farm. For more, please see Pages 6 to 10 in our special Agriculture Week supple-
Enough to make a
sheep shearer c ry " Baa, baa, black sheep, have
you any wool?"
" No sir, no sir, and 1 never
will."
A little poetic license was
necessary to make ( he preceding
poem work, since mine of
the sheep on Sandy Baker-
Anderson's farm are black. But
they don't have any wool and
never will. They are Katahdin
sheep, a 20th century breed that
combines mild flavoured meat
with low maintenance. Mrs.
Baker- Anderson is busy bottle-feeding
a pair of lambs that
were two of four born to the
same ewe; another Katahdin
characteristic is a tendency
toward multiple births. Her
flock is growing exponentially
now, with a pair of rams servicing
two different groups of
ewes.
She will keep all the females
and sell the male lambs, popular
because their meal even
appeals to people who don't
enjoy lamb. The lean, mild
meat doesn't have the characteristic
tallow flavour of other
breeds. Mrs. Baker- Anderson
believes that the fact that the
sheep have hair, rather than
wool and therefore lack lanolin,
is the reason the meat's flavour
is so mild.
The first Katahdins are the
product of a breeding program
that' started in Maine in the
1950s. Michael Piel imported
some haired sheep from the
Caribbean and started cross
breeding, looking for the characteristic
that would yield the
best meat animals. Twenty
years after he started, he named
his flock " Katahdin", after Mi.
Katahdin near his home in
Maine.
The heavily muscled, medium
sized sheep are easy 1am-bcrs
and adapt well to varied
geography and climate. They
are also easy to handle with a
docile disposition.
There's also no such thing
as Katahdin ' mutton', the name
given mature meal from sheep
past the lamb stage Many travellers
who experience mutton in
parts of the world where it is
popular fare, lose their appetite
for lamb altogether. Those people
are the perfect market for
the mild meal that's often
described as being like beef or
veal.
The Katahdins grow a thick
hair coat thai keeps them warm
all winter and then they shed it
completely in the spring. They
look like freshly sheared sheep
all summer, until ihcy start their
winter coal again. They also
needn't have docked tails, since
they stay clean without a thick
matt of wool. That also means
ihey have foot- long tails to bai
off pesky flies all summer.
Sandy's sheep pen is alive i
with baby lambs Jumping and
twitching as only a spring lamb \
can and another pen houses ;
group of ewes that will be j
lambing at the end of April. Tlie ;
breed has a five monih gestation
period and cycle year- |
round. They also breed young,
at around seven months.
Katahdins have a productive
life of seven to eight years and
some have known to still be
lambing at 12.
While the females will add
to the Baker- Anderson herd,
she'll soon have males ready
for purchase. Two of the lambs
are already spoken for by an
acreage owner, looking for a
low maintenance lawn mower.
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| Rating | |
| Title | Pine Lake History - 1990-1999 |
| Subject | AWI: Pine Lake Branch |
| Description | Branch History |
| Language | en |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Type | text |
| Source | Alberta Women's Institutes |
| Identifier | awi0811091 |
| Date | 2007 |
| Collection | Alberta Women's Institutes - Collective Memory |
| Repository | AU Digital Library |
| Copyright | For Private Study and Research Use Only |
Description
| Title | Page 126 |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Source | AWI Collection |
| Collection | Alberta Women's Institutes - Collective Memory |
| Repository | AU Digital Library |
| Copyright | For Private Study and Research Use Only |
| Transcript | Sandy Baker- Anderson cuddles her favourite larnb so far this year. The Hoadley area farmer raises Katahdin sheep on her Hoadley area farm. For more, please see Pages 6 to 10 in our special Agriculture Week supple- Enough to make a sheep shearer c ry " Baa, baa, black sheep, have you any wool?" " No sir, no sir, and 1 never will." A little poetic license was necessary to make ( he preceding poem work, since mine of the sheep on Sandy Baker- Anderson's farm are black. But they don't have any wool and never will. They are Katahdin sheep, a 20th century breed that combines mild flavoured meat with low maintenance. Mrs. Baker- Anderson is busy bottle-feeding a pair of lambs that were two of four born to the same ewe; another Katahdin characteristic is a tendency toward multiple births. Her flock is growing exponentially now, with a pair of rams servicing two different groups of ewes. She will keep all the females and sell the male lambs, popular because their meal even appeals to people who don't enjoy lamb. The lean, mild meat doesn't have the characteristic tallow flavour of other breeds. Mrs. Baker- Anderson believes that the fact that the sheep have hair, rather than wool and therefore lack lanolin, is the reason the meat's flavour is so mild. The first Katahdins are the product of a breeding program that' started in Maine in the 1950s. Michael Piel imported some haired sheep from the Caribbean and started cross breeding, looking for the characteristic that would yield the best meat animals. Twenty years after he started, he named his flock " Katahdin", after Mi. Katahdin near his home in Maine. The heavily muscled, medium sized sheep are easy 1am-bcrs and adapt well to varied geography and climate. They are also easy to handle with a docile disposition. There's also no such thing as Katahdin ' mutton', the name given mature meal from sheep past the lamb stage Many travellers who experience mutton in parts of the world where it is popular fare, lose their appetite for lamb altogether. Those people are the perfect market for the mild meal that's often described as being like beef or veal. The Katahdins grow a thick hair coat thai keeps them warm all winter and then they shed it completely in the spring. They look like freshly sheared sheep all summer, until ihcy start their winter coal again. They also needn't have docked tails, since they stay clean without a thick matt of wool. That also means ihey have foot- long tails to bai off pesky flies all summer. Sandy's sheep pen is alive i with baby lambs Jumping and twitching as only a spring lamb \ can and another pen houses ; group of ewes that will be j lambing at the end of April. Tlie ; breed has a five monih gestation period and cycle year- | round. They also breed young, at around seven months. Katahdins have a productive life of seven to eight years and some have known to still be lambing at 12. While the females will add to the Baker- Anderson herd, she'll soon have males ready for purchase. Two of the lambs are already spoken for by an acreage owner, looking for a low maintenance lawn mower. |
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