The second year of the #BitcoinLambCartel has entered phase 2: grow out. 13 rams have been removed from their mothers to prevent accidental, out of season breeding.
Ram lambs have moved from the lambing farm to our place where they will grow out for meat sales to local bitcoiners and breeding stock sales to other sheep farmers.
The "Bitcoin Lamb Cartel" as it's been coined locally was born out of a Bitcoin meetup a few years ago, where another Bitcoin regenerative farmer and my wife got to talking. As markets turned down we decided to sell our sheep flock and enter into partnership to raise and market lambs, while on our farm we also started the transition to raising cattle--something we always got requests to do from customers, especially local bitcoiners.
Our practices are all grass fed, from birth to butcher. This partnership provides flexibility as to when lambs get butchered. Some customers prefer smaller lambs, so before winter hits we generally hit 70-80 pounds live weight. For those looking for a more meaty carcass we overwinter the lambs with our cattle and feed winter stockpile and hay as needed and then butcher after the spring flush in late June for a much larger carcass of 130+ live weight. We haven't pushed to a second fall yet for even heavier weights, but maybe we'll do some experimenting with this group?
