Taste it!

After being allowed to drive myself since Monday, the next highlight on Tuesday - making dog food! To provide the animals with the best possible care, the food is made here. From what? Well, and that's where it gets exciting. In May, 450 dead goat kids from a neighboring goat milk factory were delivered and minced here. When dealing with the question of why the goat kids were killed in the first place - well, my beloved goat cheese suddenly became much less tasty. The goats are only supposed to produce milk, the meat can hardly be used and the offspring is simply surplus. This makes you think and raises some questions about sustainable nutrition. Nevertheless, it may seem intense, but by being used in dog food, they did not die completely in vain. This time, however, Björn brought several tons of slaughter waste from a nearby slaughterhouse, mainly from cows and lambs. Now it was time for the real thing! Luckily, slaughter is nothing new for me, but this was a different league. The mixer ran non-stop and mixed this time thankfully already shredded parts, bone meal, salmon oil, and various additives into a really nutritious food. And as I was elbow-deep in shredded cow stomach, life in Germany suddenly seemed very far away to me ;) I'll leave the stench to your imagination at this point! Björn, Eric and I produced about 5 tons of food in 4 hours - that should last for the next 2 months with approximately 85 dogs. So it won't be the only operation of this kind...
P.S.: Although I had to give up my resolution not to drink alcohol here after 6 days already, damn it, we really deserved that beer!!!

By the way, because we're on the subject and I can already feel critical looks - yes, my vegetarian diet has to take a break here. On the one hand, it would unnecessarily complicate coexistence, since Regina cooks for everyone. On the other hand, I can fully reconcile this with my attitude here. Almost everything we eat here comes from friends who are hunters or neighboring livestock farmers. Today, we got a whole calf from friends, divided it into 4 parts and packed it in thick transparent plastic bags without any complications. Now it hangs in the shed among the sleds. For moose, there is a fixed shooting quota per municipality, and here, too, the good animal has already been served - and who would say no to delicious moose stew or burgers ;)