When will you go buy your Eid lamb and where will you keep it?

We got ours a few days early last year and it lived on the terrace. He didn't like me much.

We'll buy ours a couple days early inshaAllah. We'll keep it in my sister in laws garage with the half dozen others lol. It's like a petting zoo then a blood bath!

My husband will slaughter it, remove the guts (I'll let my dear mil take care of those) and take the rest to the butcher to be cut up.

Asalam Alaikum
We are not able to afford it this year. InshaAllah next year.

Where my husband lived I believe the butcher brought it and slaughtered it on the same day. I need to ask... Okay, he told me it depends on which parent deals with the matter. His mother likes to buy it a week or two ahead of time and keep it in the yard. He said you can hear them baahing all over the neighborhood. :)

His father likes to wait till the last minute and drive any distance to find the fatest best lamb to have on Eid, then the butcher goes door to door to take care of the sacrifice.

Here in SaudiArabia along the outskirts of town you will see the villiage farmers bringing truckloads of sheep, they graze around on the shrubs nearby the highways and you can just choose the one you want. they will slaughter, skin, and chop it up right there for you.. All you need is some sort of huge container to take it back home in.... There is this method and also you can go to the local slaughter house, butcher shop, or if you know a farmer outside of town.. .. I also knew of a family like what you are doing.. they lived in town and bought a lamb home, we could hear it baaing for a couple of days.. I assume they just slaughtered it in their back yard.. I personally wouldnt want the mess.. let someone else cut it up for me...

When I was in Morocco last year, my aunt bought a really big brown one like a week earlier. She was going to wait until the last couple of days before, but me and my sisters wanted to have a pet sheep for a bit longer than 2 days. =]]
We kept it in a spare bedroom hehe. My baby cousin would open the fridge, take out a carrot, and sneak it into the lamb's food :P Eh now I want to go back to Morocco ;[