Pastured Poultry
Well, we are very excited at the prospect that our pastured poultry will be GMO free this year! We have been searching high and low for an feed source closer to home and have finally found one. We are looking at having 2 batches of chickens this spring and one for the fall. If you [...]
Whew….it was a long day but we did 102 birds. I can’t wait to stuff our freezer full of those tasty chickens.
Tomorrow will be our last chicken butchering day for the year. It will be nice to have all the chicken butchering out of the way and have a bunch of delectable pastured poultry in the freezer.
Our new Jersey, Olive, was delivered today. I couldn’t wait until milking time tonight. She behaved beautifully while being led down to the stanchion. She had not been haltered regularly or been led. She didn’t let down her milk for me well at all but I expected that. She had been a nurse cow for [...]
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I just finished building our new chicken tractor. I combined ideas from several designs that I found on the Internet. The finished tractor is 8.5′ by 11.5′. The hoop is constructed out of two cattle panels. It is light enough for one person to move which is a big plus in my book. A chicken [...]
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It has been too long since I posted a blog update. Canning season is hitting me in full force and haven’t had much time to spare. The apples have started to be ready to pick now and school has also started. I picked a bushel basket full of acorn squash yesterday and our very first [...]
I built the new chicken brooder from some sketches I found on the Mother Earth News website. Our broilers will now be on grass from day one. Coupling the early pasture and Fertrell Nutri-Balancer should greatly increase the health of the chickens and add to the nutritional value of the finished product. I finished the [...]
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