Farm will be open from 2-5pm this Sunday with fresh Cornish Cross birds available right from the chill tank.\u00a0 This may be our last open day (we only have about 80 birds left for the season) until the turkeys have their ‘one bad day’.<\/p>\n
The Farmer’s Markets are over for the season.\u00a0 We are both sad and glad about this…sad that we won’t see many of you for the winter, but glad to catch our breath for a bit.\u00a0 There is no better feeling\u00a0for us\u00a0than hearing back from you about our products- hearing\u00a0‘the yolks were so orange’ or ‘we used the bones\u00a0and scraps for stock\u00a0and there was a layer of fat this thick’ or ‘I need to stock up on sausage for winter’.\u00a0 Kind of makes\u00a0you pity the farmers that are dozens of processing steps away from their customers- how in the world are they supposed to get better at what they do?<\/p>\n
We are going to wait a couple of weeks on the egg drops as the girls are all about feathers right now and not about eggs.\u00a0 It certainly makes me question our decision to sell eggs for $4 a dozen when we get only a couple dozen a day after feeding 300+ birds; however, this production rate is my fault not yours.\u00a0\u00a0Most of the birds are neck molting- also called stress molting, which takes us back to mid-July when we attempted a 2 acre move with the girls.\u00a0 It was too much- when things go wrong here at the farm – we kick ourselves and think- ‘farming would be easy if it wasn’t for management.’\u00a0 This is really true, we try and let chickens be chickens here and they repay us well if we just don’t push too hard.\u00a0 Hens have an unbeatable GPS system- they know where home is regardless of where we place the doops.\u00a0 When things don’t come together\u00a0by night fall for the hens they stress out…drop feathers and stop laying.\u00a0 We know these limits better now and hopefully ‘management’ will\u00a0not make the same mistake again!!\u00a0 It is wonderful to see the pin feathers coming in and the hens starting to preen with full plumage again….chickens are really amazing animals.\u00a0 One more note of eggs….we are thinking about Delawares to expand our flock for next year.\u00a0 This is a relatively new breed that was to be the ultimate dually- however, industry ended up splitting in half between eggs and meat and all the duallies have essentially been relegated to small timers like us.\u00a0 If anyone has experience with these birds please send us a note.<\/p>\n
Anita is working on the turkey list and will be making calls early next week.\u00a0 Demand has been\u00a0great for the turkeys and we look forward\u00a0to being a small part of your holiday!<\/p>\n
Hope to see you Sunday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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