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| Momma and chicks |
Its been quite a while since I have written anything so here's an update of what has been happening around our little farm.
STILL waiting on our Americaunas and Orpingtons to start laying! They are almost 8 months old and so far still no eggs. With any luck any day now!!
We had more roosters than we knew what to do with. All I will say is that there are 5 new chickens in our freezer and there is some fresh chicken broth in the refridgerator.
We've been planning our big chicken coop and should hopefully break ground in just a few weeks. Getting rid of the 3 small coops will be so nice.
Planning out our fall meat chickens. Deciding how many to order and where to put them is quite the challenge.
Putting together our pre-order form for our broilers.
Planning our chicken processing days, figuring out how may people we will need to do all the work is harder than you think.
Our pear tree is loaded with pears, I just need to figure out when to harvest them and what to do with them.
Contemplating teaching a class or two here in the fall. We might be offering a class in chicken processing as well as an introduction to raising chickens class
Planting our fall garden and tearing out our summer garden. I can't believe it's already time to plant our fall garden. I just seems too hot!
Planning and building a second chicken tractor that will hopefully hold MORE broilers!
Deciding what to do with our back pasture. Do we get a few cows for pasture raised beef or maybe we should get a few pigs?
When is starts to cool down and its not so hot in the kitchen we are planning on making bone broth from our pasture raised chickens and grass fed beef.
We are busy busy and with only 2 more months of summer left (give or take all of October) we will only be getting busier.
