Yesterday was the “great chicken harvest of 2010″. A fantastic mix of friends, family and acquaintances came together to butcher 99 broilers for our freezers. It’s amazing how much faster and more confident we’ve gotten in this process over the past two years – once we all got our “muscle memory” back, and got the [...]
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Just a quick post before I dash off to work (finally!). Check out the cute that arrived at the Post Office this morning! It’s been a crazy morning. The call came at 6:30 from the post office, earlier than usual by more than an hour. I had to rush around setting up feeders and waterers and [...] It was chicken around here again, not that surprising I guess since we’ve still got more than a few in the freezer. This one was roasted in the oven since Mike has been working down on Hood Canal (5 hours in the truck every day) and got home just in time to eat. While the chicken [...] Next Thursday, 100 peepers will be arriving via US Post. It’s about a month earlier than last year because we’re planning to have them grown, butchered and in the freezer before Memorial Day. We’re looking forward to going into summer without feeding them twice a day. Of course, nothing is ever easy on a farmette that’s [...] We’re in serious broiler countdown around here. Tonight Mike hauled the last bag of broiler feed out to the birds. We fill the feeders at night and tomorrow night instead of filling them we’ll pull them in preparation for Saturday’s butchering. It’s hard to believe that they’re already 12 weeks old. Or at least it is [...] Things are hairy around here right now with well over 100 chickens of various ages and types. They’d be under control except that I’ve got 10 laying hen chicks and Teeny (our stunted broiler) that I can’t find a good spot for. They were holding their own with the broilers until we moved the broilers to [...] I’m going to put most of this post after the break, so if you’re interested, click through. If you don’t want to know what goes into raising and butchering your own chickens (or the photos that go with that effort) just check back tomorrow. But before I make you click, I do want to say that [...] |
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