Archive for the ‘Meat Chickens’ Category

New Poultry Feeder Setup, Great for Chickens and Ducks!

Posted in Chickens, Ducks, Farm, Layers, Meat Chickens, Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on August 4, 2016 | 1 Comment »

With so many animals and only two farmers, we are constantly looking for ways to be more efficient with our farm tasks. Efficiencies in daily tasks such as feeding and watering pay huge dividends. A customer recently shared a poultry feeder design that we’ve implemented with great success! Here are a couple links (Link 1, […]

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August Events at the Farm

Posted in Goats, Meat Chickens, Rabbits, tagged , , , , , , , on August 3, 2016 | Leave a Comment »

Goats 101 Class Saturday August 13th, 10am! This month we are again offering our popular Goats 101 class! We’ll focus on goats as pets or dairy, land clearing, and proper fencing. This class is family friendly, with opportunities to brush the goats, and get a squirt or two of milk out of the does, too! The class will […]

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Cornish Game Hen Chicks

Posted in Meat Chickens, tagged , , , on April 16, 2015 | Leave a Comment »

Spring is a busy time of year as we get started on our poultry meat production. This year we’re doing duck and chicken. We get the ducklings and chicks as just two day old chicks, and take them all the way through processing ourselves. In the video you’ll see our meat bird chicks, destined to […]

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Friday on the Farm- 4/10/15

Posted in Ducks, Goats, Layers, Meat Chickens, tagged , , , , , on April 9, 2015 | Leave a Comment »

Oh my goodness do we have some fun stuff going on at the homestead! All kinds of livestock fun has been going on, read about it below! Chicks! So Many Chicks! And Ducklings Too… Over the past few weeks we have had so many chicks! We’ve had laying hen chicks, meat chicken chicks, meat duck […]

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Pulled Chicken Recipe

Posted in Chickens, Food & Beverage, Meat Chickens, tagged , , , on February 4, 2015 | Leave a Comment »

This evening we had the great opportunity to take part in Food For Thought Initiative‘s Skip Sugar Day! We enjoyed being a part of the farmer’s market. For those whom we met, thanks for taking the time to come by our booth! We enjoyed getting to share our products with you. As I promised to […]

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Cage Free, Humanely Raised, Think Again!

Posted in Food & Beverage, Health, Meat Chickens, tagged , , , on December 5, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

If you buy a Perdue chicken in the grocery store, you might think it had lived a comfortable avian middle-class existence. “Doing the right thing is things like treating your chickens humanely,” Jim Perdue, the company’s chairman, says in a promotional video. The company’s labels carry a seal of approval from the Department of Agriculture […]

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How to Use Chicken Organs: Dehydrating Hearts and Livers

Posted in dogs, Meat Chickens, tagged , , on November 10, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

We save the hearts and livers when we process chickens. We’re pretty big on fully utilizing everything on the homestead, and with animals we’ve processed we feel that’s especially important. With this batch we decided to dehydrate the hearts and livers to be used as dog treats. First I sliced each one so it was thin […]

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Broiler Chicken Update

Posted in Meat Chickens, tagged , on October 20, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

Chicken processing day is this Saturday, and these broiler chickens are getting big! We are now moving the tractor pens twice daily, which gives each batch of 60 birds 200 square feet to forage over daily. We are also giving them plenty of feed to support their growing. This batch of broilers is doing great in terms […]

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Order Your Pasture Raised Chicken Now!

Posted in Chickens, Meat Chickens, tagged , , on September 27, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

We have another batch of meat chickens that we are currently raising for processing on October 25th.  As always, these chickens are pastured in pens that are moved daily. They are fed certified Organic, non-GMO, non-soy feed. The chickens have been on our farm since they were two days old, and they’ll be here through […]

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Feeding Chickens: Our Experience so Far

Posted in Layers, Meat Chickens, tagged , , , , , , on July 14, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

We started our first chicks with the typical feed setup: dry conventional feed in a basic plastic chick feeder.  Within weeks, though, we knew the basic setup wasn’t ideal.  We quickly switched to organic feed, and currently get our feed from Countryside Organics.  In the near future we plan on making our own custom feed […]

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Chicken Waterer

Posted in Animals, Chickens, Farm, Layers, Meat Chickens, tagged , , on June 10, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

  This is the the waterer we use for our chickens.  The chickens learn quickly to hit the red nipples with their beaks in order to get water out.  We love this type of waterer for several reasons: chickens cannot access the stored water so it stays clean, refilling is as easy as taking off the lid, […]

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Chicken Tractors

Posted in Chickens, Layers, Meat Chickens, tagged , , on March 9, 2014 | Leave a Comment »

The chicks are growing quickly and will soon be ready to live outside. Unfortunately, our busy work schedules preclude us from completing their main coop before they will be ready to venture outdoors. To meet their short-term outdoor needs we opted to build a chicken tractor that they could reside in until the main coop […]

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