Our new homesteading friends invited us to their homestead this weekend to participate in their chicken harvest.They had a couple other friends over to help with the process, so the six of us worked through the afternoon processing their 15 meat chickens, culminating everything with a wonderful dinner of fried chicken that could not be any more fresh and independent!
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Independence Food: Chicken
Posted in Chickens, Food & Beverage, tagged chickens, dispatching, feathers, food, frier, gutting, harvest, plucking, processing on May 27, 2012 | 1 Comment »
Tonight We Are Young: Chick Life
Posted in Chickens, tagged box, brooder, chicks, cluck, feathers, golden comets, handled, poop, shredded paper on April 21, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Our little chicks are doing quite well in their brooder. We change the water a few times a day as they do get shredded paper (and occasionally poop) in it. We also replenish the food as needed. The chicks walk around the box, hop up on the roosts, cluck, and just hangout. We take them […]
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