Every month this time of year we have 50-plus Freedom Ranger broilers ready for harvest. Since some of our customers prefer birds on the smaller side, we process half at 10 weeks of age, the rest at 11 weeks. We normally split things up again over two days. But yesterday was such a glorious day, […]
Here’s the latest twist in our efforts to impregnate our Jersey cow, Emily: Starting Sunday, we will begin giving her a series of hormone shots what will culminate in artificial insemination on October 21. How can we be so sure of the date? In fact, if I took a couple of minutes to make some […]
Oh, Emily. When did you decide to play hard to get? On Friday, I removed from our Jersey cow a uterine hormone implant she’d been carrying around for the last week and then gave her a hormone shot, the result of which was supposed to be “a very strong heat” within 48 hours. But more […]
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