Our animals moved to the upper pasture for the third time this season and they couldn’t be happier. Emily, our Jersey heifer, was so excited she danced around the paddock, literally kicking up her heels. Do cows experience joy? Apparently so. August and September were very dry in our part of Upstate New York–the sixth […]
The new Rhode Island Red hens we recently moved into the orchard with the existing flock are adjusting quite well. They’ve even started laying their own eggs. Can you tell which egg belongs to the new hen? It’s taken us six months to recover from the fox attack that reduced our flock of laying hens […]
Do opera singers make the best chicken eviscerators? This summer we hosted bass baritone Andrew for the local opera season. Andrew couldn’t wait to help us process our Freedom Rangers and we were shocked to see how quickly he learned how to clean out those birds. Truly, he was a rock star when it came […]
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