Eggs and meat birds raised on pasture have become the ne plus ultra of the poultry dining experience. We love to think of the protein on our plate as having roamed freely on grass just as nature intended before being offered to us as a meal. Recently we here on the farm discovered just how […]
Something’s eating our chickens. Yesterday I noticed our flock of Rhode Island Reds seemed a little thin. It dawned on me that one of our two roosters was nowhere to be seen. Then, after visiting with the hens out in the orchard–just sitting on an overturned bucket and watching them scratch in the turf–I returned […]
It’s that time of year again. A trip to the post office where a friendly clerk hands me a box containing 50 newborn Freedom Ranger chicks. If you think that’s considerably more than we ordered last year, you would be right. We had great success selling our broilers, so this year we are increasing production. […]
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