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Entries Tagged as 'chickens'

I’m Molting!

October 19th, 2015 · No Comments · farming

Our friend who delivers our eggs to his co-workers in Albany says they are “in revolt” over not receiving any for the past several weeks. I try to explain that our chickens are molting, slowing egg production to a trickle. Normally we can count on collecting nearly two dozen a day. Now we’re lucky to […]

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Back to Work

October 18th, 2015 · No Comments · food news

I may need a month to recover from my recent trip to DC. Ostensibly to prep our rental apartment for winter, a five-day break from farming turned into a moveable bacchanalia with old friends. But when does it not? Hence, no blog writing for the last week. The best I could do was post a […]

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A Fine day for a Slaughter

October 9th, 2015 · 3 Comments · farming

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, […]

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