How do we know spring has arrived on the farm? We get a call from the post office to come pick up our broiler chicks. Somehow we missed the first call Thursday morning. Thursday afternoon the postal clerk called a second time rather frantically because they didn’t want the chicks–54 for of them in a […]
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At long last, we butchered our 51 broilers and not a moment too soon. An early blast of winter threw a wrench into our production schedule. Yesterday morning we agonized over the weather reports. Outside it was raining, but the forecast called for clearing with some sun and temperatures soaring into the 60s. My sister […]
We’ve muddled through this early blast of winter here at Spy Dog Farm and thankfully without the five feet of snow that’s been dumped on some other parts of New York State. Still, our chicken broiler season can’t end soon enough. The chickens are incredibly resilient. They aren’t fazed by temperatures that plunge to 15 […]
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