As if we didn’t have enough to do, an unseasonable blast of arctic weather has complicated matters here on the farm. We still have 50 broiler chickens on pasture that we had planned to begin processing this week. But we can’t run our chicken plucker when temperatures fall below freezing. On Friday we woke up […]
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 […]
I recently noticed obvious signs that something was killing the hens in our new flock of Americauna layers and thought it must me some kind of large raptor. How else would the perpetrator get over the four-foot-tall electric fence surrounding the chickens and their coop if not with wings? There were lots of feathers indicating […]
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