Here’s something new and different: instead of money draining out of the bank account to pay for our farm, we actually have some trickling in. Last Friday we processed another 27 chicken broilers and when I added up all the totals, we had sold more than $950 worth in the last two weeks. Word is […]
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Time to slaughter chickens. Our Freedom Ranger broilers are so popular, we decided to double production this year. Here’s what one of our clients said in an e-mail: “We cooked the last chicken we had in the freezer on Tuesday and it was spectacular.” I tend to agree. The Freedom Ranger, a European breed, is […]
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Our new layer chicks have spent six weeks in the brooder. It’s high time they moved outside. We’ve got another group of 50 broiler chicks arriving tomorrow so we need that brooder. Moving the chicks is easier said than done. Catching them inside the brooder–a box five feet square with a wire mesh lid–proves to […]
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