I love having chickens! I love watching them free-range around the farm--helping breakdown cow patties in the pasture, eating bugs out of the dirt, and taking dust baths in the heat of the day. I love the farm fresh eggs! But, one downside of having free ranging birds is that … [Read more...]
Lots of Eggs? Try These 5 Recipes
Every November my chickens molt. They stop laying eggs. And they stay mostly on strike throughout the winter. Now that spring is in the air? Now I have lots of eggs! We're getting at least a dozen a day. Most days its more like a dozen and a half. So how do we keep up … [Read more...]
From Chicken to Nuggets
Chicken nuggets were on the menu Tuesday for our "American Night"--our theme each week on Sydney's day. Yummy, fried morsels of chicken--delicious! In the past, I've made my chicken nuggets from boneless skinless breasts or thighs, but I've been making an effort to do more … [Read more...]
Chicken Butchering 2015
It was a long day, full of good, honest hard work. Using the Stevens County mobile poultry processing trailer, we dispatched 156 birds. We started the season with 206, so we lost more than normal, with a 50 bird loss. Ideally, we like to lose 10% or less, but the … [Read more...]
Broody Baldy’s Update
After nearly seven weeks of sitting (on two batches of eggs), and a failed attempt at chick adoption, Baldy has finally hatched a chick!That fuzzy brownish lump in the corner is the baby! Kind of hard to see, but Baldy was getting really mad so I didn't try too long to get a good … [Read more...]