I’ve given up…, and chicken cheese!

This part of waiting for the family cow to freshen, drives my family crazy!  I have given up, I will not check or look out the window and exclaim when I see Jetta peeing or looking at the ground at that imaginary calf.    Hopefully, if I relax, she will, and something will happen.  Cows that [...]

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First calf, not Jetta’s :), :(

Jetta update:  Nothing!  Next Tuesday???
First calf of the season.

I was glad to see this guy, he the first.  This cow had twins last year, she did as good a job as possible, but they were considerably smaller than the singletons.  When fall came I sold them at auction since they were smaller, and always hungry.  Since [...]

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A little nature and a whole lotta nurture.

Cornish Cross chicks in brooder - day 5.  “Are we in the forest?”

I’m not a PC chicken farmer.  By this I mean I don’t let my chickens free-range.  There I said it!  The F-word of the pastured poultry world.  But, I know raising these chickens for part of our meat supply is an un-natural task.  [...]

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So much to do

There is so much to do, I don’t know where to start.  A list helps a little, but at this time of year, a list just frustrates me.  We are unsettled because our chore list has changed so much.  We moved the cows out to pasture April 4th.  So now the grazing season begins, and [...]

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Jimmy crack corn and I don’t care

 Eggs for sale
  
If you know us, you probably identify us with chickens and eggs.  My husband goes by the name of Eggman quite often.  But, over the last several years the grain situation was changing.  We could see the handwriting on the wall.  We had a successful business selling pastured eggs and pastured meat chickens, [...]

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