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17 Mar 201017 Mar 2010 by Mike (tfb)
Montana with horses, sheep, dog

After only chickens last season, it’s farm animals in full force this time around. In the pic, Montana with the new-to-the-farm pair of Percheron work horses, the Shropshire sheep, and Rollie, the youngest of four Great Pyrenees livestock guardian dogs, … Read the rest

Categories Animals, People Tags Montana, horse, Winter 13 Comments

Eggs from the wild

10 Feb 20242 Aug 2009 by Mike (tfb)
Collected eggs

Four or five of the girls have been escaping every day, creating their own day pass, and doing a fair imitation of flying while they’re at it. In the morning, I open the chickenhouse door and barricade it with a … Read the rest

Categories Farm lab (research!), Animals Tags fencing, birds, eggs, Summer 13 Comments

Chickens, frozen

3 Feb 202230 Jul 2009 by Mike (tfb)
Frozen chickens

There they are: 38 newly processed chickens, freezing solid in the chest freezer (39 minus the one we took to roast fresh). It’s the last stop before the table on what was a pretty fine meat bird run.

Like everything … Read the rest

Categories Animals, Tools, Local food Tags meat, chickens, future, storage, Summer 9 Comments

Chickens to meat

19 Apr 202229 Jul 2009 by Mike (tfb)
Chickens in trailer at processing house

The White Rock Cornish X meat birds are now…meat! Today was to-the-processing-house day. Up at 5:15 a.m. to get them rounded up for the trip. And it seemed to be a pleasant one for them. They arrived looking laid-back and … Read the rest

Categories Animals, Tools Tags slaughterhouse, birds, chickens, White Rock Cornish X, Summer 21 Comments

Weighing chickens

25 Apr 202214 Jul 2009 by Mike (tfb)
Weighing chickens

Booked a chicken processing date today: slaughterhouse day is July 29. They’ve been looking good all along, but now the White Rocks seem mighty…tasty. I keep remembering one of them hurrying by with a long worm trailing from his beak,… Read the rest
Categories Animals, Fieldwork, Tools Tags chickens, slaughterhouse, weighing, scale, meat, Summer 35 Comments

Chickens: ranging too far

18 Dec 20118 Jul 2009 by Mike (tfb)

These guys, the White Rock Cornish X meat birds, have free-ranged too far, making it to the edge of the veggie garden in the big field. Luckily, although it looks good in the photo, this all-lettuce mesclun is done, cut … Read the rest

Categories Veggies, Farm lab (research!), Animals, Fieldwork Tags fencing, birds, chickens, White Rock Cornish X, free-range, mesclun, lettuce, salad greens, Summer 9 Comments

Farm eggs with hot sausage

7 Jul 20092 Jul 2009 by Mike (tfb)

A week after arrival, the 25 Shaver Red Sex Link ready-to-lay layers are starting to lay. That’s good. We’re up to 7-8 eggs a day, and most are just shy of Small (on the official egg scale), but the numbers … Read the rest

Categories Cooking & Eating, Animals, Local food Tags eggs, weighing, scale, Summer 2 Comments
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