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Monday October 03, 2011 - By David
A Wisconsin judge has ruled that owners of cows do not have the right to consume milk from their own cow. The Farm to Consumer Legal Defense Fund reported on this in detail and you can find the link at the end of this blog. Among other things, Dane county...
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Sunday May 01, 2011 - By Mary
If the reader will pardon first an explanation of bias, I will pass into truly alarming news. It seems that the disturbing assault against religious freedom undertaken in Europe has come home to America, again targeting Moslems, Jews, Sikhs and other...
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Sunday November 28, 2010 - By David
Freedom Ranger Laying Hens In
August we were pulling broilers from one of our movable pens on pasture
in the pouring down rain. Two pullets ended up escaping into the nearby
brush. Since I wasn't really in the mood to chase two fugitives
in the...
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Friday October 29, 2010 - By David
Folks often ask me "what's the difference in pastured poultry and free range?" Well
for the most part it depends on who is defining it! Grocery stores
would want you to believe that "free range" or "pastured" means the...
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Friday March 12, 2010 - By David
Our Freedom Ranger chicks arrived at the farm today today. This video shows us putting them in the brooder. These
birds are from the Label Rouge program. We believe them to be better
than the standard Cornish Cross chickens for the model we use to...
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Thursday March 04, 2010 - By David
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Cornish Cross are the industry standard for meat birds in
the United States. I recently mentioned I had switched to Freedom Ranger chickens and had
several people ask why.
Cornish Cross birds are a lazy bird by...
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Tuesday March 02, 2010 - By David
Randy and I will building a temporary brooder today. The barn we had a brooder set up in burned down last Spring. We have a batch of Freedom Ranger chicks coming in eight days so I though we better find somewhere to put them! I didn't want to get birds this...
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Saturday February 27, 2010 - By David
I ordered our first batch of chicks Friday morning. We have pretty much quit using Cornish Cross birds and went with birds from the Label Rouge program. We have always had good luck with the Cornish, but I've never been happy with the amount of foraging...
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