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Thursday March 12, 2009 - By Wes
Wow we just had a second set of triplets yesterday. 1F - 2M. What a start to a new season on the new property. We have now have what we expected to get from all three does, but we still got one more doe that is due any time now. Will it be another set of...
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Tuesday March 10, 2009 - By Wes
Last night we had a doe give birth to 3 new kids !!! 2 girls and 1 boy. Been waiting for her to have her kids for the last 2 days, finally last night sometime she did. Woke up this morning went outside to do my chores and heard a very weird sound. Oh yeah that...
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Thursday March 05, 2009 - By Chris
Anyone remember that game "Hungry Hungry Hippos"?
It seems as I get a little older and look for games for my kids I find myself missing my childhood games more and more.
In fact, just after Christmas I purchased a "Crossbows and...
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Wednesday March 04, 2009 - By Wes
Just wanted to update you on the new Marans chicks that have hatched out in the last few weeks. These are a mix of a few different kinds of Marans. There is Black Copper,Cuckoo,Splash,and Blues in this brooder. I just took out 30 chicks that had hatched that...
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Sunday March 01, 2009 - By Wes
Well it is still not spring here and the grasses have not really started to grow, there are some new shoots but not alot yet. So since the broilers were tearing up the grass and it was not re-growing we figured to move them over to where we are clearing to be...
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Sunday March 01, 2009 - By Chris
We were cleaning out the young pigs last weekend when our kids came up with a new sport: pig soccer.
After moving out several loads of dirty shavings and mud, we dumped in the new wood shavings. The kids decided that they would help to...
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Friday February 20, 2009 - By Wes
Our Certified Naturally Grown application was accepted today. For those of you that don't know what Certified Naturally Grown is let me explain...
Certified Naturally Grown was created to ENCOURAGE
people to purchase from the small...
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Wednesday February 18, 2009 - By Wes
Wanted to post this video I took this morning of the chicks out doing their thing on the grass. They are very active and run, if you watch close in the corner you'll even see one flying up about a foot in the air. View My Video
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Tuesday February 17, 2009 - By Wes
The broilers are now 5 weeks old and they are escaping their area. Today my daughters and I where out taking care of the place and the chicks seen me and run towards us till they hit the fence, They then started squeezing through the holes in the poultry...
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Sunday February 15, 2009 - By Wes
We got our first Narragansett egg of the season. This egg is about a month earlier then last year, hoping that marks a start to a great laying season ?? The young hen just laid it in the middle of the pen instead of the nest box, this is not unusual with...
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Friday February 13, 2009 - By Wes
WOW how fast 4 weeks goes by. This morning we where woke up by a phone call from the post office letting us know that our broilers where there. (we are set up for every 4 weeks delivery) I was so tired I asked the postal worker are you sure ?? LOL It...
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Tuesday February 10, 2009 - By Chris
Whew...Glad that's over.
This weekend we had to take three hogs to the butcher. What was supposed to be done between the butcher's preferred window of 9:00 and noon ended up encompassing two days, 12 hours of pig wrangling and rebuilding of chutes...
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Friday February 06, 2009 - By Wes
The chicks are now 24 days old. They have been such a pleasure raising, compared to the Cornish X's. They are alot more active. They are all starting to feather out real nice. I'll be giving a whole farm update in the next day or two with...
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Friday February 06, 2009 - By Chris
How can one not love such a face? The newest hog trio has a new game: destroy the feed sack. See, here are the easy rules...
1. Pretend to eat your feed. 2. Quickly sneak out of the gate as your water is being changed....
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Sunday February 01, 2009 - By Wes
I thought i would post a couple pictures of a few toms strutting around the place. They know it is about time to start breeding and they are showing off for the hens. They have not stopped gobbling since last week. They gobble about 4 times a minute from about...
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Wednesday January 28, 2009 - By Wes
Just wanted update the 2 week progress of our broiler chicks. only 8-10 weeks to go !! The biggest chick The Smallest Chick The broilers will be ready first part of April and they are going pretty quick. These are not your...
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Tuesday January 20, 2009 - By Wes
Here is the pictures I promised of the pigs old area that they cleared out nicely. All I have done so far in this picture is start pilling of the debris that was left over from the pigs to burn. The chicks are doing great. They have already grown. LOL ...
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Monday January 19, 2009 - By Wes
We have started taking orders for Turkey Hatching Eggs and Poults. The poults are for local pickup, we don't ship live birds. Also don't forget that our pasture chickens will be ready soon and your holiday heritage turkeys they are going fast so you...
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Saturday January 17, 2009 - By Wes
Got the call this morning early from the post office that the chicks had arrived. I woke up my oldest daughter and we went down and picked them up. All 100 arrived safely. It took them 3 days to adventure across the US, and I mean all the way across from PA to...
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