4 D Acres

4 D Acres would like to wish you a Happy New Year and the BEST in 2009.

Life on the farm sure has had its ups and downs - weather wise.  It will be in the 60’s one day and down around zero a couple days later.  Just before Christmas we had a thunderstorm with high winds (lucky - no damage) that gave us about an inch of rain, the temperatures dropped then came the sleet and by nightfall it started snowing.  I have heard all my life “If you don’t like the weather - wait a day, it will change”.  Seems lately all we have to do is wait a couple of hours.  With all this change the birds are doing just fine as they are spending time more inside their building on those cold windy days.  Our breeders are in the process producing eggs which means that we are looking at February to prepare the incubators for this years hatch.  In January we start by storing eggs so that we can do what we call batch hatching.  What this means, we load the incubator up one day then wait about 52 days for the chicks to hatch.

We are now shipping emu meat as well as our emu oil to customers in the continental United States.  We ship all emu oil packages if under 13oz total weight by USPS First Class Mail and if over 13oz then the package is shipped by USPS Priority Mail.  If interested in emu meat please call for meat price and shipping & handling costs.  This amount varies as to the distance and the weight of the package.  We ship with dry ice in insulated shipping boxes normally by UPS ground.  It is important that it arrive still frozen thus we ship meat orders only on Monday and Tuesday.  Holidays do play a factor in this as we do not want your shipment waiting in a warehouse thawing.

Thanks,

Mike