04 Jan Tue 2011
New Year's weekend
The New Year weekend was full of activity here on the farm. First the American Milking Devon’s were moved from the leased farm to the home farm for the winter.Now would be a great time to come by the farm to see some truly unique and rare heritage breed cows. There are approximately 1200 of these cows in the United States.
Secondly, the weather had warmed up enough compared to December that we were able to process 33 spent Barred Plymouth Rock hens and the remainder of the Freedom Rangers.The next group of chickens will be processed starting in May.
Fear not the chicken that was not sold this weekend was placed in the freezer. These chickens will be available while they last.
Many of the Barred Rocks are spoken for.Twenty of the hens are to be donated to “Journey Through Hallowed Ground” for the Edna Lewis fund raising diner.Celebrity chef Carla Hall will be preparing the diner.The chicken will be used for chicken & dumplings.The diner will be held in Manassas in February.This event is tied into Black History Month.Ginny and I are looking forward to attending this event.
The final event for the weekend was to move many of the sheep to the home farm in preparation for lambing. It is much easier to lamb at home than to lamb 12 miles from home.
As a final note on January 15 we are scheduled to attend the North Carolina – Virginia Sheep Symposium in Verona, Virginia. Maybe we will see you there.