07 Jun Wed 2017
Spring chicken
How swiftly time moves! June is such a lovely month when the fields turn green with the first flush of corn, beans, hay and small grains. The song birds are busy courting, building nests and raising their families.
Our chickens have grown nicely and we've been harvesting plump birds that weigh around four pounds or better. Our operation is a family affair and since our family isn't very large we keep our production numbers smaller so we can do our best. Every Wednesday we process about 80 chickens beginning at 7:30 in the morning. We have them all in the chill tanks by 9:30 or so. After cleaning up from the morning activities and the chickens have chilled properly, we spend the afternoon cutting and packaging. We normally finish the day around 5:30 or 6:00.
On Fridays we package eggs for the farmer's market. Molly is on the road at 4:00 AM every Saturday in order to get to St. Paul and have her stall set up by the opening time of 6:00. She normally returns to the farm around 4:00 PM, a long day indeed.