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Recently at the WAYFC meeting, while touring Becky‘s backyard farm and meeting her bunnies and chickens, she mentioned that they weren’t laying much because of the short days, and I commented that I am always surprised at how quickly their laying picks up after the Solstice. There were many murmurs of assent, including someone’s [...] One morning a few weeks ago, on a day with Garth was in class so I was covering morning chores, I rolled out of the house on my way to milk the goat, and I noticed a pile of white feathers on the dewy ground … no wait, make that several piles, strewn about [...] We have about 30 chickens left to sell. They were processed today, so with the WSDA’s 48-hour pickup requirement, we can make them available for pickup on the farm at the Day Road Farmstand on Monday during the day. Six dollars per pound. They will be a mix of sizes, some small fryers and [...] We’re now taking orders for our last batch of chickens for 2011, which will be ready to pick up on September 25. As usual, the details are described on our Ordering Poultry page, and you can order here: http://tinyurl.com/chickens2011-2 Please let us know if you have any questions, and order soon! Turkey ordering [...] This spring, one of our Australorp hens went broody. Oh, actually, two of our Australorps and one of our Gold-laced Wyandottes went broody. This is when they stop laying, and start trying to hatch some eggs. Their little tiny chickeny biological clocks went off, basically. Doesn’t matter that there are no eggs under them. [...] OK! Our first batch of chickens for the year is almost ready to go and our CSA program idea is completely off the rails, but I have finally prepared the order form and the various other bits of necessary information. Anyway, most of the details are as in previous years. It’s all detailed [...] Yesterday I saw this Lehman’s blog post about feeding turkeys with peanut hearts, which are apparently the little tiny nubbins that you find between the two halves of the peanut. I immediately thought of CB’s Nuts up in Kingston, so I emailed to see if they have surplus peanut hearts. Turns out they do, [...] The article is kind of silly, but I love the graphic at the top of this post. The woman is scattering some grain to make all the chix come running, because a running chicken is extremely funny. For us the analog is the silver bucket we keep in the kitchen that gets filled up [...] Several folks have replied to our survey about our potential plans and decisions to make for the next growing season. The survey is still open, so if you want to comment please do! Thank you to everyone who has responded so far (and thank you for all the warm fuzzies we got from hearing [...] We’re likely going to be making some changes to the poultry business for the 2011 growing season. We didn’t make enough money last season to pay ourselves — we did cover feed costs, which is better than the year before, and we also covered most materials and some gas. But if we really want [...] Like our gracious host Laura, I had hoped to start the festivities with a bang, but … well, didn’t. Yesterday we spent the day processing the goats, whose presence I never even announced — I have been a very bad blogger this summer. Short version: we got two wethered goats [...] This year, our poultry is pastured at Day Road/Suyematsu/Bentryn Farm, home of Bainbridge Island Vineyards and Winery, Laughing Crow Farm, Butler Green Farms, and more. Betsey at Laughing Crow offered us a fallow field for the chickens, and we (and they) were happy to take her up on it, as it was filled with [...] |
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