Do you like chicken? Now taking preorders! |
We're now taking pre-orders for homegrown, pastured chicken. The price is $2.50/lb for whole chickens. The first batch will be available in mid-June. We will have delivery available to drop-off sit...
Posted by on Mon, 20 Apr 2009 07:34:00 GMT |
Embracing my roots |
This week I decided to do a remodel of our basement, a la Grandma and Grandpa S. The kids are going a little stir-crazy inside, and I decided that we'd all be happier if each of the kids had their ow...
Posted by on Sun, 22 Feb 2009 10:22:00 GMT |
The best part of my day |
My son made this for me today. He made HUGE footprint letters in the snow.
I'm so lucky
Posted by on Fri, 05 Dec 2008 04:09:00 GMT |
Look what I picked up this morning |
Guinea keets!
Aren't they cute?
I have five of them, and they are 5-6 weeks old. They're about the same size as chicks would be at this age, but they have much longer necks and bigger eyes.&nbs...
Posted by on Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:30:00 GMT |
Chicken Day pics (not for the squeamish) |
And that means you Amber. Close the window right now if you don't want to see chicken butchering pics!
This year I ordered 50 meat chickens, and we ended up with 40 of them still alive on butche...
Posted by on Mon, 14 Jul 2008 06:38:00 GMT |
Statistics |
Yesterday was chicken butchering day. My sister and grandma came to help
We worked for approximately 13 hours. We started setting up at 8:30am, and I finished cleaning up the kitchen at 1...
Posted by on Sun, 13 Jul 2008 12:46:00 GMT |
4th of July weekend |
I spent the holiday weekend at my grandma's house, and it was wonderful. Celebrating the 4th of July in Clear Lake is like a perfect little slice of Americana. There's a typical parade, wi...
Posted by on Wed, 09 Jul 2008 11:42:00 GMT |
Tonight I learned |
that I still have quite a bit of work to do in honing my chicken butchering skills.
The strangest thing happened this evening when I went out to feed the chickens. As usual, they were anxiously ...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 19:16:00 GMT |
Messing around with the camera |
Pete's version of working from home (he telecommutes a couple days per week):
He can relax, check his pager AND take pictures all within the space of a minute. What a multi-tasker.
I ...
Posted by on Wed, 02 Jul 2008 15:06:00 GMT |
Chickens and kids |
It occurs to me that I haven't written too much about my chickens this year. All winter I planned to raise meat chickens this summer. But in all of my planning, I never supposed that I wou...
Posted by on Tue, 01 Jul 2008 19:37:00 GMT |
