Saturday 8 June 2013
Went to the Marshfield swap meet today. Took the turkey poults and Archie and Edith, and one pair of the year old geese. Didn’t sell Archie and Edith, but were able to sell the geese and several of the poults. Didn’t get as much for any of the birds as we had hoped, but we got rid of them, and that was the main plan.
We were thinking of going to the auction in Bolivar and just get rid of them, then realized there was a swap meet in Marshfield. Had a great time. Jeanne got sunburned, Gavin got some more Jeff Gordon cars, we all had a great time.
Gave a way some business cards, and hopefully sold some dressed birds for Thanksgiving. That is how we started, with the intention of selling processed birds to eat. Selling the babies to those who grow their own was kind of a logical off shoot. And I think more and more people want the pure Bourbon Reds to grow themselves, and try to breed on their own. So next year hopefully we can raise more of those.
So right now at on the farm, this is what we have. Out in the field, we have the 12 chickens we raised as meat birds. Not sure if we will harvest them before or after vacation. In the large pen, we have one of the Red hens with 3 Broad Breasted Bronze babies, and about 4 others. In the small part of the peacock pen, we have Brownie and 3 chicks, 1 Red and 2 mixed. In the house we have 5 younger babies, 2 Reds and 3 mixed. So right now we still have plenty of birds for our needs. We are going to need to replace one of the Red hens, and we may choose to add two of them for next year. We had one hen hid some where and I couldn’t find her to put away for the night. I found what was left of her the next day, scattered around the edge of the fence. Something got the white rooster, but he was being a pain. And one night some thing got into the large cage. I couldn’t find any birds the next morning, but by that evening, almost all of them were back. Think we lost a few turkey poults, but none of the chickens. They all went and hid somewhere. In the grass or some place until the next morning. Those are the only casualties from predators this year. Not sure Marshmallow has done a great job protecting the birds, but so far it has been less than any other year. Just need to figure out how to teach her she is supposed to protect the birds, not try to be our best friend. Imagine.
Went to the Marshfield swap meet today. Took the turkey poults and Archie and Edith, and one pair of the year old geese. Didn’t sell Archie and Edith, but were able to sell the geese and several of the poults. Didn’t get as much for any of the birds as we had hoped, but we got rid of them, and that was the main plan.
We were thinking of going to the auction in Bolivar and just get rid of them, then realized there was a swap meet in Marshfield. Had a great time. Jeanne got sunburned, Gavin got some more Jeff Gordon cars, we all had a great time.
Gave a way some business cards, and hopefully sold some dressed birds for Thanksgiving. That is how we started, with the intention of selling processed birds to eat. Selling the babies to those who grow their own was kind of a logical off shoot. And I think more and more people want the pure Bourbon Reds to grow themselves, and try to breed on their own. So next year hopefully we can raise more of those.
So right now at on the farm, this is what we have. Out in the field, we have the 12 chickens we raised as meat birds. Not sure if we will harvest them before or after vacation. In the large pen, we have one of the Red hens with 3 Broad Breasted Bronze babies, and about 4 others. In the small part of the peacock pen, we have Brownie and 3 chicks, 1 Red and 2 mixed. In the house we have 5 younger babies, 2 Reds and 3 mixed. So right now we still have plenty of birds for our needs. We are going to need to replace one of the Red hens, and we may choose to add two of them for next year. We had one hen hid some where and I couldn’t find her to put away for the night. I found what was left of her the next day, scattered around the edge of the fence. Something got the white rooster, but he was being a pain. And one night some thing got into the large cage. I couldn’t find any birds the next morning, but by that evening, almost all of them were back. Think we lost a few turkey poults, but none of the chickens. They all went and hid somewhere. In the grass or some place until the next morning. Those are the only casualties from predators this year. Not sure Marshmallow has done a great job protecting the birds, but so far it has been less than any other year. Just need to figure out how to teach her she is supposed to protect the birds, not try to be our best friend. Imagine.
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