after 9 weeks, it's time to harvest. from day one, these chicks were the sweetest. I had a very hard time thinking of harvest day. so, like a normal, healthy person does, I avoided thinking about it. I mean, sure we bought supplies and planned, but I wasn't *really* thinking about it. then the day [...]
I'm very very aware that raising meat birds is either second nature to some or foreign territory for most, there's really no in between! so if you landed on this blog post, welcome. I hope you'll stick around! this is part two of raising meat birds. you can read part one here. MOVING FROM BROODER [...]
today I wanna write out all the things we did to prepare for our meat birds! TO RAISE OR NOT TO RAISE: first, we decided - is this what we want to do? we have several local farms that sell whole chickens for a good, fair price. some of the farms stick to only non-gmo [...]
