by Oogie | Aug 31, 2015 | Poultry
This past Saturday was chicken butcher day. We rent a trailer and hire additional help to process all of our birds. It went very well. After scalding the chickens are plucked. Then into the inside for gutting and chilling and finally packaging. We were a host farm for...
by Oogie | Jul 10, 2015 | Poultry
We’ve been looking for a way to put food and oyster shell in for the chickens in the chicken tractor. Our existing standard round feeders don’t work well and dishes waste a lot of feed as the chickens scratch it out. I looked at a number of on-line DIY PVC...
by Oogie | Jul 1, 2015 | Black Welsh Mountain Sheep, Poultry
We’ve had a lovely visit with our friend Alan. He’s a much better photographer than I am so I’ve included a few of his shots here. flickr photo shared by cogdogblog under a Creative Commons ( BY ) license Moving sheep flickr photo shared by...
by OogieFarmBlog | Jul 2, 2011 | Poultry
With apologies to C.W. McCall,Sleepy hens and tired chicks. Desert Weyr Farm Blog
by OogieFarmBlog | Jun 18, 2011 | Black Welsh Mountain Sheep, Poultry
The dinner chickens actually arrived 9 June but I didn’t get any pictures until today. We lost more than usual in the first few days but they seem to be ok now. We’ve got sheep on both sides of the center divider fence and a dog in each group. Winnie is...
