While husband and I worked on the next brooder box for our new chicks – ok, he worked, I was company – our turkeys came to visit. They walk up and peck at shoe strings, stretch their necks and look at you with these interesting orange eyes and make quiet sounds. They are so inquisitive and calm. Turkeys [...]
Monthly Archives: August 2010
Turkeys – the National Bird?
August 23, 2010Finding Happiness
August 16, 2010Raising pastured poultry offers many experiences, some good, some sad, some very dirty but it also asks a riddle. What do sweat, chicken pooh, grumbing helpers (children), chicken pooh – did I mention that one – and being outside first thing in the morning have in common? They equal Happiness! My sweet son and I [...]
Raw Pet Food
August 3, 2010Pastured Poultry processing is a wonderful example of ’waste not, want not’. And not wanting to waste one bit of the chickens we processed last week sent me to the kitchen! I knew just how to use the abundance of organ meat and chicken feet … raw pet food. Raw pet food is wonderful for animals [...]
Chicken Broth
August 3, 2010One of the benefits of raising pastured poultry is fresh chicken feet. Ok, stop saying EWWWH, I said it enough for us both! One of our customers was telling me the benefits of broth made from chicken feet. It is full of nutrients and has wonderful benefits for our bodies. The gelatin from the feet [...]
Harvest Days
August 3, 2010To everything there is a season … last week we harvested / processed the season’s first flock of pastured poultry. We had wonderful friends to help with the process and everything went well – except the thermocoupler on the scalder – went out twice. Thank goodness for large pots and improvisation! We made it through [...]
