Word from The Farm is that the chickens are laying up to a dozen eggs a day! Great news.
Now if we can just figure out a good delivery mechanism to Chicagoland.
I just had to buy a crappy dozen from the store. I’m becoming an egg snob. Once you’ve had those farm-fresh eggs, it’s hard to accept brittle, translucent shells, runny whites and fragile yolks that make “sunny-side up” a challenge.
On the more negative side for the chickens, at least one of them…the poorest layer ended up as…well…supper. She was a sweet bird, friendly and compliant.
But in the end, she didn’t earn her keep.
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I don’t think I’ve ever had a real farm-fresh egg. I’ll be over for breakfast right after your next trip the the Farm!
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I love the photo of the butchering!!! Thought it was most excellent with the axe in hand the chicken all prepped on the block! Just how I did the T-Turkey. I butchered bunnies just yesterday. I had four picked out but only three made the grade so to speak. I figured the fourth could grow a bit more. I don’t have laying as my deciding factor, but if they scratch me bad when I am sexing them, you bet they are the first to go. But the boys go first then the girls. I only can deal with 2 mommas (and their offspring). I lost my daddy this fall (door was left open, lost 5 bunnies actually) But since they were all from the same two original grand parents (It took me 2 years to build a bunny proof -out, dog proof -in yard), I figure I will get new blood into the group this spring with a nice male, maybe even get a breed like a meat bunny, or maybe just the $8 variety from the feed store.
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I stumbled across your blog this evening and as a tried and true farm girl myself, I love it!I agree, farm fresh eggs are the best. Also, I love the dog in that photo – I have a Great Pyranese and they are the BEST dogs!
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I don’t think I’ve ever had a real farm-fresh egg. I’ll be over for breakfast right after your next trip the the Farm!
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I love the photo of the butchering!!! Thought it was most excellent with the axe in hand the chicken all prepped on the block! Just how I did the T-Turkey. I butchered bunnies just yesterday. I had four picked out but only three made the grade so to speak. I figured the fourth could grow a bit more. I don’t have laying as my deciding factor, but if they scratch me bad when I am sexing them, you bet they are the first to go. But the boys go first then the girls. I only can deal with 2 mommas (and their offspring). I lost my daddy this fall (door was left open, lost 5 bunnies actually) But since they were all from the same two original grand parents (It took me 2 years to build a bunny proof -out, dog proof -in yard), I figure I will get new blood into the group this spring with a nice male, maybe even get a breed like a meat bunny, or maybe just the $8 variety from the feed store.
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I stumbled across your blog this evening and as a tried and true farm girl myself, I love it!I agree, farm fresh eggs are the best. Also, I love the dog in that photo – I have a Great Pyranese and they are the BEST dogs!
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