Poultry Meat 2020
It’s that time of year when Farmers begin to see longer days and brighter sunshine, so we plan ahead for ordering chicks from hatcheries. For this 2020 Summer, We are planning multiple orders of BROILER chicks and one order of TURKEY poults. Following are possible Butcher DATES. (Exact Butcher Date dependent on weather & other factors) White Cornish Cross Broilers (large weights)—Week of June 22 Red Broiler (medium to large weights) — Week of July 13 White Cornish Cr
Life & Death on the Farm
When there are animals, there is life and sadly, sometimes there is death. 2020 has been our greatest year of loss thus far. A mink decimated a dozen turkey poults in Summer of 2019 and 49 hens in Early 2020, just when the hens were starting to lay. Trapper could not catch the critter and neither could we, so the mink still lives and we are patching up pens. A year-old beef cow got a disease and died; Cornell University and the Vet sent us a big bill, but we still lost the
