Farm Raised Chicken For Sale

We are offering some of our farm raised chicken for sale. These are the Jumbo Cornish X's we raised in the spring.

We will be selling them for $1.99 a pound.

We have been cooking at least one of these a week and they are great!

Send us an email or give us a call If you would like some great home grown local chicken.

 scott@catchbigfish.net

These chickens were given no hormones, injections or medication of any kind. There had access to grass and bugs and all the grain feed they wanted.



New Additions to the Farm

Over the last few months we have gone to a few different Chicken Swaps and Farmer Markets looking for new animals to add to what we have. Every time we go to one of these things we are disappointed with the lack of selection(or the high prices). It seems that these events are just too small or too frequent to attract enough vendors and customers. Well this weekend we went to a swap at a local Tractor Supply. We had high hopes for this one because it was at a nice store that has lots of customers. Well to our surprise there were only 2 vendors. There were plenty of potential customers but no one selling. One lady had rabbits which we aren't interested in, but the other did have something I was looking for. After visiting a clients house recently that had some bantam chickens I thought that they would be a cool addition. Since the chickens we already have aren't very colorful I wanted something that stood out. Well the ones that were for sale Saturday were just that.

We bought three Old English Silver Duckwing Bantams. They are very cool looking. They are pretty nervous about their new surroundings but I'm sure they will settle in fine. I will post tomorrow with the updates to my chicken tractor I am making for them. I am in the process of adding a nesting box to this tractor.

After we got home from the swap my dad came over and helped me finish the wood shed we have been building from the lumber we had milled from our trees when our lot was cleared. It will be used to store and dry the rest of the wood from the the mill and to store our firewood. We have a ton of wood that has been cut but not split from storms over the last two years.

Garden Update

Next year I will do things different.....I'll probably say that every year. Between the squirrels and the weeds it has been an interesting garden. Despite having 42 tomato plants I haven't picked a tomato in a month. They get to them way before they get red. 

Actually most of that green is the garden but around the watermelons and the pumpkins there is a lot of tall grass. The garden is just too thick to get a tiller in there anymore.

 The sunflowers have done great. I got two cabbage heads out of the 14 or so I planted. Bugs got to most of them.

Ok so I may have been a little of on my planting date for the pumpkins........We have orange pumpkins in August. Maybe if we are lucky some will still be around in October. I doubt it.

The watermelons are doing great too I just hope the squirrels don't find the ripe ones before I do. 

Here is my harvest from last night. I finally got some green beans. I was really late planting then as I was with everything else. Some of my zucchinis got a little big but oh well. I think the cucumbers are about done. I did get enough to make about 9 jars of dill pickle spears and chips though.

I finally moved the Guineas into the old dog kennel. They have ALOT more room now so I'm sure they are happy. I have set up a bunch of high and low perches for them so they can build up their wings before I let them out.

Here is Tab with Bristol and Drake going for a golf cart ride.