Such is farm life.

Our new batch of layers are getting well-accustomed to Teresa's legs.  Sadly Teresa's pants are getting covered in chicken poo.  Such is farm life!

Freedom Rangers

We're switching it up this year.  We typically raise Cornish Cross chickens (aka: Frankin-chickens) for our meat each year, but this year we're trying out Freedom Rangers.  This breed grows a bit slower than the Cornish crosses do, but the meat is apparently very tasty!  

We also got a little smarter and decided that instead of buying a ridiculous amount of laying hens (giving us TONS of eggs at once followed by no eggs, resorting to spying with the game camera - see "The Chicken Detective" post) that we would buy small batches of hens each year.  This year we got 2 Araucana and 2 Welsummer chicks.  Both should lay fun colorful eggs, making them distinctly different from the current hens.  Now we just have to hope that none of them are roosters!

More PIGtures

The piglets are quite excited for their dinner each night!  The goat milk poured on top gets them really squealing.

Happy little critters.