Yup, we live on a small farm.
I buy the chicks at a day old and raise them with special organic grain, and of course tender loving care. Its recomanded to butcher them at 8 weeks. I butcher at 12 to 15 weeks usualy. I am the only women in the house, and there is 6 of us. So the bigger the chicken the better. They usualy weigh in at 11 to 15 lbs each. I cook them in my wood burning cookstove. Meat is sooooo goood cooked in a wood burning cook stove.
The cow is a sweet heart, we raised her from a 5 day old calf. She has given us 2 bulls so far to raise and eat...THIS IS GOOD EATIN!!!!! They are pastured here on the farm and fed, fresh milk from their Momma untill they are butchered, and organic grains. We butcher them at a year or 2. Hay gets expensive, and we dont have our own hay fields we only have 9 acres but we are surrounded by BLM land.
The cow alone eats 2 tons of hay a month and she gives 5 to 8 gallons of milk a day!! ( no thats not a typo) (its a lot less than the cows in the dairys they give 22 gallons a day!!!) and when there are 3 of them to feed, we go through about - oh- 4 to 5 tons a month and hay is 85 a ton. So you can see why we butcher at a year old sometimes.
Oh we have 5 ducks, and 22 laying hens and 1 rooster. We get 18 eggs a day.
and horses- of course.
WOW!! Did you expect all this..LOL!!
I dont put the top down...I get on my horse and ride in the sunshine and heavenly breezes..
Lavender*
P.S. I gave a picture to christie and nothing has happened that was like a month ago
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