meat chickens – Bellfern Homestead

Spring on the farm

It’s spring, so of course there’s so much going on at Bellfern Homestead, and I’m too tired to organize it all into an interesting and themed narrative. This is going to be a casserole-style blog post: take what you have, mix it all together, add cheese, and hope it holds together. We’ve got over a hundred chickensContinue reading “Spring on the farm”

Raising meat chickens: the nitty gritty

I wouldn’t deliberately choose to process chickens in a cyclone. It’s just that when you raise meat chickens, you’re working on a timeline. There’s a lot to line up: you have to consider the day the chickens were hatched, and calculate 7-8 weeks to determine the butchering window. And when you’re a part-time farmer, weekendsContinue reading “Raising meat chickens: the nitty gritty”

Chicken Nuggets

This morning I got a call from the post office. They were calling to let me know that my package had arrived and was ready for pickup. Delighted, I hung up and let my boss know that I had to take an early lunch to go pick up my chickens from the post office. WhenContinue reading “Chicken Nuggets”