Yorkshires in the old garden

Poland China's breakfast fruit

Rainy Monday

Snouts down

Chicken Again!

At 4:40 pm, I told my sister in New York that I only had one more thing to do before I went home on Monday... the one thing was to load 400+ chickens/broilers into crates for their trip to the processing plant on Tuesday morning. Brian, Cameron, Phillip and I completed the task in 2 hours!

Crate loading is really a form of quality exercise as you are actually interval training: repetitions of squats and lunges then lifting and loading 70# crates onto a flat trailer for transport. If anyone is ever interested you can contact me by email. We can get you signed up. Why pay for a gym membership when you can load chickens instead?

Tuesday's 4 AM wake up call came too early with me slow to rise. I think it took all of the trailer loading prep time plus 1 hour drive time before the coffee took effect!

Total time spent in travel:  5:00 AM - 7:30 PM = 14.5 hours
Mileage: 172 round trip
Coffee Consumed: One Gallon
Song of the Day: Mercedes Benz- Janis Joplin (as sung by the crew at SS Enterprises)
The Ones That Got Away: 2 feathered and live chickens spotted today have been in hiding for 24 hrs

Vacuum packed and ready to load

An old goat photo

December 22, 2009

Farm Raised Turkey Dinner and The Wild Kind (just to watch)

Above is a fried Wedge Oak Farm raised domesticated turkey. Thanks to everyone that chose to have one of our Wilson County pasture raised birds in honor of the 2011 Holiday Season. We hope yours was delicious! Below are some of the wild and roaming kind that love to nibble the feed of pigs, cows and poultry on the farm. I watched them wander into the woods as they went to roost for the night.  They are a very different bird from our farm raised version, but wonderful to watch.