Showing posts with label Farming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Farming. Show all posts

Sunday, July 11, 2010

Processing Our Chickens


The W's vehicle full of ice


Catching chickens




The team, thanks everyone for the help!


Laura gutting her first chicken


The small chickens were difficult to fit your hand into



Thank you to Mrs. Weese, Kelsie, and Rebekah for the pictures!

Sunday, July 4, 2010

Helping Friends with Chicken Processing









Thanks Kelsie for taking all the pictures! (except, of course, the last one)

Monday, June 28, 2010

Polyface Farm

Polyface Farm
Unloading Buxton chicken and eggs at Polyface
The Millenium Falcon
It houses 1000 laying hens
Beef with chicken trackers following
This year Joel is raising a few Freedom Rangers
These are a 12 week heritage breed chicken
Pigs

Joel explaining the composting system in his barn
This cattle feeder can be raised as the compost builds from the cows manure and mixed hay/wood chips
Rabbits
More hens
The brooder
Polyface's new store building
Joel and Teresa's house
The chicken processing area
Cold storage
A very wet Joel and me after a tour of the farm in the rain

Sunday, June 27, 2010

Buxton/Virginia Scenery

Sunrise
The Ten Commandments in granite
These signs are seen all over as we drove through Virginia. I would have enjoyed stopping to read them all if we had the time
Falling Spring Falls
Road kill: snapping turtle
Buxton Farm
Cabin at the fork in the road
The old hen house and pigsty
The Murphy's home
The granary
The barn with the brooder and processing area
Old Buxton trailer
Poison Ivy
View from the hill of the pond
View of the broiler field from the hill
Old cabin

Old cattle shoot
Eggmobile in the cabin field
The cabin
Inside the cabin
A outhouse behind the cabin
The cable bridge

hay in one of the old barns
A rare fossil
The original settler's barn
Ducklings on the pond
Butterfly on the pasture
The river
Some of God's artwork

A black snake I shot
Ruthy with the snake
Most of the old buildings there are only supported by rocks stood on end
Sunrise
The Murphy's seller. I was fascinated by the old construction of it
The pasture salad bar