It seems lately that the chickens are taking over the farm!! This is partially true. HA!
We spend a lot of time with the various flocks of chickens on the farm, particularly working on their coops, feeding, watering, moving, collecting and washing eggs... there's always a sizable list to be done.
This week we welcomed a new flock of layers to the farm. They joined our current laying flock, our field broilers, and our brooder broilers. Through the pasture season we typically have two flocks on the farm at once - one in the field and one in the brooder. The brooder is inside the barn where the chicks begin their lives here, and they'll move out to the field once they get their "adult" feathers and can handle more extreme weather!
We had a lot of that kind of weather last week and spent time making sure the birds were safe and dry. They hunkered down in a bed of straw before moving to their next section of grass.
Don't forget to customize your box and add any additional items before the cut off time, 11:59 on Wednesday night! We've gotten questions about boxes, you can always return your box to us to reuse - and we appreciate it, because like everything, the price of boxes has gone ^^ up and up! If you got an insulated bag in your box (everything refrigerated or frozen will be in these bags from here on out, including eggs in future weeks), please return those too and we'll reuse them.
Have a great week!
-The team at Mad Radish Farm
