Chickens

Hi all. We started processing our latest set of meat birds. Currently we have 3 to 4 pounders in stock. Over the next two weeks we will process more and have heavier birds.

Over the past few market days, a number of people have expressed a desire for smaller broilers. So this week we processed 12 chickens all about 3 pounds each. We […]

This was our first week back at the Lampasas County Farmer’s Market for 2025. Our new marketing director (our daughter) has revamped our booth with custom table cloth and better […]

Once the Christmas season came around, all our chickens stopped laying! We were down to as little as 6 eggs per day from our 40 layers and started to get […]

(yes, all puns are intended) It’s Christmas time and here at the end of 2024, we wanted to give an update from the local yolkels as to where we stand […]

Today we spent our first weekend at the Lampasas County Farmer’s Market. We took about 20 dozen eggs and about 7 whole broiler frozen chickens. The weather was great and […]

In anticipation of starting to go to the Lampasas Farmer’s Market, we got a batch of 20 Cornish Cross broilers to raise and be able to sell. The first problem […]

After only two weeks (and a nice family vacation to Arizona for my oldest son’s Army AIT graduation), we had to move the purple flock to the intermediate brooder because […]

The original red flock started with 13 chickens and a rooster. Over the course of the years, we hatched 17 eggs from them, with about half being roosters. We processed […]

Today we started seeing the first eggs from the yellow flock. Of course, the eggs are the smaller pullet eggs as you would expect from a group that just started […]

Now that warmer weather is here to stay, the green flock moved into the yard and into the secondary chicken tractor and out of the gardening shed. The secondary tractor […]

Today the yellow flock made their way from the back yard area to the south pasture, where the cows had been kept over the winter. The A-frame chicken tractor (built […]

The green flock has outgrown their nursery brooder and today has stepped up to the playroom brooder. Originally made for the yellow flock and designed to fit over the plumbing […]

Today we purchased another 10 chickens from a local store (CB Feedlot) in town. Not really much to tell here. Now the long wait for them to start laying. As […]

Since our original chicken flock had stopped laying and mostly became stew chickens (most still in the freezer), we had to purchase a new flock. We ordered 20 chickens from […]