Sharing our small farm stories and skills along our farming, gardening and homesteading journey. Visit the farm for an informative and sometimes irreverent tour through our garden, livestock pastures, chicken coop, beehive and greenhouse as we live - pasture to plate. Farming topics free range around pastured heritage pigs, broiler chickens and pastured eggs, heritage breed turkeys, an heirloom vegetable CSA and garden, high tunnel / hoop house / green houses, organic and traditional gardening, farm infrastructure, tractors, sustainable energy, being self sufficient, permaculture, food preservation, bees, beekeeping and even fence mending.
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009 General livestock updates, local feed and grains for animals, Cornish Cross chickens on pasture (part 2)
On this coopcast: Kelli managing the farm and Andy's business trip, Crazy weather (really, it never ends), General animal updates (pregnant pig and broody hen). In our Listener Feedback/Questions discussion: Great feedback and reviews this week, Questions about feed, Other discussions. And in this episodes Farm U segment: Second part of our Cornish Cross (Cornish X) chicken discussion including; Where to get the chicks (hatcheries and strains), Food, feed and feed restrictions for Cornish Cross chickens, Managing the chicks in the brooder.