New at the homestead are these two White Pekins. We have another on the way. These ducks lay some mammoth eggs about 2X the size of a chicken egg. We are going to try to get about 30 ducks total and sell their eggs, also. Right now we are just enjoying these mammoth eggs for baking and Wayne's fried or poached eggs.
Another new addition to the homestead are 15 day old baby chicks. 11 Production Reds, 3 Amerucana (blue eggs) 1 Production Red rooster.
On 6/26 we moved the rooster and the 3 baby hens into the hen house. We move our chicks into the hen house when they are between 8-12 weeks old. We prefer to move them when they are older and bigger so the other hens don't peck them to death (literally!).
This weekend we will finish painting the shed & future broiler house (current hen house)start clearing some land next to the hen house to build our bigger hen house. We will move the ducks into the little house and add a small broiler house to the area to our homestead. The broilers are for our personal consumption but we have some friends that are going to be raising organic broilers if anyone is interested let me know and I'll pass it along to them.
Thanks for visiting the Hill!
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