Friday was chicken harvest day at the farm. We are now down to 17 pullets … besides the 12 laying hens in the older flock. Friends will be taking 5 of the pullets, which will leave us with a laying flock of 24 over the winter. The pullets should start laying eggs in about 4-5 weeks.
This is the last batch of cleaned and bagged chickens to freeze. We started around 12:30pm on Friday and finished up the bagging at 10pm that evening. We processed a total of 35 (33 cockerels and 2 runty hens). Note to self: Do NOT attempt more than 35 in one day, and less would be better! Not too bad for our first year.
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While we wouldn’t normally work out in the garden on Sunday, but the plums needed harvesting, too. Eric mentioned that he’d seen red fruit the other day, so after brunch, I drove over to check for ripeness. The first tree I checked was filled with plums ripe enough to fall into my hand. Dash, Angelina, Zeke and I drove over and harvested a five-gallon bucket of fruit. Some fruit is ripe, some will need to wait a few days. Jelly and syrup making is in our future … YUM!
The larger plums were ripe enough to eat. The skin is tart and a bit thick, but the flesh is wonderfully sweet.
YUM!!!!
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