August 1 - Hot and Humid

It is just awful out there. Not so much the heat as the humidity. After an hour of work, your shirit is so soaked that it feels like you wore it swimming. Not to mention the humidity just sicks the energy right out of you. Yet life and work goes on.

The 2 week-old meat chicks are out of the brooder house and onto pasture in a portable bottomless pen. Another few days to fully develop their feathers and they get turned loose to free-range.

The turkeys were put out to free-range this morning. Going from the brooder pool to the open pasture seems to have confused most of them. But they catch on fast. A day or two to adjust to the new surroundings and they will begin spreading out. They should grow out to be around 20-25 pounds. We sold out very quickly last year - everyone started calling and reserving turkeys in October. We had to turn quite a few people who called in mid-November looking for a Thanksgiving bird. In addition to free-ranging and grass, these turkeys will get a good amount of cracked corn and fresh goats milk to give them that incredible tender and juicy taste. Only 17 more weeks before Thanksgiving.

This is a good week to spend most of the daylight hours down at the creek.