Gobble, gobble, gobble

Well, all the turkeys have been dressed and sold. We had such a huge demand this year that we are thinking of doubleing or tripling our production for next year. Perhaps space out sizes better as well. We had a lot of requests for 12 -15lbers, as well as 20lbers, so we will be lookin got add a lot more turkeys in that weight range. Might need another goat or two to keep up with the milk requirements. As we head into the thanksgiving holidays, the day to day chores have lightened up - no more turkeys and meat chickens to feed and water. Still have goats to milk and feed twice a day, pigs and laying hens to feed and water. Unfortunately, it does not make for any less work overall. Now is the time for pasture redesign, now fencing, repairs, rewiring, etc. Plus we have 2 of the fainting goat does due to give birth very soon.

Aside from the turkeys, we spent most of the weekend building a new, easily accesible, very secure paddock. 15 hand dug post holes - very good exercise. The post are in, the boards have to go up and a 12' gate hung. We'll run some hot wire along the bottom and top and it should be an excellent area to keep pigs about to be moved to market, goats about to give birth, bucks in rut and whatever other use we can come up with.


Have a happy Thanksgiving.