Turkey Harvest

Today we harvested our turkeys.  While there were only 13 of them (this was our first year, so we started small) they turned out very well.  We were able to use all of our chicken processing equipment to process them with the exception of larger cones.  Thanks to Jonathan of A&B Heating of Warren who fabricates all of our cones from galvanized sheet metal.  The cones were perfect.  The processing was a little more time consuming than the chickens, but the birds turned out great.  We ranged from 11 pounds to 25 with a 16 pound average.  I am very happy with the turn out and I hope that all of our customer will enjoy them this holiday season.  I would like to thank all of our patrons and customers that support us throughout the year by buying our products.  We strive to provide the best possible final product to our customers.  Our chickens went very well this year.  I also need to thank our fantastic help in processing.  We have an extremely reliable and efficient group of people that come out to process the birds every 3 weeks.  Without them, we would not be able to operate.  We will be taking orders for next year's birds in the spring.  As with this year, we will selling the birds by preorder only.  We have some extras, but not always.  The only way to ensure you get a bird is to let us know in advance.  This process helps us with the ordering of our chicks.  That way we are never stuck with birds we don't know what to do with.  It also ensures we have your chickens ready when you want them.  With this harvest, our meat birds are officially finished for the year.  The cows move to the barn pasture tomorrow and the pigs are still outside.  They will move to a new corn field to prep for next year.  The layers are going to be moving closer to the hoop house rather directly.  We are beginning to prepare for winter around the farm....it is probably closer than we think!