Two Chicks and A Roo Homestead

Today was harvest day for some of our root veggies.

Turnips, carrots and beets.

These turnips have been growing like crazy, even in this heat, but they were providing each other a bunch of shade.

We are letting a couple carrots that bolted go to seed.

When you are in charge tortoise-sitting, the best place for him is fresh grass and the chicken tractor.

Safe to say he is staying safe on the homestead!

🐢🐓🐕

Decided to check on the turnips, might be time to harvest!

I think there are several "jumbo" ones. 😂

Sold a few chicks and customer requested all female and somehow we hit the jackpot, 8 out of 8 pullets! 🐥

Fast results from Knights Poultry and Lab LLC.

All the chicken feet have been bagged up. There are several uses, we use for bone broth!

Feet are now in the deep freezer!

This springs cornish cross was successful.

We culled at 8 weeks and 3 days.

100% of ours survived to harvest date.

Here are three of the biggest birds.

Cornish cross are from Valley Farms Hatchery .

Feed is from Taylor Family Farm

Time to get this party started!

Tomorrow is the day to process our meat chickens!

Food trough is empty and they are thinking its feeding time, unfortunately no more food for them. Its time to empty their crops.

Will be weighing each one before culling and then again after finished.

Roasting up 2 more of our home raised chickens.

Both a bit of the smaller birds, around 6lbs, stillgonna be delicious.