The hens were thrilled to be let back out to pasture this evening. Spring weather is here and it’s time for them to get back to work. They’ll spend the next couple weeks looking for bugs and scratching through left over hay from the cows.
We have all your favourites at the farmers market this morning! Come down this morning to see all of the great vendors Yarmouth has to offer!
Our first batch of broilers are now 6 weeks old. They are happy and healthy eating lots of spring grass and fighting over earthworms that come up to breath during all this heavy rain. Stay tuned for availability of our fresh pasture raised chicken.
Finally getting some shearing done tonight!! The ewes will be happy to not be carrying their wool coats through this heat wave!
The broilers enjoy their daily move to fresh grass and bugs!
It’s shaping up to be a hot day on the farm!
Tonight I captured our cattle moving to a new paddock. We move our cows on pasture every 1-3 days depending on the size of the paddock. They know when it's time to move to greener pasture and wait patiently. By rotating this intensively we increase our stock density on smaller acreage which allows the cows to drop more pounds of manure per acre and increase fertility of the pasture. By increasing the stock density we also trample and leave behind a good percentage of grass also called green manure which helps us increase organic matter and build new soil. By managing our pastures this way we are able to give the grass an adequate rest period and allow full growth so that we can sequester as much carbon as possible.
The calves really enjoy the fresh pasture when we rotate them to a new field.
