Fair Maidens Farm

17/08/2013

Exciting things going on around here. Skittle was bred today and should have kids around January 13th! Our tomatoes are doing awesome and I plan to spend a couple days next week canning them. Our first ever batch of honey will be harvested in the next couple of weeks and we will be have some for sale!

23/07/2013

Super excited to get our new pullets from Chicken Scratch tomorrow! We are getting a Black Cooper Marans, Welsummer, Lavender Orpington, Blue Laced Red Wyandotte, Americauna, and Olive Egger. Pictures to come on Thursday of the newest layers!

15/06/2013

Look what we are building this weekend. You know, because three coops just aren't enough.

05/06/2013

...and we have goats!

04/06/2013

Has anyone ever raised any naked neck meat birds? We just ordered 15 Naked Necks and 15 Heritage Whites. They are not pretty, but we are super-excited to see how they measure up to Freedom Rangers and Cornish Xs.

http://www.sandgpoultry.com/nakedneck.html

Welcome To S&G Poultry. We are an Alabama company, providing colored-feathered, old style broiler chicks to the pastured poultry producer, live markets and other growers of great tasting chicken. All of our broiler chicks come from our own, proprietary breeding lines which we have naturally develope...

04/06/2013

It's going to be an incredibly busy week. We pick up the three goats tomorrow, the next batch of 30 meat birds are being delivered on Thursday, I have to drive to IL to get the new pretty, fancy hens this week from Chicken Scratch, we need to desperately w**d the gardens, and still have tons to plant.

31/05/2013

Four days until the goats are here!

18/05/2013

Starting construction on the goat shed for their yard today. This is what we want it to look like....we'll see how it ends up. We only have two weeks until the goats are here!

16/05/2013

Cannot wait to try out this feta cheese recipe!

http://www.fiascofarm.com/dairy/feta.html

OK, the milk is flownin', you've finally saved up some extra milk and now you'd like to try making a "hard cheese" but you can't because, alas, you don't have a cheese press. Not to fear, there are some "hard cheeses" that you can make without using a press. Feta is one of those cheeses. When I t...

15/05/2013

Lusting and dreaming about building this combination goat shed/chicken coop (from the Goat Justice League).

10/05/2013

Meet Jasper -- our new kid that Skittle had today. So freaking cute!

04/05/2013

We processed our first batch of 2013 chickens this evening. We ended up with 88.5lbs of finished meat. So ready for bed.