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30/08/2024

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25/06/2024

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25/06/2024

Silver Prairie Stock & Poultry Farm
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13/06/2024

Silver Prairie Stock & Poultry Farm is no longer affiliated with Socrates Petting Zoo. We are currently working on reverting our page name to better reflect this change. This post is for information purposes only and does not effect our brand or our daily operations.

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10/06/2024

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09/06/2024

Cows out to pasture for the summer...
Tomorrow the sheep will follow.

25/02/2024

Can't wait to see you all again this year!

Our favourite market of the year is back! May 11th from 11am to 4pm. Applications are now available right here and on our website: stettleragsociety.com
https://www.cognitoforms.com/AgSocietyStettler/HomesteadMarketVendorApplication
Can we all just take a moment to admire our poster duck Crackers 🧡

19/01/2024

Friends, it’s been awful cold down on the farm as of late. Went out to the chicken barn to check on the hubby. He was outside and hadn't been inside for a while.

He said, "Got that chicken hawk that has been getting my chickens! He got tangled up in that netting that I had stretched over the chicken pen."

He asked, "Will you help me skin and dress it?" "Yes." and we proceeded to pluck the chicken hawk!

Now I stood it as long as I could? "What the heck you gonna do with this hawk after we dress it?"

He said , "I’m going to cook it! And give it to Jim! He has been sorta sickly lately, thought some chicken soup might help him to feel better?"

"But honey, this ain’t a chicken? It’s a chicken hawk!"

He said. "OK What do they eat?"

Course I said "mostly chicken!"

He said, "Yes and a lot of mine lately!"

He put the chicken hawk in the crock pot and was adding all kinds of stuff.

I just had to ask. "Can Jim not tell that this ain’t chicken?"

He laughed and said, "Well he didn’t say nothing last week when he ate that Hoot Owl!"

Silver Prairie Stock & Poultry Farm / Socrates Petting Zoo www.silverprairie.farm

12/01/2024

Been seeing all these posts about how if you happen to see an animal outside in the cold, and they're in a pen, or tied up, or whatnot, that you are supposed to bring 'em inside and warm 'em up. So...

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11/01/2024

“Farm work doesn’t make you stronger. It doesn’t make you anything. It reveals you.

There’s gym strong and then there’s farm strong. They’re mutually exclusive.

The toughest women you’ll ever meet spend their days on a farm.

There are more uses for twine than you can possibly imagine. You can tie up a hole in a slow feeder, fashion a tail strap for a horse’s blanket, mend a broken fence and use it as a belt.

“Well that certainly didn’t go as planned,” is one thing you’ll say quite a bit.

Control is a mere illusion. The thought that you have any, at any given time, is utterly false.

Sometimes sleep is a luxury. So are lunch and dinner. And brushing your hair.

If you’ve never felt your obliques contract, then you’ve never tried stopping an overly full wheelbarrow of horse manure from tipping over sideways. Trust me, you’ll find muscles that you never knew existed on the human skeleton to prevent this from happening.

When one of the animals is ill, you’ll go to heroic lengths to minimize their discomfort.
When you lose one of them, even though you know that day is inevitable, you still feel sadness, angst and emotional pain from the top of your head to the tips of your toes. And it’s a heaviness that lingers even though you must regroup and press on.

You’ll cry a lot. But you’ll never live more fully. You’ll remain present no matter what because you must. There is no other option.

You’ll ask for so many miracles and hold out hope until the very last.

You will, at least once, face-plant in the manure pile.

You’ll find yourself saying things like, “we have maybe twenty minutes of daylight left to git ‘er done” whilst gazing up at a nonspecific place in the sky.

You’ll become weirdly obsessive about the weather.

You’ll go out in public wearing filthy clothes and smelling of dirt, sweat and p**p. People will look at you sideways and krinkle their noses but you won’t care.

Your entire day can derail within ten seconds of the rising sun.

You can wash your coveralls. They won’t look any cleaner, but they will smell much nicer.

Farm work is difficult in its simplicity.

You’ll always notice just how beautiful sunrises and sunsets really are.

Should you ever have the opportunity to work on a farm, take the chance! You will never do anything more satisfying in your entire life.

Well, that about sums it up, folks!” - unknown author

Silver Prairie Stock & Poultry Farm / Socrates Petting Zoo www.silverprairie.farm

30/11/2023

Food labeling is confusing. But do not be deceived!

When orange juice says it's non-GMO, please recognize that all oranges are non-GMO. The only potential GMO products in the USA are papaya, corn, alfalfa, soybeans, cotton, potatoes, squash, canola, sugar beets, and apples.

When organic milk is labeled antibiotic free, remember that all dairy products, including milk, are always antibiotic free. Same applies to meat.

Those bananas advertised as cholesterol free? That's because all bananas are cholesterol free.

When a jar of peanuts says it is made in a plant that processes peanuts just use your common sense and roll your eyes.

When a bag of apples says it is gluten free, remember that gluten comes from wheat.

When you see a Facebook post that talks about hormones in beef, please understand that an 8oz serving of beef has 2-3 nanograms of estrogen, an 8 oz serving of white bread has 136,080 nanograms of estrogen, and 8 ounces of soy flour has 342,468,000 nanograms of estrogen. All living things produce estrogen, it's just science.

When that carton of eggs says that they came from vegetarian fed chickens, don't forget that chickens are naturally omnivores.

So yes, eat healthy, but don't be swayed by deceptive advertising. Be informed.

No farms, no food. Know your farmers, know your food.
-Julia Blackburn