Took a few pictures of what my new Square Foot garden area looks like. It is a work in progress, but this is the start of it. I have one box filled and a grid in place and I need to fill the other 2 square boxes. The one at the very end is my raised asparagus bed.
This is the filled one with some cabbage and onions and lettuce planted. The taller small box is for carrots so they can grow deeper.
Just took my 26 "slow broilers" to the processor!!! They will be done by noon. I am excited to taste them and have a shelf in the freezer full of chicken. I love simmering whole chickens and making chicken pot pies, chicken noodles, chicken and rice, even whole roasted chicken, chicken in DH smoker, I can go on..........
The slow broilers dressed out at 3 to 4 pounds. They look good in their freezer bags. The roosters all got really big and most of the hens stayed regular layer hen size. I am fine with that because if I need a smaller dinner I will just grab a hen from the freezer. I grew them out to the 18 week age though. They probably could of been done at 16 weeks but I let them grow a little more. I will let you know how they taste sometime this week as I plan to cook at least one soon!
Banded my first male goat all by myself today. Man that was scary and I was nervous. I got the band close to the belly and I was afraid it was too close. :/ Every time I tried to back it away from the belly a little, one testicle would slip back out. So in order to keep both in I had to just do it close. I really hope I did it right.