ELeVan ~ Honaker Farm Journal

[autumnprairie]

I love the picture and all the goodies you sell look really YUMMY
what do you put on your labels?
CONGRATS on the keets and chick

 

[elevan]

I love the picture and all the goodies you sell look really YUMMY
what do you put on your labels?
CONGRATS on the keets and chick

Our state has the following criteria for labels:

3715.023 Labels for cottage food production operation, processor, or beekeeper.
(A) A cottage food production operation and a maple syrup or sorghum processor and beekeeper described in division (A) of section 3715.021 of the Revised Code shall label each of their food products and include the following information on the label of each of their food products:
(1) The name and address of the business of the cottage food production operation, processor, or beekeeper;
(2) The name of the food product;
(3) The ingredients of the food product, in descending order of predominance by weight;
(4) The net weight and volume of the food product;
(5) In the case of a cottage food production operation, the following statement in ten-point type: This product is home produced.
(B) Food products identified and labeled in accordance with division (A) of this section are acceptable food products that a retail food establishment or food service operation licensed under Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code may offer for sale or use in preparing and serving food.
Effective Date: 11-21-2001

Here's an example of one of my labels. I use the same format for all the baked goods but change the name, ingredients and graphics. My jam / jelly labels are a little bit different formatting.

 

[autumnprairie]

I love the picture and all the goodies you sell look really YUMMY
what do you put on your labels?
CONGRATS on the keets and chick

Our state has the following criteria for labels:

3715.023 Labels for cottage food production operation, processor, or beekeeper.
(A) A cottage food production operation and a maple syrup or sorghum processor and beekeeper described in division (A) of section 3715.021 of the Revised Code shall label each of their food products and include the following information on the label of each of their food products:
(1) The name and address of the business of the cottage food production operation, processor, or beekeeper;
(2) The name of the food product;
(3) The ingredients of the food product, in descending order of predominance by weight;
(4) The net weight and volume of the food product;
(5) In the case of a cottage food production operation, the following statement in ten-point type: This product is home produced.
(B) Food products identified and labeled in accordance with division (A) of this section are acceptable food products that a retail food establishment or food service operation licensed under Chapter 3717. of the Revised Code may offer for sale or use in preparing and serving food.
Effective Date: 11-21-2001

Here's an example of one of my labels. I use the same format for all the baked goods but change the name, ingredients and graphics. My jam / jelly labels are a little bit different formatting.

http://www.backyardherds.com/forum/uploads/2607_banana_chia_muffins.jpg

Thank you, they are really nice looking labels

 

[elevan]

Well we're down to 44 guineas, probably soon to be 43. The girl I moved yesterday lost one of hers and another keeps flipping to it's back and cannot get back over. The girl that was still sitting on the eggs must have rearranged eggs and crushed the keet. Wish I would have pulled it now.

My big, main coop is getting a bit tight right now. We're gonna have to cull heavily this fall. We had already planned to process some chickens and guineas, but I think it'll just be a little bit more than originally planned as we've had a population explosion. I may sell some of them as well. I already have keets listed for sale, so we shall see.

DH was supposed to be off work today but they are firing someone this morning so they asked him to come in 15 minutes later than they plan to do the deed. The guy being let go deserves it though as he thinks he can get a paycheck for doing nothing. Since DH now works in an automotive shop that just doesn't fly well at all.

 

[Vickir73]

love the pic of you and the kids and your goodies - great pic! Congrats on all the guineas!

 

[elevan]

Ugh. Our guinea count is down to 42. We lost the one that I suspected would pass. It may have been wry neck as was suggested by someone on BYC but unfortunately I've been on the run most of the day and couldn't treat in time to make a difference. The other that we lost was one of the guinea mamas. I found it in the backyard (I almost stepped on it). It was in bad shape and I had to euth it. Normally I have DH do euths but I couldn't let the little one suffer so long (and it probably wouldn't have made it to then anyway).

Tomorrow is another busy day. The kids have counseling and then K and I have a chiropractor / massage appointment. B will just have to sit and watch and be good. Hopefully Then I have shopping to do.

I was just talking to someone today about all that is going on and they asked me if I ever just take a moment to breathe...I said "no I don't think so". I know I really should but everything is so crazy it's hard sometimes to make time to just rest and be quiet.

I did some school shopping for K today. We got some girls clothes. K is a little apprehensive of how her classmates are gonna treat her. Understandably so. I keep encouraging her to just be herself and I'll always support her. She has blossomed so much in the past few months.

 

[elevan]

This morning it is cool and wet outside. I went out to find mama guinea at the coop door with her 3 little ones wanting in. One was struggling and so cold and wet. I picked up all 3 so that they wouldn't get trampled when I opened the door for the chickens. It's amazing how much tamer the "wild" raised keets are compared to the chicken raised...you would think it would be the opposite but the chicken raised ones run from me and the "wild" raised ones just sit down when I approach and allow me to pick them up. When I picked the 3 up this morning they just perched on my arm, I wasn't really holding them. I did take the one that was so cold and wet that she was stumbling and put her under one of the chicken mamas to warm up since mama guinea wanted to roam the coop with the other 2 searching out bits of food.

Chicken mamas and their keets and / or chicks are doing well this morning.

Goats and calf and horses were out roaming early.

Ducks - their coop is killing me.

 

[autumnprairie]

This morning it is cool and wet outside.
Ducks - their coop is killing me.

that it is cool outside
I hope you get a solution soon on there coop

 

[elevan]

There are days that being a farmer sucks. Today is one of those days.

The keet that was too wet / cold this morning was in very very poor shape this afternoon. I had to euth.

Then when we were in the main coop B exclaimed "There's dead chicks in this box!" And sure enough one of the boxes that had held a broody this morning was full of dead chicks. Worse still was that it was obvious that they didn't hatch on their own - that their eggs had been pecked open as they weren't 100% finished developing.

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For now I'm gonna just grab a couple of bags of Sweet PDZ to pour on the floor of the duck's coop. I have to wait until tomorrow though as I cannot lift the bag's right now and DH's only day off for the next week is tomorrow.

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B and K had break throughs in counseling today. Especially B. What the counselor told me after B's counseling and then the conversation that B and I had left me in tears. Partly good, quite a bit sad and heart wrenching. It's hard to understand what kind of pain that a 6 year old can hide inside them. I cannot talk about it right now (no abuse or anything though) as some of it would be hurtful to certain people.

I left with the kids loving them more than ever, if that's even possible.

It's been an emotionally draining day to say the least.

 

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