The morning started with grandson's guitar practice and his daily assignments of doing a writing exercise and a math exercise, followed by lunch in town and a few errands and purchases that were needed back at the farm. The afternoon was a marathon of harvesting the meat birds and rooster culls that have been providing us with a morning serenade of crowing challenges between several birds. Tomorrow will be silent. The only chickens left are my egg layers and today, we got our first two pullet eggs.
The girls are 16 1/2 weeks old and we should start seeing all of them lay within the next 4 weeks. There are 10 pullets remaining in the coop.
In total, we harvested about 40 pounds of chicken and right now that is the last food item in the world that I want to eat. The process smells revolting and as I am not much of a meat eater anyway, the process is very unappealing. Son on the other hand, repeatedly stated, "They look delicious." We finished the process just in time to make the run into town. Upon our return, the last of the vacuum seal bags were sealed, the birds put in freezer camp, the garage and kitchen cleaned. Now it is time for showers, start a load of laundry and settle in for the night.
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