This morning, Wyatt and I worked on weighing baby chickens. For their meat pens this year, the children are working on three types of meat birds, Cornish Cross Broilers, Red Broilers, and Delawares for a project Wyatt was wanting to compare side by side in terms of quality, overall health appearance and meat with the different meat birds. Bailey thought it was worth helping him with for their two sets of meat pens this year, especially with their mutual interest in sustainable farming, so today the ones large enough to be banded were banded and weighed. This little one was posing in the scale bucket!
After chores and today's 4H poultry meeting, where a few of the children developed an affinity for one another's birds, we came home and packed up for a family party. Vicki has been really developing her cactus gardens and has beautiful cacti and potted gardens throughout their property, and even does shows and sales now! It is amazing what she and David have been up to!
Wyatt was playing football with Joey, and Jasmine jumped in! We have all been really missing our Remington, so it was fun to spend time with her. She even came to cuddle with me and David promised to bring her by our place for a visit.
Now that we had all that fun, it is time to buckle down for a week of school, doctor appointments, and much more! Hope you all have a wonderful week!
I'll a little behind on my reading. Sounds great. I must ask, do the kids participate in the duties necessary to get the birds out of the pens and onto the dinner table?
ReplyDeleteGood question. They do participate. We feel that is part of the learning process, and part of teaching them to do things properly and with respect to the animal. Wyatt will be auctioning a meat pen of three birds off at fair, those will be cared for by the buyer.
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