The Thayer Life: December 2009

Thursday, December 31, 2009

Year-end egg count

Total eggs for 2009, since they started laying 9/18, is 424 eggs. Not too shabby!

Saturday, December 26, 2009

Egg count

The girls are killing us! We've gotten so used to fresh eggs and now they're withholding from us. Down to 13 this week!!!

Saturday, December 19, 2009

Egg count

Holy cow.... the girls have drastically dropped this week. Only 24 eggs!

Tuesday, December 15, 2009

Big pigs!

Our potbelly (Sausage) and mixed breed (Bacon) are getting BIG!

Saturday, December 12, 2009

Egg count

Slowly but surely decreasing as the weather gets colder. 32 this week.

Saturday, December 5, 2009

Why we farm....

1) God said, "I have given you every plant yielding seed that is on the surface of all the earth, and every tree which has fruit yielding seed; it shall be food for you; and to every beast of the earth and every bird of the sky and to every thing that moves on the earth which has life, I have given every green plant for food"; and it was so. Genesis 1:29-30

Unfortunately....

"Cursed is the ground because of you; in toil you will eat of it all the days of your life. Both thorns and thistles it shall grow for you; and you will eat the plants of the field; by the sweat of your face you will eat bread, till you return to the ground". Genesis 3:17-19

2) We raise our own animals for meat because we disagree with commercial factory farm practices, such as:
* use of antibiotics and other medicines on a daily basis
* raised in windowless building
* overcrowded and unsanitary conditions
* no or little access to the outdoors
* no or little pasture to graze