Looks like we'll be butchering some extra boys today. I have 10 seperated and waiting. I always hate butchering day but it needs to be done. Most of them are legbars that didn't make the breeding cut so there's going to be some skinny cockerel soup. At least the flock will be a little calmer with fewer rambunctious boys in it. There's still probably 25 or so more extra boys that will need to be butchered but they still have another month or so, at least, to grow.
The rest of the flock is angry at the moment because I won't let them out to free range until we're done. It was quite a battle getting their food and water in to them without them getting out lol. I did let out the smallest ones to roam so they wouldn't get trampled and beat up being stuck in there.
In other news, we spent the weekend hanging out at the beach. It was so wonderful but a weekend was nowhere near long enough. Here's some pictures
Wondered where you got to, glad you got a break, even if it was a short one.
We processed 7 extra cockerels last evening, now we can move the grow out pen and refill it with the next round of youngsters....with broodies hatching almost weekly there is never a shortage of hormonal cockerels needing separate housing!
Just think, fewer mouths to feed and at least you do get soup.
I got very happy about fifteen minutes ago. I forgot to get meat out of the freezer last night, and really want enchiladas. I grabbed some chicken, thinking I would just wait until tomorrow. Then I remembered that I had canned some chicken!
Canning our extra birds was the best thing we ever started doing! It is great to just grab a jar for quick and simple meals!
..hahaha Know I have been hard-charging it way too much...need to slow down for a bit. We put the remainder of the peaches in the extra fridge so that we might actually get a little break. Slows down their ripening a bit, we had them in our heated porch, it is obviously that best place to have them if you want them to ripen in a day or two 
....yeah, need a break. We went out to harvest the cabbage and I guess that's what we needed to do to get some rain around here...got soaked , but the cabbage looked great. there a couple left in the bed that need a little more time. had trouble getting them into the crisper, had to use the door space too!..hahaha 
, there are different ways of going about it, was just curious what works for some of you. 
This years flowers aren't as tall, the heads aren't as large and for the amount of seeds I did sow, the plants just don't seem to be as hardy..over-all. I had collected the seeds from last years, so I don't have to buy them, same with the marigolds...maybe it was lack of rain...
, I don't know. There are a numbers of issues this year that we have been dealing with that, honestly, were never an issue before or at least not as much of one as they are now. ..always something to learn from that is for sure!! Took a look at the brussels...they have extremely tiny buds started...we have grown them before, maybe it's just me, but they are taking forever to produce anything. Anyone else having "growing pains" this year??
