Welcome
to the New Year! 2014 it’s hard to believe we’re here already.
Here at Rolling K Farm we are hard
at work on lots of winter projects. You might think that winter on a farm is
the slow part of the year, but it’s actually one of our busiest. Finally, with
the land covered in a layer (Sometimes an extra thick layer) of puffy white
snow we are able to complete projects that we can’t during the busy growing and
cultivating seasons of Spring and Summer and the hay season of Fall. The
Rolling K is no exception to this farming trend. During the winter we work on
things like cleaning out barns, raising new flocks, and building development. Here
in West Michigan it has been exceedingly cold which makes many of these
projects difficult, and yet they must get done. And done they get, eventually!
Right now we are working on growing
a large flock of chickens. We had 250 chicks hatch in late October and they are
growing beautifully, each week developing new feathers and growing bigger and
stronger, think of all those farm fresh eggs!! We also have a pair of calves
that were born early this past summer who continue to get bigger and bigger
each day. They are currently being kept in their own corral (our Calf Condos as
we refer to them as) but will soon be taking a trip up to the big barn where
they will join their more mature older siblings. There are also two pigs
residing down by the calves. They are loving being able to rut and dig through
all this fresh snow we have.
We have
also spent the past couple of week constructing a new chicken barn that will
house all 250 of our chickens, not only protecting them from the environment
and predators but also give them the best laying conditions as possible. With
all the ice we have had over the past couple of weeks though this project has
been put on hold for the time being, it’s kind of hard to drive nails through a
haft inch layer of ice and then the wood. But rest assured the Chickens will
have an excellent new place to call home come spring when its time for them to start laying.
Next
up- SHEEP. We have never had sheep here on the farm before so we are very
excited about this upcoming venture. This Saturday we are heading out to look
at some Ewes (pronounced YOU’s) and plan to have them lambing before summer so
that we can offer lambs to those who are looking for organic meat lambs. We have
been doing lots of research and are very excited about this new adventure.
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ROLKING
K FARM
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