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Coming this year we will have a lovely farm stand at the roadside to sell our farm fresh eggs, local honey and new for us beautiful home grown flowers for market bouquets! Follow us on Instagram for times and dates! @summerrainfarmstand

If you have raised meat chickens , you can raise turkeys! They take a little longer to get to butcher weight but they also grow to 15 to 24 pounds of delicious turkey meat. Turkey poults and meat chicks together Ordering your turkey poults We actually recommend you start your turkeys at the same time as your meat birds. The turkey poults will follow the meat chicks to the water and feed therefore this helps them learn faster. We start 5 turkey poults with our 25 meat chicks

Ordering We fill our freezer every year with 25 roaster chickens. We order rustic rangers in early January from a hatchery for a pickup in mid-May. By then the worst of the cold weather is gone and I can be sure the brooder in the barn will be able to keep the baby chicks warm enough. The brooder setup We set up the brooder in one of our empty stalls but a garage or shed with electricity will work. We use 12-inch corrugated paper to make a circle of about 3 feet diameter to s

First coop Soon after we had our country property we decided to get a few laying hens to have fresh eggs. We ordered 6 layer chickens and built a small raised coop, 4' x 8' and only 4 ft tall. we put in a roosting bar and feed and water buckets. This worked well for us for a few years but when we wanted a few more chickens we had to build bigger. First small coop 2nd coop This time we wanted a walk-in coop which is easier to clean and has lots of windows to let in the sunshin

When we decided to move to the country, a large reason for this move was to bring our 2 boarded horses home. We had boarded our horses where we took riding lessons and it was expensive. After 4 years of learning all we could about horsemanship and taking care of the animals, we took the first step by finding a country property. Why we call it a hobby farm We consider our little place a hobby farm because having horses for us is a hobby! We compare our hobby to other hobbies l