A Small Homestead

Welcome to my blog about our adventures on and away from our modest family homestead. We are a young family trying to raise as much of our own food as possible and still enjoy life while holding down full time jobs and work two small home based businesses. Life can get hectic and challenging but at the end of the day we have most importantly each other, good food on our table and a roof over our heads.

Tuesday, September 11, 2012

The Long and Winding Road.....

Yesterday we took our May 23rd meat birds to the processor.  My plan was to take our son to his grandparents next door so he wasn't witness to us stuffing them into the crates (pardon the term but that's exactly what it was like in my eyes....)  He did not want to go to his grandparents, as usual he wanted to help Mommy and Daddy.  He was a bit curious as to what we were doing but not distraught in any way, thank goodness!

The 1 1/2 hr trip turned into a 2 hr as we made a few wrong turns.  Thank goodness the rains from the impending hurricane held off.  That was a big concern, we didn't want the birds to get drenched and catch a chill.

We had a tour of the processing facility.  Extremely clean and sanitary, which makes me very happy!  I need my food to be clean clean clean!!!!  And, they will cut the chickens up for me!!!  Yay!  So, 14 are roasters, 10 are going to be cut ups!

Roast Chicken with Sage and Apple Stuffing On Thursday!!!!  Yipee!!!

'til next time!
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