Cornish Cross Chicks At One Week In A Deep Litter Brooder
Here’s the Cornish Cross broilers at 1 week old, as you can see they have done a lot of growing. Sadly we’ve had 4 deaths since we brought them home, which by broiler standards isn’t too bad.
Here’s Guinness, he’s our first bull and is a registered shorthorn. We’ve had him for 2 seasons and have had flawless calving ease. Hopefully our registered heifers will throw some awesome calves this spring from him. We sold him to Emily’s parents so we get to visit him every now and then. We sold him because we can’t have him breeding his daughters. He’s halter broken and extremely friendly.
Yesterday the cows decided to move very slowly. They seemed to be disappointed that there wasn’t any new growth alfalfa in the new pen, the cows have been pretty spoiled by this mild fall.
Here’s a late fall update from our farm. As you can see there’s no snow yet, which is great for us. The temperatures are starting to freeze the waters over night.
It was super windy but we got it done. This was filmed November 8th. Still no snow which is nice. Hopefully we can get at least 3 more moves before we’re into our stock piled forage.
The chicks have arrived! In this video I show you the brooder set up, chicks being released from the boxes and talk about my process for this. The broilers are Cornish Cross so they’ll take about 8 weeks to mature and they’ll spend 3 of those weeks in the brooder. At the end of the video you’ll get some close ups of the baby chicks.
We are finally back rotationally grazing our pasture with our herd of cows. Sadly we ran out of hay earlier in grass development than we’d like but we’ll make do. This was the coldest spring I can remember. In this video you’ll see how excited the herd is to be back on grass and see how kids complicate things. Also Patty gets shocked on the electric fence.
We finally turned our new shorthorn bull out with the cows yesterday. His name is Halifax but we call him Hal for short. He’s really well built and is a 2 year old. He isn’t very friendly and is a bit high headed.