Sunday, November 7, 2010

What's for Sale

Lamb is for sale. Grass fed, no hormones, no antibiotics. Just good old grass for these fellas. We have 3 more lambs left we could sell whole- $7/lb hanging weight and then we move onto individuals cuts. This lamb is so good. The lamb are not your massive breed but a nice size breed and the meat has been outstanding. We had lamb for dinner last night - the kids never tire of it especially when we can celebrate with a rack of lamb!

I'm showing the chickens because around the 2nd or 3rd week of December we will have stewing hens for sale. $7 per bird. These are the hens that are 2-4 years old and that we have decided to replace. Next year I'll be all about egg colors. I need more variety in the colors and I also have no chicken left from our broilers so we needed some chicken for ourselves and for a few customers who routinely ask for chicken. We are reducing the size of the flock from 140 to around 60. But the mix of those 60 will have deep brown, speckled brown, white, green and light brown colors. Email us if you want any stewing hens, best to place an order now as the chicken seems to go fast.

The bronze turkeys are almost sold out. I thought by Nov 1 - but could be tomorrow or Nov 10. I just need to make sure my husband doesn't sell them all again like he did last year and forget to leave a few for us. I can't wait to process these birds. The Tom's are gonna be 30+ lbs and the hens should be right at 22lbs.
Last but not least- we will have more Beltie beef for sale the second week of December. For those who are scheduled to come pick up meat this week and those who I am seeing in 3 weeks over the holidays- you are covered. But then we'll be totally sold out (other than the liver, heart and tongue). We've got #12 at the butcher and he is hanging aging right now. #12 was the hardest steer yet to get into the trailer but we outsmarted him- poor guy.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Would you sell me a LIVE Ameraucana, the youngest one you have? I have a feeling my Easter Eggers are laying brown eggs. :(
Anna

Annette said...

That's odd-- they could be white eggs? Or Ameraucana's are also picky layers--- really picky. They shouldn't be laying right now till about March. They turn off in our cold weather.

But yes-- you can get a live one-- know that she won't lay till March though.

Anonymous said...

Well, Easter Eggers can lay any color egg since they're mutts. I'm not even sure that they are laying yet, I may have to food-color their butts to figure this out. IF they are laying, they are cream colored eggs. My Wlesummers are still going strong, I love their dark speckled eggs.
Thanks!
Anna

Annette said...

ah-- then it would be the cream colored eggs - my favorite. With my luck I'd pick out the one of the ameraucanas I have that lays the cream eggs. I think I have only 2-3 that lay the light eggs-- the rest lay green eggs.