Tuesday, December 9, 2008


Well those Golden Comet chicks we got back in April started laying in August (not september like projected which meant that I did not have the laying boxes finished in time!) and we have been collecting about two dozen eggs per day since Labor Day. We have enjoyed having "farm-fresh" eggs as well as selling a few dozen a week to friends and neighbors.

The 4H pullet chain project is also over. For this, one of our daughters had to keep a record of everyhing associated with the raising of the chickens and egg production. She received a perfect score on her record book and a blue ribbon for her "show chicken." She sold five chickens for $10 each. Wanna guess who bought them? Yea I bought my own chickens back. My wife sent me with strict orders that I had better come home with those chickens! I was glan ours went first too. By the end of the auction those chickens were going for upwards of $20 each!
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Welcome to our family blog. We have a small (55 acres) farm and are attempting to raise beef cattle, some hay, laying hens, honey bees, a dog and a small garden. We also have a small pond that has fish in it but they pretty much raise themselves.The Twenty-eight eleven is the name of our farm. It comes from Deutronomy 28:11 which reads: "The LORD will make you abound in prosperity, in the offspring of your body and in the offspring of your beast and in the produce of your ground in the land which the LORD swore to your fathers to give you." We count on God's blessings for our life as we know it so we thought it appropriate to go ahead and give Him all the glory for anything good that we produce, be it crops, cows, or children. This blog will be a fun project for us to document what is going on at our farm and hopefully share some natural ways of farming along the way (as we learn too).