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How We Raise Our Chickens In The Winter
This year the last of our outdoor birds were moved inside just in time for the snow to start falling and the weather to dip well below zero.
Although the way we raise our meat chickens in the winter looks very different than the summer, the fundamentals of how we raise them stays the same. We are still focused on their health and happiness and raising them in as low stress environment as possible....
- Shae Belanger
Doing Things Differently
We were recently asked at one of the farmers markets we attend, “what makes your meat different”. It got us thinking about what we do differently.- Sunworks Farm
Farming Is About Adapting To The Weather
This morning as we talked about plans for the day and how we were again going to adapt to todays rain it got me thinking that farming is all about adapting to the weather. On a day like today, with rain all last night and the forecast calling for rain for the entire day, we make many adaptations to our daily farming routine in order to allow the animals and the soil to be taken care of properly.- Sunworks Farm
Chickens On Pasture
Our hens have been outside for a few weeks now and are enjoying the new fresh grass after last weeks rain! There is still not a lot of grass growing but the Chickens love to be outside where they can express their natural behaviours like pecking at the young grass and eating bugs, grubs and worms.- Sunworks Farm