Herren Dry Creek Farm

Happy New Year from Herren Dry Creek Farm

Champ here with a few comments on my supper. I am tired and dirty, been out in the weather all day, and I’m dusty. I took a shower and got in my comfy clothes. I’m hungry! Eggs sound good. Supper consists of this: six of our eggs fried over medium heat in browning butter, white American cheese around the yolks, topped with diced Hibb’s applewood smoked salami. Cook till eggs are semi hard and cheese is melted. I paired it with buttermilk and Tobasco. Make your next craving with eggs from Herren Dry Creek Farm. $3.00 per dozen. Honestly, the cost of products used here is less than $3.00. A meal for three bucks, who knew?

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2020 has been quite a year on Herren Dry Creek Farm. It was my first full year of not working full time at the office, and devote more energies to making our farm profitable. Our goal was to get 2 permanent enterprises started this year, that ended up being a tad more than we could chew. Our fledgling egg business though has started! Our flock of 40 standard breed layers, mostly Buff Orpingtons, has added a list of customers and is growing. 2020 has been also a year of ...delays. What should’ve happened in October is now finally starting to materialize. Compounded by the fact that we currently have 200 Novagens that are starting to lay, still in the broiler pens. There is a daily trail of eggs which we hate, but this is where we are and we have to make do. Our greenhouse is another story. This is where we plan on wintering all laying hens. It’s been a mess, from weather to dirt work to poor layout, (me) to etc. etc. etc. Just name it. It has been nothing but a Charley-Foxtrot all the way....2020 right? Finally we got started before this last round of weather hit. Only to be delayed a bit more. We will commence again on greenhouse rais’in Saturday, and hopefully be moving birds in by mid next week. Finally we are seeing light at the end of the tunnel. In the meantime we have had to make do with our birds on pasture. My father gave me the best advice on caring for any sort of livestock in the hard days of winter. If you can keep them out of the wind, keep them dry and fed, you’ll be surprised what they can take. Thank God I listened to him. So far what we have done has worked, in spite of it being 17 degrees this morning. The novagens are surprisingly hearty we have had very few losses as the temperature has dipped. Here has been my set up: Point the tractors SE, mulch all the way around as one would rhubarb, put 3-6 flakes of hay in the tractor and broad cast scratch grains. To my surprise we had no waterers freeze, aside from a small skiff of ice on top. My waterers are El Cheapo 5 gallon buckets with the red plastic screw-in nipples and 1 old metal fount waterer. We gave them their normal ration on top of the scratch grain. They seem to be surviving. Here’s to 2021 and a week of fair weather. Merry Christmas!