Worlds apart, but in the same room. The pig spread out on his billowy, alpaca-fiber filled luxury bed just across from his silver dinnerware. The chick living in the congested feces-filled confines of a slum, under the sweltering heat of unnatural light, devil-red luminosity, scrounging for food on the floor.
Neither are aware of the other [...]
You know what they say about early birds!
We set eggs three weeks ago tomorrow evening, but already two little chicks have hatched and many more are on their way. One was even already dried off by the time I came home. Fortunately, a second hatched in the evening, so they can keep each other company [...]
Although the snow is falling here once again, I thought that people were getting sick of snow pictures and articles. But not to worry, I am sure plenty more will come given how this winter has gone!
Here at Piscataway Acres we have had a number of eggs laid and hatched. Although I raise about 100 [...]
From a previous post, I described how Jorge the rooster died defending the flock from a vicous predetor. I have now found and aqcuired a new rooster. The new rooster (name not yet given) is from Twin Oak Farm in Catlett, VA. I was impressed with how clean and healthy everything was at this farm.
The [...]
Pointing to the Japanese practice of eating raw eggs with little to no consequence, Lisa Katayama questions whether American safety warnings may be exaggerated. “There’s a 1 in 20,000 chance that an egg might contain salmonella, according to the American Egg Board,” she writes, a risk she wonders whether people ought to be willing to [...]
and it sounds like she shares our poultry problem . But the article is primarily about Suzanne McMinn’s discovery of Nigerian Dwarf Goats and goats in general:
Then one day I received an e-mail from a reader of my blog. She lived nearby and she had Nigerian Dwarf dairy goats. Nigerian Dwarfs are miniature milkers that [...]
I knew about the law of diminishing returns from my economics class, but never did I expect that it would be applied so brutally as it has been to my little farm.
Piscataway Acres began with a small flock of laying hens in a tall, white coop across the yard on the edge of the woods. [...]
A little while ago, I mentioned that a mysterious egg had been discovered on the premises of Piscataway Acres. Experts later determined that the egg belonged to the rhea family. The farm had several offers to purchase the exotic egg from museums and wildlife centers, some of which were offering millions of dollars. Ultimately, my [...]
It was business as usual as I toured the animal grounds today when this yellow, yolk-filled gem caught my eye lying discretely in the shade of a nearby tree. It looked like an egg and acted like an egg, so of course I presumed it was an egg, but it was an egg unlike any [...]