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Nearly Overwhelming

On December 10, 2009 in General by spope

We have had another day to start to actually realize the extent of the damage to our farm cause by the 10″ wet snowfall. We have thousands of birds that have escaped. Read More »


The Aftermath

On December 9, 2009 in General by spope

We got smucked (if that’s a word) by the biggest snow storm in years. Last night we had hours of steady, heavy wet snow. There was even lightning and thunder. Read More »


A Big Storm!

On December 8, 2009 in General by spope

The media is filled with the news of a big storm. We are preparing to hunker down and wait til the storm passes, yet we still have birds to take care of and birds to ship. Read More »


It’s Snowing!

On December 3, 2009 in General by spope

It’s snowing. We have been watering 100,000+ pheasants this week – what a job. It’s supposed to snow 3” – 5” tonight. Read More »


Dodged a Bullet

On November 27, 2009 in General by spope

Late Wednesday night (or early Thanksgiving morning) we had a minor snowstorm – by daylight all the snow was gone. But the 1” – 2” of heavy wet snow that did fall was enough to collapse a number of pens on our farm. Read More »


Let Them Eat Snow

On November 20, 2009 in General by spope

Above is a pic of one of our 500 gallon water wagons. November has been very kind to us – weather wise. We have over 100,000 pheasants on the farm – outside in the pens. Once we reach late October and then November, our water system usually freezes. Read More »


Bio-Security on a Pheasant Farm

On November 16, 2009 in Archive by spope

It’s been a few years since Avian Influenza was on the news nearly every day. Now of course it’s swine flu. It’s a tough call to try and decide how tight to make your farm bio-security wise. Many poultry farms are shower in, shower out facilities. Read More »


2010 Production Decision

On November 12, 2009 in General by spope

Here is an aerial picture of our breeder farm. On the upper left are our two 50’ X 300’ breeder barns – where we breed the flocks of ringnecks we use to produce chicks in March and April. Breeders are going into these buildings next week. Read More »