aelling's blog

We took our chickens to be butchered on Friday, July 12 after raising them for 55 days (just slightly under 8 weeks). We did a live weighing at 50 days to make sure we were going to make our target weight for butchering. We targeted 6 lbs for our dressed (processed ready to be cooked) chicken weight which is on average about 2 lbs. larger than the chickens you can normal buy in the grocery store. We feel the chickens just taste better and are a better value to our customers at that size than a smaller, younger chicken.

I decided to do a few upgrades to the Spring Creek Farm website.  With more and more people using smart phones and tablets the need for a website to be easily seen and navigable on any type of platform and screen size has become a must.  The new Spring Creek website thus has   a responsive theme so it can be easily viewed on any device.  I also redesigned the layout the site to include different events and videos I intend to publish.  I also revamped the order form for ordering Spring Creek products and hopefully made it more user-friendly. 

Well it's 2013 and with a new year comes another set of goals or resolutions, if you will, for the new year.  Aside from the normal personal and family resolutions for 2013, I also have developed a few for the farm that I am hoping to accomplish.  Some are relatively small but some are pretty aggressive, so hear they are in no particular order: