Brewer and sons farm

Our Twenty five acre farm is located in south central Ohio, in the foothills of the Appalachian mountains. The village of Bainbridge, home of the festival of leaves, every October. The farm is mainly hardwood forest, with about three acres of cleared unfenced pasture and five pasture woodland mixed. A small orchard with apairy and a small stocked pond.

Homegrown Poultry

If you would like a order form, please Email request to
brewerandsonsfarm@yahoo.com
Please foward any comments and request to the above address as well

Cornish Cross and New Hampshire's

New Hampshire
 
Cornish cross
Well it is raining here this morning so I thought I would update everyone to what is going on here on the farm. It has been kind of slow here this week as we have been waiting on the hospital to finally get Uncle Ken's surgery completed , They canceled Wednesday's appointment and moved to Friday and when we got there Friday they canceled and sent us home once again, But that is another story.
Monday did not start out well either as I some how knocked the firewood truck out of gear and it rolled over the mountain about a hundred yards and hit a Maple tree head on, not a good start to the week. On Tuesday and Wednesday Kenny Ray and I worked on the Poop Coupe [mobile chicken coop] we may have the only vinyl sided chicken coop in Ross county. We did separate the Cornish Cross chicks from the New Hampshire's chicks. I like to start them together as the New Hamps scratch around and eat a lot of grass and bugs and the Cornish Cross imitate and learn.

First egg
I sit and watch the chicks every morning , I with hold the feed from both groups and they eat grass and bugs after about thirty minutes I put in the feed the New Hamps just ignore and keep scratching , the Cornish Cross attach the feeder they now eat about two pounds a day and the New Hamps eat less than a half pound a day. They are both three weeks old and the Cornish Cross are double in size already. I had some New Hamps get out of the cage Tuesday morning and Doc the beagle hound help me herd them back into the cage.
The free range Buff Orpingtons began laying there first eggs this week and we have been taking turns to check the coupe for eggs.
Our Guinea disappeared for about three days and I figured she had started laying and was nesting. Day four Kenny Ray found her and she was laying on fourteen eggs, it takes twenty eight days and hopefully we will have some Guinea's.
We have now have orders for ten of the twenty five Cornish Cross for the October 16 date.
We also have orders for half of the fifty Freedom Ranger chickens for the second week of November. If you are still wanting some please email and I will hold them for you.
brewerandsonsfarm@yahoo.com
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