Headlamp Farms

Spring is here and new growth is popping up on the farm- including a new chicken coop!

9 lbs of plums from a friend’s tree and 3 lbs of tomatoes from the garden to make BBQ sauce, duck sauce, plum chutney, and tomato salsa. Stocking up and storing the summer bounty for the winter ahead.

TW: Poultry slaughter

So one of my chickens, Dulcet, made a distinctive Crowing sound the other day. I didn't want to believe it, but I finally had to accept that, yes, I had a rooster.

You can't have a rooster in the city; and for good reason as my neighbors can attest. They are obnoxiously loud, with a shrill call that goes right to your bones in close quarters like this.

Since I'm about to be out of town for 10 days i realized that i truly had to deal with it this week. So Headlamp Farms again earned its name when i started boiling water at 10 PM.

From saying goodbye to having a fridge/freezer of meat and cleaning up the evidence took just about an hour. I'm a slow and meticulous plucker and certainly not fast at butchering even though this is, I think, the 12th bird that has hit my chopping block.