Here at Salad Bar Farm, we start early. Sunday morning up at 530am, armed with coffee, enjoy the beautiful sunrise. As the day turned warm, I took pleasure in the sweet peas growing in the front garden. If only the portable house for chickens were built.
Friends came by and we enjoyed a light picnic before showing off the fodder system. He was raised on a big farm in Idaho and said his mother would get samples of seed and sprout them first to determine which sample would have the best germination and that's the one they would plant. He asked me to grow some sprouts for salads and sandwiches, I hadn't thought of that but should give it a try.
The piggers are on their second 50 lb bag of feed and even though they've only been here a week, their weight gain is obvious. This feed is grower instead of the starter. They are more playful now and when I approach the pen, they run up to meet me. Very funny watching them trot, their little legs are so short and when in action the whole body moves and quickly too. They do everything as a group, always competing for the same space. I took photos and will post those and the ones we took last week. It may be a visual of the growth.
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