Chicama Run Family Farm

This week is super busy...

Alexis is in Vacation Bible School and is having a blast...... Jacob is outside helping Joe build the new turkey house......I'm doing paperwork and doing tax stuff...

This is what's exciting though....

A few years ago I applied for the exemption to process poultry.... it was 5,000 birds per year and you couldn't sell to restaurants, cut up the birds etc. THEY CHANGED IT!!! Now I can cut up birds, sell to stores and do all this stuff - I just need a label on my product. No biggie there!! PLUS - not that I see myself doing this - but it's up to 20,000 birds (yep you read that right)

So I am excited about this little tidbit that was shared with me and then verified by VDACS this morning.

Now I get to practice cutting up some birds as well....and since we are going to focus more on poultry - this is a huge bonus for us.

Ok - and we also decided to keep 6 of the breeding ewes (that's sheep talk for girl sheep) and we kept the 1 ram I can go in the pen with and not get hit because he wants to play. They will be for the kids and their market lambs for 4-H more than for the farm sales - but we will probably bring a few back to sell after the fair.