So Awesome to see you raise and butcher your own meat. Great looking Rabbit and chicken.
Thanks Key! It's been both a humbling and exciting adventure this first year! We went from just a couple of dogs this time last year to what seems like gazillions of critters! (37 chickens, 3 ducks, 5 goats, 26 rabbits... and a partridge in a pear tree!) This next Spring we are expecting a couple of our goats to have kids so we can have fresh goat milk too-- that will be the next major challenge! Between some good books and the internet, though, there's nothing we haven't been able to handle yet! My partner, James, has been incredible with helping set up the barn/shop with automatic watering lines, etc to make it pretty darn easy to do, too! Usually spend about 15 minutes each night gathering eggs and filling feeders, and occasionally a couple hours on the weekend weekend doing extra tasks.
Feels awesome knowing first hand what is going into the food we're eating. It's very humbling doing the butchering myself too-- but there's a great sense of accomplishment that goes along with it, knowing that every animal lived well and died well too.
--Kat
