Attained
- Have Muscovy flock on the farm since last June
- Have harvested & traded a number of drakes in 2018
- We pick up unwanted roosters from other islanders and harvest them, offering one as finished meat in return when appropriate, but primarily , in return, I am able to offer a limited necropsy report, which can be indicative of the flock’s health.
- Perennial onions & strawberry plants, among others, have made it happily through winter.
- Have sold ducklings (6) again this year, as well as a number of eggs, mostly chicken
- Have an indoor light rack & shelving for indoor plants & seeds
- Traded eggs for live rabbits & processed them
- Perennial woody herbs in front yard bed.
- Sold 2 adult Muscovy hens to R.
What’s New
- Flock has expanded to include 14 hens and, temporarily, 1 rooster.
- With ducks, flock total is almost 80 birds between the home property & farm.
- Intent of processing facility is solid, and progress continues to be made toward the end of legal meat.
- Doing others’ roosters is largely new to this year.
- On waiting list w/ Holderread Waterfowl for Hookbill ducks.
- Lentil, The House Chicken, and her currently 18 eggs
- GP of SB expressed a conversational interest in the purchase of Muscovy ducklings.
- ~40 lbs of meat we didn’t have to raise, house, feed, or love, harvested so far this year
- Truffles (Oregon whites?) grow in the rhododendrons below our window.
- Kaffir lime died
Now
- Complete processing area & produce legal meats
- Continue to harvest roosters & trade for rabbits
- Complete new, larger coop
- Determine and do first harvest/thinning of Muscovy hens
- Continue w/perennials
- Keep up w/food kitchen garden
- Safe & attractive baby bays for mother ducks to brood
- Water automation – watering for plants & birds
- Many strawberries, alpine
- Oca
- Continue to build soil level in wet yard and fence gaps
- Keep up a trickle of positive community activity via birds
- Increase perennial food crops
- Produce next generation of laying hens
- Increase family’s enjoyment of the flock
- Portable/movable duck run cycle
