It's that time of year again. Time for turkey! This year we decided not to buy any birds from the commercial hatcheries, but to just ...

  Since today was my day off from my "real" job at the vet's, I had every intention of sleeping in a bit. Unfortunately, I wa...

  It was normal Wednesday for us. Big Onion and I were away from the farm working our "real jobs" when we got a call from the neig...

  This morning we dropped off four of our largest heritage turkeys to the processors as sort of a trial run for when Thanksgiving rolls aro...

 The broad breasted white turkeys are growing very quickly. We had them in one of our indoor/outdoor pens, but the rain coupled with the f...

 The broad breasted white turkey poults are growing fast! They moved from the indoor brooder to a raised pen in the poultry house. Last we...

  In years past, we have had problems with fowl pox and our turkeys. It's a nasty virus that is often spread by mosquitoes that result...

  It occurred to me that I never shared these pictures of the newest batch of turkeys. We ordered 40 broad breasted white turkeys from Ide...

Here are a few more of the pictures that Big Onion took on Thanksgiving morning. Many of the animals got special treats in honor of the hol...