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My featured Merit Badge Awardee of the Week is … Arlene Woods!!!
Arlene Woods (Whirlwindwoman, #7241) has received a certificate of achievement in Garden Gate for earning a Beginner Level Backyard Farmer Merit Badge!
“I have 15 laying hens. (Started out with 18, but a hawk was killing them.) I finally learned how to butcher a chicken! One of my friends showed me how to do it without the boiling water—just butcher them like we do the rabbits! So much easier.
I feed my girls organic grain and they free range for insects and have pasture.
We have enjoyed the large brown eggs and good meat that we know is healthy. My son wants to add Russian meat rabbits this year and we are doubling our flock to include a heritage breed. (Right now we have a hybrid – Golden Comets.)”
Congrats on your hens! And yes Rabbits are so much fun too.
Congrats! We have chickies as well, and rabbits! 🙂