What I Did This Week (Week 77)
1/26/25
Writing to you from Uruguay.
Question for you
As I am headed back to the states in March, do you have any recommendations of things I should do there?
Butchering
We got around to butchering most of my broiler chickens this past weekend. I wanted to get it done before I leave for the sailing course in the Falkland Islands on Thursday.
The chickens were put back in the chicken coop for a few weeks ago in preparation for butchering them. Mostly, we wanted them in the chicken coop so we could fatten them up one last time.
Raising broiler chickens has been an interesting experiment.
For one, I lost more than half of them from skunks, which got into the chicken coop and the chicken tractor. Along with that, I have a better idea of what the order of operations should look like.
I’ll be gone for a long time, but if I want to continue the broiler chicken operation when I come back, I’d do a few things differently:
Buy more chickens than I think I need (expect losses…
