Organic Livestock
KINGS HILL FARM ANIMALS ALL ENJOY AN ORGANIC LIFE
Free range, open pasture, certified organic feed, grain, hay and lots of vegetable matter for extra nutrition gives all of our animals healthy, happy lives which makes for delicious eggs and meat. We raise the animals for the variety they bring to the farm ecology. We have extra eggs that we take to our farmers markets our chicken, duck and geese eggs are exquisitely delicious!! The meat we raise is to feed our family on the farm.
Chickens huddle in their coops through the winter storms; nibble sprouts and green spring as it emerges; frolic in the summer lushness and have no worries when fall gets cold. The variety of heritage breeds makes a range of hues in the egg carton!
Ducks roam with the chickens. We fill sleds with water for daily bathing enjoyment. They waddle, quack, eat grains and dig in the grasses as they please. Our duck eggs are delicious and nutritious with very limited availability, but we are expanding our flock and in 2011 our availability will increase.
The geese are our protectors, guardians by default. They are so noisy any pesky varmint that dares enter our dogs territory is scared away by the chatter. Normally, laying eggs from early spring to mid summer a goose can lay up to 90 eggs a year. Unlike chickens and ducks, geese can lay productively from the age of 2 – 14 yrs and can continue to lay into their twenties. This makes a flock that not only produces but protects for a long time here at Kings Hill Farm. This spring we are adding many more laying geese and will have eggs available in 2011.
Our contented Bee population is growing. We have 10 hives which will get additional stories this season and we are beginning 10 more hives this season as well. Everybody’s happy – pollen and nectar seep from the flowers of so many flavors, bees are full and plants are pollinated!! Honey is on the Summer Forecast of 2010 and of course beeswax!
Silly Turkeys roam around eating insects and seeds. They huddle up in the barn/greenhouse with the other birds in the winter time. The turkeys continue to successfully hatch and raise their own young here on the farm!
Filbert is our latest farmyard addition. Joel traded Filbert for a window with an Amish family. He has brought much joy and inspiration. Joel maintains many trails on the farm for you to come visit and for him and Filbert to RUN! He allows Joel to patrol the farm acreage and adventure.
We can’t have a farm full of animals without giving our dog pack credit! Mama Cookie and pups Shakti, Kickapoo and Hazel do a wonderful job of decreasing our worries of farm animal predators. They LOVE hunting. It was quite the learning process to train them to hunt only wild animals, but we feel confident they have figured it out now!
