Thane's Neck Farm

Today our local Farmer's Market opened for the season.  McKayla, Taylor and I went over to see what was being offered.  There was someon...

We had a guy stop by the farm this morning looking for a turkey tom to buy for his hens. In luck I still had two toms that I haven't go...

My friend Heather and her family came over this afternoon to learn how to butcher and dress out a turkey. They have a farm in Virginia and w...

Processed the last turkey for a customer today. Glad to be done for another year. Now I can enjoy my favorite holiday tomorrow.

Most of my afternoon was taken up by the two more turkeys I dressed out today. It didn't help that it was raining all day. These two bir...

That is what farming is all about. Days like today remind me of that fact... It was cold this morning, the water in the barn was frozen. I w...

Well, here it is, the weekend before Thanksgiving. The push to get the remainder of this year's turkeys sold has begun. I had two gent...

It has been getting quite chilly for October in North Carolina. We have been piling on extra blankets at night to keep the chill away. So, t...

This was what I saw out my kitchen window this afternoon... This is our turkey hen that has been raising up its own single poult. The babie...

Between yesterday and today there are three new ducklings and two more turkey poults in the brooder. I expect a flush of ducklings in the ne...

The kids have been looking forward to today all Spring! Today Daddy set up the pool again! The past two years here at the farm we have had a...

Had a very nice family come to the farm today to see our Muscovy ducklings. They ended up taking 8 of them home. That leaves us with 8 in th...

Just a quick note to report on the poultry. Found six more ducklings in the barn this morning. That brings the duckling count up to eleven....

Two more ducklings hatched out in the barn today... a smokey grey one and one marked like a mallard duckling (those markings don't stay ...

McKayla holding the 1st duckling of the season. I discovered the first Muscovy duckling of the season in the barn this morning. It was hat...

I was thrilled to discover one of my four Narragansett turkey hens leading her newly hatched poults through the flower bed in front of the h...

I managed to get three more roosters butchered off today. It would have been four but one of them escaped from the pen I had them in as I wa...

Neil had noticed a few weeks ago that one of the turkey hens was setting on a nest of eggs near the shed. This morning I saw that hen was st...

As with all small farms our To Do List is never ending it seems. But there are some jobs on it that are so miserable to even think about tha...

As I was getting ready this morning to go out to do chores the kids had already headed out to play outside. A few minutes later McKayla com...