• Black Stars in the Brooder
  The baby chicks are fed Gro Gel, and water with Quick Chick upon arrival.
• See How Much Grass They Eat
  Once we move them to the grass, they eat all the greens they want.
• Green House Provides a Variety
  To provide a variety of greens, we supplement with greens from our greenhouse.
• Green House Plants
  To provide a variety of greens, we supplement with greens from our greenhouse.
• Field Grown Greens
  In the fall and winter months we supplement their feed with winter greens from our outside garden beds.
• Close up of Organic Bran
  Supplemental feed of Organic Corn, Wheat and Oats
• Horses Guarding the Chicken Tractors
  Various livestock co-exist with our chicken tractors.

Production Brown egg layers, shipped at 16-22 weeks old. Each month we start a new batch of Black Stars. Black Stars are premium brown egg layer. Black Stars will start laying at around 22-23 weeks. They lay a large brown egg and are an easy to raise bird.

Our fully vaccinated chicks are kept in the brooder for 3-4 weeks depending on the outside temperature. When they arrive, they are given Gro Gel, warm water with Quick Chick and a little sugar dissolved. They are fed with an all-natural, GMO free feed. Around the time that they start jumping on the side boards of the brooders, we move them onto pasture. In the pasture they have free access to fresh grass, weeds, seeds and bugs. As you can see in the picture, they really eat the grass down.

Nearby we have a local gristmill (http://www.homesteadgristmill.com/) that mills locally grown organic wheat, corn and oats – as well as purchased organic blue corn. We supplement their pasture diet with a daily supplement of bran left over from the milling. The combination of various organic grains and corn makes a healthy addition to their foraging.

As the grass slows it's growing in the fall, we supplement their feed with greens from our 3 greenhouses and 1 field garden.