Farmer Deno would like to introduce our Blog followers to our newest employees of the farm. The 2016 Natomas Farm forecast is.... a bumper year for us. These 100 new employees will be in charge of pest control......fertilizer production.....and of course the egg department.
Much to my surprise......the egg business is a high demand product. Each week our brown eggs are sold out.....and the demand has ended up creating a client wait list! It's been a very long learning curve......on how to raise a flock for eggs. One would think ..... "how can it be that hard to have a hen house for eggs". Well......it took nearly 5 years to ace out the knowledge of the poultry business....raising them that is. The selling part came easy to me.....since I have spent most of my life in a sales atmosphere.
The ups and down over five years......dogs attacking, racoon(s) in the hen house, wrong feed, crows eating the eggs, overlooking daylight hours verses egg production.......I can type a full page of the "education" I have received!
The farm is aiming for a 500 bird operation in 2017. Lots of Cluck cluck to be.
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