Why is it always so hard to start a post? I always say...."Hi Everyone!" Titles are also hard to come by!:) Anyways.... To start out I will answer Matthew's questions.
1.What kind of chickens do you have?
We use Cornish-x as well. We butcher our birds at 8 and 9 weeks. At 8 weeks we do them as whole birds and at 9 weeks we cut them and package them as boneless breast fillets, wings, leg quarters, etc.
2.When you process the meat birds. Do you have a plucker or do you do it by hand?
We have the Featherman picker. With the quantity of birds that we do we can't hand pick!:)
We did some processing at the end of last week and were very grateful for the help of Elliott and Oliver Alexander and Eric and Aaron Jackson. My birthday was also last week:) Today we bought 18 pigs, Will and Aaron Jackson have been working on one of Will's tractors, and Mom and I have been working on "The Laundry Project". Any of you boys who are reading this post may very well at this point decide to stop reading:) But we are going through the laundry for a good reason! Dad has been convicted lately about having us girls dress more modestly. As a general rule we usually wear dresses and skirts, but now we are taking it to a deeper level. So today, when most of the others were outside, Mom and I plowed through the laundry, ruthlessly tossing out anything that was too tight, low necked, etc. etc. etc.:) I felt like I was the victor of a battle as I filled up bag after bag of rejected clothes. In our family we have been talking a lot about modesty lately and how we want to dress in such a way that we are feminine and modest, so we do not tempt our brothers in Christ to sin. Dad gave an excellent message in church last Sunday regarding the issue of purity, young men learning to train their eyes, minds and hearts to keep themselves pure in a culture where purity seems to be a foreign concept. Dad spoke of the beautiful picture of that first marriage in the Garden. Adam naming the animals..... male, female, male, female.... "but there was not found an helpmeet suitable for Adam." So God formed a Helpmeet for him, a completer, a friend, made perfect for him! The perfect Oneness of the first couple and of the beauty of Christ and His Church, and how the marriage convenent represents this beautiful union. The value of saving yourself for your future husband/wife! One thing I appreciate so much about my dear daddy is how serious he is about his personal walk and our family's walk with Christ, and how devoted he is to following Christ, seeking His Will and doing it no matter what! (I am convinced that I must have the wisest, best daddy in the whole world!:) He is constantly re-evaluating and asking the Lord for guidance, and my dear mama is such a godly example to my sisters and me of what it means to be a godly wife, of following and submitting, and pouring out her life furthering his vision. I count myself very blessed! Thank you for allowing me to ramble a bit! I hope everyone has a blessed week!
-Morgan
1 comment:
Wonderful post.
Oliver
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