Updates around the farm and gardens:

• How to keep cool weather crops happy when it's always over 90F,
• Keeping broilers cool in the pasture with box fans,
• Predators and pastured poultry,
• Still weaning the pigs,
• Thinking about moving the turkeys out sooner.

This weeks DOUBLE FEATURE Farmers Choice:

• Conventional farming isn't all bad so don't treat it that way,
• The difference between researching and just confirming your opinion.

This week’s updates around the farm and gardens:

• First batch of broiler chickens moved out to pasture,
• Pig updates,
• Turkey updates,
• The new garden shed,
• Summer heat in spring and its impact on the gardens and the CSA.

This weeks Rumination:

• Stress of the "uncontrolled" world of farming,
• How to manage the unexpected and being overwhelmed.

This week on Farm U:

• Moving broilers to the pasture,
• Getting the chicks comfortable in their new environment,
• Tips and tricks to making the move to pasture easier and less stressful on the chickens.

This week’s updates around the farm and gardens:

• CSA started and the veggies look great,
• More unexpected hot weather,
• Chicken-scaping the front pasture,
• Preparing to move the Cornish Cross (Cornish X) out to pasture this year,
• Weaning piglets,
• Enjoying strawberries pasture to plate.

In the Coopcast Community:

• A listener with guinea keets,
• Zach processed his first birds and Chad offers a tip on ice for processing,
• Someone listened to us and bought a geothermal system!
• Eddie is looking for tips on getting started.

This week on Farm U:

• The magic in preserving strawberries,
• General food preservation discussions (Kelli's favorite website for preserving food : http://pickyourown.org/allaboutcanning.htm)

This week’s updates around the farm and gardens:

• Piglets getting porked up;
• getting names and getting weaned,
• New layer chickens now in coop with the rest of the flock,
• Cornish X chicks in the brooder had some pecking issues,
• Managing hurt chickens and turkeys,
• New brooder for turkeys,
• Veggies planted, seeds planted, mulching has begun - the gardens are in,
• CSA starting this week!

In the News:

• Factory farm and its treatment of animals - http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/21/humane-society-wyoming-premium_n_1528541.html
• Baby chicks made 300 people sick over 8 years - ohh the horror - http://health.usnews.com/health-news/news/articles/2012/05/30/theyre-cute-but-baby-chicks-can-harbor-salmonella CDC Report on foodborne Salmonella numbers - http://www.cdc.gov/foodborneburden/2011-foodborne-estimates.html

This week on Farm U:

• Building a chicken brooder,
• What makes a good brooder,
• Differences between broiler chicken / egg laying chicken and turkey brooder design,
• Some tips for managing your brooder to make life easier for you.