Chicken Thistle Farm Coopcast

This week: Locally acquired chickens (support a local business),  Around the farm updates,  Preparations for pig farrowing,  Limping Andy and animals on concrete,  Pasture to Plate simple dishes.  In the The Coopcast Community: Chicks in a brooder - Use a red bulb in your brooder,  What is the best breed of pig?  A gift book and visit,  A listener "uses" his broody hen.  This Week, In The News: The FDA decided to "recommend" that no on farm antibiotics be used without a vets prescription.  While this sounds like a great thing, with less than 10000 large animal vets in the country, what's the real impact to small farms? ( discusses antibiotic resistance in the Farm U segment)