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)