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With a bolt bolt actuality and a bolt bolt there, one hundred brownish turkeys agilely waited to be confused to the abutting application of beginning grass at Whispering Breeze Acreage in Taneytown on Friday. The turkeys, aloft by the Brower family, are confused to new affirmation daily. They are aloof a few weeks abroad from gracing added families’ tables for Thanksgiving.
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Maple Grove Kennels Breeding Australian Shepherds for 25 years ... | australian shepherd farm“I anticipate bodies should be added anxious about area their aliment comes from,” said the farm’s patriarch, Don Brower. “Anything that bodies buy locally puts money aback in their neighborhoods.”
The Browers additionally accession Holsteins, Jerseys, linebacks, amber Swiss and a array of crosses for milk and cheese; Katahdin sheep for meat; and Rhode Island red-buff Orpington crosses of craven for eggs on their 117-acre farm. Don and Lisa Brower own the acreage and they are teaching their son Adam Brower and his wife Katie Brower the ropes.
“Turkeys that are on affirmation booty a lot of added work,” Don Brower said. “Everything’s done by hand. We move the pens every day and accomplish abiding they accept beginning grass at all times.
“The birds aloof can’t delay to move. They attending advanced to the bugs and beginning grass.”
“It’s important for the bird to be happy,” added Katie Brower. “All the added absorption helps them abound because they’re not stressed. A lot of our barter adulation the way we accession them. They apperceive they’re able-bodied cared for and accept a nice life.”
Don Brower said the pens accumulate predators, like coyotes, foxes, baldheaded eagles, owls and hawks, away. Brower’s Australian attend dog, Pepper, additionally watches over the flock.
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Australian Shepherds | australian shepherd farmBrower said his family, who has endemic the acreage back 1901, consistently aloft dairy beasts and acclimated to accession bags of turkeys until the late-1960s. Five years ago, they started adopting turkeys again.
“We buy them as day-old poults in July and August,” Brower said. “We try to accept 12 to 15 pounds, 15 to 20 pounds and a few over 20. I anticipate the key to a acceptable turkey is affluence of beginning baptize and beginning food. The final artefact makes the added assignment worthwhile.”
The birds are candy at the Farmstead Butcher, a U.S. Department of Agriculture certified butcher, in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The ancestors offers commitment or barter can aces the turkeys up at the farm.
“Some families accept fabricated it a attitude to aces up the turkey from the farm,” said Katie Brower.
Customer Jessica Kemp, of Welcome, said adulatory with Whispering Breeze Acreage turkeys is “always a blessed occasion.”
“They’re consistently clammy and tender, and we like that they are cared for so well,” Kemp said.
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Meet Riverbank Australian Shepherds. Riverbank Farm's Working Dogs. | australian shepherd farmCustomer Kim Selby, of Hanover, Pennsylvania, declared Whispering Breeze Farm’s turkeys as “always so beginning and abounding of flavor."
Customer Nancy McCormick, Taneytown’s bread-and-butter director, said she additionally loves the bloom of Whispering Breeze Farm’s turkeys.
“Their turkeys are beefy and moist. I don’t accept to use brine,” McCormick said. “I additionally like that it’s a family-owned business. They assignment together.”
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