| We're a Farm, Farm Store & Café Animals lovingly grown in small groups on pasture without antibiotics and hormones |
Visit the Heather Ridge Farm Store and Bees Knees Café 989 Broome Center Road Preston Hollow, NY 12469 518-239-6234 |
 
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Laying HensWe maintain a flock of eighty to one hundred layers that are a mix of Barred Rocks, and black and red sex links. During the summer, they roam the top fields, following the cattle, and scratching for bugs. They are truly free range, never confined.Daylight is important in regulating the hens' output of eggs, so they lay much less in the short daylight hours of winter days. We don't trick them by leaving lights on in their winter quarters. They can have their days of rest. |
 This barred rock is waiting for a nest box in the egg mobile to empty out so she can take her turn laying an egg.  Laying hens diving in clover. |