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Cindy Egg Farmerette: Dispatches from a new enriched colony barn build

December 14th, 2017

Cindy Huitema, an egg farmer from Haldimand County shares her and her husband’s journey of retrofitting an existing conventional housing barn while at the same time, converting a farrow-to-finish hog barn to enriched housing systems.

Follow along with us as she chronicles their learnings and shares the knowledge she is gaining through this experience.

Blog 1: Cindy Egg Farmerette: An Introduction

Blog 2: Cindy Egg Farmerette: Clearing the Way

Blog 3: Cindy Egg Farmerette: Why we chose enriched housing

Blog 4: Cindy Egg Farmerette: Barn taking shape

Blog 5: Cindy Egg Farmerette: Our new housing system arrived

Blog 6: Cindy Egg Farmerette: A frustrated farmerette in February

Blog 7: Cindy Egg Farmerette: March Madness

Blog 8: Cindy Egg Farmerette: Come What May

Blog 9: Cindy Egg Farmerette: Looking back after the build

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