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