Meet Real Free-Range Eggs

Interesting article on free range eggs! My chickens are beginning to cooperate, so I have just a few dozen eggs for sale! All my chickens are what I call EXTREME free range - so much so, be careful driving in. They've had the run of the place all summer and strut the driveway with not a care in the world. They don't have any commercial feed at all - just bugs and the ground corn they can scavenge from the horses, cows, and goats. Click on the article below from Mother Earth News to learn more about healthy eggs!

Meet Real Free-Range Eggs

Rob Baker

Jonathan Smith

Brian Graack

Daniel Tuten 6 points

Eddie Withrock, 8 point

Byron Bailey with an 8 point

Rhett Duncan

Joel Cox 8 points

Madison Jones with a wild boar!

Alec and Lawrence Savage had a good opening morning!

Alec Savage, 8 point in velvet

Glen Williamson with the first one, a velvet 6 point.

Cordray Farms Store opens at 8 am on August 15th!

Hello, Friends!
As deer season opens, we have the meatcase stocked with all natural, locally grown Cordray Farms steaks, burger, summer sausage, jerky, and snack sticks! We also have Cordray Brothers, mild, and bratwurst pork sausage for sale.  Come see us!
Sunday hours are a rarity! Usually, we are open 9 am to 10 pm Monday - Saturday. We open just on Sunday nights from 6 pm to 10 pm for deer check in. But tomorrow is an exception since it is the opening day of the 2010 deer season. Hope to see you tomorrow!
Claudia Cordray



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Cordray Farms
Cordray's Venison Processing
6708 County Line Rd.
Ravenel, SC 29470
843.766.7922

Just one day left! See you Sunday!

As we wait 2 more days...want to see what we did on our summer vacation?

Michael hates it when I call it that! Somehow being in the hayfield in the 100 degree heat doesn't feel like a vacation, but compared to being in the store 84 hours a week, 7 days a week, it is! So this will be recaps of Cordray Farms in the offseason!

We played in snow.

We played in mud.

We played with baby goats and...

frogs and...

always checked on cows by the light of the moon!

We worked some

and some more.

And best of all... the Lord blessed our son, Tristan, and his wife, Callie, with a new baby boy!

Alligators are coming.... Sept. 11th!

Local hunters will have to travel farther afield to find meat processors | islandpacket.com

We look forward to welcoming some new hunters! Click on the title above or link below to read this article in the Island Packet from Beaufort.

Local hunters will have to travel farther afield to find meat processors | islandpacket.com

Opening Day: Sunday 9 am to 10 pm

Deer Season opens this year on Sunday. In the past, DNR has moved the opening to Saturday, but not this year. 

So we will be open 9 am to 10 pm on August 15th. Then we'll go back to our usual Daylight Savings Time hours, Mon. - Sat. 9 am to 10 pm, Sundays open in the evening 6 pm to 10 pm.

When the time changes Nov. 7th, we'll close at 9 each night.

Making Sense of Velvet by T. Edwards Nickens

We usually have about 2 weeks during which the deer have velvet antlers. These living tissues need special care to preserve them. Kenneth can do antler mounts or shoulder mounts to preserve these unique trophies. Field and Stream magazine's April issue reports:

Antler velvet is made up of a hairlike network of blood vessels and nerves, and it gives big bucks a kind of sixth sense-kinesthesia- to help them judge the positioning of their antlers and thread them through the thickest tangles.  If the buck misjudges and damages the velvet, the antler can grow abnormally. And that's not always a bad thing for hunters.

If you take an early season buck with velvet antlers, be sure to bring it to Cordray's Taxidermy!