Hearts & Home Farm

01/21/2025

Activities are setup now!

01/04/2025

01/04/2025

Hey, y'all! Happy New Year! Last year was a tough year full of loss, but also new animals. I've been so busy around the farm & working I haven't had a chance to post in a while. I have some things in the works, but I am hoping to get to a more detailed post soon. I am happy to say that I added geese, more turkeys (only had 1 hen named Penny before.), & quail to the farm this year. Also, all the animals I did get a chance to post. I enjoy the farm & keeping y'all updated here, but unfortunately, I had to turn my efforts back to work/farm for now. Until I post again, thank you for your patience! - Kyrsten

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11/30/2024

So excited to have gotten my first LGD!! After a long, but exciting wait, she came home on November 20th. I’ve been needing/wanting one for years! Meet sweet girlie Papaya! (Hubby Asa picked the name & I loved it!) She is a Great Pyrenees (mama)/Anatolian Shepherd (dad).

I couldn’t decide between the breeds which I wanted to go with & thankfully I didn’t have to! Goat Farm Road LLC had a mix of the 2, so I got to go with both in one pup. She has been doing so great adjusting! I love that she has the color of the Anatolian with the coat it seems of the Great Pyrenees (I won’t know the exact coat length until she grows out of puppy fluff lol.). The goats/sheep are still adjusting to her, but they’ll get there eventually. 🥰 So excited for her to grow into her role as farm protector & hopefully her presence will result in fewer bird losses (It’s been a rough year 😅, but a growing one). Her main job will be goats/sheep with a guard presence around the other animals.

11/29/2024

Come check the store out before Christmas!

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11/10/2024

Eventually, my products will be offered here!

11/03/2024

It’s an amazing natural dewormer!

Pumpkins! Squash! Gourds! Oh my!

It’s that time of year again. If you have any pumpkins, hay bales, etc. you are looking to get rid of, now or after October 31st, we would love to take them for you. Our animals love treats!

10/28/2024

New location to sell my products is in the works!

🎉 Our Big Announcement is Here 🎉
We signed the lease on our new brick-and-mortar storefront!
Keep an eye out for updates as we get the keys, settle in, & plan for our soft opening in November. We will be reviving our store Elduets Treasures of the World that we used to have in downtown Augusta & we will have a home for our activities. Don't worry, we will still be available for mobile events. 😊
Get ready to explore the world finding new treasures in a local store while enjoying educational adventures! 🪆

08/25/2024

That, but also somebody has to keep the animals alive. 😅😂

08/17/2024

My sweet girls aren’t so little anymore. Had some setbacks with bleeding, but hopefully get litters out of them this year or next.

07/06/2024

6/16/24-6/29/24 Round-Up
- Meet our new hen from our friends, Henny (previously Henwen)! She lays blue eggs.
- The cows love a fresh haybale.
On June 21st 20 chicks of various ages were delivered.
June 23rd
- The poults moved first from the brooders to the grow-out pens, then later to a transitional pen in the field coop.
- The sheep completed their first rotation of rotational grazing.
- The goslings & ducklings moved from the brooder to the grow-out pens.
- Unfortunately, presumably due to the 107-degree heat on June 26th, we lost young Ace.

07/06/2024

6/4/24-6/15/24 Round-Up
- All the baby birds are growing big. Unfortunately, some chicks were lost to a snake. Survivors are now in the garage until I can secure the brooders better.
- The Sheep are settling in nicely!
- There was some beautiful rainy weather this past week.
- We have pumpkins in the garden & baskets of harvested peas, beans, & cucumbers!
- Saved some tadpoles & one had legs & a tail.
- The poults have started flirting. I look to have 4 Toms & 2 hens.
- I got 6 guinea fowl on the 12th.
- The sheep moved from their quarantine in the barn to their 1st field rotational pen.

*Tadpole swimming & flirting poults in the comments.

06/24/2024

5/26/24-6/3/24 Round-Up
It's been super busy around her with all the new animals & everything else going on. I've gotten behind on posting, so watch out for several posts this week. 😅

Several surprises earlier this month! Someone gave us some chicks at an event Elduets Adventures & Events was at on 6/1 evening, which unfortunately needed a little TLC, but we were able to help. We don’t know their story, but after getting them home, putting them with the bantam chicks I have, under some heat, drinking from a waterer, & proper-sized feed they were a little perkier Sunday morning.

Surprise #2: The big Summer announcement I was so excited for. I was able to pick up my new Katahdin sheep from Goat Farm Road LLC on 6/2! They are a great dual-purpose breed with some great features. I didn’t know until recently they came in different colors. I got an 8-month black ram, 2 6-month white ewes, & 2 6-month red/brown ewes (1 looks to have some black spots.). I named the ram Abaa, the 2 white ewes: Albaa & Kyomi, & the 2 red/brown ewes: Crimson & Scarlette. (Yes, Abaa, & Albaa are plays on baa. 😂)

Thrilled to have added sheep. There are 2 types of sheep: hair sheep & wool sheep. Katahdin sheep are actually hair sheep. Both types of sheep have wool & hair fibers, but hair sheep don’t have to be sheared like wool sheep do.

In nature news 🌳: We had a soft-shelled turtle visitor 6/3 morning. We’re gonna keep an eye out for babies that may start popping out from the ground. 😂 Wild mama birds on the porch‘s babies are getting so big.

BONUS: I found a great new spot for my hammock behind the barn. Plus all the babies around here are growing up so much. 🥹🥲 Pretty sure there are at least 2 Tom (male) turkey poults. Ace is slowly looking less like a baby, but he is still cute