Pine Acres Miniature Farm

01/17/2025

$4/dz farm fresh unwashed eggs.

Laid this week.

01/17/2025

We have farm fresh eggs available!!

$4/dz

Can meet in Brandenburg or Corydon.

01/16/2025

Beautiful colors!! Check out these

01/14/2025

Is this not what we all want?!

01/12/2025

It’s a wonderful day to do some farm chores!

Amazon beach wagon for the win in this snow!

Not exact one pictured as no longer available but a very similar one linked in comments!

01/09/2025

Fresh straw carefully placed in the barn. Nice and dry and warm in there….

Sheep: outside is nice…
Horses: yea, Imma stay out here…

01/07/2025

We got a fairy egg today! Liz was excited to crack it open and take a peak!

01/06/2025

We did a little prep work before the winter weather hit! Follow us to see how everything held up.

What did you do to prep for the ?

To start off we insulated our water troughs. To do this we placed a smaller water container inside of a larger container. We used this small container https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CGXKF9WS/?tag=pineacresmini-20
inside this larger container https://www.amazon.com/dp/B000NPBLAU/?tag=pineacresmini-20 .
We stuffed it with straw on the bottom and then surrounding the bowl making a nice straw insulation. This held up really well, the water never froze, did get slush like but never froze.

Next up was some overkill, we insulated and protected our outside spigots. Using ones like these https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CFL2JQQF/?tag=pineacresmini-20 should keep them from freezing, but we believe in better safe than sorry! We wrapped them with some plastic wrap (like this https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0C7VJX57W/?tag=pineacresmini-20) and some straw. Big thing with winter weather and outside spigots, unhook your hose!!!

Next, we spread out some straw in our stalls and barns for the animals. We don’t have electric in any of our outbuildings, but with their warm winter coats, straw, and staying out of the wind and wet our animals do just fine in winter weather. Biggest thing is having somewhere for them to get out of the elements, and block the wind.

Lastly we finished the chicken coop outside with some straw underneath. Our coop is raised (about 1’), so we pack straw underneath to help with heat retention. We also sealed off the windows with plastic wrap and utilized the deep liter method. Again no power in outbuildings, so just good seal for drafts and out of the cold. Their body heat and natural downy coats keep them plenty warm. We do have a small solar light, for when they are locked up all day, to mimic sunlight (https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DDXX674V/?tag=pineacresmini-20) works great even in low sunlight conditions.

Hope you all enjoyed and stayed safe!

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01/05/2025

Hope everyone is staying safe and warm during this vortex. 7” and growing currently here at pine acres.

All the critters are tucked warmly in their shelters, except the horses who decided that standing outside in the snow is better than the 1’ deep straw covered stall.

01/04/2025

Sometimes you gotta dual purpose your summer items into winter items!

01/02/2025

This is why you should know who you are buying from… I see a lot of interesting things these days on what people are calling their hens.

This chart is wrong, and many other breeders have called the groups attention to that fact and yet, the admin doesn’t acknowledge or replace it with what is correct. So, you wonder why there is a lot of confusion when it comes to what hens and their eggs really are and what you can expect from their offspring.

A blue egg layer x a brown egg layer = F1OE.
An F1OE x a brown layer is NOT an F2OE but a back cross. The correct label is BC1OE.

In order to get an F2 Olive Egger you need to breed an F1OE O/o+ to another F1OE O/o+ (generally speaking). But, you will split 4 ways so 25% will carry the Olive Egger genes. This is super general. It’s more complex than that.

If you want to know about the O/O, O/o, O/O+, O/o+, O+/O+, O/o- etc etc you really need to research.

Sometimes I wonder if people even know what they are talking about when they throw these labels out there about their birds and generations.

It’s A LOT to learn and I don’t know all of it but I do know that when you take an F1OE and pair it with a Brown layer you are getting BC1OE with 50% split to brown in those early generations.

Then there is Olive Egger stabilization which takes very selective breeding and many generations to achieve. So, even when someone is selling Olive Eggs, unless they are farther along in their breeding there is no guarantee that an F2 or F3 Olive Egger is going to give you F3 or F4 Olive Egger. The chances are higher but there is still a split to brown and Easter Eggers, until they are able to achieve Olive Egger stabilization.

I am extremely transparent about this and emphasize this in the details of my website pages because I’d rather disappoint you upfront (and steer those with unrealistic expectations away) and have you be surprised at outcome when the hens start laying, than fabricate something unrealistic and you are completely devastated, like many are, when posting the eggs they are getting from breeders who have lied to them.

You wait so long to get those eggs and it is heart breaking when they aren’t what someone said they would be. I’ve been there.

Just something to think about.

01/01/2025

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12/25/2024

We came home from Christmas Eve dinner at the parents to a surprise pig! After some Facebook research we found out it was a pig that had escaped but the person who had it wasn’t able to care for it anymore and it now has a new home.

Kringle the Christmas Pig is now the newest addition to the farm family!

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12/24/2024

12/23/2024

Gotta keep an eye on the ladies.