Another beautiful year on the homestead!
Mama decided to kid tonight, having one sweet little girl!!
Meet Lainey!
I promised y’all updates on the meat bird, and who’d have thought I’d have been this busy to keep you updated.. well better late than never right..? Here we are, going on week 6 and we’re on the home stretch now!
It’s really amazing at how fast these guys grow. Cornish cross have always seemed to have a bad wrap for their look or the claim of being an unhealthy breed; however I have found to really enjoy them. They aren’t the prettiest to look at, but looking at them isn’t the point. They haven’t had any issues this far, we started them off with about 3 weeks of probiotics in their water, and about 5lbs of feed a day for the first week. Today they are drinking about 55 gallons of water in about a week and are eatting 50lbs of food in 4 days.
Is this cost effective? I’m not sure yet, but I will be totaling everything up on butcher day, and we’re all going to see what the difference is. On the natural/healthy aspect of things, I absolutely would do all of this again. Where does your meat come from? 🤔
Our Flemish Giant, Dolly, and her babies got moved to their new outdoor hutch. These hutches will work out better for such a large breed plus a litter. Lots more room!!
Babies just turned 4 weeks old!!
Little bitty nuggets! Can’t wait to have our first go with meat birds this year! 100 Cornish cross chickens arrived on the homestead this morning!
Follow us to watch them go and learn how to process the old fashioned way in 8-10weeks!
Ruthy’s Angel X Ruthy’s Java
BEW X Chocolate holland lops! 😍
Bon appétit!
Haven’t posted the piggies in a while, the pigs loved the one little patch of grass they had left in their pen. They have done a wonderful job rooting this area up, and I’m very impressed! Now to just clean up and get them moved into their next patch!
SOLD: 5 Young black chickens
Letting them go as a group of straight run, though I’m pretty confident they are all pullets. Barnyard mix, could lay olive eggs. Some have extra toes, muffs and beards.
Turkeys and silkies are not available.
Corry PA
SOLD:
Eagle Valley’s Blueberry X Ruthy’s Checkers
(Rex/Harlequin mix)
Born: 2/18/24
8w: 4/14/24
Self Blue- Buck
Self Blue- Buck
Opal-Buck
Lynx- Buck
Harlequinized Chestnut- Buck
Sadly this whole litter was bucks, but they would still make great pets, or herd bucks for meat breeders! No pedigrees.
Corry PA
Dakotas kits have finally started to adventure out of the nest box!
SOLD:
3 Palm turkeys, 50/50 royal palm or blue palm. Straight run only
Corry PA
SOLD:
50/50 chance of Royal or Blue Palms.
Straight run only.
Will have another group available of turkeys ready around the 18th.
Corry PA
Piggies were enjoying their breakfast, and the sunshine yesterday! Love watching their little tails wag when they are happy!
Got some rabbits and potentially our goats bread yesterday as well! Lots of exciting things happening already!
Turkeys are hatching!!!! 4-5 available, please inquire for more info! I won’t be posting them until Thursday or Friday
Enjoy some piggy slerpin’
Porky, Chop, and Petunia are officially 9 weeks old!
New Zealand X Harlequin mixes!
Ready to go in another 4 weeks, would make great additions (or the start) of a meat rabbit program! Super pretty and starting to become really sweet!
Momma is around 11lbs, daddy is right around 9lbs these guys will be big!
Last year our sweet Mable hatched 3 chicks but unfortunately none of them made it. This year I decided not to give her any eggs because of this. After sitting faithfully in a nest for close to 3 weeks with no eggs I decided to give her a chick. (The only chicken chick that hatched from our last batch) She immediately took to baby and has been an awesome mother!! Way to go Mable!
2023 Chick Hatch
Pretty cool to watch our first chick hatch tonight!
Wishing everyone a happy Easter weekend!
Candling the eggs tonight, check this out! At one point my husband said “look there’s a foot!”
We officially have a doeling! Momma did an awesome job with an unassisted birth, momma and kid are doing very well!
Congratulations to this weeks winner Susie Heim!
And thank you all for participating in our giveaways!!