Feathers, Fur, and Flowers

07/12/2024

What do you do when you're having the urge to get rid of yours? The burnout is real. Anyone need a new flock? I have the sweetest roosters on the planet.

05/11/2024

Amazing

This farmer couple used silicon to create molds in the shape of their own feet. They then planted turnips using these molds. As the turnips grew, they filled the molds and took on the shape of their feet.
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04/17/2024

Some of my favorites blooming right now. 😍🌸💖

04/06/2024

Would you rather receive a random assortment of eggs or have them organized by color?

03/30/2024

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Why and How to Install a Frog Hotel in Your Garden 💥💬👇

03/29/2024

Miss Cheeks' egg artwork of the day.

03/28/2024

We are all looking for a solution to reduce w**ds! Like many, I tried landscape fabric as a new gardener and it sure seemed to work great…until it didn’t! Much cursing is involved in trying to remove it. Additionally it harms plants, soil, and insects. More here:

-Woven w**d barrier fabrics initially allow some minor oxygen and water exchange to the soil, but eventually become clogged. Lack of oxygen and water to plant roots and soil microbes significantly reduces plant growth.
-Weeds easily germinate on top of the fabric and root into or through it making w**ding more, instead of less, challenging.
-Woven plastic fabrics disrupt the life cycles of many pollinators and other soil invertebrates who need access to bare ground for nesting.
-Eventually falls apart making removal difficult.

For information on CSU recommended mulching options, read more here: https://extension.colostate.edu/topic-areas/yard-garden/mulches-for-home-grounds-7-214/

CMG Kelli, March 2024

03/24/2024

Somehow I never noticed that the eggs our Easter egger, Cheeks, lays are actually speckled under the bloom! I had to rinse today's batch of eggs due to mud from all the rain we've been getting and there they were! Normally they're a pretty light green and often have white speckles over the bloom.

We think they're great either way! 💖 Send us a message for more info on hatching eggs. 😊

03/20/2024

Some of today's eggs. We love speckles. 🤩

Interested in hatching eggs? Send us a message!

03/20/2024

Who lost their mind and bought a ton of Dahlia tubers even though they don't love growing in this climate? Me. It's me. At least they might elevate my egg pictures? 🙃

Wish me luck!! I really don't want to kill them.

03/08/2024

Introducing our large fowl flock. Our birds mostly come from Color Me Chicken Farms and ETX Gemstone Eggers with the exception of 2-3 birds.
Can you tell which eggs have heavy blooms and which don't?

03/08/2024

Our girls are going crazy laying eggs so I think it's the perfect time for a spring egg sale! 1️⃣5️⃣/dozen, 2️⃣0️⃣/18 pack! 🐥🐣🐥

What kind of layers you can expect: possible heavy blooms, speckles, sky blue, spearmint, sage, olive, gold, and everything in between. 🌊🌏🍀🌼

03/06/2024

Anyone interested in bantam bobtail cochin chicks or does my husband get his way? 15 per 🐥

03/04/2024

Eggs, eggs, eggs! Collecting such pretty ones never gets old.

Also, one of my bantams keeps missing the nesting box somehow. 🤦

03/01/2024

The Suns Out! And it’s almost Spring ! Almost time for Garden Therapy! Who Cannot wait for Spring ? Show of hands 🖐🏼

02/20/2024

Who's in the mood for hatching? This warm spring weather is giving us the itch to get out the incubator!

We have about 3 dozen of our special Tide Pool Easter egger mix (with chance of heavy blooms!). All hens are bred to our Cream Legbar rooster, so the offspring will lay anywhere from deep olive green to bright turquoise!

Our Bobtail bantam cochins are laying well enough that we can offer those as well!

PM for more info!

02/17/2024

Now that is funny & TRUE sometimes too! 😂🤣
Compliments of Drinking with chickens ❤

02/16/2024

Someone laid their first egg today! I'm so excited because at first I thought I had grabbed the bright blue fake egg that I keep in the nesting boxes, but it's real!! Nothing tops the color saturation of those first eggs!

No filters, completely unedited! Photo taken in natural light coming through our big backyard tree -- you can kind of see the shadows of the branches.

If you guys want colors like these to call your own, you won't have to wait long for hatching eggs. I think I'll call them the Tide Pool mix due to the spectrum of blues and green hues they'll yield. 🥰

I'll post updates shortly!

01/27/2024

I haven't posted much recently but I wanted to take a second to showcase one of our new layers, Ashley Olsen! She's a multigenerational olive egger.

All 4 eggs in the second photo are from her! I love getting the surprise of different patterns and color variations that she leaves in the nesting box. Heavy bloom eggs are so fun!

I got her from ETX Gemstone Eggers as a day old this summer. I can't wait for her sister, Mary Kate, and our other 2 pullets from them to start laying!

12/17/2023

If bison are on the road, be patient, drive slowly, and stay in your vehicle. Wait for bison to move along: do not honk your horn or drive aggressively toward them. That will only make them go slower. A bison’s level of aggressiveness, both physical and passive, is legendary.

Learn more about sharing the landscape, and the road, with bison at https://www.nps.gov/yell/learn/management/living-with-bison.htm

11/15/2023

11/15/2023

Recent research reveals roosters can recognize themselves in the mirror, indicating they may possess self-awareness.
Other interesting facts discovered include that roosters tend only to make alerts about predators when there are other birds around (to help keep them safe). When they are on their own they won't because it draws attention to themselves.
Link to article for additional information here: https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/roosters-may-recognize-their-reflections-in-mirrors-study-suggests-180983149/

06/17/2023

Clover smorgasbord for the bantam bobtail cochins this evening. 🍀🌇🌼
Featuring our cats, Pokey and Oliver.

Love all our fluffy feathered and furry babies. 😺💕🐔

05/30/2023

Blooming at our place so far... 😍💖🌻

05/29/2023

Who has the hatching bug? I'm here to enable your chicken math!
From this dozen you'll get: easter eggers, cream legbar, sage eggers and olive eggers. It's hard to see from the picture, but my splash copper Marans lays nicely speckled eggs(far right). It's a little later in the season so the colors aren't as dark or bright as they could be, but I still love getting these colors in my basket. 😊

No filter, photos taken in shade outside. Let me know if you have any questions!

04/20/2023

**All have been rehomed**

Butch, Elvis, and Nano are still looking!

Casper, Butch, Button, Elvis, and Nano are looking for new coops! Anyone looking for a silkie, showgirl, satin, or bantam cochin boy?

04/14/2023

Learned something new today!

Have you ever lifted up a rock and found lots of little "rollie-pollies" living in the moist, dark soil underneath? Those humble pill bugs may be one of the most interesting creatures in your garden!

Pill bugs (also called rollie-pollies) and their relative sow bugs (which do not curl up) are more closely related to shrimp and crayfish than insects. They are the only crustaceans that have adapted to living their entire life on land.

Sowbugs and pillbugs are scavengers and feed mainly on decaying organic matter and are important to the regeneration of healthy soils. They are very important decomposers in contaminated soils that many other species cannot tolerate. They rarely damage garden plants.

The next time you lift a rock and see pill bugs, know that they are garden friends doing important work to help keep our soil healthy!