Rock and Feather Farm

07/24/2023

We got 56 lbs of peaches from our little tree, this year!!! 😍 Freezer prep done, and the chickens were pretty happy to receive some discarded seconds! 🍊

07/13/2023

It's almost time for peach harvest!!! 🍑 😍

06/25/2023

Too good!! 😂😂

06/10/2023

When you have the good treats, they all come running!!! 😊

06/02/2023

Simple joys! ❤️
A full rain barrel 💧Peaches growing 🍑 Garden growing 🌱 Roses blooming 🌹 Little polish we hatched getting her fluff head 😍 Eggs, eggs, eggs 🥚🥚🥚

05/29/2023

Our hens are very busy!!! 🐔🥚🥚🥚😃

05/20/2023

Watermelon is back!!! 🍉🌞

05/06/2023

Fresh eggs for sale, from free-range, happy chickens!! (The secret is singing folk music to them 😂). Happy chickens produce great eggs!! Beautiful yolks!
$4/ dozen. I have 9 dozen or so ready to go.
🐓 🥚🥚

03/30/2023

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03/18/2023

Sweet little cheep! 🐣🥰

03/16/2023

We have a new roo!! Introducing Harry Connick Jr., (continuing with my theme of American Blues/Jazz musicians), our sweet, new ladies man!

03/15/2023

😍 Big Momma has a live chick!!! 🐣 So exciting!!! Stay tuned for updates and (hopefully) more chicks!!

02/28/2023

Very exciting news!! Big Momma finally gets the real deal!! She's been broody for a long time, so we got her some fertilized hatching eggs!! Now she just has to do her thing and hopefully, we get chicks!! 😍🐣🐤

02/16/2023

Breakfast!

02/16/2023

When it gets this cold and snowy, we make some adjustments to the usual routine. The chickens will be in their coops today at least until this afternoon. So they get hot breakfast, with lots of protein, and mixed thinner than we would eat oatmeal so they get extra moisture. Eggs are a great source of protein for chickens 😳🙈🤷🏻‍♀️

02/05/2023

When egg 🥚 prices are at an all time high 💸, and your hens🐔 keep laying in the winter, you make breakfast parfaits for the fluffy butts.😆

12/23/2022

Trying to keep chickens alive in these temps is a little work. Silkies are in the heated garage in a makeshift run with a crate. Big chickens are in coop with a heater and shut in. Have to keep switching water out as it freezes. Made them a hot breakfast of slurry this morning: oats, grains, and seeds mixed with hot water with mashed scrambled eggs! Protein helps them keep warm.

10/24/2022

I guess we're over here trying out Halloween hair-dos after a day of rain. 😆 Apparently they chose to hang out on the wet and muddy side of their pen. 🤷🏻‍♀️

10/23/2022

When you're bullying other hens, and the flock mother catches you, you get to be in chicken timeout.... no treats for you tonight, EmmyLou! Don't be the mean girl!

10/22/2022

Our beautiful new ladies man!! Sammy is so protective of the little silkie girls, and is so beautiful!! Named for Sammy Davis, Jr.🎶, but at a young "Roo two" he acts a little more like Sammy Hagar 🙈😂

10/06/2022

Chickens are enjoying the fall remnants of our garden, and the lovely weather!

10/05/2022

Came out at just the right moment, to see a ray of sun, lighting up the Celosia, via window reflection medium.

10/02/2022

Late summer roses!!! 🌹

09/26/2022

This is a White-Laced Red Cornish hen. 🐔They are dual purpose poultry stock (used as both an egg layer and a meat bird), and she's the only one I have. She is smaller than some of my other hens but she is solid and heavy. She won't keep up with the others, when it comes to laying eggs, but she would make a nice fryer 😁 I won't be butchering her, though. Sim calls her "the eagle". She has very thick legs compared to the others and though she is much stronger, she is very docile and gets picked on sometimes. She is the only hen I trust to be in with my little silkies. She is very gentle with them.

09/20/2022

Dressed in her best for the Queen's funeral, yesterday!

08/25/2022

1st pumpkin of the year!!! 🎃

08/21/2022

I saw kids doing this at Lowe's today! What a great program! They were so cute with their little hammers and safety goggles.😍 The group I saw were probably 4-6 years old. And it's free!!

Each month, register with your local Lowe’s and get a free DIY kid’s craft kit. Kits are picked up curbside and the final product is a toy to keep forever!

08/21/2022

Our jack-o-lantern pumpkin plant is going crazy!!! 😳😍

08/09/2022

My amazing guy spent the hottest 🔥🥵 weekend thus far, this summer, building me a miniature version of the first coop he built, after I decided that the silkies should not be in with the rest of the hens. They are super docile and get picked on, and I want them to have a nice life. Kudos to my husband for making it happen! 🐥

08/07/2022

Does it count as homesteading if we don't have a kitchen and have to wash dishes outside in a bucket?? 🤣