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Poplar Place Hatchery, Montgomery, AL (2024)

06/21/2024

Peachicks, peachicks, peachicks 💙 🩵 💚 💜 🐣 🦚

Can ship, weather permitting 📦 🚢

Purple split Pied and possible White Eye 💜
Purple Black Shoulder 💜 🖤
High Spalding 💚 💛
High Spalding Pied💚 🤍
Purple Spalding 💚 💜
Sonya Violeta Black Shoulder Pied 💙 🖤
White 🤍

06/14/2024

Soaking up the sunlight ☀️ ✨ 🤍 💚 🤍 ✨

High Spalding Silver Pied 💕

05/17/2024

A little project in its early stages…

Lavender Ameraucana Bantam 🩵 💙 🖤

Our first generation of Black Ameraucana Bantam x Lavender Ameraucana Bantam is in the brooder and growing 🐥 🐥 🐥 In the fall I’ll cross these back to Lavender and build up a new flock 💕 ✨

04/05/2024

Eggs are starting to arrive from these breeders
✨ 🤍🤍🤍 ✨

Spalding Silver Pied over Spalding Dark Pied, and a few other hens who took an interest in this male. 💚 💛 🤍

02/22/2024

It’s beginning to look like ✨ spring ✨

🌱 🌸 🌱 🌸

I’m never ready for spring to start, with all the cleaning and prep needing done, but pea tails on display and singing on the farm still make me happy 😃 💖 🎵 🦚

02/06/2024

💜 ✨ Purple Feathers ✨ 💜

02/01/2024

These guys again 💙 🤍

These Blue Eared Pheasants have one of the loudest calls on the farm. And if you’re wondering, they sound like a donkey 🫏 😂 🤷‍♀️ We’re starting to hear lots more hollering on these warm days ☀️ hoping for the rain to stay far away, and for an early start to the season 🤞 🥚

01/28/2024

Let’s do some comparisons ✨

Purple and Sonja’s Violeta in the sunlight ☀️ Despite the fading in the summer, fresh Purple in the spring will always be my favorite 💜 But there’s still plenty of love for the earthy/mossy green peeking out through those Sonja’s Violeta tail feathers 💕

01/27/2024

Ever see a Blue Scale quail before?? Also called Cotton Tops because of their little white caps 🤍 💙 🩶

These plucky little quail are so much fun! Very prolific layers 🥚 and beautiful calls in the warmer months ☀️ these guys will be back in season in a few weeks, let the hatching begin 🐣 🐣 🐣

12/25/2023

Merry Christmas from the critters on the farm!! 🎄 ✨ 🎄 ✨ 🎄 ✨ 🕊️

12/17/2023

Sonja’s Violeta Black Shoulder 💙 🖤 (or however you’d like to spell Sonja’s Violet, Google gave me about 4 different options 😆)

We hatched about a dozen of these beauties in pied last season, and they are gorgeous in person and on camera ✨

12/06/2023

Purple Spalding photo dump ✨

A little scraggly from getting new feathers in, but still the most photogenic birds on the farm. Love these jewels to the moon and back 💎

11/10/2023

Went to read in my favorite pea pen, was promptly investigated for trespassing 😂

These high Spaldings are some of the most stand-offish on the farm. A little socializing and treats keeps them on the calm side 💙 💚 💛

11/04/2023

*Walks by the Blue Eared Pheasant pen with my friend’s 8 year old*

Me: Do you remember what this one is called?
8 year old: Oh yeah, that’s a Blue Buzzard with ears.
Me: …
8 year old: …
Me: close enough

11/02/2023

✨ New Breed Alert ✨

It’s been a long time since I’ve worked with chickens!! It’s easy to get caught up with the fancier breeds, peacocks and pheasants and quails oh my! 🤣 But I saw a lovely little breed several months ago that stuck in my mind, and I’m pleased to say we’re going into the next season with 5 lovely little Salmon Faverolles Bantam hens and a few boys to keep them company 💜 This breed is fluffy ☁️, a little spicy🔥, and has cheek fluff for miles (verified in pics below) Can’t wait to see what the springtime brings for these sweet creatures 😊

09/26/2023

Electric blue wing feathers, tight green crest, bright yellow cheeks 💙 💚 💛 love the array of colors our Spalding male shows off for us 😊

(And yes, the violet hen in front thinks he’s her boyfriend. Not sure how to break the news that she’s going in the Violet Black Shoulder pen next year…)

09/23/2023

Update on Angel Wing 😇

I’ve been keeping an eye on this one to see what would become of her white wing as she matured💕 her colors have faded out quite a bit, but she’s still the easiest to spot amongst our grow outs this year 🤎 🤍 🤎 🤍

NFS, just sharing 😊

09/22/2023

What a lovely hat for a very distinguished gentleman 🎩

Snapped some pics of a male Gambel’s Quail today. I never run out of amusement for these little guys and their fancy hats 💕 😊 The breeding season has just wrapped up for most the quail here on the farm. Now we’re focusing on raising all the juveniles for a breeding colony in the spring 🐥 🐥 🐥 🌷 🌷 🌷

09/16/2023

Something blue 💙 💙 💙

We’ve officially joined the Blue Eared Pheasant world!! 🎉 I’ve been hunting for a pair of these lovely oddballs for a while, and with every waitlist I could find sold out, I thought it’d be at least a year before we brought a pair home. But, I was wrong! These guys basically fell into my lap and have settled in perfectly 😊 Excited to see what the spring will bring!!

09/11/2023

I never get tired of purple feathers ✨ 💜 ✨ 💜 looks like the 🌊 to me

09/06/2023

Greenery = happy peas 💚 🌱 This summer I made sure the pens were watered through the dry spells - and now I have to go trim it down 😅 Still better than plain dirt!

They’ve loved “exploring” their little forest, and I even had two hens settle in to sit on their own nests for the first time 🎉

09/06/2023

Love a Purple Spalding ✨ 😍

I held this boy back just to see how his colors would come in 💜 💙 💚

06/01/2023

Not my artwork but too funny not to share!! 🤣 lots of singing, chirping, and just screaming in general this time of year 🎶 🎶 🎶 🗣️🗣️🗣️🦚🦚🦚

05/30/2023

Under the Weeping Cherry…

The perfect place to hide a nest 🪺

05/27/2023

Purple breeder 💜 ✨ 💜 ✨💜 ✨

Our oldest boy showing off for the ladies 🦚

05/24/2023

I *attempted* to get some pics of the babies in their brooder… plans were interrupted 😆🐤🐥

05/21/2023

Calling this one Angel Wing 😇 💕

Sometimes hatching peas is like a box of chocolate 🤎🤍 This is either a purple pied or purple spalding pied, time will tell ✨

NFS, just sharing 🥰

05/21/2023

It’s chick season for most people now, which means housing dozens of chicks off-ground for the next several months while their immune systems kick in. These bays have been exactly what we needed to accomplish that goal 😃 they’re gonna be full of peeping soon once we get our first batches of chicks off heat and moved💕 🐥 🐥 🐥 🐥 🐥

One small modification not pictured - auto waterers 💧because that’s a lot of water to refill 😅

05/17/2023

Me to myself every time I drive out to the farm: Bring 👏 an 👏 egg 👏 container 👏 or else there will be eggs rolling all over the car.

Me two hours later, no egg container, eggs rolling all over the car 🤣🥚🥚🥚

So far none have been broken (…yet. I’ll learn the hard way some day I’m sure.)

05/15/2023

A Tale of Two Peas…

I was a little worried about this guy when he first came to the farm. He was already 2 years old and quickly made it clear he wanted to be in charge. Soon he was showing some aggression to his two very sweet girls, some of my absolute favorites on the farm. I thought I’d have to split them up to give the girls breaks, but they didn’t seem to see the issue. Even at his meanest, they absolutely adored him. Soon he was the one running from them and their never-ending preening sessions. They combed out his crest, adjusted his saddle feathers, played with his tail. So happy to have such a pretty boy all to themselves! He can’t escape. Now he’s accepted it; no point showing them who’s in charge if they’re gonna cuddle him to death anyways. The best he can do is hide on the perch when they pester too much 🥰

So here’s some pics of our mean boy being henpecked by a very well-intentioned girl. I think he deserves it 😊 💜 💙 💚

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