Indio Gigante Acres

03/23/2025

We have beautiful Indio Gigante chicks!

03/04/2025

Here's a little history of how we ended up with our farm name. For many years, we raised dairy goats and exported them internationally. Hurricane Michael hit our area and pretty much destroyed all our barns and 20 years of goat equipment. It really took the wind out of our sails, and we decided to sell the dairy goat herd. It was bitter sweet. I miss my goats every day, but I don't miss all the hard work that we put in to maintain the herd.

Indio Gigante Acres was born about 2 years ago when we discovered this amazingly large chicken like no other. We wanted to make sure we had the best lines, researched extensively and contacted Rare Rooster Acres, Elise Souza, to get a group of chicks from her. We raised up the chicks and ended up only having all hens! So the search begain to find an RRA roo. Then life happened and put things on hold. My dad passed away, my husbands sister, and 3 other people that were close (like family) passed away. We are glad to see 2024 out of here and welcomed 2025!

What now? We are focused on making our Indio Gigantes amazing following the breed SOP. We love the RRA line. Why? They are BIG birds that have amazing dispositions and beautiful to look at and RRA strives at perfection. We are finally hatching chicks this year. We will be keeping some and letting some venture elsewhere. Let us know if you are looking!

We wanted to share a few pictures of our Indio Gigantes. We have 2 mature roos that want new pastures.

03/03/2025

Very true. We love our fluffy butts. We've struggled here trying to keep our egg prices low. Ken and I have been doing a close study this last month to see if we need to do another increase on our egg prices. We hate to do it! We've struggled to keep the prices low, but we can't have a loss.

02/23/2025

We have chicks hatching!

02/14/2025

01/30/2025

We are very EGGcited to announce that we were blessed to be able to add to our current Indio flock. We were given the opportunity and jumped on bringing home adults and babies, and as a bonus - they were a spangled project with PURE RRA as the foundation to this group of birds.

When we first decided to get Indios, we researched who had the best and biggest birds. Rare Rooster Acres (RRA) surpassed everyone. Elisa is definitely working to bring the best into the USA.

We can't wait to see where our future goes. We are planners here and we are already discussing our plans years in advance.

(Pics were not taken by me, they were taken by the farm we got them from. We just wanted to give a sneak peak since we haven't had tome to sit and take pics yet!)

01/29/2025

We have the following items that are homemade for sale at $7 each pint jars:

Bread and butter pickles
Strawberry Jam
Wild blackberry jam
Blueberry jam
Pear butter (reg) or with vanilla
Loquat jam

We also have Pure Homemade madagascar vanilla extract available for $40/8oz.

01/24/2025

We have a co-op meat order coming up. If you are interested, let us know! The meat is locally sourced and is FANTASTIC!!!

01/20/2025

Happy Inauguration and MLK Day! We are getting ready for snow tomorrow!!! Imagine that, snow in FL!!

I'm taking a break from preping our chicken houses and soaking up the chattering between hens, the calmness of the day and how beautiful it is today. The chickens are sure enjoying it, so am I!

01/15/2025

A picture of Romeo, one of our Indio Gigante Roos. He will be 2 years old in February. Chicks coming soon!!!

01/15/2025

Ours are $5 per dozen.

We also have a meat co-op that we run getting locally sourced meat is a great and healthy option!!!!

12/25/2024

If anyone needs those emergency eggs for today, we have several doz ready. We will be here!

12/15/2024

Some egg color science…
Brown eggs start as white with protoporphyrin (brown pigment) overlay for brown end result. The brown pigment is applied towards the end of the process and doesn’t pe*****te the shell. Therefore, the inside of a brown egg is white. If a glitch occurs and protoporphyrin is not applied, which can happen, you will get a white egg. Blue eggs are blue all the way through because the oocyanin, the blue pigment that originates in the bile, is applied very early in the process causing it to pe*****te the white shell. Issues can occur with the bile gland, resulting in a white egg. Green is a result of protoporphyrin being deposited over a blue egg. Green eggs are blue on the inside. If there is a glitch in a bird that normally lays green and it lays blue, it missed the depositing of the protoporphyrin.

05/25/2024

Sorry we haven't posted in a while. We unfortunately had to say goodbye to my daddy. Our family will always come first! We ended up deciding that it was better to feed the eggs back to the chickens then to have to worry about customers during this time. They didn't seem to mind!

Ken and I took a long while to go wild black berry picking. It was therapeutic to say the least. With that, I was able to make wild Blackberry Jam. Wow! Did it not disappoint. Next will be Onion Jam.

Before y'all wrinkle your noses to the idea of onion jam, it's not used like traditional Jam. Just imagine grilling a delicious, juicy hamburger. If you like onions, you'll LOVE onion Jam on your burger. It pairs well with chicken and pork too!

So that is what I have been doing to keep my mind occupied over the last week. Coming up with things to can, and purging in my house. If I don't stay busy, I miss my daddy. Figured I'd post one of my favorite picture too. He loved my mom so much.

04/28/2024

We love our Emus, Fred & Wilma. Fred is super social and loving. Wilma isn't at all. She will come up to us if we aren't looking. They are powerful birds and have the ability to tear us up. Their kick is powerful. I took a picture of the razors they have on their legs. Good thing they like us. Lol.

04/13/2024

We built a strawberry tower using stackable planters and metal conduit. Ken also drilled an extra hole to pass drip mist tubing up through it.

04/07/2024

We've been busy trying to get ready to plant our garden. We got 2 new peach trees in and a papya tree as well. Our mulberry tree is growing like mad. Can't wait to get fruit again.

04/06/2024

What we battle with here in FL with things that bite. Yes, this does exist. 🤣