Brunner's New Hope Acres

01/22/2023

I’ll be sharing the updates for the 2023 season!
Starting with Nigerian Dwarf goat kids born.
This post features the singleton doeling born 1/21/23 out of our JoJo (Lucy’s Ladybug A JoJo) by our boy Biscuit (Lucy’s Ladybug N Biscut).

04/28/2022

Time for the new hatch to be moved to a big brooder!
Fun fact: our chicks are hatched in our home and raised for a week in our bedroom before we move them out to the chick area.

03/28/2022

We’ve had a bit of success this year with hatching, and now that my white Ameraucana pair from Paul Smith is laying I have put those as well as my F2-F3 Olive Eggers in the incubator with them.

03/09/2022

03/09/2022

Did you know:
The egg color of the Ameraucana breed can range from blue to green-ish blue?
Now you know.

03/07/2022

New life has arrived on the homestead! We have Olive Eggers/Easter Eggers and fertile hatching eggs! Next batch put in the incubator today. These are a mix of Ameraucana x Marans, Olive Egger x Ameraucana, Orpington x Ameraucana which has given me the mint green layer you see pictured in the eggs. She was put back in with a Marans and Ameraucana rooster.

03/04/2022

The next batch of EE/OE 🥚are available!
5️⃣0️⃣ per dz

02/21/2022

Our happy hens are paying it back to us after a winter of no laying forced upon them! We have all our roosters in with our hens, so we will be having “Easter eggers” and olive eggers from these eggs this time around. The roosters are a birchen Marans, self-blue, blue, white, and splash ameraucana, a mottled lavender Orpington, and one silkie rooster mixed in, so a chance of bantam Easter eggers is possible. The hens are: olive egger (marans x ameraucana), ameraucana (self-blue, white, blue, black), Easter egger (buff Orpington x ameraucana and lays a mint green egg) and a laced Brahma. Looking forward to this batch!

Why are our birds not separated this time? Because we had a tragedy with a neighbors dog getting on our land and ripping our breeding pens apart and killing a few of our nice hens in the process.

Also, our 3 Nigerian dwarf does are looking great, and we are excited about our next breeding adventure with them. They come from amazing milking lines, and we are looking forward to milk testing with the next kidding! Watch for updates. We haven’t bred them yet.

02/08/2022

Now available! Comment below or pm to inquire
Time to thin the flock!

01/20/2022

BNHA needs these birds to go to a new home asap!
1 porcelain de uccle hen - Sold
1 silkie de uccle cross hen - Sold
1 blue silkie hen - Available
1 mottled lavender orpington roo - Available
Numbers will be discussed in pm only
Location: Phelan, CA.
You must pick up and have a box or crate to transport

10/20/2021

These boys are currently being offered to new homes. They are kind birds and relatively easy to work with. Please pm below for info.
1. Blue ameraucana - Sold
2. White ameraucana - Reserved for our farm
3. Blue/buff frizzle silkie - Available

10/15/2021

It's been a hot minute, and I am happy to share that the newest breeding pens are ready! I now have split up a couple projects. One pen of self-blue ameraucana, and one pen of my personal olive egger project.

07/05/2021

I breed for SOP in my chickies as well! When you select my birds, you are getting my blood, sweat & tears.

I feel the need to address pricing on birds that are bred to standard of perfection vs your cheap birds you get at a hatchery or backyard breeder ( a lot of backyard breeders have popped up in the last year especially in silkies). This is due to me personally seeing fellow breeders posting their birds for sale and getting smart ass remarks because they are uneducated on the difference in quality and pricing and me personally having people do the same to me ( you do it to me you are blocked and sent to all the breeders I know as a heads up to them to not waste their time)

Hatchery stock birds/ backyard breeders are NOT bred towards SOP ( standard of perfection) they are bred for quantity not quality meaning they follow no standard and are just breeding to make a buck. Breeders who breed to SOP put a lot of blood, sweat, money and tears into trying to make the perfect birds according to the SOP. They cull hard. In silkies you will 100% see the difference between a hatchery stock/ backyard breeder bird and a bird from show breeder because of the time and effort put in them. You can get a cull from a show breeder and it will still be an amazing bird!

If you feel a price is too expensive there is no need to say it or put laughing emojis on their post. Likely you're just ignorant on the difference and you're use to buying your birds from farm stores( hatchery stock) just simply say thank you and move on and maybe go to a show and educate yourself. You will not get a pullet from me for anything less than 75 and pairs no less than 100 and this is standard base line pricing! They go up from there. A friend just sold ONE pullet for over $600!

Just a message from breeders that are tired of dealing with this issue and most won't say it but I will.

Have a great Independence Day and stay safe!

06/11/2021

Currently sold out of fresh eggs but stay tuned for a restock!

06/09/2021

I fixed the water trough for the goats,and Rose thought it was the coolest thing! She even jumped in to take a "bath" 🤣
Her mom Ellie looks on, unamused.

06/09/2021

Some random shots of my future breeders...

Silkie
White Ameraucana
Blue ameraucana
Birchen maran

06/04/2021

My basket of beauty!
Looking for colored layers?
I'll have more chicks available soon!

05/20/2021

Update! All of these chicks have flown the coop!

If you would like to get on my waiting list for future hatches, or future projects, please let me know!

I am now offering self-blue Ameraucana & Coturnix quail hatching eggs.

Upcoming projects include:

Silkies (bearded & frizzled)
Ameraucana (white, self-blue, blue, black, splash)
Easter & Olive eggers
Polish (Tolbunt & misc project colors, frizzled)

05/19/2021

I have chicks available!
Self-blue ameraucana
Blue ameraucana
Easter Eggers
A few self-blue ameraucana eggs available

Coming soon:
tolbunt polish
Frizzled polish
Blue Project polish
Silkies
Frizzled silkies
Olive eggers

05/12/2021

I drive an hour 1-way to get this amazing product for my goats!
Can't go wrong!

04/30/2021

Turned the goats out for the first time today (I tend to be a helicopter mom lol). Chip & Hershey are going to their new home together in a few weeks! The girls, Jojo and Rose, will be staying here on the homestead.

My favorite little blue ameraucana pullet is growing out nicely. I have several siblings available! Please pm below if you'd like to inquire. They are bred to the standard of perfection.

04/22/2021

Love life on the farm

04/21/2021

Edit: 17 have hatched!

5 self-blue (lavendar) Ameraucana
6 blue Ameraucana
1 black Ameraucana
5 Easter Eggers (buff orpington x Ameraucana) - they will be blue or black with gold.

Please text 760-713-7389 if you are interested! They will be ready to leave the farm on Monday. I will not hold without a deposit.

04/20/2021

We breed 100% pure Self-blue (aka Lavender) Ameraucana. All parent stock is Self-Blue (SB). Someday in the future, we will be adding more genetic diversity. It is important to know why we choose to run the breeding pens in the way we do. We do want to avoid creating weak stock or anything that will not stand up to the Standard of Perfection.

04/14/2021

After a very busy weekend at the Apple Valley Kennel Club dog show last weekend, I am now able to give y'all an update!
I have a few chicks that I'm keeping my eye on as they are growing out. More chicks on the way.
Also, my quail are maturing! Shouldn't be too long before we'll have eggs.

04/04/2021

Kids are enjoying the afternoon sun 🌞

03/28/2021

All out of self-blue chicks til April!
I have a waiting list.

03/26/2021

These chicks are beautiful!

03/24/2021

Udders on Ellie and Tobi are looking amazing!
Ellie is: Alethia HBR Its My Turn (Alethia DH Turn It To Gold x Alethia DB Heath Bar)
Tobi is: Lucy's Ladybug RNF Tobi (Old Mountain Farm Liberty x Old Mountain Farm Rekn N Force)

03/22/2021

All 5 of the maran eggs are hatching!
Here's the last 3 working on making their appearance.

03/22/2021

Todays loot from the self-blue ameraucana pen! 💙

03/20/2021

Freckles the silkie would like to wish each of you a fabulous weekend!

03/19/2021

More chicks hatching!

03/19/2021

All sold out of Easter Eggers chicks for the week! Stay tuned! More chicks of various kinds are on the way!
If you'd like to get on my waiting list, please contact me!

Also, there are two bucklings that will be looking for their new home once they are weaned. Amazing conformation! Will be homed as Wethers only. Please pm to inquire!

03/17/2021

After spending the day with baby goats, chickens, making a few repairs thanks to our windstorm yesterday, getting a new coop delivered, supplies to make our garden, AND grooming a pup for a friend, I came back to find a couple new lavender ameraucana had made their appearance 💜💜

03/15/2021

Baby goats!

03/15/2021

Every coop needs a blue egg layer!

03/15/2021

This handsome lad went to his new home today!

03/14/2021

Surprise! Tobi had TRIPLETS! We only expected 1