Waits River Homestead

30/07/2024

Just a little cow love to brighten your day. The heifers and calves are growing like weeds this year.

13/07/2024

The last week of high heat and humidity has had the cows soaking in the brook during most of the day and grazing at night. A lot of times they will be fully laying down but I never seem to have a camera on me to snap a photo. 😅

29/06/2024

Trudy, Daisy and Petunia stick closer together then peas in a pod.

28/06/2024

Vermont Dairy producers alliance put this out.
That’s 44.9% lost dairy farm in VT lost in 10 years. 🤯🤯 we need to make a change or there’s not going to be any left in the next 10 to come.

25/06/2024

Grass is so tall you almost can't see the calves.
We do four sections of pasture that get rotated to help ensure good growth of the forage wothout being over eaten and plenty of feed for the cows without them getting to picking having everything at once.

10/06/2024

04/06/2024

Yesterday was national egg day and I missed it!

Fun fact-egg yoke naturally has Vitamin D in it.

What are some your favorite things to make with eggs?

04/06/2024

Blondie & Red the Highlander cows with their calves.

23/04/2024

After locking myself out by forgetting the password and enjoying the social media break I will be posting updates again and sharing all the new and exciting things going on. Stay tuned.

21/10/2022

I spy two little snouts 🐽🐽
Bobbing for gourds in milk is a favorite this time of the year.

03/08/2022

🐛Monarch Caterpillars in the yard. Over 100milkweeds grown for them this year.

01/08/2022

Baby buns that are ready to leave mom!
Mixes of standard rex, flemish, new zealand and some with lionhead sprinkled in.
Soft fur and some have a very rex like coat. A couple are extra fluffy thanks to that dash of lionhead.

25🥕 each
Multiples get a discount.
Willing to meet at Tractor Supply locations: Bradford, VT Montpelier, VT and Lebanon, NH. If a couple are going at once I can even do Plymouth, NH.

13/07/2022

Yesterday I was lucky enough to help two sweet girls make a milking stand for their first milking goat. It was a fun time and we managed to dodge the rain!

07/07/2022

Baby bunnies galore!
Dandelion blessed us with a litter of 7 all females!
Creemee has 2 adorable kits, a boy and girl each.
Chili has a litter of 7 with genders to be revealed next week.
All 3 does are first time moms and doing a wonderful job raising this adorable batch.

06/06/2022

2 blue toms and a spanish ready for new homes. 25each
Buff Orpington roo (full size) and 3 matching hens. 35 for the flock.

06/06/2022

We have 3 adorable growing litters with alot of pretty color.

27/05/2022

Available baby hoppers! Each photo has a description of breed and gender. Prices will be listed in the description of each photo next to the 🥕emoji.
Special deals for multiples.
Price drop on everyone. Message for more info.

16/05/2022

I haven't been the most dedicated to keeping up with posts recently and I apologizefor it.
Here is a photo with the colorful collection of eggs we get daily. Can you guess which one is a duck egg?

Fresh eating eggs for sale $3/dozen
Barnyard mix hatching eggs $7/dozen
Rainbow collection hatching eggs $12/dozen
Rainbow Hatching egg hens consist of:
Lavendar Orpingtons
Black Stars
Olive Eggers
Easter Eggers
Speckled Sussex
Leghorns
Rainbow mix egg hens are in with 3 Ameraucana roosters so hatched chicks from any eggs will be colored egg layers.

Barnyard mix hens consist of:
Light Brahmas
Road Island Reds
Leghorns
Golden Comets
3 Silkie/bantam crosses
Roosters with barnyard mix are a couple Light Brahmas and Dark Brahmas with 1 Lavendar Orpington.
Chicks hatched from Barnyard mix will lay either white eggs or different shades of brown.

18/04/2022

First honeybee of the year was spotted today. Hungry and chilled I added a sugar water mixture to the bucket she was sitting on. After indulging in her drink and warming up in the sun, she flew off and headed for home.
The mixture used as a pick-me-up for chilled and slow bees;
1part granulated sugar
1part warm water

13/04/2022

Many apologies for not keeping up with posts. The rest of winter into mud season has kept us quite busy.
With that being said here are 2 litters of new bunnies born the last couple days.
Technically 3 litters in two groups as I had a single kit from a large litter survive that I put it in with my old doe to raise.
Any guess to which kit doesn't belong?

7 babies in one group, 4 in another. Colors include;
Castor
Black
Broken black
Booted tri
Light harlequin
Harlequin
Blue

05/01/2022

We got lucky with such a warm December but the first part of January has been -0° temps, everyone was moving a bit slower and didn't want to leave the warm cozy coop.
Today we hit the 20°s above 0° and everyone is enjoying being out of the coop to stretch wings and splash in the water tubs.

08/12/2021

Tonight we added 9 little quail to the homestead.

07/12/2021

The easter eggers are starting to lay! I am beyond egg-cited to start my basket of colorful eggs.

07/12/2021

Vaccume sealing a freshly harvested rabbit. Nothing goes to waste. Whole processed rabbit for us, the hide is saved for tanning and everything we don't save the dogs get as part of their raw diet.

06/12/2021

Our sweet Mr Red is off on a breeding lease right now and I got sent this photo of him all settled into his new stall for the next few weeks. Love being able to help other small farmers/homesteaders by providing services that one another can use.

01/12/2021

A few days late posting but we finally got snow! The baby guineas didn't like it at first but have slowly adjusted. Winter has now officially begun.

23/11/2021

Aurora has been slowly pulling hair for the last 3 days and building her nest.
She is due tomorrow. This will be her first litter since coming here and I am very excited to see what she has.

22/11/2021

Meet Bunyan as in Paul Bunyan. This handsome OE joined the flock over the weekend. He might dwarf everyone around him but he is just the sweetest boy to have.

16/11/2021

Taking advantage of the warm weather to clean the coop while the birds are out in the yard. 🧹🐓🦆

16/11/2021

I could just listen to them talk all day. 🦆
Miss Gabby is the smallest yet has the biggest voice of the entire flock. Can you spot her?