Kroeker Cluckers

22/10/2023

Highlighting this mille split girl. I’m in love with the pattern she’s expressing. AND I found a flower on her foot today. I hope she gets more 🤞🏼

14/10/2023

Super excited to bring in frizzle with my Mille project! Thank you Queens of the Coop for this beautiful boy and his partridge partner. 🖤🤎🤍

14/10/2023

Lots of grow out babies exiting their “ugly” stage and turning into pretty little pullets ❤️

14/10/2023

This grow out mottled split looking just like her mama! 🖤 Her mama is a Bella Nera Farm bird who is also a black mottled split. Mama has a straight comb but is obviously beautiful. I’m so excited that I’m seeing improvement in my offspring 😀

13/10/2023

My first two full pattern mille birds from “my bloodlines” I believe both of these birds mom is from a Chad Bush hen and dad was a Tori Lentz bird. They both have “gray” skin. One has a toe missing on one foot and the other has 4 toes on both feet. Still deciding who I am going to pair them with. Definitely a dark skin boy with good toes and a nice crest!

13/10/2023

Chicken projects are hard! This year has been hard too. There’s been a few times I thought about selling all my birds and being “normal” 🤪

But.. I took some time to really look at some of my first generation mille satin and silkie babies and I’m so pleasantly surprised. I’d say i hatched around 30 at the beginning of the year. A lot were boys that didn’t make the cut to continue in the program. Only a small handful have ended up full pattern. I’m super excited and hopeful for my next generation and to continue to create these beautiful unique birds! Here are just a few of my favorite babies that are now blossoming.

30/09/2023

Hung out with some of the birds for a bit today.. they’re much happier with these 90 degree temps than the over 100s! Most of my pens are slowly starting to lay again 🤗 lots of birds going to new homes tomorrow to make room for dedicated breeding pens for my fall layers. As sad as I am that I lost so many of my original birds I am started my mille lines with, I have some super nice babies from them who will definitely move me farther down the line towards SOP for them.

I have also decided gray is not for me so I will slowly be finding new homes for those birds as well.

Colors I am focusing on for fall and next year:

Mille Fleur-3 pens to include porcelain(lavender mille)
Paint-1 pen for now maybe 2
Mottled- Black and slowly adding in chocolate
Blue/splash/mauve/chocolate- I will run a splash roo and a chocolate roo over over blue, mauve, chocolate and splash hens

I also still have my silver laced Barnevelders, and a small flock of bantam cochins!

27/09/2023

This pic doesn’t do the greens any justice! Can’t wait for my spring babies to start laying here soon.

27/09/2023

Update the pullet has found a home. Cockerel still available. He makes cute babies!

I’ve got a couple of showgirls looking for a new flock. Both are from Flossy #5 and beautiful birds. I don’t need another project 🤪 The pullet is chocolate paint hatched May 2023. Cockerel hatched January 2023
PM for info

19/09/2023

Sadly this summer I lost way more birds than I have ever lost. It’s honestly hurt my heart. I’ve never really lost grown birds like this before. I’ve learned a lot about how to prepare for the heat next year. I was not planning on hatching after Halloween at all this year but I think I will now, to try to recoup. I know we were not the only ones with detrimental losses from the heat. I hope everyone is able to use these fall/winter months to come back in spring with a bang!

Hatched these little goobers in my Brinsea last night and today. Paint silkies, partridge silkies, I believe one splash and a couple from cream speckled eggs. 🐣

22/08/2023

Some babies I’m excited about. Still a lot of work to do but definitely excited

21/08/2023

I’ve lost more birds this year to heat than to anything ever. And before everyone says do this do that I’ve done everything but keep a fan on them 24/7 but I will do that next year. 😭😢 Rest in peace Scooter and Redneck

This is such a hard hit to my mille project.. they are the only two mature full pattern boys I have. Luckily I have one satin that is growing out but he’s not as nice. 😓

20/08/2023

Some pretty babies that caught my eye while feeding ❤️

16/08/2023

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16/08/2023

Pretty pretty girls 🖤🤍🤎

15/08/2023

Paint baby done glowed up!! ✨ 🖤🤍

02/08/2023

Available!

01/08/2023

New shapes available for Freshies!

01/08/2023

Obsessed 🤩

31/07/2023

Fresh babies!!! This group of mottleds are impressive! And 2 show girls. Got a couple hopefully full patterned mille satin/silkie chicks. Some dark blue, splash, and mauve. First time hatching mauve and got 1 show girl! Also a couple LF eggs I threw in one really pretty blue and an olive egg the last 2 hatched from.

23/07/2023

Biggy! He is partridge and will go over full patterned mille fleur girls and a partridge girl for now as well.

23/07/2023

Frizzle Roo from Bella Nera - Dark blue hens from Heather’s Feather House

23/07/2023

My beautiful girl ❤️ she still thinks the silkies are there to play with her but we’re working on it. She’s a Valentine’s Day baby just like my youngest.

22/07/2023

Always love it when the boys help me out with the chickens ❤️

22/07/2023

Just some of my mille grow out babies

18/07/2023

RIP Moe 😭 my favorite boy

17/07/2023

17/07/2023

Ready to sell air fresheners!!

15/07/2023

Pretty little mottled babies and a few splash in there!

09/07/2023

Every time I clean their waters they act like it’s the first time they’ve tasted it 🤣 Double silver laced Barnevelder grow outs and 1 blue 🖤

09/07/2023

Pretty lil paints!! Half mine half Bella Nera Farm 🖤🤍 👀that satin frizzle 😍

08/07/2023

Photo drop! So many pretty and promising grow outs ❤️

My first chocolate mottled Orpington to hatch from my birds. A chocolate mottled showgirl from Flossy #5 Silkies. Some paints from my birds looking very promising 🖤🤍 little splash and mottled babies too!

03/07/2023

Happy 4th to all you chicken lovers! 🇺🇸

03/07/2023

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30/06/2023

No matter how many times I incubate this never gets old!! This is day 10 out of 21 days of incubation for this little one.

30/06/2023

Well here it is!! I received 10 little Shetland Hen chicks from the amazing Cocktails and Hens. She has an amazingly sweet friend who just happens to live a couple towns over who was on their way back from a visit with her. The stars just aligned perfectly for us. Cannot wait to grow these babies out and hatch some eggs next year. The two I posted yesterday will be happy to have some flock mates that look like them in a few months. 💖
This is a rare breed and I look forward to sharing them with people! I will post some information about them in the comments.

28/06/2023

📣 Stay tuned for an exciting announcement tomorrow ☺️😃

25/06/2023